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Summer 2011 Newsletter (PDF) Summer 2011 Letter from Chair Galya Diment Edinburgh as an Andrew W. Seminars in late summer, the Mellon Foundation Fellow. We will former to Georgia and the latter to miss them both but are also the Czech Republic. thrilled to greet in the autumn their replacements. Our new Program Lecturer Valentina Zaitseva will Coordinator, Megan Styles, comes be busy with the STARTALK to us from Anthropology, where project for much of the summer. she served as an undergraduate To find out what this is, be sure to advisor while completing her check out the write-up by alumna Ph.D. Our 2011-12 Polish and affiliate faculty Michele Have to say goodbye to yet Fulbright, Dr. Adam Kożuchowski, Anciaux Aoki, who is serving as another academic year as we look a historian, will be teaching three the program’s director. courses next year: “Legendary forward, with some trepidation but also excitement, to the next one. Cities: Polish and Russian Urban Trepidation is understandable: all Mythologies,” "The Phantom of public universities are Intelligentsia: Russia and Poland," experiencing significant cuts and and "Eastern Europe and live in fear of even more cuts. We Nationalism." are no exception. And even some of the more positive solutions to As to faculty news worthy of Contents: the bleak economic situation are celebration, two books by us have reached the catalog stage since double-edged swords. It was good 1 Letter from the the last time I wrote: Barbara that the legislature finally gave the Chair university tuition-setting authority, Henry’s Rewriting Russia: Jacob so that we can now compensate Gordin’s Yiddish Drama, published 2 Prof. Emer. Herb some for the rapidly dwindling by University of Washington Press, Coats support from the state. Yet we also — and my A Russian Jew of realize that for many of our Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of students who are putting Samuel Koteliansky, published by 3-6 Prof. Emer. Karl themselves through school, McGill-Queen’s University Press. Kramer especially at the time when their Both are coming out in the last parents are experiencing quarter of 2011. 6 Class of 2011 economic hardships as well, a 20% As you will see in the following hike in tuition is very hard to deal pages, we have also started a new 7 UW Polish Studies with. series of interviews with our We also said goodbye to some of august emeritus faculty, the first 8-9 UW STARTALK our personnel and teaching staff. two installments of which are Program Summer interviews with Professors Herb Tyler Browne, who started last 2011 autumn as our Program Coats and Karl Kramer conducted by our illustrious Ph.D.s, Timothy Coordinator, left in the spring for a 9 In Memoriam full time (and therefore better- Riley (1999) and Ron LeBlanc (1984). Our intent is to feature paying!) job in a community 10 News from You college. Our 2010-11 Fulbright interviews with other emeritus from Poland, Tomasz (Tomek) faculty in subsequent issues. Lysak, who taught courses on 11 Gifts Professor James West and Lecturer Polish Culture and Holocaust, left Jara Soldanova will both once to spend the summer months in again be leading Exploration Slavic News Summer 2011 A Memorial Day Chat with Herb Coats Lakoff, cognitive linguist and author of “Metaphors We Live By.” – Timothy Riley Herb's greatest accomplishment is having raised three well-adjusted, First of all, Herb looks better now than prepares the dynamite for blowing happy, productive children - two he did in 1999, when I last saw him. holes in huge rocks in search of oil. sons and a daughter. Herb has four He actually looks younger now. This lasted about two years before grandsons, with whom he loves to Obviously retirement is working for Herb felt the calling to continue with spend time. His ideal day is simply him. I started with some biographical his Russian studies. He enrolled at one in which the sun shines. questions, then moved into more Fordham College in the Bronx, New interesting ones. York in the early ‘60s. There he met Herb's advice for students of Slavic and married a fellow graduate student languages is the following - "If you Herb Coats was born in the Greater and started teaching Russian at the love Slavic culture, don't let anything Metropolitan Area of La Jara, in the college and at a local high school. get in your way." His best memories San Louis Valley of Southern Herb continued his Slavic studies at from the UW are from teaching Colorado in the 1930s, where his the University of Illinois, Urbana- graduate courses and having coffee family made a living raising Champaign, where he completed his with his students. Herb's present Hampshire pigs. They often had over Ph.D. in Slavic Languages in the late motto is "Remember to breathe" and 300 pigs at a time. Herb still has many ‘60s. "Keep moving." Herb is grateful to anecdotes about the intelligence and all his colleagues at the UW Slavic charm of Hampshire pigs. At that time, Noam Chomsky, one of Department; he wishes all students the fathers of modern linguistics and success in their studies and good Herb attended the University of transformational grammar, had luck in their professional and Colorado in Boulder in the 1950s, revolutionized the study of linguistics. personal lives. where he majored in geology. While There was almost a feverish interest in he was studying geology, he became linguistics at the time; for the first Herb, we all wish you many, many interested in Russian, having happened time, linguistics was recognized as a days of sunshine! upon a book in the library - the real science; many of the mysteries of Bolshaya Sovietskaya Encyklopedia - language and universal grammar were Timothy Riley (Ph.D. 1999) is a Senior the alphabet of which fascinated him. finally being revealed. Herb's Intelligence Analyst and Subject Matter This happenstance changed the course influence at the time was Professor Expert on Eurasia for the Seattle FBI. of his life. Theodore Lightner. Herb's intellectual curiosity led him to Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1968, study Russian for two years at UC Herb was hired at the University of Boulder with a Russian emigré, who Washington. At that time, there was struggled with teaching her students no Slavic Department; it was merely proper Russian. In those days, there an adjunct to the East European were very few Russian emigrés in the Institute. Herb taught Slavic US and the methodology of teaching Linguistics at the UW until he retired Russian had not yet been developed in 2001. Since his retirement, he has beyond translation and memorization. been very busy practicing yoga three Herb's instructor and her husband may times a week, painting landscapes and have been the only Russians in all of portraits, doing housework and yard Colorado at the time. work, and writing his memoirs about his childhood raising Hampshire pigs. Herb majored in geology in the 1950's and gained employment conducting Herb's favorite Slavic language is seismic surveys in Utah, Alabama, and Lower Sorbian, AKA Lower Lusatian, other states for the oil industry. He primarily because it retains many held the illustrious titles of 'jug hustler' original Slavic forms, such as the dual. and 'powder man' - the guy who His favorite writer at present is George 2 Slavic News Summer 2011 A Conversation with Karl Kramer - Ron LeBlanc Professor Emeritus Karl Kramer is the time in a rather large a Seattle native who earned his undergraduate course on Tolstoy B.A. (English, 1955), M.A. when he was – in his words – (Comparative Literature, 1957), “ranting on” about some supposedly and Ph.D. (Comparative major issue in Tolstoy. He was about Literature, 1964) all at the to say something that he obviously something about a possible University of Washington. As a considered of enormous importance, mistake in room number, the latter participant in one of the first – when he looked out at the students: said, “Oh my God – I’m in the and, in those early days of the all he could see in front of him were wrong room!” The students Cold War, extremely rare – pencils and pens poised to catch the applauded vociferously as he left. academic exchanges in the former Delphic oracle's overwhelmingly Soviet Union, Karl attended significant comment, and he started On a more serious (or at least less Moscow State University as a giggling. The absurdity of the humorous) note, Karl fondly doctoral candidate in 1959-1960. importance of his next remembered an undergraduate He then went on to teach at pronouncement, Karl noted, had course on Tolstoy that had a dozen Northwestern University (1961- overwhelmed him. He could not students in it (I was fortunate 1965) and the University of remember now whether or not he enough to be one of them) and was Michigan (1965-1970) before managed to make the monumental thus taught more in a discussion coming to the UW, where he statement they were expecting. He than a lecture format. During this taught jointly in the Department of also recalled the time, very early in ten-week course, the students were Slavic Languages and Literatures his teaching career (he was a T.A. in reading and discussing War and and the Department of an English class), when he Peace and Anna Karenina. Karl Comparative Literature (1970- discovered just before class time that said that the course brought back 1999) until his retirement. In the fly on his trousers was very pleasant memories for him, addition, he chaired the Slavic malfunctioning.
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