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Alumni Newsletter Vol. 13 College of Arts & Sciences Summer 2009

From the department chair Federal grant supports study of A time of transition U.S.-Russia global health care and celebration On July 1, 2008, Ronald Feldstein has attracted science majors to the study of stepped down from the position of chair U.S. Department of Russian. of the Department of Slavic Languages Education project The IU–SFedU project also includes and Literatures and I assumed that role. development of intelligent computer-as- Please join me in thanking Ron for his enters third year sisted language learning (ICALL) materi- many years of leadership and wishing him success in all his future endeavors. by Olena Chernishenko als for Russian language training. One of the unique features of ICALL from the Over his IU career, Ron has served off and on as chair for 15 years. During this In 2007, the Department of Slavic Lan- perspective of language-exercise design time, he worked hard to keep day-to- guages and Literatures won a two-year, software is its ability to generate feedback day operations running smoothly and to $400,000, grant from the U.S. Department based on input during usage. maintain high standards of teaching and of Education (administered by the Fund for The grant project also helped pay for IU research within the department. I aspire the Improvement of Postsecondary Educa- students to study Russian at IUB and travel to continue with the same combination tion program and the Russian Ministry to Rostov-on-Don for a two-week sum- of acumen and energy he brought to of Education and Science). The project, mer program. In both 2008 and 2009, 20 these tasks. U.S.-Russia Global Health Care Course student applicants from IUB and IUPUI For those of you who do not know Study, supports IU faculty and students as were awarded a $1,000 language-training me, I would like to use this column to they work with Russia’s Southern Federal stipend, and 10 also received $4,000 to say a few words about myself. I feel it University in Rostov-on-Don on language travel to Rostov-on-Don and attend “In- very important that you have a sense of learning and the study of public health ternational Health Care Delivery: In-coun- me as a person, and not just of my pro- and health policy. IU Bloomington faculty try Russian Field Experience.” Similarly, fessional background. Originally from members involved with the project include students from Southern Federal University New Jersey, I have been on the faculty Olena Chernishenko, Ronald Feldstein, traveled to Indiana to visit and study. at Indiana University Bloomington since George Fowler, Steven Franks, and IUB and SFedU signed a three-year col- 1987. My appointment is joint with the Markus Dickinson (Linguistics). laboration agreement. In conjunction with Department of Linguistics. Not surpris- In the project’s second successful year, this agreement, the department hosted a ingly, then, my field is Slavic linguistics, three new courses were introduced: Global group of 13 SFedU faculty and staff from where my areas of specialization include Health Dialogue, Survival Russian, and nine academic fields. Likewise,George comparative syntax and South Slavic Specialized Russian: Public Health Care. Fowler of the IUB Slavic Department trav- languages. Students in Bloomington, Indianapolis, and eled to Rostov to present on teaching dis- As chair, I see my job as one which Russia took these courses via distance learn- tance-learning courses. At the conference, crucially involves people. My main role is ing and video conference. American and “Development of Scientific and Education- to facilitate the smooth day-to-day oper- Russian students collaborated on research al Cooperation between the Universities of ations of the department, and this practi- projects in the Global Health Dialogue Russia and the USA in the Humanities,” cal goal requires unflagging teamwork, course. Fowler worked on a collaborative publica- frequent compromise, and occasional Beginners learned the basics of the tion with SFedU faculty. sacrifice. Like all of us, I want the study Russian language in the Survival Russian We plan to continue this program into of Slavic languages and literatures at IU course, while advanced Russian-language year three upon U.S. Department of Edu- to flourish, and in order to accomplish students learned specialized vocabulary and cation approval. For more information on this I will need your help and input, your about health-care issues in Russia in Spe- the grant project and related IU courses, cooperation and support. cialized Russian: Public Health Care. The visit: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/ In this issue you will find stories grant program’s global health care focus USRussiaHCProgram.shtml. (continued on page 11)

Departmental News

Outreach to Indiana and Illinois high schools increases By Dan Tam Do presented a workshop on Sergei Rach- students took part, representing Rickover Led by Mark Trotter, REEI outreach maninov’s Vespers for the SATB Choir at Naval Academy (Chicago), Roosevelt High coordinator, and Slavic Department Un- Bloomington High School South. School (Chicago), Indiana Academy of dergraduate Advisor Jeff Holdeman, IU Thanks to the enthusiastic participation Mathematics, Sciences, and Humanities faculty, students, and staff took part in a of IU faculty and staff, Eastern Europe fig- (Muncie, Ind.), and Jefferson. This major series of events designed to promote the ured prominently in IU’s World Language event was coordinated by Trotter and by study of Russian and other East European Festival in March. Almost 200 Indiana Jefferson Russian teacher Todd Golding, cultures among pre-college students in high school students explored the world’s MA’93, MAT’96. Judges for the Olympia- Indiana and Illinois. cultural and linguistic diversity in a series da included Melnyk and Veronika Trotter, In October 2008, students at both of presentations and workshops. both Slavic instructors. Bloomington high schools experienced The festival included an East European In addition to these events, both Holde- the unique artistry of Reelroad, a Saint folk dance mini-workshop conducted by man and Trotter visited area pre-college Petersburg ensemble. Funded and coordi- lecturers Miriam Shrager and Gergana Russian programs to promote IU’s offer- nated by REEI, the demonstrations at each May (Germanic); crash courses in Russian, ings in Russian and Slavic languages and school featured performances of songs Hungarian, and Polish by Holdeman, make presentations on various aspects of from the group’s most recent album, along Valéria Varga (Hungarian Studies), and Russian culture. In February, Trotter deliv- with group leader Alexei Belkin’s commen- Wiola Próchniak; presentations on Polish ered a presentation on the Russian cartoon tary about the lyrics and Russian folk music and Russian cartoons by Justyna Beinek celebrity Cheburashka to Russian students traditions. Following the concerts, students and Trotter; performances of Ukrainian at Merrillville High School (Ind.). In the were able to chat with the musicians and songs and poetry led by Svitlana Melnyk; spring, Holdeman’s travels took him to take a closer look at their instruments. and a presentation on Polish music and the schools in Indiana and Chicago. He visited Later that month, Holdeman and his stu- media by Halina Goldberg (Musicology). the Indiana Academy of Mathematics, dents organized a Slavic culture program REEI provided significant organiza- Sciences, and Humanites in Muncie, Saint for a Multicultural Halloween Fair. The tional and financial support to the second Andrean High School in Merrillville, and program explored topics such as commem- Illinois-Indiana Regional Olympiada of Chicago-based Roosevelt High School and oration of ancestors, belief in vampires and Spoken Russian for high school students, Rickover Naval Academy for presentations other supernatural beings, mummery and which took place on March 28 at Jefferson on a broad array of topics: Russian Old Be- related practices of various Slavic peoples, High School in Lafayette, Ind. Turnout for lievers, Russian children’s games, Russian and featured hands-on activities. the competition far surpassed the numbers folklore, and Russian superstitions. In February, Brian Schkeeper, IU doc- established at the first Illinois-Indiana Dan Tam Do served as REEI Outreach toral student in choral conducting, Olympiada, held in 2003. A total of 19 Assistant in 2008–09.

Neatrour- Edgerton Award

To honor his late wife Elizabeth “Betty Joy” Neatrour, Charles Neatrour, EdD’68, wanted to establish a fellowship for graduate students concentrating in Russian. In 2003, he created the Neatrour-Edgerton Fellowship Endow- ment, an endowment that also honors late colleague, teacher, and friend Bill Edger- ton. In 2005, the department began making annual awards to its best graduate students, the recipients alternating specializations in literature and in linguistics. In 2009, due Bo-Ra Chung, Ksenia Zanon, and Steven Franks to Dr. Neatrour’s continued generosity, we were able to make an award to excellent her dissertation, and Ksenia Zanon, a first- great achievement. We thank Dr. Neatrour students in both areas. year graduate student of Slavic linguistics. for making it possible to recognize the These are Bo-Ra Chung, MA’05, a Chung and Zanon share a devotion to academic success of these individuals. literature student who recently defended Russian scholarship and the promise of

New faculty Long-time SWSEEL director Ariann Stern-Gottschalk Ariann Stern-Gottschalk joins the faculty reflects with gratitude to direct SWSEEL. In 2009–2010, she will also teach Russian and a new course by Jerzy Kolodziej on Polish Jewish “Students are the lifeblood of the culture. Stern-Gott- The news is it looks like we will schalk comes to IU have another workshop this year. Summer Workshop. ... The pumping from Arizona State People come and go, the institu- University, where she tion remains. But, institutions, heart are the instructors.” directed the ASU such as the Summer Workshop Critical Languages (T-shirts aside), form an organ- Institute. Prior to ism made up of living, breathing Summer Workshop, who provided excep- Stern-Gottschalk ASU, she studied and people — students, teachers, even admin- tional language training to generations of worked at University istrators — and it is those people that I American students. Through their tireless of California, Los Angeles, where she would like to thank as I take my leave of efforts and willingness to share their love earned her PhD in 2002. Currently, her the workshop at the end of this summer. of the language and culture of Russia, these research focuses on language assessment It was a distinct pleasure for me to dedicated educators made an invaluable and Russian verbs of motion. Ideally, she encounter many, and to get to know some contribution to the lives and careers of will continue examining Yiddish morpho- of the students in more than 20 languages countless students at Indiana University syntax in the Eastern and Western Slavic over a span of 20 years spent directing the and to the enhancement of Slavic Studies in Sprachbund. Workshop (and many more years if I count the United States.” those I spent in the workshop as a student Named below the dedication are the Sara Stefani and instructor). I admired the curiosity of instructors: Borovikova, Cetverikova, Sara Stefani accepted the students about other cultures and their Fedulova, Kuleshova, Lopato, Malenko, a position as visiting will to gain entry into these cultures with McLaws, Martianov, Oussenko, Sednev, assistant professor of that sometimes-intractable key of language. Selegen, Sklanchenko, Slavatinskaya, Russian Literature. Students are the life-blood of the Summer Soudakova, Soudakoff, Ushakow, Zalucki, Prior to coming to IU, Workshop. Zardetskaya. New plaques will need to be she taught at Oberlin The pumping heart are the instruc- prepared in the future. College, at Grinnell tors — from the Slavic and Central Asian Final thanks go to those individuals and College, and at Yale Stefani departments on campus, from a number organizations with whom the Summer University, where she of universities in the U.S., and those from Workshop has worked and cooperated: to completed a PhD in 2008. Stefani has abroad. Teachers flourish when you provide its past directors, who established its solid taught all levels of Russian language, as them with good students and when they foundation; to the most recent chairmen well as courses in both Russian and Eng- are allowed to discover and develop their of the Slavic Department, Henry Cooper, lish on 19th- and 20th-century Russian unique methodologies. Ronald Feldstein, and Steven Franks, literature, and multi-disciplinary culture It was my privilege to observe the joy who determined the course the workshop courses incorporating study of literature, and professionalism with which the teachers would follow; to all the people who did visual arts, performing arts, music, and shared languages and cultures with their the heavy lifting in the Workshop — the film. Her research interests involve cross- students — not only those who were sea- organized and capable assistants, ending cultural connections between Russia and soned instructors but also those who were with Lina Khawaldah, and, most impor- England, as well as Russian modernism, just unfolding their pedagogical wings, test- tantly, the workshop secretaries, those of the avant-garde, literature of the 1920s, ing out the joystick of teaching. A special skillful fingers, tact, and loving ears, ending and, most recently, postmodernism. thanks to all the graduate students who with Tricia Wall; to the symbiotic relation- have taught in the workshop, from other ship that developed between the Workshop Iwona Dembowska-Wosik universities and from our Slavic Depart- and the REEI, most recently, David Ransel Iwona Dembowska-Wosik has accepted ment, and to all the consummate profes- and Mark Trotter; to CEUS and to Bill a Kosciuszko Foundation Teaching Fel- sionals in our department: most recently Fierman, the person most responsible for lowship at IU Bloomington, for 2009–10. Christina, Dodona, Galina, Bogdan, Larry, adding muscle to the languages of Central She finished Polish studies at the Univer- Dorothy and many others who taught Asia; and to the College of Arts and Sci- sity of Łódz´ in 2008. In her MA thesis, she earlier. ences for its unwavering support through- created a Polish textbook for the interme- It was Bill Hopkins who conceived out the years. diate level, aimed at acquainting foreign of the idea of honoring the memory of I have met the incoming Workshop di- students with her home city. She is cur- the Russian emigre teachers in the Slavic rector, Arianna Stern-Gottschalk, and will rently working towards her PhD, also Department and the workshop. Thanks to work together with her this summer. She is at the University of Łódz´ . Since 2006, his efforts, and to the efforts of those of a warm and talented person, and I have no Iwona has been teaching Polish as a you who contributed in terms of time and doubt that she will guide the workshop to foreign language to students from Europe; money, a bronze plaque now hangs in the new heights. her students all did volunteer work in Slavic Department offices. It reads: A final word to all the students who have Poland through the EU program Youth in “Dedicated in grateful memory to most recently attended the workshop: If Action. the emigre Russian language teachers of possible, go forth and multiply — and send the Indiana University Department of us your children! Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Faculty Retirements Jerzy Kolodziej: A man of exceptional administrative and linguistic abilities by Ronald Feldstein and Jessica Flores to work at the University of Tennessee. After more than 30 years of service working It was in 1986 that Kolodziej was ap- with the Russian and Polish languages at pointed as director of SWSEEL. Indiana University, Associate Professor Jer- Ronald Feldstein, Slavic department zy Kolodziej, BA’62, PhD’84, is retiring. chair at the time and once a student of Pro- During his time at IU, he has touched the fessor Kolodziej, struggled to find a direc- lives of so many of us, through his director for the Slavic Workshop who possessed torship of SWSEEL, through his teaching, the appropriate administrative and linguistic through his friendship, and through his abilities for the position. Kolodziej’s self- general bonhomie. For all who know him, confident, calm, tactful demeanor seemed Kolodziej will be sorely missed. His retire- perfect for the position. The retiring ment leaves a gap in the department that professor has remained director until this will be difficult to fill. summer, his ultimate workshop. He has been a dedicated and con- Regardless of the situation, Professor scientous teacher and administrator, with Kolodziej is a composed man whose ability flawless knowledge of Russian and great to communicate has been experienced and linguistic expertise, despite the fact that appreciated by many. His gift for working Russian is not his native language (Profes- Kolodziej with people shines through his outstanding sor Kolodziej’s native Polish cannot be administrative abilities. And that gift carried heard within his almost-native sounding Jerzy (a.k.a. George, or even Yuri, in those SWSEEL for over 20 years. Russian tongue). days) was an associate instructor and tour In the 1990s, in cooperation with Pro- Born in Poland, Kolodziej came to leader for IU’s Slavic Workshop. He then fessor Henry Cooper, Professor Kolodziej America with his family when he was 10. became assistant chair of IU’s renowned expanded the workshop immensely, adding In 1962, he received his BA from Indiana Slavic Workshop from 1979–1983. He several non-Slavic languages of Central Asia University. Just five years later, in 1967, completed his PhD in 1984 and then went (continued on page 6) Nina Perlina: Pioneer scholar of Russian literature by Andrew Durkin and Jessica Flores endeavors were not highly looked upon Professor Emerita Nina Perlina retired during the Soviet period, a time when from active teaching in 2008. Perlina, a Dostoevsky’s works received official native of St. Petersburg, has afforded her disfavor. Despite this, the edition still vibrant knowledge of the Russian culture, stands as a landmark of Russian literary language, history, and traditions to IU’s scholarship. Department of Slavic Languages and In 1973, upon immigrating to the Literatures since 1986. In those 23 years, United States, Perlina became an associ- she has played a crucial role in our Russian ate of the Russian Research Center (now literature and language programs at both the Davis Center) at Harvard University. the graduate and undergraduate levels, In addition to this, she worked to com- establishing herself as a major figure in an plete her PhD from Brown University. impressive range of scholarly areas. She then went on to teach at Macalester Growing up, Perlina experienced an College and Rutgers University. It was event which she would return to later in in 1986 that she joined our department, her writing, one which left an indelible bringing with her years of experience. mark: the three-year siege of Nazi forces in In her first book, Professor Perlina Russia. Remaining in St. Petersburg, she returned to the root of her literary attended the Herzen Pedagogical Institute, knowledge, discussing the connections from which she received her higher educa- within Dostoevsky’s novels and prior tion. Her literary experience and traditions literary discourse. This led Perlina to were enriched through her experience as a study Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most senior research fellow at The Dostoevsky profound thinkers of the 20th cen- Museum, which was opened in 1971. Her tury. Her articles, published in North assignment then, in affiliation with the America, Western Europe, and Rus- Pushkinsky Dom, was to prepare the first sia, contain explorations of Bakhtin’s scholarly edition of the complete works themes and legacy. Eventually, Perlina Perlina and letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Her (continued on page 6) Faculty Notes

Aaron Beaver published “Lyricism and Philosophy in Brodsky’s Elegiac Verse” in Slavic Review and “Brodsky and Kierkeg- aard, Language and Time” in Russian Review over the past year. In addition, he received IU’s Trustees Teaching Award. Justyna Beinek published two articles in Polish periodicals: one on Romantic albums in Rocznik Humanistyczny and another one on women in Polish film inPostscriptum polonistyczne. She delivered lectures on the dynamics of individual/national memory in Polish and Russian albums of the Romantic age at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Hamburg in Germany in June 2008. Beinek and Prof. Halina Goldberg (Musicology) co-authored a paper “Literary and Musical Albums: Conventions and Contexts,” presented in April 2008 at the New Directions, New Con- nections: Polish Studies in Interdisciplinary Context conference, organized by Beinek Bronislava Volková accepts her award at the senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. and Adjunct Professor Bill Johnston (Comparative Literature/Second Language Ronald F. Feldstein presented “Devel- ing Discontinuity” in Studies in Formal Studies). At the AAASS convention in opment of Prosodic Redundancy in East Slavic Linguistics; “Clitic Placement in November, Beinek spoke on the topic of and West Slavic, as Conditioned by the New Bulgarian Compound Tenses: PF-Side vs. “Performing the ‘Slavic Soul’ in Sławomir Zero-Ending” at the annual AATSEEL Syntactic Approaches” in IULC Working Mroz˙ek’s ‘Moniza Clavier.” In summer meeting, as well as “On the Stress of Mobile Papers Online 7; and a review of Sussex & 2008, Beinek traveled to the Jagiellonian Vowels in Russian” at the International Cubberly’s The Slavic Languages in Lingua University in Cracow to work on A Critical Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology. (with Ronald Feldstein). Franks co-edited Guide to Witold Gombrowicz, a project for Feldstein served as the Slavic Department A Linguist’s Linguist: Studies in South Slavic which she had received a NEH Collabora- chair through June 2008, served as principal Linguistics in Honor of E. Wayles Browne tive Fellowship. investigator on the U.S. Dept of Education (Slavica, 2009), contributing to that volume Olena Chernishenko received ACTFL US-Russian Global Health Care Program a paper entitled “Macedonian Pronominal OPI Tester Certification. She also organized project, and co-authored, with Steven Clitics as Object Agreement Markers.” and participated in an IU faculty visit to Franks, a book review published in Lingua. Franks was also part of the exchange project Southern Federal University in Rostov for a George H. Fowler published “An Ex- with SFedU in Rostov. Franks continues U.S. Department of Education US-Russian periment in Teaching Elementary Russian as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Slavic Global Health Care Program project. via Distance Education” in The Develop- Linguistics. Henry R. Cooper spent September and ment of Scientific and Educational Coopera- In June 2008, Jeffrey D. Holdeman October 2008 in Croatia, under the aegis of tion Between the Universities of Russia and presented “Language Choice, Informational IU’s faculty exchange agreement with the the USA in Humanities. He continues to Weight, and Language Shift in Russian Old University of Zagreb. In addition to par- serve the department as director of Slavica Believer Gravestone Inscriptions in Poland, ticipating in a symposium on the Croatian Publishers and as director of undergraduate Lithuania, and the Eastern United States” Renaissance playwright Marin Držic´ (born studies. at an Old Believer conference in Poland, 1508, it marked his 500th birthday), he Steven L. Franks presented “The Fine then conducted five weeks of fieldwork and consulted with Croatian colleagues at the Structure of Bulgarian Compound Tenses” archive research in Poland and Lithuania. university and continued work on his trans- at the 16th Balkan and South Slavic Confer- This summer he will visit Old Believer com- lations of two of Držic´’s plays. He worked ence in Banff (Alberta, Canada). Together munities in the eastern U.S. to present his on an anthology of Croatian literature in with Nina Rojina (Tromsoe), he presented research results. The department congratu- English translation, to round out the series “Idiosyncrasies of Russian kakogo cˇerta lates Holdeman on his promotion to the of South Slavic anthologies begun in 2003 ‘Why the Hell’” at the Slavic Linguistics rank of senior lecturer. with Slovene and continued with Serbian Society annual meeting at OSU. His recent Christina Illias presented “Indiana (2004) and Bulgarian (2006). publications include: “Clitic Placement, University, its Prestigious Schools and Pro- Andrew R. Durkin recently published Prosody, and the Bulgarian Verbal Com- grams” on Romanian national and interna- “Modeli diskursa v rasskazakh ‘V ssylke’ i plex” in Journal of Slavic Linguistics; “On tional TV. She participated in the Fulbright ‘Student’” [“Models of Discourse in ‘In Accusative First” in Formal Approaches to National Committee for Eastern Europe, Exile’ and ‘The Student’”]. Filosofiia A. P. Slavic Linguistics: The Stony Brook Meeting was recognized in Who’s Who in the World, Chekhova [The Philosophy of Anton Chekhov]. (with James Lavine, Bucknell); “Deriv- (continued on page 6)

Faculty notes (continued from page 5) Slavica Publishers: New and news and served as a guest lecturer for SWSEEL. Jerzy Kolodziej, in his capacity as direc- by George Fowler tor of SWSEEL, received grants from the The Department of Slavic Languages Social Science Research Council for Rus- and Literatures at Indiana University sian and Georgian and from the American acquired Slavica Publishers in 1997, and Council of Learned Societies for Albanian, has operated it since, publishing nearly Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian (BCS), and 100 volumes during these 12 years. Macedonian. Operating Slavica has turned out to be Miriam Shrager conducted fieldwork in harder work than imagined when the New Jersey, recording speakers of Croatian idea to take it over originally hatched. dialects. She presented “Common Slavic But as a boutique publishing house Deverbatives and their Origin” at the an- devoted to the small fields of Slavic lan- nual AATSEEL conference. guages, literatures, linguistics, and area volume in this comprehensive project. Bronislava Volková co-edited and studies, Slavica is simply irreplaceable as Slavica published several other co-translated a book, Up the Devil’s Back: an outlet for high-quality research and exceptional translations this past year, An Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry teaching materials whose relatively small including Up the Devil’s Back by our (with Clarice Cloutier, Charles Univer- audience doesn’t excite larger publish- own Bronislava Volková and Clarice sity). She also published “Exile Inside ers. Cloutier, which provides a unique and and Out” in Writer Uprooted (Contempo- In 2008–2009 we enjoyed our most provocative selection of work by 65 rary Jewish Exile Literature), “Death as productive year ever, turning out 18 Czech poets. Red Sky, Black Death is a a Semiotic Event” in Kosmas, and “Four new books. Thanks are especially due gripping memoir by Anna Yegorova, a Poems” in Between Texts, Languages, and to managing editor Vicki Polansky, female World War II fighter pilot in the Cultures, A Festschrift for Michael Henry MA’90, PhD’99, who does the heavy Soviet air force. Previously published for Heim. Volková’s poetry is being antholo- lifting on the editorial and production a Russian readership, her story has been gized in Antologie cˇeské poezie od r. 1966 side. retold by American aviator Kim Green, do soucˇasnosti [Anthology of Czech Poetry You can find a listing of Slavica’s who worked with the author to produce since 1966 till the Present]. Volková pre- recent titles on page 10 of this newslet- a version re-envisioned for the American sented “Bilingual Anthology of 20th Centu- ter, but let me mention a few of the reader. At long last, a great beach book ry Czech Poetry” at the annual AATSEEL highlights here. in our field, and if anyone wants to li- conference and read her poetry at the 74th In late 2008 we published two cense the film rights, please get in touch World PEN Congress in Bogotá, Columbia, volumes of American contributions with us directly! where she was one of two official Czech to the 14th International Congress of Finally, we are very proud of An delegates. In May, she traveled to Prague to Slavists in Ohrid, Macedonia. In these Introduction to Proto-Indo-European receive a prestigious award from the Czech twin volumes, devoted to literature and the Early Indo-European Languages, National Society of Arts and Sciences (see and linguistics, American scholars strut written by Joseph Voyles, BA’60, page 5). She continues to organize a very their stuff for the Slavists of the world. MA’62, PhD’65, and Charles Barrack. popular monthly Czech Film Series and her Slavica is proud to have published these We believe that this is the best text- multimedia poetry shows (2003, 2005) are volumes every five years for the past book of Indo-European linguistics ever still being broadcast by Bloomington CATS three decades. published, with detailed exercises (and TV. Michael J. Mikos´ wrapped up his 25 answers). It is a mammoth compendium years of work translating Polish litera- of information presented in accessible ture with the publication of his volume form which belongs on the shelf of Kolodziej of 20th-century translations, the sixth every linguist. (continued from page 4) and the Caucasus. This change produced past which has been admired by students the acronym SWSEEL, which still exists Perlina and colleagues and made Professor Perlina today. Professor Kolodziej continued to (continued from page 4) an invaluable resource in the department. instruct in courses of Russian literature and Although Perlina will no longer be conversation, particularly working with wrote about the place of her childhood engaged in the daily routines of academic third-year Russian students. He has pub- in Writing the Siege of Leningrad, which instruction, she intends to continue her ex- lished several works, which address themes served as a collection of contemporary plorations of Russian literature and culture in Russian and Polish literature, including accounts, diaries, and memoirs of the and to maintain her very active schedule his dissertation on Zamyatin, and articles siege, written by women who experi- of scholarly and personal travel to places on Olesha and Reymont. enced it firsthand. of cultural significance, in particular to her His accomplishments are, without ques- Perlina’s wide range of knowledge first home, St. Petersburg. Her presence tion, outstanding. His strong character and experience allowed her not only at Indiana University has influenced many, and years of diligent work will continue to teach courses on Russian syntax and and her research has and will continue to to impact the indebted Department of culture, but on Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dos- influence even more. Please join us in wish- Slavic Languages and Literature at Indiana toevsky, Gogol, and twentieth-century ing Nina a fruitful and happy retirement. University for years to come. We wish Jerzy Russian literature. It is this wonderful many years of productive retirement. connection of her knowledge and her Student News

From the graduate advisors Note: The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures divides responsibility for graduate advising between two individuals. One ad- ministers literature programs. The second heads up linguistics. For some time, Aaron Beaver and Ronald Feldstein, respectively, served in these offices. Beaver and Feldstein provided the reports below; for their conscientious services we are grateful. Incoming graduate advisors are Justyna Beinek (Literature) and Steven Franks (Linguistics).

to gain from her expertise and from our ongoing relationship with Literature CMLT. — Aaron Beaver Despite the ongoing fluctuation in literature faculty, our graduate students in literature continue to progress and the department continues to attract interest. We currently have one student actively Linguistics researching and writing a dissertation, plus one defense which just In the area of Slavic linguistics, most of our students pursue joint took place. Two other students are not far behind, one who is degrees with the Linguistics Department, or more recently Second recently ABD and one beginning comprehensive exams. Language Studies. Currently, we have an advanced student who is Another pair of students is swiftly wrapping up MA coursework, almost finished with qualifying exams and who is planning to work and we have four incoming graduate students in literature. Our on the acquisition of Russian palatalization by foreign learners. literature students at all levels have profited from increasing contact Three additional students are working their way through the pro- with the graduate students in the Comparative Literature Program. gram and some students based in the Department of Linguistics A number of our students have recently taken, or are planning are actively taking Slavic courses. to take, comparative literature courses; and a growing number of Recently, we had an excellent representation at the Midwest comparative literature students are actively taking courses in Slavic, Slavic Conference, at The Ohio State University. A group of seven especially in Russian and Polish literature. One CMLT student graduate students gave papers at the conference. Most did this in will, this summer, defend a dissertation in which one of the three connection with a course they were taking with Professor Steven chapters is devoted to the poetry of Joseph Brodsky; a second has Franks, while one based her presentation on her dissertation plans. begun dissertation research on the rise of the Russian novel as Professor Franks deserves a vote of thanks for encouraging this influenced by the British novel. large participation and for its successful outcome. Many of our Our interdepartmental contact promises to deepen with the graduate students are currently involved in language teaching, addition of Sara Stefani as a two-year visiting assistant professor, including employment at a summer language program in Tomsk, given her own research interest in British-Russian literary and cul- Russia. Another of our Slavic linguistics students has served as tural interchange—and our literature graduate students stand only graduate assistant for the U.S.-Russia Global Health Care Course Study Program. — Ronald Feldstein

Welcome! Meet our 2008 matriculants Laurel Giddings is a lifelong Bloomingtonian, who fell in love with Russian literature while still in high school. More specifically, her academic interests include the poetry of the Silver Age (particularly Mandel’shtam) and 20th-century Russian prose. Ksenia Zanon is a Russian. Despite that, she is indifferent to chess, vodka, or the sounds of balalaika, opting instead for Scrabble, wine, and Italian opera. Ksenia’s academic interests lie within the realm of syntactic theory. She has cultivated a special attachment to South Slavic Spring 2009 Dobro Slovo inductees languages and her research draws Front row (left to right): Polina Kostylev, James Kalwara, Melinda Balchan, and Rebecca heavily from them. Baumgartner. Back row (left to right): Jeffrey Truelock, Kara Hodgson, Jeffrey Holdeman (faculty sponsor), Karen Shull.

Graduate student news Bethany Braley designed and taught the new course Russia’s Literature of Dissent this spring. Braley will teach SWSEEL Russian Level 1 again this summer. Bo-Ra Chung presented “Female Voice in Modern- ist Folk Songs” at the AAASS national convention in November 2008. She also presented “Chevengur: Andrei Platonov’s Utopian Humanism” at the AATSEEL national convention in December 2008. In March 2009 she From the Director of Undergraduate Studies gave a two-part guest lecture titled “Bruno Jasienski as an Existentialist” at The Catholic University of Lublin in Poland. She received a 2008-09 College of Arts and Sci- ences Dissertation Year Research Grant and was awarded From the director of undergraduate studies the Neatrour-Edgerton Fellowship in April 2009. She defended her dissertation in June. Brigid Henry presented, “Masculine Personal Verb Majors peak in busy year Mismatches in Polish,” at the Midwest Slavic Conference at The Ohio State University. She received a Summer The 2008–2009 academic year was busy and productive for undergraduates 2009 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. from Duke University to study advanced intensive Russian The number of majors continues at or near its peak during this decade. in St. Petersburg, Russia. For the 2009–10 year, she re- Most Russian majors do at least one semester abroad, usually via the CIEE ceived a FLAS Fellowship from REEI to study fourth-year program in St. Petersburg. In 2008-09, eight students studied through Polish. This year, she continued as administrative assistant CIEE — four of them for the full year! For 2009-10, we already know of for the US-Russia Global Healthcare Program project. seven who have made plans for study abroad. Bora Kim presented a paper, “Non-finite complements We are delighted that so many of our undergraduates have this oppor- in Russian and Serbian/Croatian,” at the third annual tunity. There is no substitute for in-country experience to bring Russian meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society at The Ohio language and culture to life. But, of course, for those who cannot go State University in June 2008. In August 2008, she par- abroad, there is always SWSEEL. (N.B. Nicholas Kristof, in his regular ticipated in the 41st International Seminar on Macedonian op-ed column in the New York Times, wrote on May 31, 2009: “One of Language, Literature, and Culture in Ohrid, Macedonia. the great failures of American universities is that they are far too parochial, She married Sang-Yeol Park in Korea on Dec. 13, 2008. rarely exposing students to worlds beyond our borders.” Your honor, we Stu Mackenzie continues to teach Russian Phonet- plead an emphatic “Not guilty!”) ics and Intonation in SWSEEL and to serve as business The department conducted two major social events for language stu- manager of Slavica Publishers. He is writing his PhD dis- dents. Near the end of the fall semester we held a combined holiday dinner sertation, titled Genre Theory and Typology of Russian Prose party and talent show (pictured above). Students from every language we Satire of the 1920s. offer sang songs, performed original skits, and in general showed off to the Heather Rice served as site director for the Russian merriment of all. We were especially gratified by the attendance of guests Department of State’s Critical Languages Scholarship from outside the department, who we hope were suitably taken by the Summer Intensive Program in Tomsk, Russia, for the impressive level of enthusiasm and, dare I say it, talent! second year in a row. In April, she presented a paper, In the spring, we held our annual departmental award ceremony and “Perception of Palatalization of Russian Consonants in end-of-year reception. We are especially proud to note the following awards English-Speaking Learners of Russian” at the Midwest to outstanding students: Nina Kovalenko, third annual Armstrong Incom- Slavic Conference at OSU. ing Undergraduate Award 2008–2009; and Polina Kostylev, ACTR Post- Ksenia Zanon presented a paper, “‘Coordinated’ Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate: Outstanding Student in the Russian wh-phrases and Quantifiers in Russian and BCS,” at the Program. Midwest Slavic Conference at OSU. She was awarded the An ongoing challenge for our Russian language program has been the Neatrour-Edgerton Fellowship and a Foreign Language integration of heritage-speakers into our language classes. The increased Area Studies Fellowship to continue her studies of BCS flow of immigration from Russia and other NIS countries means that a next year. sizeable number of students with a family background in Russian attend IU. Students range from those with only “kitchen” fluency, to others who Czech student news speak correctly and fluently but have limited or no literacy skills, all the way Heidi Bludau received a Fulbright Fellowship and is to students with significant schooling in Russia. Our placement tests, which spending a year in Czech Republic working on her disser- are weighted toward literacy and grammar, sometimes do not evaluate these tation on the topic of migration of Czech nurses. students’ Russian abilities perfectly. When heritage speakers of Russian wind Ryan Kilgore won a National Society of Arts and up in elementary Russian classes, they may not get much out of it, and they Sciences award in the graduate student category for can intimidate true beginners. his paper, “‘Avtorskaia pesnia’ Through the Lens of In order to deal more effectively with such students, we’ve created a new Mukarˇovský’s Structural Aesthetics.” course for heritage speakers. In this course, to be offered each fall semester, Lisa Leenhouts-Martin is spending the summer in students will receive intensive training in literacy skills and, thereafter, join Prague as an intern in the American Embassy. the regular Russian program at the appropriate level (most often this will Joe Leenhouts-Martin received an internship in Ge- be third-year Russian). We believe that the introduction of this course is neva for this summer. a crucial step in accommodating the range of students who want to study Paul Slaughter just spent a year in the Czech Republic Russian at IU. — George Fowler in the CIEE program.

Alumni Notebook

Class notes In Memoriam 1960s Jennifer Day, MA’97, PhD’01 In August 2008, Rev. Charles G. Robert- son, BA’64, MA’81, Cert’84, retired after Jennifer Jean Day, MA’97, PhD’01, died March 31, 2009 of heart failure. 41 years of active ministry in the Presby- Day received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of South Carolina and terian Church (USA), and after nine years her doctorate and master’s degrees at Indiana University Bloomington. While as pastor of Wilshire Presbyterian Church at IU, she worked under the guidance of Professor Emeritus Vadim Liapunov. in Los Angeles, Calif. Robertson served The department recalls Day as a superb Russian language associate instructor, a as a Frontier Intern in Mission in Cracow, brilliant student, and a delightful person to have around. At Bard College, where Poland from 1971 to 1974, working with she taught for six years, Day was a luminous professor, beloved by students and the religious community there, studying at colleagues. She played a pivotal role in shaping Bard’s satellite program at Smolny the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, and College in Saint Petersburg, Russia. earning a Polish Language Certificate in The author, with Anna Lisa Crone, of My Petersburg/Myself (Slavica, 2004), 1974. He then taught English as a foreign Day also published translations from Russian and Polish, articles, and book language in the Practical English Depart- reviews. She was currently writing a book on the place of irony in contemporary ment of the Institute of Foreign Languages Russian literature. in Sosnowiec, Poland, part of the Silesian Day is survived by her mother, Brenda Goldstein, her father Richard Day, her University in Katowice, from 1974 to husband Rob Schott, her two-year old son Tristram, her sisters Katie, Holly, and 1976. He was active in the Polish Stud- Rachel, as well as loving and devoted members of her family. We extend to all our ies Center at IU from 1976 to 1984. His deepest sympathy. area of research was religious life in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on church-state relations in Poland. Robertson lives in Los the $8,000 grant toward travel and tuition Totalitarian Laughter at Princeton Univer- Angeles. expenses while updating her Russian lan- sity. She also gave a talk to the Swarthmore Frank J. Miller, MA’65, PhD’76, is a guage skills at Moscow State University this Alumni Book Club in Washington, D.C., professor of Slavic languages and Russian summer, and on a trip on the TransSiberian on “Humor and Dissidence.” language coordinator at Columbia Univer- Railroad from Moscow to Irkutsk. Parsons Mike Finke, MA’86, PhD’89, will be sity, where he has taught since 1985. He is lives in Greenfield, Ind. heading the Department of Slavic co-author of the intermediate-level Russian Donna M. Tuke, BA’72, MLS’74, Languages and Literatures at University of textbook V puti, the 2nd edition of which writes that she “turned her library degree Illinois Urbana-Champaign starting this was published by Pearson-Prentice Hall in into publishing newsletters for law and fall. In spring 2010 he will be a Visiting 2006. Miller lives and works in New York business libraries.” Recently, she started Foreign Fellow at the Slavic Research Cen- City. a seminar division for business, legal, and ter at Sapporo, Japan. Together with John Sandra G. Freels, BA’69, is chairwoman information professionals. For more infor- Bartle, MA’87, PhD’94, and Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages mation, visit www.alertpub.com and www. Emeritus Vadim Liapunov, Finke is in the and Literatures and director of the Russian bia-seminars.com. Tuke lives in Chicago. process of assembling a festschrift in honor language flagship program at Portland Allan I. Grafman, BA’75, is president of Professor Emerita Nina Perlina. State University in Portland, Ore. She is of All Media Ventures Inc. of White Plains, Andrew G. Thiros, Cert/BA’89, works the author of Russian in Use (Yale Univer- N.Y., where he lives. He has been elected as an in-house counsel for U.S. Steel Corp. sity Press, 2006) and co-author of Focus on chairman of the board of Majesco Enter- in Pittsburgh, where he specializes in envi- Russian (John Wiley, 1991, 1996). Freels tainment, a video-game producer and dis- ronmental law. He lives in Sewickley, Pa. lives in Portland. tributor, and has published an article titled “Weekly is the New Quarterly,” in the first 1990s 1970s quarter 2009 issue of Directors and Boards Martina Lindseth, MA’91, PhD’96, writes Sarah “Sally” Bruner Parsons, BA’72, a magazine. that she is doing well and is now a full speech therapist at Southwestern Elemen- professor at University of Wisconsin-Eau tary and Southwestern Junior-Senior High 1980s Claire, where she teaches German upper- schools in Shelbyville, Ind., is one of 129 Sibelan Forrester, MA’85, PhD’90, division translation, phonetics/phonology, Hoosier educators who were awarded a recently completed the first of a three-year and grammar/language courses. Lindseth 2009 Creativity Fellowship grant in March. term as chairwoman of the Department is researching oral proficiency develop- The program is funded by the Lilly Endow- of Modern Languages and Literatures at ment and working for Language Testing ment Inc. to allow schoolteachers and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. In International-ACTFL as an OPI tester. She administrators to explore personal interests May 2009, she presented a paper on black or career-related subjects. Parsons will use humor in Danilo Kiš at the conference on (continued on page 10)

New from Slavica Publishers (2008–2009)

American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of John Miletich, ed. and trans. Love Lyric and Other Poems Slavists, Ohrid, September 2008, vol. 1: Linguistics, ed. Chris- of the Croatian Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology, with tina Y. Bethin, 2008; vol. 2: Literature, ed. David M. Bethea, introductory essays by Ivo Frange and Ivan Slamnig, 2nd ed., 2008. 2009. Craig Cravens, Masako U. Fidler, and Susan Kresin, eds. Michael J. Mikos´. Polish Literature from 1918 to 2000: An Between Texts, Languages, and Cultures: A Festschrift for Anthology, 2008. Michael Henry Heim, 2008. Robert A. Rothstein. Two Words to the Wise: Reflections on Chester S. L. Dunning, Russell E. Martin, and Daniel Row- Polish Language, Literature, and Folklore, 2008. land, eds. Rude & Barbarous Kingdom Revisited: Essays in Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby. Village Values: Negotiating Russian History and Culture in Honor of Robert O. Crummey, Identity, Gender, and Resistance in Urban Russian Life-Cycle 2008. Rituals, 2008. Steven Franks, Vrinda Chidambaram, and Brian Joseph, eds. Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova. Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet A Linguist’s Linguist: Studies in South Slavic Linguistics in Woman Pilot’s Memoir of the Eastern Front, trans. Margarita Honor of E. Wayles Browne, 2009. Ponomaryova and Kim Green, ed. Kim Green, 2009. Alexander Galich. Dress Rehearsal, trans. Maria R. Bloshteyn, Viktoria Tokareva. A Day without Lying: A Glossed Edition 2008. for Intermediate-level Students of Russian, with Vocabulary, Hilde Hoogenboom, Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Exercises, and Commentary by William J. Comer, 2008. and Irina Reyfman, eds.Mapping the Feminine: Russian Bronislava Volková and Clarice Cloutier. Up the Devil’s Back: Women and Cultural Difference, 2008. A Bilingual Anthology of 20th-Century Czech Poetry, 2008. Jeffrey W. Jones. Everyday Life and the “Reconstruction” Joseph Voyles and Charles Barrack. An Introduction to Proto- of Soviet Russia During and After the Great Patriotic War, Indo-European and the Early Indo-European Languages, 2009. 1943–1948, 2008. Ján Kollár. Reciprocity Between the Various Tribes and Dia- lects of the Slavic Nation, trans. Alexander Maxwell, 2008. Slavica Publishers Olga Mesropova and Seth Graham. Uncensored? Reinventing 1-877-SLAVICA • 1-812-856-4186 Humor and Satire in Post-Soviet Russia, 2008. [email protected] http://www.slavica.com

Class notes (continued from page 9) TOP Ways Your Membership spent the spring semesters of 2006, 2007, and 2008 in Wit- tenberg, Germany, teaching and conducting research. Makes IU Stronger Nathan S. Schickel, BA’95, lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Leslie, JD’07, an associate attorney for the law firm Feiwell & Hannoy who focuses her practice on creditors • Create5s a global alumni network rights. Miriam Shrager, BA’96, MA’01, PhD’07, is a lecturer More than 100 chapters worldwide. in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at • Keeps alumni informed about IU IU Bloomington, where her teaching and research interests Membership supports the Indiana Alumni Magazine include Russian, Slavic and general linguistics, phonetics, and communications. phonology, dialectal fieldwork, and folklore. Shrager lives in Bloomington. • Provides scholarships for students More than $3 million in scholarships awarded. 2000s • Connects alumni through programs and services Maria Cohen Konev, Cert/BA’01, is human resources co- Continuing education and travel programs, online ordinator for Liquid Transport Corp. in Indianapolis. Konev alumni directory, career services, and events. and her family live in Carmel, Ind. Colin Nisbet, BA’04, recently graduated from Case • Supports international outreach Western Reserve University School of Law. He expects to The IUAA works to further the international scope of re-join the U.S. Army in February 2010 as a Judge Advocate IU and to assist students with travel General Officer. and study abroad. Tim Kenlan, BA’08, enters the University of Maine School of Law this fall. He lives in Portland, Maine. Membership Matters. Join or renew today at alumni.indiana.edu.

10 summer language workshop, and we house able asset, one that I hope to cultivate. From the chair Slavica Publishers, the foremost Slavic pub- (continued from page 1) lishing house. Funds and gratitude Our department also greatly enhances Another very important type of initiative about Nina Perlina and Jerzy Kolodziej. the Russian and East European Institute, concerns funding. As reported on page 1 of Nina, who retired in 2008, has played a national leader and the premier Title VI this issue of DOSLAL, we were fortunate a crucial role in our Russian literature center at IU. There is an urgent need for re- to receive a substantial grant from the U.S. program at both graduate and undergradu- organization and the hiring of energetic and Department of Education’s Fund for the ate levels since coming to IU in 1986, and versatile new faculty. And although we may Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Jerzy, who retires this August, has directed decide to jettison traditional structures and Students and faculty have been collaborat- SWSEEL for over 20 years (see his warm reconfigure to reflect more interdisciplinary ing with Southern Federal University in reminiscences on page 3). Many of you will research and teaching missions, I think the Rostov-on-Don on a project that includes have studied with Professors Perlina and department can make changes with minimal language learning and the study of public Kolodziej; please join me in wishing them sacrifices. health and health policy. One significant both a fruitful and happy retirement. We will emerge better and stronger in the benefit of this grant is that it has provided I want also to recognize three individu- end. Because one thing we can be sure of full support for two graduate students. als who have served as visiting lecturers this is this: everything goes up and down, these We plan to apply for other grants in areas past year and soon will be returning to their trying economic times will pass, and when related to the teaching and study of Slavic home countries: Siniša Miškovic´ (Croatia), they do, IU is going to need outstanding languages. We are also very fortunate to Wiola Próchniak (Poland), and Svitlana international programs to compete. I am claim such devoted alumni and friends. We Melnyk (Ukraine). Moreover, I regret to sure you will agree with me when I say remain indebted to many, especially Dr. say literature scholar Aaron Beaver has superior knowledge of Slavic languages and Charles Neatrour (see the story on page 2). decided to leave us to join his wife in Wash- understanding of Slavic cultures is and will In particular, I also wish to thank ington, D.C. Tricia Wall, who has served as remain essential. Sukhoon Choo, PhD’03, for his sup- our eminently capable student services and In the past year, our undergraduate pro- port of the Slavica Fund. Choo made a summer program assistant since 2004, is gram has undergone considerable revision. gift this year, in honor of his father Dong resigning in August. These include revising the major require- Hun Choo, that supports graduate student I thank all these individuals for their ments to make them more flexible and research and professional activities. Starting hard work and unstinting contributions realistic. We changed all first-year language this year, the department will make awards to the success of our various departmental courses from five hours per week to four. A to graduate students, in both literature and missions. On the other end, we welcome variety of new courses were added, such as linguistics, on an as-needed basis. We have two visiting faculty members, Ari Stern and Russian for Heritage Speakers I, Introduc- now instituted a policy of reimbursing pro- Sara Stefani, about whom you can read on tion to Ukrainian Culture, Contemporary fessional-organization membership. page 3. We additionally welcome return- Russian Culture, and a series of one-credit This all helps immensely, but to be hon- ing lecturer Olena Chernishenko and new courses in Advanced Oral Russian. est, our most pressing need is to improve Kosciuszko Foundation Teaching Fellow We also expanded offerings of second our ability to recruit world-class faculty. Iwona Dembowska-Wosik (also highlight- eight-week courses. This spring we had If you would like information about our ed on page 3). no fewer than eight, including “Russian recruitment efforts, e-mail me at franks@ Transitions and challenges Literature of Dissent,” taught by graduate indiana.edu. student Bethany Braley; “Introduction In addition to the Slavica Fund and the This is a time when small departments to Ukrainian Culture,” taught by visitor Neatrour-Edgerton Fellowship, the depart- such as ours face great challenges and Svitlana Melnyk; and “History of Russian ment maintains a general Slavic Studies unprecedented cutbacks. Despite our size, Crime/Spy Novels,” taught by adjunct Fund and recently created a Slavic Linguis- our missions have historically been broad, Gene Coyle. tics Enrichment Fund. They support a wide encompassing diverse languages, quality Speaking of adjuncts, we are actively range of activities, such as alumni events, undergraduate education in Slavic lan- building ties with other units at IU. Re- student and faculty recruitment, and special guages, literatures, and cultures, and unique cently three new adjunct faculty joined the research projects. Funds are maintained graduate programs in Slavic literatures and department: Bill Johnston (Comparative by the IU Foundation, and contributions Slavic linguistics. Literature/Second Language Studies), Josh are fully tax-deductible. If you would like Although everyone in the department is Malitsky (Communication and Culture), information about any of these funds, please working hard to maintain these many excel- and Dov-Ber Kerler (Jewish Studies/Ger- call (812) 855-9906 or e-mail iuslavic@ lent programs, current economic uncertaini- manic Studies). indiana.edu. ties question the viability of much of what In the fall, Distinguished Professor and It is my hope that you — our valued we do. Departmental demographics are also College Professor of Cognitive Science and alumni, students, and friends — will keep at work: our faculty is aging and many have Computer Science Douglas Hofstadter will me posted about your activities and achieve- retired or plan to do so in the next year or teach, “Eugene Onegin, Pushkin’s Paradox- ments, reach out to me when needs or two. ical Gem.” I expect that next year we will questions arise, and please contact me upon I am, nonetheless, optimistic about the revise our graduate program degree require- your visits to Bloomington. perspectives for rebuilding. IU has a long- ments to involve more courses from other Finally, I thank everyone who has con- standing commitment to Slavic Languages allied departments. I believe that the best tributed information to this newsletter. 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