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Nadya (Nadezhda) L. Peterson Associate Professor of Russian, Head of the Division of Russian and Slavic Studies Department of Classical and Oriental Studies Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue #1330 West New York, New York 10065 212-772-5060 [email protected] EDUCATION

Institution Dates Degree Date Attended and Major Conferred

Indiana University, 1979-1986 Ph.D., Russian 1986 Bloomington, IN Literature

Indiana University, 1977-1979 M.A., Russian 1979 Bloomington, IN Literature

Moscow State 1969-1975 B. A., M.A. 1975 University equivalent Philology

EXPERIENCE

A. Teaching

Institution Dates Rank Department

CUNY 2005-present Associate Comparative Graduate Center Professor Literature

Hunter College 2003-present Associate Classics CUNY Professor

Hunter College 1998-2002 Assistant Classics CUNY Professor

Indiana University 1997-98 Visiting History Institute for the Study of Scholar Russian Education

University of Connecticut 1995-97 Assistant Russian Professor

University of Pennsylvania 1988-95 Assistant Russian Professor

Goucher College 1986-88 Assistant Russian Professor

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PUBLICATIONS

A. Books

Submitted for publication

Chekhov’s Children: Context and Text in late Imperial .

In Print:

The Witching Hour and Other Plays by Nina Sadur (Academic Studies Press, 2014). Nominated for the best translation in fiction category by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European languages for 2015. Published in 8 editions.

Russian Love Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Prose (Peter Lang, 2009). Published in 7 editions.

Subversive Imaginations: Fantastic Prose and the End of Soviet Literature, 1970s--1990s (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997). Selected by Choice as a notable book of the year. Published in 8 editions.

Conversational Russian: A Complete Course in Everyday Russian (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993). Multiple editions.

B. Articles

In Progress:

“Leo Tolstoy vs. K.D. Ushinsky on Education”

In Print:

“The Child in Chekhov,” The Russian Review [refereed journal], October, 2014.

"Laska i poriadok: The Daily Life of the Russian School, 1890-1914,” (with Ben Eklof), The Russian Review [refereed journal], January 2010.

Entries “Literature, ,” “Literature, stagnation,” in Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Helena Goscilo, and Karen Evans-Romaine, eds. Encyclopedia of Contemporary . (: Routledge, 2007).

”Death of the Maiden: Erasures of the Feminine in Russian Literature of the 1980s,” in Tatiana Novikov and Marcus Levitt, eds. Violence in Russian Literature and Culture, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007).

“Modernization and Its Discontents: Literature in the New Russian School,” Slavic and East European Journal [refereed journal] (Winter 2006).

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“Victims and Witches: Folklore in the Works of Nina Sadur,” in The Oeuvre of Nina Sadur (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).

“Teaching Literature in the New Russian Schools,” in Ben Eklof, Larry Holmes and Vera Kaplan, eds. Russian Education: A Decade after the Collapse of the (Frank Cass, Inc., 2004).

“I. Grekova (Ventsel),” in Rydel, Christine (ed.) Russian Prose Writers After World War II: Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 302 (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 2004).

”Vera Panova,” in Rydel, Christine (ed.) Russian Prose Writers After World War II: Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 302 (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 2004).

”Anatolii Andreevich Kim”, in Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky, eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Writers Since 1980, vol. 285 (Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003), pp. 149-155.

”Lidiia Nikolaevna Seifullina,” in Christina Rydel, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Writers Between the World Wars, vol. 272 (Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003), pp. 345-351.

“The Private ‘I’ in the Works of Nina Berberova,” The Slavic Review, vol. 60, No. 3, Fall 2001, pp. 491-512 [refereed journal].

"Dirty Women: Cultural Connotations of Cleanliness in Stalinist Russia," in Russia-- Women-- Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), pp. 177-205.

"The Games Women Play: the Erotic Prose of Valeriia Narbikova," in Fruits of Her Plume: Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture, ed. by Helena Goscilo (M.E. Sharpe, 1993), pp.165-183.

Multiple entries, Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Women Writers, ed. by M. Astman, Ch. Rosenthal, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994.

"The Languages of Chekhov's "Darling", Canadian-American Slavic Studies, vol.24, No.2 (Summer 1990), pp.199-215 [refereed journal].

"Science Fiction and Fantasy--a Prelude to the Literature of ," The Slavic Review, Summer 1989, pp.254-268 [refereed journal].

"Vladimir Makanin's Solutions to the Loss of the Past," Studies in Comparative Communism, Nos. 3-4, 1988, pp.349-56 [refereed journal].

C. Book reviews:

Review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Anton Chekhov. Edited by Michael C. Finke and Michael Holquist. (The Modern Language Association of America: New York, 2016) The Russian Review, July 2018.

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Review of Janet Elise Johnson, Gender Violence in Russia: The Politics of Feminist Intervention (IU Press, 2009) The Journal of Russian Communication, vol. 4, No. 1, Spring, 2011.

Review of Carol Adlam, Women in Russian Literature after Glasnost: Female Alternatives (London: Legenda, 2005) The Russian Review, vol. 66:3, July 2007.

Review of Evgeny Dobrenko, The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001) Slavic and East European Journal, No. 4, vol. 48, Winter 2004.

Review of Gabriella Safran, Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000) The Polish Review, No. 2 2002.

Review of Beth Holmgren, Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998) The Polish Review , vol. XLV, No. 1, 2000.

Review of Helena Goscilo, The Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya’s Fiction (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996) The Slavic Review, Spring, 1999.

Review of Diana Lewis Burgin, Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's (New York: NYU Press, 1994) The Russian Review, Fall, 1995.

Review of Gender Restructuring in Russian Studies, ed. by M Liljestrom et al (Tampere, 1993) and Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture, ed. by J. Costlow, S. Sandler, J. Vowles (Stanford, 1993) The Slavic Review, Spring 1995.

Review of Contemporary Russian Poetry, ed. by Gerald S. Smith (IU Press, 1993) The Slavic Review, Winter, 1995.

Review of Kathleen F. Parthe, Russian Village Prose: The Radiant Past, (Princeton University Press, 1992), The Russian Review, Jan. 1994.

Review of Svetlana Boym, Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard University Press, 1991) for The Slavic Review, vol.51, No.1, Spring 1992.

Review of The Cambridge History of Russian Literature, ed. by Charles Moser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), The Slavic and East European Journal, vol.35, No.1, Spring 1991.

Review of N.N. Shneidman, Soviet Literature in the 1980's: a Decade of Transition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989), The Slavic Review , Summer, 1991.

Review of Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature, ed. by Arnold McMillin (Slavica Publishers, 1989), The Russian Review, Fall 1991.

Review of R. Pletnev, Istoriia russkoi literatury XX veka (Perspektiva, 1987), The Russian Review, vol.49, No.1, Winter 1990.

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Review of Vospominaniia o N. Tikhonove (: Sovetskii pisatel, 1986), The Russian Review, vol.48, no.4, 1989.

Review of Mark Al'tshuller, Elena Dryzhakova, Put' otrecheniia (Hermitage, 1985), The Russian Review, vol. 46, no.4, 1988.

D. Translations:

A. M. Netupsky, From Sakhalin to San Francisco (under consideration for publication), (2018).

The Witching Hour and Other Plays by Nina Sadur (Academic Studies Press, 2014).

Epstein, Mikhail, Essays http://www.cosmonautsavenue.com/mikhail-epstein---two- essays.html. October, 2014.

Russian Love Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Prose (Peter Lang, 2009).

Makanin, Vladimir, Left Behind, in Glasnost: An Anthology of Russian Literature Under Gorbachev, ed. by Helena Goscilo and Byron Lindsey (Ann Arbor: Ardis Press, 1990), pp.195-271.

Nudelman, Rafail, "Soviet Science Fiction and the Ideology of the Soviet Society," Science Fiction Studies, vol. 16, 1989, pp. 38-67.

Smelyansky, Anatoly, "Remembering the Future," in Moscow Art Theater: Past, Present, Future, ed. by M. Dixon (Louisville: Actors Theater of Louisville, 1989), pp.48-55.

Shvydkoi, Mikhail, "Contemporary Playwrights of the Moscow Art Theater," in Moscow Art Theater: Past, Present, Future, pp. 68-71.

Khrapchenko, M., Artistic Creativity, Reality and Man: Essays in Contemporary Aesthetics. Moscow: Raduga, 1986, 300 pp.

Rodnianskaia, Irina, "Two Faces of Stanislaw Lem: On The Master's Voice," Science Fiction Studies, vol. 13, 1986, pp.352-60.

Anninski, Lev, "On Lem's The High Castle," Science Fiction Studies, vol. 16, 1986, pp.345-51.

E. Conferences/Talks:

Hunter College, guest lecture on Chekhov’s Poetics, Mar. 2, 2020.

Mint Theater, NYC, lecture on Chekhov and Tolstoy, Feb.1, 2020.

Hunter College, Conference on Teaching Translation, Paper on Translating Chekhov, April 7, 2019.

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Hunter College, International Conference on Tamizdat Literature, Chair, panel on Tamizdat practices and institutions, December 11, 2018.

Institute of International Education, conference on Foreign Language Teaching Assistants, Jan, 18-Jan 20, 2017

“Anton Chekhov’s The Black Monk on the Screen,” lecture at Staten Island Museum, April 2, 2017

The Inaugural Roundtable on Heritage Language Education, presentation on teaching heritage students at Hunter College, Oct. 17, 2014

“The Cultural Bilingualism in the Works of Victor Pelevin,” delivered at the Columbia Slavic Seminar, Spring 2002

“The Challenges of Autobiography: Nina Berberova’s ‘Italics Are Mine’,” delivered at the Colloque Nina Berberova: Berberova at 100, Actes Sud, Arles, France, 18-21 October, 2001

“Victor Pelevin and the Idea of the Future,” Symposium on Literature at the End of a Century at Middlebury College, July 2001.

“Teaching Literature in the New Russian School”, Conference on Russian Education, Institute for the Study of Russian Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June, 2000.

“Death and the Maiden: Erasures of the Feminine in Recent Russian Literature,” AAASS Conference, Boston, November 1996

"The Aesthetic in the Work of Russian Women Writers," Conference on Women's Issues, University of Connecticut, April 1996.

"Beauty and the Beast: Concepts of Beauty in the Work of Tatiana Tolstaya," AAASS Conference, Philadelphia, November 1994.

"Liberation or Enslavement? Pornography in Russia Today," Russian and East European Institute, Bloomington, Indiana, April, 1994.

"Trial by Dirt: Political Women Prisoners in Stalinist Russia," Russian and East European Institute, Bloomington, Indiana, May, 1994.

“Soviet Society and Politics through the Prism of Literature,” Capstone Seminar, Wharton School, Fall, 1992.

"Victims and Witches: The Prose of Nina Sadur", MLA convention, NYC, December 1992.

"The Utopian Side of Contemporary Village Prose," delivered at the annual AAASS conference in Washington, D.C., October, 1990.

"The Voice of the "Mute Generation": the 'Alternative Prose' of V.

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Narbikova and A. Ivanchenko," Texas Tech University, Oct.1990.

"Three Writers of Soviet "Alternative Literature," delivered at the AAASS annual conference in Chicago, November 1989.

"Vladimir Makanin's Work in the Context of the Literature of Glasnost," the Second Seminar on Soviet Literature and Society, Yale University, July, 1987.

"Anatoly Kim's "Lotos" and Soviet Literature of the Eighties," the First Seminar on Soviet Literature and Society, Stanford University, July 1986.

"Soviet Literature of the Eighties," delivered at Midwestern Annual Conference of AAASS (Madison, WI, Spring 1986)

"Limits of Socialist Realism," ATTSEEL annual meeting in Chicago, December, 1985.

"Cosmic Realism--Experiments in Contemporary Soviet Literature," Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, February, 1984.

"Utopian Thought in Soviet Science Fiction," Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, November 1984.

"New Trends in Teaching," the Fall meeting of Indiana chapter of ATTSEEL, October 1984.

"Soviet Science Fiction, How Alien Is It?" the Conference on Soviet Popular Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 1984.

F. Professional Activities

Fulbright Teaching Assistants supervisor, Hunter College, 2008-to present.

Internal Reviewer for Columbia University Press Translation Series, 2018- to present

Article Editor for Sage Open, 2016-to present

Invited Participant, NYSTCE Russian Standard Setting Conference, November 14-15, 2016, Albany, NY.

Member of the editorial board on research at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation (2013-present).

Editorial Consultant or Reader for Studies of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, University of South Carolina Press, Slavic and East European Journal, Slavic Review, The Russian Review (1988-present).

Columbia Faculty Seminar on Slavic History and Culture. Member, 1999-present.

Organizer and Panel Chair, 27th Annual Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, March 2003, Hunter College.

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Member of the Executive Committee of the Middle Atlantic Slavic Conference, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2000-2003.

Member, PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Faculty Grants Committee, 2000-2010. Coordinator for Slavic, 2000-2010.

Invited Participant, “The Colloque Nina Berberova: Berberova at 100,” Arles, France, 18-21 October, 2001.

Invited Participant, Symposium on Russian Literature at the End of a Century at Middlebury College, July 2001.

Invited participant, Conference "Glasnost in Two Cultures: Soviet Russian and North American Women's Writing," New York University, Spring 1991.

Invited participant, Conference on Contemporary Russian Literature, Texas Tech University, Fall 1990.

Invited participant (faculty), The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1990 Summer Seminar for School Teachers.

Invited participant, Conference on Literary Criticism and Perestroika, The New York Institute for the Humanities, NYU, November 1989.

Invited participant, Soviet -American Conference on Soviet Film, Johns Carroll University, October 1989.

Invited participant, Second Seminar on Soviet Literature and Society sponsored by SSRC at Yale University, July, 1987.

Invited participant, First Seminar on Soviet Literature and Society sponsored by SSRC at Stanford University, July, 1986.

G. Academic and Professional Honors and Grants

PSC-CUNY Research Foundation grant, 2011-2012

CUNY Salute to Scholars for Outstanding Scholarly Achievements, 2005.

Fulbright Research Grant to Russia, 2005.

NEH supported IREX grant to Russia, 2004.

PSC-CUNY Research Foundation grant, 2004.

Felia Holzman grant, Hunter College, Division of Russian and Slavic Studies, 2004.

Felia Holzman grant, Hunter College, Division of Russian and Slavic Studies, 2001.

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Faculty Development Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 1990.

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