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DIANE M. NEMEC IGNASHEV

Department of German and Russian Tel.:1-507-222-4236 (office) Carleton College 1-507-222-4252 (dept.) 100 North College Street Northfield, MN 55057 : +7-916-164-7661 (cell) [email protected]

Employment Class of 1941 Professor of Russian & the Liberal Arts (2007–); Professor (1994–); Associate Professor (1987–94); Assistant Professor (1983–1987); Instructor (1981–1983), Carleton College , Northfield, MN. Teaching Faculty, Department of Discourse and Communication Studies, , Moscow, (2012– ); Chair, Department of German & Russian, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (1997–2000). Docent (Visiting), Department of English Philology, Kuban State University, Krasnodar USSR, 9/89–2/90. Lecturer in Russian, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago , 7/79–6/81. Lecturer in Russian, Department of Modern Languages, Loyola University , Chicago, IL, 1/80–6/81.

Education University of Chicago, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, MA, Ph.D. Dissertation: "Song and Confession in the Short Prose of Vasilii Makarovich Shukshin." , Berkeley, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. University of Illinois, Chicago, Department of Slavic & Baltic Languages, BA in Russian.

Grants and Awards AWSS (Association of Women in Slavic Studies) Best translation in Slavic/East European/Eurasian women’s and gender studies, 2017. AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Literatures) translation prize (scholarly edition), 2012. PEN America Translation Award, PEN American Center Translation Fund, 2011. Carleton College, Faculty Development Grant, .33 course release, 2009 for 2010–2011. Carleton College, Internal Research funding [Sokurov seed money], 2008–2009. Carleton College, Targeted Opportunity [computerized textbook development], 2001. Carleton College, Proposal Incentive Grant, (with L. Goering, A. Dotlibova), 2001. Carleton College, Mellon grants for Technology in the Curriculum, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000. ACTR/ACCELS Research Grant, Moscow-St. Petersburg, March-September 1996. Carleton College Faculty Development Grant, Winter-Spring 1990. Carleton College New Course Research and Development Grants, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2006. Co-author, Carleton College Grant Proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Revision of the Foreign Language Curriculum, 1988. Bush Foundation Grant for Faculty Development, Carleton College, Winter 1986. University of Illinois, Urbana, Summer Research Laboratory, Summers 1989, 1985. IREX Summer Program for Teachers, Moscow State University, Summer 1984. IREX Doctoral Dissertation Research in USSR, 1979–80 [emergency funding granted after Soviet visa denial]. Fulbright-Hays Office of Education Fellowship for Dissertation Research, 1979–80 [declined after Soviet visa denial]. University of Chicago, graduate tuition fellowships, 1974–1978. NDFL Title IV Fellowship in Russian, University of California, Berkeley, 1975 [declined]. University of California Graduate Tuition fellowship, 1972. 2 University of Illinois, Chicago, James Scholar, 1969–71.

Books Trans., aftwd., Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Kukotsky Enigma. Evanston, IL: Northwestrn University Press, 2016. w/A. Dotlibova & L. Goering. On-line instructional program for Russian as a Foreign Language, http://russian-pv.carleton.edu/pv2009/index.php. (login required) Authored more than 50 000 lines of PHP code in addition to co-authoring the program’s design. Trans., intro., Victor Martinovich. Paranoia. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2013. Reviewed by: Ostrovsky, Arkady. New York Times Book Review. 9 June 2013: 22; Rayfield, Donald. “Just Because You’re Paranoid.” Times Literary Supplement. 13 April 2013. Trans., ed., intro., Ariadna Efron. No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of ’s Daughter. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2009. Reviewed by: Sandler, Stephanie. “No Lullabies.” Times Literary Supplement (5 March 2010):9; Renner-Fahey, Ona. Slavic & East European Journal. Vol. 54, n. 3(Fall2010):532–533; Cherry, Kelly. Women's Review of Books. Vol. 27, n. 5 (Sep/Oct 2010): 29–30. Trans., ed., intro. Unforced Labors.Ada Federolf: Memoirs and Ariadna Efron: Prose. Moscow: “Vozvraschshenie,” 2006. Reviewed by: Ruscica, Marilena. Slavic & East European Journal. Vol. 52, n. 1(2008):133–135. w/Anna Dotlibova & Laura Goering. Workbook to R. Leed & A. Nakhimovsky Beginning Russian, 2nd ed. Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 1994–. w/L. Kushnareva, E. Riabtseva, I. Tokareva. Cross-Sections [American English for Advanced Students]. Minsk: Vyssheishaia shkola, 1994. w/S. Krive. Women and Writing in Russia and the USSR. A Bibliography of English-Language Sources. NY: Garland, 1992. Trans., ed., intro., and aftwrd. Irina Ratushinskaia. ‘A Tale of Three Heads.’ Short Stories. [Bi-lingual edition.] Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage, 1986.

Articles Schleifer R., Townsend M.A., Tsiopos Wills Katherine V., Aksakalova O., Nemec Ignashev D.N., Venediktova T. “Under Lomonosov’s Watchful Gaze: A Case Study of an Early Faculty Development Writing Workshop in Russia.” Уральский государственный педагогический университет, № 5 (2016), с. 297-309. Немец-Игнашев Д. “Зачем мы обсуждаем театральность кино?" Четыре реплики Ромашко С., Купцова О., Немец-Игнашев Д., Рыбина П. Stephanos. Издательство Филологический факультет МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова (Москва), том 13, № 5, с. 69-72. Nemec Ignasheva, D. "RKI i printsipy 'tret'ego mesta." XII Kongress Mezhdunarodnoi assotsiatsii prepodavatelei russkogo iazyka i literatury "Russkii iazyk i literatura vo vremeni i prostrantsve". Vol. 3, pp. 168ff. Ed. L.A. Verbitskaia, Liu Liminia, E.E. Iukova. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Educataion Press, 2011. “Of Politics and Poetry: Ariadna Efron on Marina Tsvetaeva, Redux.” Russian History/Histoire Russe, 36, nos. 3 (2009): 407–423. “MarginAlya: Rereading the Memoirs of Ariadna Efron.” Poetics, Self, Place: Essays in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone. Eds. Catherine O'Neil, Nicole Boudreau; Sarah Krive. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2007. Pp. 648–672. "(Re)constructing Alia: The Autobiographical Fiction of Ariadna Efron." Out of the Shadows. Neglected Works in Soviet Prose: Selected Essays.Ed. Nicholas Luker. Nottingham, England: Astra Press, 2003. Pp. 79–108. "K vvedeniiu kursa vneauditornykh zaniatii po sovremennoi rossiiskoi kul'ture v programmu obucheniia russkomu iazyku kak inostrannomu." Slovo. Grammatika. Rech'. Sbornik nauchno-metodicheskikh statei, posviashchennyi voprosam prepodavaniia russkogo iazyka kak inostrannogo. Moskva: Filologicheskii fakul'tet MGU, 2003, Vyp. 5: 168-173. 3 "The Mylodrama, or If All the World is a Stage," pp. 154–164 in Alexander Lipson. In Memoriam. Ed. Charles Gribble. Columbus,OH: Slavica, 1994 (written in 1982). w/A. Dotlibova. "Learning the Lessons of the Past: The Actress as Heroine in Russian Literature." UNESCO Division of Human Rights & Peace SHS–91 Conference 807/11 Women and Democracy in Eastern Europe, Prague, Czech Republic, 3–6 December 1991. w/A. Dotlibova. "The Soviet Actress in the Literature of ." Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme 4(1989):89–91. "Vasily Shukshin and the ‘Art’ of Transition." Slavonic and East European Review [] 3(1988):337– 356. Reprint in Lyudmila Parts (ed.), The Russian Twentieth-Century Short Story: A Critical Companion. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2015. "The Art of Vasilij Šukšin: Volja through Song." Slavic and East European Journal 3(1988):415–427. "Soviet Russian and East European Post-Modernism [An Historical Survey of SEEJ Contributions, 1957– 87]." Slavic and East European Journal 5(1987):110–125. "The Pushkin Museum," "The Rublev Museum," "The Russian Museum," and "The Tret'iakov Gallery." The Encyclopedia of World Museums. Vol. 2. Greenwood,VT: Greenwood, 1987. "Susanna Georgievskaia." The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature. Vol. 8. Ed. Harry Weber. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1986. "Towards the Structural Genesis of Nikolai Gogol's Revizor ." Studia Ucrainica [Ottawa] 2(1984):85–101. Ed., Aleksandr Itsokhin. "The Dual System." American Journal of Sociology , V. 85/6(1980):1317–1336. Review-article, Dmitrij Shostakovich. Testimony. Counterpoint [U of Chicago] 4(1980):24–26.

Translations other than books Subtitles, Nadezhda Mikhailova, The Legend of Peter and Fevronia. View at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXaSUmd4iJs Subtitles, “Medvedev-Putin New Year Limericks.” Original broadcast: Sho Oliv’ie, Channel 1, Ostankino Television, 31 Dec 2010 – 1 Jan 2011. View at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7oBv4LItNs Subtitles, “Medvedev-Putin New Year Limericks.” Original broadcast: Sho Oliv’ie, Channel 1, Ostankino Television, 31 Dec 2009 – 1 Jan 2010. View at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVibwSphXys Subtitles, Yolki [Yolki], feature-length film. Director: Timur Bekhmambetov. Moscow: Bazelevs Productions, 2010. Subtitles, Black Lightning [Chernaia molnia], feature-length film. Directors: Aleksandr Voitinskii & Dmitry Kiselev. Moscow: Bazelevs Productions, Universal Pictures, Focus Films, 2009. Semyon Vilensky, Any Questions. [Completed; in search of publisher.] Valeriia Shubina, "A Yankee-Russian Dandy." Available online: http://ekaterinag.tripod.com/translation.htm Iura Past, "Not by Love Offended.” Out of the Blue. Eds. Kevin Moss & Anatolii Vishevsky. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1996. Larisa Vaneeva, "Parade of the Planets." Soviet Women's Writing, pp. 319–337. Ed. Jacqueline Dector. NY: Abbeville, 1990. Vladimir Soloukhin, "Stepanida Ivanovna's Funeral." The New Soviet Fiction. Ed. Jacqueline Dector. NY: Abbeville, 1989. Fazil' Iskander, "Chik's Defense." [For a yet untitled anthology of contemporary Soviet literature. Ed. J. Dector.] NY: Abbeville. Irina Ratushinskaia. "Senia the Dream-Maker." Agni Review 23(1986):94–97. Trans., A. Galich, "The Ballad of Clean Hands" and "When I Return" [two songs]. Russian Literature Tri- Quarterly 14(Winter 1976):232–234.

Reviews Beumers, Birgit. Aleksandr Sokurov: Russian Ark (KinoSputnik-1) and First, Joshua. Sergei Paradjanov: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (KinoSputnik-2). Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 62, 3 (2018): 608-611. 4 Lorna Fitzsimmons and Michael Denner (eds.). Tolstoy on Screen. Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 61, 4(2017): 923-924. Choi Chatterjee, David L. Ransel, Mary Cavender, and Karen Petrone, ed. Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present. Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 59, 4(2015): 652–653. К.Б. Николаев. Жизнь и смерть Эдуарда Берзина. Документальное повествование. Studies, 7- 8(2015):100–102. Genevra Gerhart, with Eloise M. Boyle. The Russian's World: Life and Language. 4th ed. Journal. 64(2014):245–248 Ciepela, Catherine. The Same Solitude. Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva. Canadian-American Slavic Studies Vol. 48 (2014):510–512. Tora Lane. Rendering the Sublime: A Reading of Marina Tsvetaeva's Fairy-Tale Poem The Swain. Slavic & East European Journal. Vol. 56, n. 2(2012): 289–291. András Bálint Kovács, Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema, 1950–1980 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Cineaste on-line at http://www.cineaste.com/articles/screening-modernism.htm Galina Vanečkova. Letopis’ bytija i byta: Marina Cvetajeva v Čechii 1922–1925. Slavic and East European Journal 4(2007): 802–804. Hamid Ismailov, The Railroad, trans.w/intro. Robert Chandler. Slavic and East European Journal Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 51, n. 2(2007): 421–422. Diana Burgin, . The Life and Work of Russia's . Slavic Review 3(1995):734–735. Barbara Heldt, Terrible Perfection. Women and Russian Literature. Slavic and East European Journal 2(1989):301–302. Vasily Shukshin, Rubles in Words, Kopeks in Figures, trans. Natasha Ward and David Iliffe, intro. Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Slavic and East European Journal 1(1987):121–122. Donald M. Fiene (ed.). Vasilij Shukshin, Snowball Berry Red. Russian Language Journal 116(1979):252– 255.

Projects in progress: A book-length study of the films of Aleksandr Sokurov. Requiem for a Diva, a study of Russian gender politics through the life of actress-diva Elizaveta Nikolaevna Goreva. Completed: one chapter, currently on hold.

Invited Talks “What Film Teaches Us About Creative Writing.” Film showing and discussion. XXI Fulbright Summer School in the Humanities, Yasnaya Polyana, 27 August 2018. “Applying for Academic Jobs & Submitting Letters of Recommendation [in Russian].” Conference: Genres of Academic Discourse-3. Moscow Lomonosov State University, 25 April 2018. “Writing Letters of Recommendation: Advice for Teachers[in Russian].” Conference: Genres of Academic Discourse-2. Moscow Lomonosov State University, 19 May 2018. “Russian Icons: A Brief Excursion.” Carleton College, 14 January 2018. “Translating Artistic Prose.” Macalester College, 31 January 2017. “Writing Abstracts in English [in Russian].” Methodology Seminar: Genres of Academic Discourse. Lomonosov Moscow University, 13 May 2016. w/Ludmila Ulitskaya. “Writer and Translator: The Kukotsky Enigma [in Russian]. Philological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, March 2016. w/Ludmila Ulitskaya. “Lyudmila Ulitskaya: Telling Stories, Documenting History.” Wilson Center. Kennan Institute, Washington DC, 1 February 2016. https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245617024/download?client_id=LBCcHmRB8XSStWL6wKH2H PACspQlXg2P “Visual Inquiry: An Exercise in Interpretation.” XVII Fulbright Summer School iin the Humanities. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 3 July 2014. 5 “Icons (in the theories of ) in the Visual System of Aleksandr Sokurov [in Russian].” Section: Philology. Lomonosov Readings: 2014. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 21 April 2014. “Turning the Tables: A Practical Lesson in the Literature Discussion Classroom.” XV Fulbright Summer School in the Humanities. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 29 June 2012. Class presentation, “How do you translate ‘from the sublime to the ridiculous’?” Macalester College, October 2011. “Integrating Off-Campus Study into the Curriculum: Carleton College,” Conference: Integrating Study Abroad, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, November 2009. “The History of Science Goes to the Movies.” Faculty Retreat, Carleton College, September 2009. “Analyzing Tarkovsky’s Ivanovo detstvo [Ivan’s Childhood]. Macalester College, February 2009. “Twelve Cities, Eight Days, One Car, and No Reservations”: A Roadtrip Through One-Story Russia (July 2007), presented at Carleton College and to Carleton College Alumni Club (Houston, October, 2007). “Women Who Survived the Gulag: Ariadna Efron and Ada Federolf,” public presentation for the International Women’s Club, Moscow , April 2007. Carleton College Common Reading Convocation: Ron Suskind’s A Hope in the Unseen, Carleton College, September 2000. "Classes on Difficult Questions." Carleton College, Learning and Teaching Center, 2 March 1995. "Job Search 1994," AWSS Pre-Convention Workshop, AATSEEL Annual Meeting, 1994. "If Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears, Then Why Did They Make the Movie?" Beloit College, WI, August 1986. "The Aesthetics of Socialist Realism," University of Chicago Slavic Forum, April 1979. "Soviet Literature Reconsidered," Illinois State University, Normal, IL, October 1977.

Conference Panels “Mythology and Counterbiography in Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust Cycle.” Panel: Biography, Autobiography, Counterbiography. ASEEES Annual meetings, Chicago, November 2017. “Moscow's Seventh Dimension: Historical Space in Liudmila Ulitskaia's Kazus Kutkotskogo.” Panel: Cultural Constructions of Moscow: Facts and Fictions. ASEEES Annual meetings, Philadelphia, November 2016. Discussant. “Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture.” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Auston, January 2016. “The Medium is the Message.” Conference: Interactuality of Film Adaptation. Lomonosov Moscow State University, December 2015. w/Anna Dotlibova, Laura Goering. “A Leap into Outer Space: Launching a Fully Online Beginning Russian Textbook. AATSEEL Annual Conference, Vancouver, CA, January 2015. “Georgii Demidov.” Roundtable: “Neglected Writers of the Gulag.” ASEEES Annual meetings, San Antonio, November 2014. “A Mephistophelian Conundrum: National Boundaries and Transnational Aspirations in the Films of Aleksandr Sokurov.” Panel: “Negotiating Cinema: Transnational Directors and Themes in USSR/Russia and the USA, ASSEES Annual meetings, Boston, November 2013. “Victor Martinovich’s Paranoia, re: Contemporary Russophone Culture.” Panel: “Dystopian Present, Utopian Future and Alternative History in Post-Soviet Prose.” AATSEEL Annual meetings, Boston, January 2013. Discussant, Panel, “Advancing Russian Language Proficiency through Content-Based Learning.” ASEEES Annual meetings, New Orleans, November 2012. Discussant, Panel, “Writing as Performance and the Dissemination of Empire.” ASEEES Annual meetings, Washington, D.C., November 2011. “The Cinematic Elegies of Aleksandr Sokurov: from Mood to Genre,” Panel: Elegy and Elegiac in Contemporary , AAASS Annual Meetings, Boston, November 2009. “Documenting ‘the Stranger’: Adolphe de Custine and Aleksandr Sokurov Russian Ark,” AAASS Annual Meetings, 2008. “Of Politics and Poetry: Ariadna Efron on Marina Tsvetaeva Redux.”AAASS Annual Meetings, 2007. 6 Discussant. Panel: “Wounded Masculinity in Slavic Literature.”AAASS Annual Meetings, 2006. Discussant. Panel: Contemporary Russian Theater. AAASS Annual Meetings, 2003. “Компьютеризированное пособие по русскому языку: Вопросы дизайна,” International Congress of Russian Language Researchers, Moscow State University, 13–16 March 2001. “Elizaveta Goreva,” AAASS Annual Meeting, 1999. w/Carroll Hightower, “‘Indigenous’ Software Applications in the Russian Language Classroom,” IALL Annual Meeting, 1999. Participant, Round Table on the State of Slavic Studies, AAASS Annual Meeting, 1997. "The Bad Actress," AATSEEL Annual Meetings, 1996. Discussant, "Alternative Sexuality in Russia," AAASS Annual Meeting, 1996. "Women in Early Russian Theater," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, 1995. "Here's Looking (Back) at You, Babe," or On the Other Side of the Lens." AATSEEL Annual Meeting, 1994. w/Anna Dotlibova. "The Image of the Actress in the Russian Visual Arts." Macalester College, 1993, AATSEEL Annual Meeting, 1991, and Grinnell College, October 1990. w/Anna Dotlibova. "American Students' Russian Speaking Habits: A Native Speaker's View." Grinnell College PEW Language Conference, 28–30 March 1991. w/Anna Dotlibova. "The Fate of the Actress in Russia's Cultural Tradition" [in Russian]. Conference: Representations of Sexuality in Russian Culture, Amherst College, September 1989. "The ACM Program at Kuban State University." AATSEEL Annual Meeting, 1988. "Women's Studies at Carleton College: A Report from the Front." ACM Conference on Women's Concerns, Grinnell College, April 1988. "Vasilii Shukshin's “Калина красная» and the Confessional Mood of Soviet Fiction in the 1970s." Grinnell College, November 1987. Respondent, Iowa AATSEEL panel, IFLA 1987 Annual Meeting, Cedar Falls, IA, September 1987. "Brush Strokes on an Unfinished Canvas: Identity of the Implied Author in the Short Prose of Vasilii Shukshin," Midwest Slavic Conference, April 1986. "Who's Doing the Dishes In Moscow," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, 1985. "Contemplations at the Crossroads: the Fate of the Novel in Recent Soviet Literature," Modern Language Department Forum, Carleton College, January 1985. Commentator, "Recent Trends in Soviet Culture," Midwest Slavic Conference, Chicago, April 1983. "Towards the Structural Genesis of N. Gogol's Revizor," a preliminary version of the published article (see above), AATSEEL Annual Meeting, 1982. "Деревенская проза [Village Prose] and Miscalculations by the Conservative Soviet Press," Annual Meetings of the MMLA, Cincinnati, November 1982. Commentator, "Nineteenth-century Prose," University of Chicago Slavic Forum, Chicago, May 1982. "'s "Русское тайнобрачие" and the `Art' of the Ocherk," Midwest Slavic Conference, Chicago, April 1982. "Vasilii Shukshin: Confession Through Fiction," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, March 1982. "Is Russian Literature Going to the Dogs?" Grounds for Critical Optimism," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, 1980. Commentator, "Eschatology in Russian Literature," University of Chicago Slavic Forum, Chicago, April 1980.

Professional Activities ASEEES-USC Prize Selection Committee, 2019–2021 Fulbright ETA Selection Committee, Moscow, September 2018. Heldt Prize Selection Committee, AWSS, 2018. Member, International Editorial Board, Moscow University Vestnik. Series 9. Philology, 2016–.

7 Memeber, Organizing Committee, Fulbright Summer School in the Humanities, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow: 2012– Member: SCMS (2008–), ALTA (2008–) ASEEES (AAASS) (1979–81, 1984– ), AATSEEL (1979– ), ACTR (1994– ), AWSS (1988–), MHRA (1988– ), MMLA (1974–84), MLA (1982, 2016–), NWSA (1988–1990). Member, Executive Council, ACTR (2010– ). Referee, Canadian American Studies, Scando-Slavica, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Northwestern University Press, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. External curriculum consultant, Depts of Russian, German, Chinese, The College of Wooster, February 2008; Dept. of Russian, Grinnell College, March 2006; Dept of German & Russian, Depauw University, March 1997; Dept. of Slavic Languages, Lawrence University, February 1995. External evaluator for tenure and promotion: University of Oklahoma, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, , Oberlin College, , Macalester College, Grinnell College, The College of Wooster (twice: in Russian & in History). Chair, roundtables and panels: “Transgression to Transition: Inter-Cultural Adaptation on Study Abroad,” ASEEES annual meetings, Chicago, November 2017; “Study Abroad: Broadening the Field,” ASEEES annual meetings, Washington, DC, November 2016; Roundtable: “Teaching Russian Culture, ASEEES annual meetings, Washington, DC, November 2016; “Study Abroad for Graduate Students (pre-Dissertation),” ASEEES annual meetings, Philadelphia, November 2015; “Study Abroad: the State of the Field in 2014,” San Antonio, November 2014; Roundtable: “Revisiting American Councils' Summer Language Teacher Program,” Boston, November 2013;“Canonizing Russian Literature Again: Children, Texts, and National Values,” ASEEES annual meetings, New Orleans, November 2012; ,“Canonizing Russian Literature (Again?): Textbook Writers, Teachers, Students,” ASEEES annual meetings, Washington, DC, November 2011;“Engineers in Russian Literature,” ASEEES [AAASS] Meetings, 2010; “Teaching Culture through Language and Language through Culture,” AAASS Meetings, 2009; “Elites in Russia and the ,” AAASS Meetings, 2008; “St. Petersburg Poets” AAASS Meetings, 2007, and “Camp and the Russian Literary Tradition,” AAASS Meetings, 1997. Secretary and chair to AATSEEL panels in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1995. ACM Advisory Board and on-site inspection team for Krasnodar Russia program, 1985– . Co-founder, University of Chicago Slavic Forum. Summer Special Course for ACTR Teacher Training Seminar at Moscow State University, «Страноведение: Муром», Summer 2010. Summer Seminars at Carleton College: "Gay, , Bi-Sexual Issues in Teaching and Curriculum" (1995), "Gender and Teaching" (1993), "Teaching Our Disciplines" (1988). Organizer, AATSEEL Women's Caucus.

Courses Taught Carleton College: Russian language (beginning through advanced levels) Russian Literature/Culture Courses in Russian: “Arts of Rus' (culture IX–XVII centuries), Readings in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Readings in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature, History of Russian Theater, Russian Poetry & Song, Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva. Seminars: “Sibiriana,” Russian Humor, Peasant Culture, Culture of Perestroika. Russian Literature/Culture Courses in English: Introduction to Russian Culture & Society; “Magical Russia” & “Family Happiness” (thematic surveys for Moscow Program), “Holy Fools, Idiots and Dissidents”: Madness in Russian Culture (11th–20th century); Dostoevsky (selected novels); Tolstoy (War and Peace, Anna Karenina), Russian Short Prose (17th–20th centuries), Gender and the Russian Literary Tradition (cross-listed Women's Studies), Russian and Soviet Film History and Theory (cross-listed Media Studies) 8 Cinema and Media Studies: Film Adaptation, History of Cinema, pt. II (1945–present), individual courses on Tarkovsky and Sokurov, Russian-Soviet Film History. Cross-Cultural Studies: “Empires, Colonies, Hegemony” (w/Shane Auerbach, Cherif Keita, Kofi Owusu) Seminars for First-Year Students: Soviet "Ethnics," “Aliens” (US Cultures of Immigration). Translation Seminar (in English w/Anne Ulmer, Keith Harrison, Kathryn Sparling). Introduction to Literary Studies and Criticism (inter-departmental theory course) Women and Gender Studies: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies, “Amazons, Valkjeres, Naiads, and Dykes,” “Post-Modernist Sexuality,” Senior Research Seminar. Designed and supervised Carleton College Russian Studies in Moscow Program at Moscow State University (1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018). Designed and supervised Associated Colleges of the Midwest Consortial Russian Studies Seminar in Krasnodar, Russia (1988, 1989, 1993) and Global Partners Faculty Seminar (2000) University of Chicago: Russian language (beginning and intermediate). Loyola University: Russian language (beginning through intermediate); Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (in English). Moscow State University: Vvedenie v iskusstvo kino [Introduction to Film Studies], spring 2014–. Teorii identichnosti v analize khudozhestvennogo tekst [Theories of Identity and the Interpretation of Artistic Texts], M.A. level, spring 2016–. Akademicheskoe pis’mo [Academic Writing], spring 2012, spring 2013. Amerikanskoe kino vtoroi poloviny ХХ века [American Cinema since WWII], spring 2012. Zrimoe slovo: proizvedeniia klassiki literatury na kinoekrane [The Word Visible: Literary Classics in Film (Filmadaptation)], spring 2013.

Carleton College Service Committees Institutional Review Board (Research on Human Subjects), 2017 Off-Campus Studies Committee, 2011–2014. Academic Computing and Networking Advisory Board, 1992–1995, 1997–2000, 2006–2009 (chaired multiple years). Library Committee, 2009–2012. Center for the Arts Planning Committee, 2006–2008. Technology Planning and Policy Committee, 2006–2007. Library Committee, 2003–2006 (chaired 2004–2006). Mellon Grant committee for Technology in the Language Curriculum, 1997–2001. Russian Studies, Carleton College (director, 1991–1995). Learning and Teaching Center, 1991–1995. Staff Affairs Committee, 1988. Library Automation Committee, 1987–88. Compensation and Benefits Committee, 1985–87. Educational Policy Committee, 1985–88.

Experience in Russia Regional expertise: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir-Suzdal-Murom, Lake Baikal (both shores), Krasnodar & the Kuban Region in general. Expertise in Russian higher education organization and management. Program Director, Carleton College at Moscow State University, spring terms 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018. Program Director, Carleton Alumni Adventure (Moscow, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, St. Petersburg), July 2005. Program Co-Director (with Michael Hemesath, Economics), Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Great Lakes Colleges Association, Associated Colleges of the South Global Partners Faculty Seminar, Krasnodar Region, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Summer 2000. 9 Researcher: since 1998 I have spent approximately 4–6 mos. annually in Russia (Moscow principally); March–August, 1997; December 1995–January 1996, June-August 1994; February-July, 1990, 1991, 1993. ACTR/ACCELS Research Fellow, Moscow & St. Petersburg, March-September, 1996. Program Director, ACM Program in Krasnodar, Russia, autumn semesters 1988, 1993. Exchange teacher and assistant director, ACM in Krasnodar, Russia, autumn 1989. IREX Summer Teacher Exchange, Moscow State University, 1984. Independent dissertation research (Moscow), August-September 1977. Translator, Moscow News, 1972–74. CIEE Summer Program, Leningrad State University, 1971.

Languages Bilingual, English–Russian. Enough to get the job done in German, Polish, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, and French, in all cases with very limited speaking skills.

Other Skills Web sites authored: http://discours.philol.msu.ru/, http://russian-pv.carleton.edu/pv2009/login/main.php PHP programming language, WordPress, MySQL database management, HTML, CSS; Photoshop (Advanced); Adobe Premiere (Intermediate); various of subtitling software; and the usual products: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Acrobat, Audacity, etc.

Favorite Extreme Sport Driving in Moscow