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TheAATSEEL NEWSLETTER American Association of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages Contents Message from the Executive Director .............................1 Letter from the Editor ...........................1 State of the Field ...................................2 Member News .......................................7 Recent Publications ..............................7 Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Grammar But Were Afraid to Ask ......................................8 Belarusica .............................................11 Graduate Student Forum ...................13 Psychology of Language Learning .............................................14 Summer Programs ..............................17 Professional Opportunities ...............21 Volume 53 Issue 2 April 2010 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 53, Issue 2 April 2010 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL STAFF AATSEEL POINTS OF CONTACT Editor: BETTY LOU LEAVER President: Assistant Editor: ANNA JACOBSON CARYL EMERSON Contributing Editors: VALERY BELYANIN Princeton University SIBELAN FORRESTER [email protected] President-Elect: ELENA DENISOVA-SCHMIDT NANCY CONDEE ALINA ISRAELI University of Pittsburgh ALLA NEDASHKIVSKA [email protected] MILA SASKOVA-PIERCE Past President: RACHEL STAUFFER SIBELAN FORRESTER MOLLY THOMASY BLASING Swarthmore College NINA WIEDA [email protected] Vice-Presidents: CURT WOOLHISER JULIE BUCKLER NL Coordinates: Harvard University [email protected] Editor: [email protected] JULIE A. CASSIDAY Assistant Editor: [email protected] Williams College Layout/Advertising: [email protected] [email protected] LYNNE DEBENEDETTE AATSEEL Office: Brown University PATRICIA ZODY [email protected] Executive Director, AATSEEL JAMES LAVINE P. O. Box 569 Bucknell University Beloit, WI 53512-0569 USA [email protected] Phone: 608-361-9697 JANE SHUFFELTON Fax: 608-363-7129 Brighton HS, Rochester, NY (retired) [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] VALERIA SOBOL Layout/Advertising: CDL Services University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [email protected] Submitting Copy: Editor, SLAVIC & EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL: GERALD JANECEK (1) Foreign languages are accommodated if prepared on Ma- University of Kentucky cIntosh with a truetype or postscript font that can be shared. [email protected] (2) Eps or pdf with embedded fonts, Indesign, PageMaker, Editor, AATSEEL NEWSLETTER: and Quark Express documents can be accommodated. BETTY LOU LEAVER [email protected] (3) Please do not double-space between sentences in elec- Conference Program Committee Chair: tronic submissions. ALEXANDER BURRY (4) Please query the editor about formatting, content, graph- Ohio State University ics, or language. [email protected] Executive Director: (5) The AATSEEL Newsletter is not copyrighted. Authors PATRICIA L. ZODY wishing to protect their contributions should copyright their Beloit College materials. [email protected] Conference Manager: (6) Full specifications are available at the AATSEEL web site. DIANNA MURPHY University of Wisconsin-Madison [email protected] AATSEEL Web site AATSEEL Web Master: For current online information about DAVID GALLOWAY AATSEEL and its activities, visit AATSEEL Hobart and William Smith Colleges on the web: [email protected] http://www.aatseel.org April 2010 Vol. 53, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Message from the The first decade of the 21st cen- an explanation but not an excuse. So, tury has presented challenges to the apologies. Executive Director organization, especially with regard to As we head into the summer months Thank you for renewing in 2010. membership levels. For those of you and a short hiatus from the newsletter, Your membership is much appreciated who have not renewed yet or who might I would urge those of you with special as the organization continues to grow be new to the organization, I would interests and writing talents to consider and expand its exciting initiatives in encourage you to look at the positive editing a special-topic column. We have 2010 and 2011. things that AATSEEL has to offer col- had some columns in the past that had In 2009, the Executive Council, leagues actively engaged in Slavic and good readership but have lost their edi- under the leadership of Caryl Emerson, East European languages, literatures, tors this past year. We would love to be worked hard to reach out to graduate and cultures on all educational levels. able again to offer the columns on Rus- students in our field, and to enrich the Through our Web site, we offer open sian at Work and Ukrainian Studies. If annual conference. Graduate students access to the Newsletter, job listings, anyone among our readers has an inter- were encouraged to join and to partici- state-of-the-field articles, resources for est in those areas and just a little time, pate in the organization in several sig- teaching, research, and scholarship, please contact me. I will be delighted to nificant ways—the lowering of student and a newly created Facebook page. have you on board. Likewise, if there members fees to $20; the inclusion of a The Slavic and East European Journal is some topic that we are missing for graduate student representative—Anna is not only a source of scholarship and which you think there would be a strong Berman—on the Executive Council; the research, but also provides members interest among AATSEEL members, formation of a graduate student commit- an opportunity to publish articles and please let me know, and we can discuss tee, which met for the first time at the book reviews, not to mention the ability the possibility of adding a column. We 2009 annual conference; outreach to to serve on the editorial board at times did drop the technology column after a graduate programs to encourage them throughout their careers. Outstanding fruitless search for an editor, assuming to cover the costs of graduate student books, teachers, scholars, and leaders that the need for that column has now membership fees; and the creation of in the organization are recognized and passed with technology being an every- innovative workshops, master classes, honored by the organization on a yearly day thing for most people. and faculty coffee hours at the annual basis at the conference. While our or- One matter that has slightly delayed conference, providing graduate students ganization has always functioned as a issuance of the newsletter is that of better access to leading scholars in the lean and efficient academic machine membership rolls. Typically, the AAT- field. and clearly benefits from the generos- SEEL Executive Director prepares the While we look to the future of our ity of its elected officials and many mailing list for the printer. This year field through the promise of graduate volunteers, it still requires revenue to (calendar year 2010), however, there students, we understand the value of support its daily operations and costs, have been so few people who have having prominent faculty members much of which comes from and relies renewed their memberships as to make engaged in our organization to inspire, upon membership dues. it very costly on a per-person basis to to lead, and to remind us of where we Wishing you a happy and produc- print and mail the newsletter. The sav- have been and where we might go. The tive summer. Join now! ings in printing and mailing, as with master classes, workshops, and faculty Patricia L. Zody most things in life, is in the quantity. coffee hours were designed with this Executive Director The more the cheaper. I would urge goal in mind, and will be expanded at anyone who has not renewed his/her the upcoming conference in January Letter from the Editor membership to do so immediately. As 2011 through the “works in progress” of this writing, my understanding is panels. Groups of scholars will present Dear Readers, that the April issue of the AATSEEL on their current projects, with the idea of Like a poor April Fool’s joke, the Newsletter will be sent out to all 2009 opening up the research process to their first of April (the release date for the and 2010 members, but the 2009 mem- fellow colleagues across multiple fields spring issue of the AATSEEL Newslet- bers will be dropped from the rolls if and professional levels. In addition to ter) tiptoed up behind us and startled their dues do not come in soon. If you these new initiatives for the conference, us with its immediacy. We have had to are planning on paying your dues this Alexander Burry, Dianna Murphy, and push, then, to get everything together year and remaining a member in good the conference program committee have and out this time. Much of it has to do standing of AATSEEL, now would be streamlined the conference proposal with competing work demands. Your a great time to do so! process so that members may submit president is swamped with them, and Other than that, I do hope you will fully-formed panel proposals. Please so am I. I have, in fact, been travel- enjoy this issue of the newsletter. I wish go to the AATSEEL Web site at http:// ing nearly weekly since the last AAT- all of you a great summer. www.aatseel.org for more information SEEL Newsletter issue. I know: it’s See you in the Fall! about the call for papers. 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