Slavic Newsletter 2006
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UW-Madison Department Languages Newsletter Slavic and Literatures Volume 7 Summer 2006 Letter from the Chair, David Bethea This has been another exciting Culture: Katarzyna Borzecki and year for the Department of Slavic Margaret Rosen, and one of the Languages at UW-Madison. We new and generous Michael and had 13 Russian majors graduate in Emily Lapinski Scholarship: May (Eric Leikin, Benjamin Yolanda Stypula. Rujuta Parikh Dashevsky, Monica Basche, Valerie received the J. Thomas Shaw Prize Karnauskas, Alisha Kirchoff, Edward for Undergraduate Excellence in Gutnik, Noah Buckley-Farlee, Scott Russian, and Zach Kelly won the Carter, Tatiana Dickey, Jason Kuhn, Slavic Department Prize for Benjamin Lawent, Cassie Strompolis, Outstanding Progress in Russian. and Anastasia Vener), 3 in December Zach Kelly along with his class- (Jennifer Ede, Sarah Hickey, and mate in third-year Russian, Randall Christine Klemens), and one Klang, received honorable mention planning on an August graduation in the Seventh Annual ACTR (Rujuta Parikh). We also had 3 National Post-Secondary Russian graduates in Polish in December Essay Contest. Our Czech program (Katarzyna Borzecki, Monika is also growing in size and quality, Rutkowski, and Paulina with three winners this year of the fellowships respectively, while Anna, Michalewicz), and one in May (John November Fund Prize for Outstand- Vika, Matt, and Betsy held either Hagen). Please, all of you, keep in ing Undergraduate Achievement in TAships or PAships. touch! As these students leave us Czech: Kristin Aiello, Justin Navratil, Our continuing graduate for bigger and better, we are pleased and Amanda Volbert. Congratula- students have also not been to be able to report that we now tions to you all! inactive. Laura Little won a coveted have a total of 58 Russian majors Turning to our graduate Letters and Science Teaching Fellow and 11 Polish majors, with 19 (16 in program, we welcomed in a robust award for 2006; Vika Thorstensson Russian, 3 in Polish) declaring just class of seven new students in the was the recipient of the J. Thomas this year. Fall: Naomi Bethel (Grinnell), Anna Shaw Prize at our fall AATSEEL And you needn’t be Guigauri (University of Toronto), conference (October 14-15, 2005) for impressed by the numbers alone; we Viktoriya Kononova (Moscow State her outstanding paper on the have plenty of awards to announce. University), Matthew McGarry Letter from David Bethea cont’d on p. 2 Ten undergraduates are accepted (University of Kansas), Betsy Mulet into the ACTR program for study (University of Illinois, Chicago), Jane IN THIS ISSUE abroad, with Andrew Kushner Pickell (Barnard College), and Paul (currently 3rd year) receiving a highly Richard (Louisiana State University, Alumni News.................................11 competitive national NSEP award to Middlebury College). It has been a Awards............................................6 fund his study, and Garret Fitzpatrick pleasure to have these new students Faculty News.................................12 (2nd year) as an NSEP alternate. We in class and to see how well they Graduate Student News..................3 had two recipients of the Edmund I. have integrated themselves into the Letter from David Bethea................1 Zawacki Award for Outstanding program. Of these students, Naomi, AATSEEL-WI News......................10 Achievement in the Study of the Jane and Paul were recipients of Polish Language, Literature, and FLAS and Lapinski/Gasiorowska 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Letter from David Bethea cont’d from p. 1 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 parallels between Pushkin’s “Journey to Beissinger published an article on “Romani 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Arzrum” and Mandelstam’s “Journey to Music-Making at Weddings in Post-Communist 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Armenia”; John Holm was a FLAS fellowship Romania” in Folklorica: Journal of the Slavic 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678902 1 123456789012345678901 holder for the current academic year; and Matt and East European Folklore Association. 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Walker and Erik McDonald received disserta- David Bethea was pleased beyond words to see 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 tion fellowships from the Graduate School in the ten-year saga of the Pushkin Handbook 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 the 2005-06 and 2006-07 competitions, respec- finally concluded with its publication in March 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 tively. And just recently we learned that 2006. David Danaher, who has been one of our 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Marina Antic is the recipient of a Title VIII best teachers and departmental contributors, 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 grant to pursue dissertation research next year won a Fulbright grant to teach and do research in 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, while Ben Jens the Czech Republic in spring 2006 (he was also 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 will go on a Title VIII language grant to on a well-deserved sabbatical in fall 2005). David 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Belgrad to perfect his Serbian. Finally, Matt continues to publish in the areas of cognitive 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Walker will spend 10 months in Russia on a linguistics, metaphor studies, and the life and 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Fulbright. work of Vaclav Havel. Alexander Dolinin added 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 On another front, our department once again to his record as internationally 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 continues to enjoy a strong tradition of teacher acclaimed Pushkinist and Nabokov scholar: his 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 training and classroom performance. Continu- long study of Pushkin’s Andzhelo (with the 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 ing grads who taught first-year Russian latter’s roots in Shakespeare’s Measure for 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 included Ben Jens, Laura Little, Keith Meyer- Measure) appeared in a Festschrift for Caryl 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Blasing, Emily Shaw, and Matt Walker, while Emerson, while a piece he published in the Times 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 second-year was taught by Laura Little, Literary Supplement made a splash by identify- 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Amanda Murphy, and Molly Thomasy. Ben ing for the first time the real-life model for 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Jens, Brian Johnson, Molly Peeney, and Vika Nabokov’s Lolita/Dolly Haze (Sally Horner). The 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Thorstensson taught Comm B sections of our roles of graduate advisor and Wisconsin 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 large nineteenth- and twentieth-century AATSEEL faculty sponsor were again ably 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 literature-in-translation survey courses. handled by Halina Filipowicz, who also added 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 During the spring semester 2006 Vika luster to our international academic reputation by 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Thorstensson also conducted an advanced co-editing (and contributing to) Polonistyka po 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 language course for fellow grads under the amerykansku: Badania nad literatura polska w 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 auspices of CREECA. The RAILS project Ameryce Polnocnej (1990-2005). As always, 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 inaugurated by Ben Rifkin continued with the Halina has been especially generous to and 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 help of Nina Familiant and Shannon Spasova. supportive of our former graduate student 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Marina Antic taught Serbian and Croatian and Polonists, several of whose pieces appear in this 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Antonella Caloro taught Italian, while Kat same volume. As those of us who know her 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 Scollins was a project assistant supported by have come to expect, Judith Kornblatt managed 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 CREECA. Special kudos go to Anna Tumarkin, to juggle numerous balls in the air without 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901 who was our faculty associate for the academic dropping any of them: she held a prestigious