The AATSEEL AmericanN EWSLETTERAssociation of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages Contents Message from the AATSEEL President ..........................1 Letter from the Editor ...........................1 Recent Publications ..............................2 Graduate Student Forum .....................3 Balkan Café ............................................4 Technology & Language Learning .....7 Member News .....................................11 Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Grammar But Were Afraid to Ask ....................................12 Cross Cultural Communication .......16 Russian at Work ..................................18 Psychology of Language Learning .............................................20 Summer Language Programs ............23 Professional Opportunities ...............31 AATSEEL Membership Form ...........32 Volume 55 Issue 1 February 2012 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 55, Issue 1 February 2012 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL STAFF AATSEEL POINTS OF CONTACT Editor: BETTY LOU LEAVER President: Assistant Editor: CARMEN FINASHINA NANCY CONDEE Contributing Editors: VALERY BELYANIN University of Pittsburgh MOLLY THOMASY BLASING [email protected] President-Elect: ELENA DENISOVA-SCHMIDT THOMAS SEIFRID KATHLEEN EVANS-ROMAINE University of Southern California SIBELAN FORRESTER [email protected] ALINA ISRAELI Past President: KATYA JORDAN CARYL EMERSON FERIT KILIÇkaya Princeton University ANI KOKOBOBO [email protected] NATASA MILAS Vice-Presidents: KATYA HOKANSON MILA SASKOVA-PIERCE University of Oregon CURT WOOLHISER [email protected] KAMILA ZAPLETÁLKOVÁ ELENA KOSTENKO-FARKAS Anchorage School District NL Coordinates: [email protected] Editor: [email protected] JAMES LAVINE Assistant Editor: [email protected] Bucknell University Layout/Advertising: [email protected] [email protected] JULIA MIKHAILOVA AATSEEL Office: University of Toronto Elizabeth Durst [email protected] Executive Director, AATSEEL VALERIA SOBOL 3501 Trousdale PKY., THH 255L University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353 USA [email protected] REBECCA STANTON E-mail: [email protected] Barnard College, Columbia University Layout/Advertising: CDL Services [email protected] Editor, SLAVIC & EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL: Submitting Copy: GERALD JANECEK University of Kentucky (1) Foreign languages are accommodated if prepared on Ma- [email protected] cIntosh with a truetype or postscript font that can be shared. 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DIANNA MURPHY AATSEEL Conference Manager [email protected] AATSEEL Web site AATSEEL Web Master: For current online information about AATSEEL DAVID GALLOWAY and its activities, visit AATSEEL on the web: Hobart and William Smith Colleges http://www.aatseel.org [email protected] February 2012 Vol. 55, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Message from the of Texas at Austin) has kindly agreed to to AATSEEL’s Additional Resources, run a featured workshop on Intensive then For Teaching http://www.aatseel. AATSEEL President Language Instruction, in response to in- org/resources/resources_teaching/. terest on the part of AATSEEL language Happy reading: the contributions will We want to congratulate Elizabeth teachers. Keep an eye on the AATSEEL make both your teaching and your intel- Durst on her first AATSEEL confer- website at http://www.aatseel.org/ lectual lives much richer. I am grateful ence as Executive Director. Thanks to program/ for further information as both to Erin and to the contributors for her work, together with the organizers these opportunities are ready to accept this resource. (Dianna Murphy and Alex Burry, as registered AATSEEL members. We well as a host of colleague-volunteers), welcome new members and are proud Nancy Condee the meeting attracted a high registration that AATSEEL is able to offer a unique (University of Pittsburgh), rate and had several outstanding special environment for literature, linguistics, AATSEEL President (2011-2012) events. These included the Keynote by and cinema teachers and scholars of the Irina Paperno (Berkeley), who was last expanse that we now call Eurasia. Letter from the Editor year’s winner of the Outstanding Con- While AATSEEL 2013 is a long tribution to Scholarship Award. Her talk way off, a very different AATSEEL First, I would like to welcome ev- (“What, Then, Shall We Do: Tolstoy’s resource is now ready for use in the eryone back to the beginning of a new Way”) was witty, erudite, and wise; we months ahead as we gradually give semester. (For me, alas, there are no se- were lucky to be there and look forward some thought as to what we might mesters, just year-round work – enjoy- to reading it in an upcoming issue of consider teaching next academic year. able work, though, so I guess that makes up for the lack of semester breaks.) I Slavic and East European Journal. AATSEEL member and PhD student This year’s Outstanding Contribution hope that the seasonal holidays and se- Erin Alpert (University of Pittsburgh) mester break provided rest and energy to Scholarship was awarded to Michael has been working for several years to Heim (UCLA); again, following AAT- for a new start in a new year. collect syllabi from a broad range of Second, I want to apologize for the SEEL tradition, we look forward to courses from universities and colleges late issuance of this newsletter. In spite his Keynote in Boston (Hyatt Regency in the US and UK. Thanks to the gen- of having two new assistant editors – I Boston) at the next gathering (3-6 Janu- erosity of our colleagues in language- am really going to appreciate the extra ary 2013). teaching, film, literature, linguistics, help with proofreading; that much is A special thank-you goes to Katya and culture, we now have a substantial a given – insurmountable delays have Hokanson (University of Oregon) for portfolio of syllabi to help us conceive ensued, mainly because a couple of the her hard work and dedication to the of how to teach more interesting cours- columns that we really count on were late in coming in for legitimate reasons: AATSEEL Advanced Seminars, which es, enriched by each other’s efforts. On completed its third successful year with individuals were out of the country. I line you will find course descriptions by will think about some out-of-the-box offerings by Eric Naiman (Berkeley), Emma Widdis (Cambridge) on Russian entitled Reading Too Closely, and by solutions for that dilemma before it Culture after 1880; Caryl Emerson recurs. In any event, any time-sensitive Boris Gasparov (Columbia), who led (Princeton) on the European Novel information does go up on the website the seminar Pushkin’s Poetry and its of the 20th century; Lilya Kaganovsky rather than into the newsletter. Romantic Contexts. We consider the (University of Illinois) on Nabokov and Third, I do want to thank all those Advanced Seminars to be a key feature Cold War on Film; Mark Lipovetsky contributing editors who have brought of AATSEEL, offering Slavists a unique (University of Colorado) on Cultural so much effort, knowledge, and talent opportunity in a small format (with Mythologies of Russian Communism; to the pages of the AATSEEL Newsletter limited participation) to engage with Denise Youngblood (University of over the years. I appreciate those who have just joined the editorial staff with some of the best-known scholars of our Vermont) on World War II, Film and generation. new column ideas and very much thank History; Eliot Borenstein (New York those who have continued their columns Looking forward to AATSEEL University) on Modernist Poetry; Sibel- 2013 in Boston, we are proud to an- year after year. Of course, I always wel- an Forrester (Swarthmore College) on come new ideas to add to the richness nounce two more upcoming Advanced Russian Women Writers and Literature of the newsletter. Seminars. The first will be led by of Dissent; Birgit Beumers (University Finally, I am sorry that I missed Stephanie Sandler (Harvard Univer- of Bristol) on Soviet and Russian Cin- seeing all of you at this year’s annual sity) on contemporary Russian poetry ema; Tony Anemone (New School) on meeting. Work requirements prohibited (participation will be limited to 20 AAT- Late Weimar and Early Soviet Cinema; my attendance, but as there is always SEEL members). The second Advanced Petre Petrov (Princeton) on Figures of another year, I do look forward to seeing Seminar will be conducted by Yuri Madness in Russian Culture; Seth Gra- readers at next year’s annual meeting, Tsivian (Chicago) on Russian cinema the details of which will be shared in the ham (University College London) on newsletter as they become known. (details to follow). In addition to these Age of War and Revolution, and many two offerings, AATSEEL is organizing other contributions. To find the link, go another format: Tom Garza (University