EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
,
MS in Library and Information Science,
expected May 1998.
Ph.D in Russian Literature with minor in French Literature 1991
University of Paris III, Sorbonne
Nouvelle, Paris, France,
Maitrise de litterature Russe 1985.
Licence de litterature Russe 1984.
University of Paris VII , Paris
, France,
Licence de Biochimie 1983.
DISSERTATION
Zinaida Vengerova: The Aesthetic of the Incarnation of the Unincarnated. Examines Vengerova's works as a manifestation of the complex issues in Russian Literature at the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Ecole Polytechnique ,Paris,
France
Assistant Professor, Spring 1995-1996
Kenyon College
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1994
Grinnell College
Instructor, 1989-1991
Assistant Professor, 1991-1993
University of Pittsburgh
Visiting Lecturer, (summer ) 1989
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Teaching Assistant, 1985-1988
Instructor of Russian Language, (summer ) 1988
Indiana University
Visiting Lecturer, (summer) 1987
Centre
d'Etudes Russes , Meudon,
France
Teacher of Russian Language and Russian Drama, 1978-1984
Beginning Russian - First year language instruction - concentration on grammar, vocabulary, listening and comprehension, and reading.
Intermediate Russian - Second year language instruction - concentration on grammar, vocabulary, listening and comprehension, and strategies of reading.
Advanced Russian - Third year language instruction - grammar review, with concentration on strategies of reading in a foreign language.
Advanced Composition - Third and fourth year Russian.
Conversation courses - Third year Russian.
Intensive first year language instruction - Russian grammar for beginners, beginning reading, vocabulary, listening comprehension, conversation.
Intensive second year language instruction - Russian intermediate grammar and learning strategies of reading in a foreign language and beginning techniques of translation.
Intensive third year language instruction - Russian advanced grammar, broad reading with concentration on learning strategies of reading in a foreign language and learning techniques of translation.
Intensive Advanced Russian - Fourth year language instruction - reading of broad variety of texts in Russian and discussion of these texts.
Business Russian.
Centre d'Etudes Russes, Meudon, France
First and second year language instruction; second and third year language,
culture, drama. At first, second and third year language instruction staged
plays in Russian.
Russian Cultural History - the influence of history on the development of Russian literature.
Russian Cultural History of the 19th century - the historical development of Russian culture and its influence on Russian literature, intellectual thought, painting and music.
Russian Cultural History of the 20th century - the historical development of Russian culture and its influence on Russian emigre and Soviet culture, issues of Russian Orthodoxy and its evolution in Russia and abroad; Russian literature, painting, architecture and music. Special emphasis was placed on issues of Social Realist art and literature and the Post-Social Realist Thaw.
Senior literature seminar on Russian Short Fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Vladimir Nabokov and His Early Works - Nabokov's novel The Defence of Luzhin, his early poetry, and short stories.
Russian Women Writers and Poets of Modernism - Maria Bashkirtseva, Mirra Lokhvitskaia, Zinaida Hippius, Zinaida Vengerova, Poliksena Solovieva, Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva.
Russian Fairy Tales.
PUBLICATIONS
"Zinaida Vengerova and her Unpublished Correspondence," Revue des Etudes Slaves, Institut d'Études Slaves , Paris, LXVII/1, pages 187-236, LXVII/2,3, pages 187-236, LXVII/4, pages 693-748, 1995.
This publication appeared in 4 issues of Revue des Etudes Slaves. It contains a large introductory article with commentaries and 64 unpublished letters with commentaries.
"Edited Unpublished Correspondence of Dmitri Merezhkovsky, Introduction and Commentaries," Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, Moscow , pages 109-117, May 1995.
"Edited Unpublished Correspondence of Zinaida Hippius, Introduction and Commentaries," Russian Literature, Amsterdam, XXXVII-I January 1995, pages 49-91.
Articles
"Chingiz Aitmatov," Reference Guide to Short Fiction, St. James Press, Chicago, 1993, pages 19-21.
"Boris Pil'niak," Reference Guide to Short Fiction, St. James Press, Chicago, 1993, pages 428-430.
"Margarita Alliger," Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Women Writers, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., Westport, 1994, pages 18-20.
"Tat'iana Goricheva," Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Women Writers, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., Westport, 1994, pages 221-223.
"Tat'iana Velikanova," Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Women Writers, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., Westport, 1994, pages 697-698.
"Ivan Kireevsky," Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Age of Pushkin and Gogol, Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. 1997 (in press).
"Peter Kireevsky," Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Age of Pushkin and Gogol, Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. 1997 (in press).
"Aleksei Khomiakov," Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Age of Pushkin and Gogol, Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. 1997 (in press).
"Zinaida Vengerova," Russian Women Wirters, Garland Publishers, 1997 (in press).
"Zinaida Vengerova," and her article "La femme russe" ("Russian Woman"), Lettres russes (LRS), N 19, pages 10-16, 46-52, Paris, 1996.
"Homme-dieu et surhomme selon Fedor Dostoievski et Vladimir Soloviev," Cahier de Soloviev, Paris, 1997 (in press).
Translations
Zinaida Vengerova, "Feminism i zhenskaia svoboda" (Feminism and Feminine Freedom -- from Russian into English), Russian Women Writers, Garland Publishers, 1997 (in press).
Zinaida Vengerova, "La femme russe" (Russian Woman - from French into Russian), LRS, N 19, pages 47-52, Paris, 1996.
Book Reviews
"Bronislava Nijinska, Early Memoirs, Translated and Edited by Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson. With an introduction by and in consultation with Anna Kisselgoff," Slavic and East European Journal, 39, January 1995.
"John O'Brien. Milan Kundera and Feminism: Dangerous Intersections," Slavic and East European Journal, July 1997.
"Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore, 1920-1933. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo," Slavic and East European Journal, July 1997.
Creative Writing
"Selected Poetry," Vstrechi, Philadelphia, 1992.
PAPERS
"Why did Vladimir Soloviev defend Jews?" AATSEEL, Chicago, December 1995.
"The Concept of Superman and Man-God in Dostoevski's and Soloviev's Works," Soloviev's Society, Paris, November 1995.
"Is Life a Form of Art?" The Period of Russian Symbolism Presented Through the Correspondence of Zinaida Vengerova," (invited), V World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, August 1995.
"Philosophical Essence of Zinaida Vengerova's Works," AATSEEL, San Diego, December 1994.
"The Influence of Nietzsche and Soloviev on the Notion of Personality in Hippius' and Sologub's Works," public lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, February 1994.
"The Notion of Personality and its Role in the Perception and Works Influencing Russian Symbolism: V.Soloviev and F. Nietzsche," AATSEEL, Toronto, December 1993.
"The Influence of Nietzsche and Soloviev on the Russian Symbolist Movement," AATSEEL, New York, December 1992.
"Kant's Influence on Bakhtin's Early Writings," (invited), AAASS , Phoenix, November 1992.
"The Concept of God-man and Man-God in Dostoevski's and Soloviev's works," AATSEEL, San-Francisco, December 1991.
"The Influence of Vl. Soloviev on Philosophical Views of Zinaida Vengerova," AATSEEL, Chicago, December 1990.
"Zinaida Vengerova and French Symbolism," (invited), AAASS, Washington, DC, October 1990.
"World Spirit and the Human Soul in the Poetry of Vladimir Soloviev," (invited), International Conference of Slavists, Harrogate, England, July 1990.
"Philosophical and Theological Motifs in Tamizidat: Simvol (Paris)," (invited), AATSEEL, Washington, DC, December 1988.
"The Interpretation of Art in the Works of Zinaida Vengerova," Midwest Slavic Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, March 1988.
"The Ego of Marina Tsvetaeva in Conflict with the Reader's Ego," (invited), AAASS, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 1988.
Panel Chairman
"Russian Philosophy and Modernism," AATSEEL,
New
York, December 1992.
"Russian Philosophy and Modernism," AATSEEL,
Chicago, December 1995.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Books
Zinaida Vengerova: In the Search of Beauty. The Bridge between the West and the East, in preparation. Expected publication in 1997.
Annotated Collected Works of Zinaida Vengerova, in preparation. Expected publication in Russia, 1997.
Short Stories.
"Zinaida Vengerova: The Voice of Russian Symbolism in Mercure de France."
STUDENT STAGE PRODUCTION IN RUSSIAN
Marshak, "Korol i pastukh" (), Spring 1992.
Zochshenko,
"Svad'ba," Spring 1991.
Marshak, "Ballada o korolevskom buterbrode," Spring 1990.
Zochshenko, "Prestuplenie i nakazanie," Summer 1989.
RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS
IREX (International Research and
Exchange Board):
To present a paper entitled "Is Life a Form of Art? The Period
of Russian Symbolism Presented Through the Correspondence of Zinaida Vengerova"
at the 5th World Congress of the ICCEES in Warsaw,
August 1995.
Kenyon College Publication
Grant:
1994 (winter) - Funds to complete a publication of the article "Striving
for Perfection: The First Russian Eucumenist Vladimir Soloviev and his
Perception of Jewry and Judaism."
University of Chicago, Visiting Scholar, 1993-1994.
National Endowment for Humanities - NEH, Summer Seminar on Russian Orthodoxy, Moscow, Summer 1993.
Grinnell College Grant Board (Faculty Development Grant): 1989 (winter), 1990 (summer) - Dissertation Grants; 1991 (Summer), 1992 (Winter) - Funds to visit Archives in France and England.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
At Grinnell College: Member of Russian and East European Committee.
At Kenyon College: Revived Russian Table; administrated Russian Study Abroad program; developed series of Russian filsms.
LANGUAGES
Native in Russian and French, reading knowledge of German, Italian and Hebrew.
MEMBERSHIPS IN LEARNED AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association
American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
American
Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Société de Vladimir Soloviev