Andrew
Chapman
Degree: B.A., Russian, University of Rochester, 2004
Research Interests: contemporary Russian culture, Russian and
Soviet Film
E-mail: ahc12@pitt.edu
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Alyssa DeBlasio
Degree: B.A., Philosophy and
Russian Area Studies, Villanova University, 2003
Research Interests: Russian Philosophy and
Intellectual History; Early Russian Film
Representative
Publications: Vera Storozheva's Greek Holidays. Film
Review: KinoKultura (June 2006). <www.kinokultura.com>.;
"Narration and Ritualization in the Icons of Medieval Rus'."
Studies in Slavic Cultures V (April 2006).; Tania Detkina's
The Rascal. Film Review: KinoKultura (October 2005). <www.kinokultura.com>.
E-mail: ajd31@pitt.edu
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Julie Draskoczy
Degree: B.A., Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University, 2002
Research Interests:
GULag Society, Life Writing, Samizdat, Criminality,
Soviet-Yiddish Culture, Stalin's White Sea Canal, Propaganda Film, Russian/East
European Animation
Conference Participation:
"Sex Roles Revealed: The GULag as Gender Laboratory,"
Columbus, Midwest Slavic Conference, 2006. "Crime and Enslavement: The Tattooed
Subject in Soviet Russia and Ancient Greece," Milwaukee, Archival Bodies
Conference, 2006. "The Time and Place of Death: Walter Benjamin's Theory of
Allegory and the Evolution of the Russian Short Story," Salt Lake City, AAASS,
2005. "Religious Dualism in Kievan Rus': Varangian Influence on Death Rituals in
the Kievan Crypt Paterikon," Columbus, Midwest Slavic Conference, 2005.
Representative Publications:
The House by the Salty Lake.
Film review: www.kinokultura.com, Jan. 2006. Joseph Brodsky: A Personal Memoir.
Book review: Slavic and East
European Journal, Winter 2005.
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Julia Houkom E-mail: houkom@pitt.edu
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Irina Makoveeva
Degree: ABD, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh M.A. in Russian Philology and Comparative Linguistics, Moscow Lomonosov State University
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: "Screening the Novel of Adultery" (Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," Lev Tolstoi's "Anna Karenina," and Theodor Fontane's "Effi Briest").
Courses Taught: Russian Language (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced); Intensive Russian; Russian Culture and History through Film; Readings in Russian Literature (19 and 20th centuries)
Representative Publications: "The Chronotope of the Maternity Home." Studies in Slavic Cultures IV. Pittsburgh, 2003. "Soviet Sports as Cultural Phenomenon: Body and/or Intellect." Studies in Slavic Cultures III. Pittsburgh, 2002 "Cinematic Adaptations of Anna Karenina." Studies in Slavic Cultures II. Pittsburgh, 2001. "Prover' sebia!" (textbook; co-authored with Dobrovolskaya, V.A. and A.A. Baryshnikov) Moscow, 1997 (second edition) and 1995 (first edition).
Conference Participation: "Revival of Storytelling Tradition in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Decalogue'." Midwest Slavic Conference, 2004. "Reading Nina Sadur in Translation." The Oeuvre of Nina Sadur. University of Pittsburgh, 2004. "'Anna Karenina:' Comics as Culture or Culture as Comics." AATSEEL Conference. San Diego, 2003. "The Carnival of the Pregnant Body in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture." The Flesh Made Text. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2003. "Intelligentsia as Creator of the Sporting Values during the Thaw." The Intelligentsias of Russia and Poland. Lund University, 2002. "Cinematic Adaptations of Lev Tolstoy's Anna Karenina." Screening the Word. University of Surrey, 2002. "Reel/Real Worlds and Spectatorship in Wojciech Marczewski's Escape from the "Liberty" Cinema." SAMLA Convention. Atlanta, 2001.
Research Interests: Adaptations and Visual Remakes; Modern Russian Culture: Women's Writing and Cinema; Soviet Sports; Contemporary Polish Cinema
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Gerald McCausland
E-mail: gmmst11+@pitt.edu
Home page: http://www.pitt.edu/~gmmst11/
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Petre Petrov
E-mail: petrov+@pitt.edu
Home page: http://www.pitt.edu/~petrov/
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Timothy M. Schlak
Degree: B.A., Russian Area Studies, Wittenberg University, 2001
Research Interests: 20th century Russian poetry
Representative publications and conference presentations: Sadur Conference, "Carnival and Bodies of Death in Nina Sadur's Krasnyi Paradiz"; Will chair a panel at AAASS in December, 2004.
Courses Taught: Elementary Russian 1 and 2
E-mail: tms29@pitt.edu Curriculum Vitae: CV
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Dawn Seckler
Degree: Colby College B.A., 1998; University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 2001
Research Interests: contemporary Russian culture, Russian and Soviet Film;
Representative publications and conference presentations: The
Suit. Film Review Kinokultura.com Oct. 2003 ; "The Absence of Historical Time in Dostoevskii's Besy." Studies in Slavic Culture; "Landscape, with Hero." Translation of Evgenii Margolit.; "Constructive Cine-Art:
The Film Posters for Battleship Potemkin, 1905 and Man With a Movie
Camera," Povestvovatel'naia struktura v tvorchestve Abdykalykova: otsutstvie istoricheskogo vremeni, logotsentricheskikh modelei, i patriarkhal'nogo
golosa, "Sexy Stalin: The Eroticization of the Leader's Image," "Balabanov's Brother and Brother 2: Post-Soviet Stalinist Socialist Realism"
Courses Taught: 19th Century Russian Literature; 20th Century Russian Literature; Fairy Tales; Vampires: Blood and Empire; Recitations second-semester of beginning Russian
E-mail: dasst125@pitt.edu
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