Michael Brewer
Employment Since Graduation:
Team Leader for Undergraduate Services at the University of Arizona (2008-present)
Slavic Studies, German Studies, and Media Arts Librarian, University of Arizona (2002-2008)
Chair, Bibliography and Documentation Committee [BDC] of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies [AAASS] (2008-2010).
See: http://intranet.library.arizona.edu/users/brewerm/bd/
E-mail Address:
brewerm@u.library.arizona.edu
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Annalisa Czeczulin
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: The Russian
Reflexive Object, Possessive and Reciprocal Pronoun, and Postverbal
Affix in Second Language Acquisition: Binding Preferences and LI
Transfer, 2007
Employment Since Graduation:
Adjunct Lecturer at John Hopkins University and Russian Instructor at Goucher College in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department
Research Interests:
Linguistics and Second-Language Acquisition
E-mail Address:
aczeczulin@goucher.edu
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Seth Graham
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: A Cultural Analysis of the Russo-Soviet Anekdot, 2003
Research Interests: Contemporary Russian literature and culture, Russian and Central Asian cinema, humor theory, cultural studies
Representative Publications:
- Russkii anekdot v kontekste [The Russian Anekdot in Context]. Moscow: O.G.I., 2007. Forthcoming.
- Uncensored? Reinventing Humor and Satire in Post-Soviet Russia. Co-edited with Olga Mesropova. Slavica, 2007. Forthcoming.
- "Varieties of Reflexivity in the Anekdot." Reflective Laughter: Aspects of Humour in Russian Culture. Ed. Lesley Milne. London: Anthem Press, 2004.
- "The Wages of Syncretism: Folkloric New Russians and Post-Soviet Popular Culture." Russian Review 62.1 (January 2003): 37-53
- "Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky." Russian Writers Since 1980. Dictionary of Literary Biography 285. Ed. Mark Lipovetsky and Marina Balina. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 357-64
Employment Since Graduation:
Lecturer and First-Year Russian language Coordinator, U. of Washington, Seattle, 2003-2004
Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford U., 2004-2006
Lecturer, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
E-mail Address: sethbgraham@gmail.com
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Irina Makoveeva
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: Screening of
the Novel of Adultery, 2007
Research Interests: Adaptations and Remakes; Women's Cinema; Contemporary Russian Culture:
Representative Publications:
- "The New Century: Has the Russian Pandora's Time Come?" SEEJ cluster on post-Soviet cinema, Summer 2007.
- "Reading Nina Sadur in Translation." The Oeuvre of Nina Sadur. Ohio State University, 2005.
- "A Deleuzian Reading of Aleksei Sidorov's TV Series The Brigade." Studia Filmoznawcze. Vol. 26. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, 2005.
- "Revisualizing Anna Karenina." Tolstoy Studies Journal. Vol. XVI, 2004.
- "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).
Employment Since Graduation:
Mellon Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University
E-mail Address: irina.makoveeva@vanderbilt.edu
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Gerald McCausland
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: The Post-Soviet Condition: Cultural Constructions of Russian National Identity, 2006
Employment Since Graduation:
Lecturer and Russian Language Program Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh
E-mail Address: gmmst11@pitt.edu
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Alla Nedashkivska
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: "Discourse, Pragmatics, and Transitivity in the Morphosyntax of Contemporary Ukrainian," 1998
Research Interests: Slavic linguistics, Ukrainian and Russian applied linguistics and language pedagogy, Gender linguistics, Discourse and Pragmatics.
Monographs:
- Ukrainian Through Its Living Culture, a
textbook for advanced levels of Ukrainian.
University of Alberta Press. 280mspp.
[forthcoming].
- "Ukrainian Through Its Living Culture," an
electronic manual for advanced levels of Ukrainian.
Nine chapters. Published at the University of
Alberta web:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ukr/ukrainianadvanced,
2006.
- "The Pragmatic Bases of the 'Variation' Between -a and -zero in the Accusative in Contemporary Ukrainian",
the Carl Becks Papers, Center for Russian and
East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2004,
80mspp.
Refereed Articles:
- "Internet as a Pedagogical Tool in the Acquisition
of Language and Cultural Competence: the Case of
Ukrainian," Theory and Practice of Teaching Ukrainian
as a Foreign Language: Conference Proceedings. Ivan
Franko National University of L'viv. November
2006, 24mspp. [forthcoming].
- "Presidential Speech and Processes of Language
Democratization in Contemporary Ukraine," Australian
Slavonic and East European Studies vol. 20, nos. 1-2
2006: 39-65.
- "Gender Voices in Electronic Discourse: A Forum in
Ukrainian," Journal of Slavic Linguistics: Special
Issue in Slavic Sociolinguistics, 2007, 28mspp.
[forthcoming].
- "Orthographic Innovations and Variations in
Contemporary Ukrainian," Written Language and
Literacy 9 (2), 2006: 265-281.
- "Positive Negativity: Attaining Pragmatic Competence
in Ukrainian," Canadian Slavonic Papers: Special
Issue on Linguistics and Language Pedagogy in Slavic
vol. XLVI, nos. 102, March-June 2002: 395-415.
- "Communicating with the Press: Genderlects in Ukrainian".
Canadian Slavonic Papers vol. XLIV, nos. 1-2, March-June 2002: 97-124.
- "Whither or Where: Case Choice And Verbs of Placement in Contemporary Ukrainian".
Journal of Slavic Linguistics 9 (2), 2001:
249-287.
- "The Language of Polarized Femininities in
Contemporary Ukraine," Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2. 2002. (special issues in memory of the late Danylo Husar Struk):
295-319.
- "-No/-To and Voice: Statality and Actionality in
Contemporary Ukrainian." Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 40, Sept.-Dec. 1998: 189-208.
Non-Refereed Articles:
- "The Internet as a Tool for the Acquisition of Language and Intercultural Awareness".
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European
Languages, Newsletter Winter 2002, 9 mspp.
Editorships:
- Co-editor (with Waclaw Osadnik and Natalia Pylypiuk)
from 2003-2004 of the Special Issue of the Canadian
Slavonic Papers: Special Issue on Linguistics and
Language Pedagogy in Slavic vol. XLVI, nos. 102,
March-June 2004.
- Member of the editorial board of the
Dialektolohichni studii [Studies in
Dialectology], vol. 3: Zbirnyk pamiati Iroslavy
Zakrevs'koii [an issue in memory of Iaroslava Zakrevs'ka]
from 2003-2004. ISBN 966-02-2206-6.
Employment Since Graduation:
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures University of Toronto, 1996 - 1999; Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies,
University of Alberta, 1999 - 2005; Associate Professor,
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of
Alberta, 2005 - present
Office Telephone: 780-492-6800
E-mail Address: alla.nedashkivska@ualberta.ca
URL: http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/MLCS/department/staff/nedashkivska.html
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Petre Petrov
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: The
Sacramental Subject: Narrative in Stalinist Culture and Beyond,
2006
Employment Since Graduation: Assistant Professor at
Princeton University
E-mail Address:
ppetrov@Princeton.edu
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Alexander Prokhorov
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: Inherited Discourse: Stalinist Tropes In Thaw Culture, 2002
Research Interests: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture, Film and Cultural Theory
Representative Publications:
- "Debunking Myths Old and New: Iurii Mamin's Satires in Soviet
and Post-Soviet Cinema." Uncensored: Humor and Satire in
Post-Soviet Russia. Bloomington, IN: Slavica 2008.
- "Film in Russia and Soviet Union, 1896-2007." The
Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and
Eurasian History (SMERSH). Edited by Bruce Adams. Vol.
10. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press,
(forthcoming in 2008)
- Unasledovannyi diskurs: paradigmy stalinskoi kul'tury v
literature i kino ottepeli. St. Petersburg:
Akademicheskii Proekt, 2007.
- "Arresting Development: A Brief History of Soviet Cinema for
Children and Adolescents." Russian Children's Literature and
Culture. Eds. Marina Balina and Larissa Rudova.
Series Editor Jack Zipes. London: Routledge, 2007.
- "From Family Reintegration to Carnivalistic Degradation:
Dismanteling Soviet Communal Myths in Russian Cinema of the
Mid-1990s." Slavic and East European Journal 3(2007).
- "The Adolescent and the Child in Thaw Cinema: The Politics
of Age and Gender." Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
1.2 (2007): 115-129.
- "Revisioning Aleksandrov's Circus: Seventy Years of
the Great Family." The Russian Review 66 (January
2007): 1-4.
- "The Diamond Arm." The Cinema of Russia & the Former
Soviet Union (24 Frames). Ed. Birgit Beaumers.
London: Wallflower, 2007. 126-35.
- "Cinemasculinity: The Stalinist Man and Thaw Era
Delinquents." Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 64 (2006):
99-112.
- "Size Matters: The Ideological Functions of the Length of
Soviet Feature Films and Television Mini-Series in the 1950s and
1960s" Kinokultura: A Journal of New Russian Cinema April
(2006) <http://www.kinokultura.com/2006/issue12.shtml>
- "A Person is Born: Stalinist Myth of the Great Family
in Film Genres of the Thaw. Chelovek rodilsia:
stalinskii mif o bol'shoi sem'e v kinozhanrakh ottepeli."
Family Ties: Models for Construction Semeinyt uzy: modeli dlia
sborki. Ed. Sergei Ushakin. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe
obozrenie (NLO), 2005. 114-34.
- "Cinema of Attractions versus Narrative Cinema: Leonid Gaidai's Comedies and El'dar Riazanov's Satires of the 1960s."
Slavic Review 62.3 Fall(2003): 455-73
- "Accomodating Consumers' Desires: El'dar Riazanov's Memoirs in Soviet and Postsoviet Russia."
Reading Russian Memoirs. Edited by Beth Holmgren. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2003.
70-90
- "Marina Palei." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 285. Russian Writers Since
1980. Editors Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2003. 196-201, "Boris Groys."
- Co-authored with Elena Prokhorova. Dictionary of Literary
Biography. Volume 285. Russian Writers Since 1980. Editors Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2003.
101-107
- "Soviet Family Melodrama of the 1940s and 50s: From Wait For Me To Cranes Are Flying."
Imitations of Life. Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia
Editors Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger. Durham: Duke UP, 2002. 208-32.
- Springtime for Soviet Cinema: Re/Viewing the Sixties. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Film Symposium, 2001.
Employment Since Graduation: College of William and Mary
Office Telephone: 757-221-7731
E-mail Address: axprok@wm.edu
URL: http://faculty.wm.edu/axprok/,
http://web.wm.edu/modlang/russian/faculty.php
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Elena Prokhorova
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: "Fragmented Mythologies: Soviet TV Mini-Series of the
1970s," 2003
Research Interests: Soviet and post-Soviet television, film, and literature; media theory; cultural studies
Representative Publications:
- "Post-Utopian Body Politic: Masculinity and the Crisis of National Identity in Brezhnev-Era TV
Mini-Series." Gender and Nation. Eds. Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux.
Forthcoming
- "Can the Meeting Place Be Changed? Crime and Identity Discourse in Russian TV Series of the 1990s."
Slavic Review (Fall 2003): 512-524
- "Svetlana Vasilenko." Dictionary of Literary
Biography. Volume 285: Russian Writers Since 1980. Eds. Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2003.
- "Boris Groys" (with Aleksandr Prokhorov). Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 285: Russian Writers Since 1980.
Eds. Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2003.
101-107
- "Little Fool." Translation of the novel by Svetlana Vasilenko.
Shamara and Other Stories. Ed. Helena Goscilo. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP.
2000
- "Barkov, Ivan Semenovich" and "Baroque, The
Russian." Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History. Vol. 3. Eds George Rhyne and Edward J. Lazzerini. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1999.
Employment Since Graduation: Visiting Instructor, Department of German and Slavic, George Washington University, 2002-2003; Visiting Instructor, Modern Languages Department, The College of William and Mary
Office Telephone: 757-221-3774
E-mail Address: exprok@wm.edu
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Timothy Schlak
MA, 2006
Pursuing Doctorate in Library and Information Science at the
University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests: Slavic bibliography and collection
development, the application of information technologies in
university library systems, and information technologies in LIS
education
E-mail Address: tms29@pitt.edu
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Benjamin Sutcliffe
Dissertation Title and Year of Degree: "Engendering Byt:
Russian Women Writers and Narratives of Everyday Life, 1962-2001," 2004
Research Interests: Gender and Russian literature, everyday life studies, novel theory
Book in Progress: Writing Life: Contemporary Russian Women's
Prose Embraces the Everyday. Under contract with University of
Wisconsin Press.
Representative Publications:
- "Publishing the Russian Soul? Women's Provincial Literary
Anthologies, 1990-1995." Special Edition of Soviet and
Post-Soviet Review. Special Issue: Russian Women and
Publishing. Editors Charlotte Rosenthal and Christine
Tomei. 33 (1) 2006.
- "Zhenskaia gramotnost' na Drevnei Rusi: gipotezy i fakty."
[Women's Literacy in Kievan Rus': Hypotheses and Facts].
Drevniaia Rus': Voprosy medievistiki 4 (2006).
- "Reading the Kristevan Semiotic and Symbolic: Nina Sadur's 'Kol'tsa' and Marina Kulakova's 'Reka po imeni Master'."
Canadian Slavonic Papers 3-4 (2003)
- "Documenting Women's Voices in Perestroika Gulag Narratives."
Toronto Slavic Quarterly. Winter 2002-2003. http://www.utoronto.ca/slavic/tsq/032002/sutcliffe.html
- "Kritika o sovremennoi zhenskoi proze." Filologicheskie nauki 3 (2000). Reprinted in Zhenskii diskurs v literaturnom protsesse Rossii kontsa XX veka>. CD-ROM. Eds. Tat'iana Klimenkova, Elena Trofimova, Tat'iana Troianova. 2002.
Employment Since Graduation: Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages at Miami University in Ohio, 2004-present. He is currently teaching courses on film and contemporary women's writing as well as a third-year Russian course. In the summer he will teach a course in Russia for the Havighurst Center for Soviet and Post-Soviet Center.
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