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David J. Birnbaum
Department Chair
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Degree: Ph.D., Harvard University
Specialties: Humanities computing, particularly the computer processing of medieval Slavic manuscripts. Slavic linguistics, particularly diachronic and synchronic phonology and morphology. Medieval Slavic texts.
Representative Publications:
- The Povest' vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis
(2003, assoc. ed.)
- "Computer-Assisted Analysis and Study of the Structure of Mixed-Content Miscellanies"
(2003)
- Computational Approaches to the Study of Early and Modern Slavic Languages and Texts (2002, ed. with Anisava Miltenova and Sarah Slevinski)
- "The Relationship Between General and Specific DTDs: Criticizing TEI Critical Editions" (2001)
- "Designing a Russian Fairy Tales Course" (2001, with Suzanne Daly, Helena Goscilo, Julia Sagaidak Houkom, John Kachur, Gerald McCausland, Alexander Prokhorov, Petre Petrov, Irina Reyn, Dawn Seckler, and Benjamin Sutcliffe)
- Medieval Slavic Manuscripts and SGML: Problems and Perspectives (2000, ed. with Anisava Miltenova)
- "A TEI-Compatible Edition of the Rus' Primary Chronicle"
(2000)
- Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Processing of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts
(1995, ed., with Andrej Bojadziev, Milena Dobreva, and Anisava Miltenova)
- "The Problem of Anomalous Data" (1999, with David Mundie)
- "Using the TEI Writing System Declaration (WSD)" (1999, with Mavis Cournane and Peter Flynn).
Courses Regularly Taught: Russian Fairy Tales, Medieval Rus'.
Office Telephone: 412-624-5712
E-mail Address: djbpitt@pitt.edu
Home page: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/
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Yuliya Basina
Courses Taught at the University of Pittsburgh: Beginning
Russian, Intermediate Russian, Advanced Russian, 4th-year Russian,
Russian for Heritage Learners, Russian Conversation Practicum,
Newspapers and Magazines, Russian Short Story in Context, Modern
Russian Culture
Office Telephone: 412-624-5706
Email Address: basina@pitt.edu
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Nancy Condee
Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies (1995-2006)
Director of Graduate Studies
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Degree: Ph.D., Yale University
Specialties: Contemporary Russian culture and cultural politics; Soviet cultural politics; late Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; imperial and postcolonial theory; popular culture.
Representative Publications:
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Articles in The
Nation, October, New Left Review,
Washington Post, Framework, Sight and Sound, New
Formations
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Antinomies
of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
(2008, ed.
with Terry Smith and Okwui Enwezor)
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"From
Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second
World." Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity,
Postmodernity, Contemporaneity.
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"When
Bakunin Moved in with Turgenev: Philiterature in the Empire."
Boundary 2, 34: 1 (Spring 2007): 173-95
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"Eurasia
and Imperialism." Debate participants include Gayatri Spivak
and Harsha Ram. PMLA 122:1 (January 2007): 360-61
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"The
Anti-Imperialist Empire and After: In Dialogue with Gayatri
Spivak's 'Are You Postcolonial?'" PMLA 120:3 (May 2006):
829-31. Introduction by Gayatri Spivak
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"Drowning
or Waving? Some Remarks on Russian Cultural Studies." Slavic
and East European Journal, Special Issue: Fiftieth
Anniversary. 50.1 (Spring 2006): 203-09
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"Vicarious
Catastrophe: The Empire Watches Death of the Empire."
Pro et Contra (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/
Carnegie Moscow Center), hard copy 4 (33) 2006: 29-37; online
10: 4 (September 2006): 29-37 at
http://www.carnegie.ru/en/pubs/procontra/vol10num4-full.pdf
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"Learnings of Borat
for Make Benefit Cultural Studies." Review of Borat!
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation
of Kazakhstan. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 12
November 2006: H-6.
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"As Much Happiness as
Unhappiness." Essay-review of Sergei
Ursuliak, dir. Dolgoe proshchanie (Long Farewell).
Kinokultura (October 2005), online at
http://www.bris.ac.uk/kinokultura/
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"Russkoe
kino za rubezhom." Seans [Seance] 19-20 (2005):
194
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"Muratova's
Well-Tempered Scam." Essay-review of Kira Muratova, dir.
Nastroishchik (The Tuner). Kinokul'tura
(January 2005) online at
http://www.bris.ac.uk/kinokultura/
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"Obrazovanie
v antropologii i sotsial'nykh naukakh." Antropologicheskii
Forum St. Petersburg 3 (2005): 70-79
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"Imperialism
Ectoplasm."
Kinokultura
6 (October 2004): electronic journal (http://www.bris.ac.uk/kinokultura/)
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Kondi, Nensi. "Putenitsa
sovremennosti: imperiia i natsiia." Kul'tura Post.
Voronezh: Voronezh State University, 2004
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September 11th, A
Year On: Research Symposium.
Special Issue of Critical Quarterly. Vol. 45, Number 3
(2003, ed. with Colin MacCabe)
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"Otstuplenie
o geroe." Iskusstvo kino 10 (2003): 72-73
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"Subtropical Cinema: Kinotavr, Collective Heroes and the Small
Screen." Kinokul'tura (June 2003):
http://www.bris.ac.uk/kinokultura/ (with Vladimir Padunov)
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Kino ottepeli.
CD-rom database on Soviet Thaw cinema (Executive Producer, 2002)
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Endquote:
Literary Sots-Art and Soviet Grand Style
(2000, ed. with Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko)
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"The Death of Russian Cinema, or Sochi:
Russia's Last Resort." Russia at the End of the Twentieth
Century: Culture and Its Horizons in Politics and Society.
Comp and ed. Gregory Freidin. Stanford University, 2000.
www.stanford.edu/group/Russia20/volume/
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"Uncles, Deviance,
and Ritual Combat: The Cultural Codes of Khrushchev's Thaw. The
Khrushchev Era: A Reappraisal. Ed. William Taubman, Sergei
Khrushchev, and Abbott Gleason (2000): 160-76. Russian version
"Kul'turnye
kody 'Ottepeli.'" Tr. N. Mikhailova. Russkaia literatura XX
veka: napravleniia i techeniia. Vypusk 3 (Ekaterinburg
1996): 167-182
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"No Glory, No
Majesty, or Honor: The Russian Idea and Inverse Value."
Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Ed.
Birgit Beumers (1999): 25-33
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"Body
Graphics: Tattooing the Fall of Communism." Consuming
Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev.
Ed. Adele Barker (1999)
339-61.
German version "Körperzeichnungen: Der Zusammenbruch des
Kommunismus." Berliner Debatte Initial 13: 1 (2002):
71-88. Russian version "Grafika na tele: tatuirovki i krakh
kommunizma." Tr. N. S. Vnuchenko. Novoe literaturnoe
obozrenie 39 (1999): 101-18
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"Why
Cultural Studies Matters." Carnegie Mellon University Series:
Lectures on Demand. 24 October 1998. Streaming audio file:
http://lectures.eserver.org/1002
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"Les cinemas
russe et sovietique."
Cinemas
d'Europe du Nord: de Fritz Lang à von Trier.
Ed. Lucy
Lean (1998): 247-55
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"Konets
stoletiia? konets chernukhi?" Iskusstvo kino 3-4
(1998): 169-70
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"The Second Mother Fantasy, or All Baths are
Women's Baths." Russia * Women * Culture: From Bathhouse
to Ballroom. Ed. Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren
(1996). Russian version
Vse
bani-zhenskie bani." Iskusstvo kino 5 (1997): 76-81
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"Desiat' zametok s 'Kinotavra.'" Iskusstvo
kino 10 (1996): 98-100
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"The Relentless
Cult of Novelty, or How to Wreck the Century: Rethinking
Soviet Studies." Beyond Soviet Studies. Ed. Daniel
Orlovsky (1995): 289-304
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Soviet
Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late 20th Century Russia
(1994, ed)
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"The ABC of
Russian Consumer Culture: Readings, Ratings, and Real
Estate." Soviet Hieroglyphics (with Vladimir Padunov)
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"Pair-a-Dice Lost: The Socialist Gamble, Market Determinism, and
Compulsory Postmodernism." New Formations 22 (Spring
1994). Special issue entitled Postcommunism: Rethinking the
Second World. 72-94 (with Vladimir Padunov). Russian
version
"Proigrannyi
rai: Ruletka sotsializma, rynochnyi determinizm i postmodernizm
po obiazatel'oi programme." Iskusstvo kino 9 (1992):
72-81. Reprinted in
Novaia
volna: russkaia kul'tura i subkul'tury na rubezhe 80-90 godov.
Ed. Nadezhda Azhgikhina (1994): 4-19
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"Perestroika Suicide: Not By Bred Alone." The Harriman
Institute Forum 5.5 (January 1992) (with Vladimir Padunov).
Reprinted in Stanford Slavic Studies. Russian Culture in
Transition: Selected Papers of the Working Group for the Study
of Contemporary Russian Culture 1990-1991. Ed. Gregory
Freidin. Vol. 7 (1993): 91-122. Russian version
"Samoubiistvo perestroiki: ne bredom edinym." Tr.
I. Chabanov. Znamia 1 (1992): 209-12
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"Makulakul'tura: Reprocessing
Culture." October 57 (Summer 1991): 79-103.
Reprinted in Stanford Slavonic Studies: 53-80 (with
Vladimir Padunov). Russian version "Makulakul'tura
ili vtorichnaia pererabotka kul'tury." Tr. F. and O. Urnovy.
Voprosy literatury 1 (1991): 101-26
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"The Cultural
Combat Zone: Where is the DMZ?" Soviet Union/Union
Sovietique 15.2-3 (1988): 167-185 (with Vladimir Padunov)
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"Frontiers of
Soviet Culture: Reaching the Limits?" The Harriman
Institute Forum 1.5 (1988): 1-8 (with Vladimir Padunov).
Reprinted in
The Soviet Union 1988: Essays from the
Harriman Institute Forum. Ed. Paul Lerner (1989)
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"'New' Soviet Cinema: Once Again the Most
Important Art." San Francisco International Film
Festival Catalogue (1988): 32-37 (with Vladimir Padunov)
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"The Outposts of Official Art: Recharting
Soviet Cultural History." Framework 34 (1987):
59‑106 (with Vladimir Padunov)
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"Spring Cleaning in Moscow's House of
Cinema." Lead article in Forty-First International
Edinburgh Film Festival Catalogue (1987): 6‑9 (with
Vladimir Padunov)
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"Reforming Soviet Culture: Retrieving Soviet
History." The Nation 13 June 1987: 815‑820 (with
Vladimir Padunov)
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"Soviet Cultural
Politics and Cultural Production." IREX Occasional Papers
2 (1987): 1-21 (with Vladimir Padunov)
Courses Regularly Taught: Empire and Nation; Stalin Cinema; Russian Culture.
Office Telephone: 412-624-5706
E-mail Address: condee@pitt.edu
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Ljiljana Duraskovic
Office Telephone: 412-624-9958
E-mail Address: ljiljana@pitt.edu
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Jane G. Harris
Undergraduate Advisor
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Degree: Ph.D., Columbia University
Specialties: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian poetry; non-fictional prose (autobiography, the essay, the journal, and women's journalism); Acmeism; autobiography; poetics; Mandel'shtam; Lydia Ginzburg.
Representative Publications:
- Osip Mandelstam: The Complete Critical Prose and Letters (1979, 1991 ed. and
tr.)
- Osip Mandelstam (1988)
- American Contributions to the 10th International Congress of Slavists (1988,
ed.)
- Autobiographical Statements in 20th Century Russian Literature (1990,
ed)
- Lydia Ginzburg: In Memoriam [Festschrift] (1994, ed.)
- Scholar, Writer, and Witness: Selected Writings of Lydia Ginzburg
(ed. and tr.)
- New project: Women's Discourse and the Russian Pre-Revolutionary Periodical Press.
Courses Regularly Taught: Silver Age; 19th and 20th century Russian literature; Russian poetry; Russian language.
Office Telephone: 412-624-5708
E-mail Address: jgharris@pitt.edu
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Gerald McCausland
Russian Language Program Coordinator
Degree: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Office Telephone: 412-624-0526
E-mail Address: gmmst11@pitt.edu
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Vladimir Padunov
Associate Director, Film Studies Program
Degree: Ph.D., Cornell University
Specialties: Russian cultural and intellectual history; 19th- and 20th-century novel and novel theory; Dostoevsky; literary and critical theory; 20th-century drama; Russian visual and popular culture; history of Russo-Soviet film.
Representative Publications:
- Star Above Almaty: Kazakh Cinema Between 1998 and 2003 KinoKultura
1 (2004)
- On the Benefits of Cine-Lingualism Iskusstvo kino 11
(1998)
- Views of the Present As Visions of the Past Iskusstvo kino 10
(1996)
- 'Large Loose Baggy Monsters': The Poetics of Excess in Contemporary Russian Culture Iskusstvo kino
7 (1996)
Courses Regularly Taught: contemporary Russian culture; history of Russo-Soviet film; Dostoevsky; Tolstoy; proseminar.
Office Telephone: 412-624-5713
E-mail Address: padunov@pitt.edu
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Oscar Swan
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Degree: Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Specialties: Polish and Russian linguistics; Old Church Slavic; syntactic and semantic theory; language pedagogy; materials development; Polish literature and culture.
Major Book-Length
Publications
- Holy Week by
Jerzy Andrzejewski. A translation from the Polish, forthcoming,
Ohio University Press, 2006
- Tales of My Wife.
A Polish glossed reader, forthcoming. Bloomington, Indiana:
Slavica Publishers, 2006
- Russian Sounds and
Inflections. Columbus, Ohio: Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica,
forthcoming, 2006
- Grammar of
Contemporary Polish. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 2002. Awarded
best work in Slavic Linguistics by AATSEEL, 2004
- W labiryncie
(Labyrinth of Life), with Wieslaw Oleksy. Columbus, Ohio:
Slavica, 1993
- Beginning Slovak.
with Silvia Galova-Lorinc. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1990
- Intermediate Polish.
Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1986
- A Private War
by Buno Shatyn. A translation from the Polish. Detroit, Wayne
State University Press, 1985
- First Year Polish.
Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1980
Recent
Article: "Andrzej Wajda's Film Holy Week: What is its Problem?" The Polish
Review, vol L, no. 3, 2005, 343-353.
Courses Regularly Taught: Polish; Polish Short Story;
Polish Literature and Culture; Old Church Slavic; Structure of
Russian; Russian morphology,
Polish Through Film, Polish over the World Wide Web
Awards: Best
work in Slavic Linguistics, 2004 (for A Grammar of Contemporary
Polish). Awarded by American Association of Teachers of
Slavic and East European Languages.
Amicus Poloniae award by Poland magazine for
Intermediate Polish, 1986.
Website: The
Polish Language Website
http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu
is devoted to the teaching of the Polish language worldwide. Access
to it is free. It contains an on-line Polish dictionary, a reference
grammar, a first-year Polish course, computer-graded language
quizzes, a collection of Polish short stories, a Polish songbook,
and downloadable installments of the Polish soap opera "W
labiryncie".
Office Telephone: 412-624-5707
E-mail Address: swan@pitt.edu
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Martin Votruba
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Degrees: Diploma in English Studies (FS), University of Edinburgh, Scotland; PhDr. and Ph.D., Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Specialties: Slovak studies — language, history, literature, culture; Slovak and West Slavic linguistics; Communism and its collapse in Central Europe.
Representative Publications: “Trends in 20th Century Slovak Filmmaking,” Slovakia 37; “Linguistic Minorities in Slovakia.” in: Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe.; A Slovak-English Contrastive Grammar (revised ed. 2008); guest editor, KinoKultura, Special Issue 3: Slovak Cinema; “Hang Him High: The Elevation of Jánošík to an Ethnic Icon.” Slavic Review 65; “Comments on ‘Culture and Politics — Rivals or Allies?’” in: The Slovak Republic: A Decade of Independence.; “Historical and National Background of Slovak Filmmaking.” in: KinoKultura, Special Issue 3; “Slovakia After the Velvet Revolution: A Tale of Two Intelligentsias.” Slavic Almanach 3; “Highwayman’s Life: Extant Documents about Jánošík.” Slovakia 39.
Courses Regularly Taught: Slovak, Czech, and Central European Cinema; Slovak Transatlantic Cultures; The Year Communism Crumbled; A Survey of Slovak History and Culture; Slovak language.
Office Telephone: (412) 624-5705
E-mail Address: votruba "at" pitt "dot" edu
Slovak Website: http://www.pitt.edu/~votruba/
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Kateryna Dowbenko
Courses Regularly Taught: Ukrainian language
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Lenka Pankova
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