People Type: Slavic

Biography Language(s): Polish, Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian, Russian, Italian, Spanish, German. Reading knowledge of Silesian, Molise Slavic, Old Church Slavic. Structural knowledge of other Slavic and Romance languages. Research/Language Interests: Multilingualism and identity in East-Central Europe, transnationalism and transnational studies, regional literary production, borderland studies, sociolinguistics, critical discourse studies, digital humanities. About: I am a scholar of language, literature, …

Biography Language(s): Russian, German. Other languages for research: French, Polish Research/Language Interests: Boris Pasternak, intertextuality in Russian Modernism, interrelationship of music and literature, German-Russian literary relations, European Modernism and Romanticism; foreign language pedagogy About Me: I have dual interests in Russian Modernist poetry and in Russian language pedagogy, and music intersects with both interests. I hold …

Biography Language: Russian Research/Language Interests: Romanticism and its legacies, late and post-Soviet culture and society, theater and performance, intersections between literature and contemporary art, aesthetics and critical theory, political theory. About Me: My research falls into three main areas: Russian Romanticism in its European context, late and post-Soviet literature and culture, and Russian theater and …

Biography Language(s): Russian; reading knowledge of French, Latin, Ancient Greek, Czech, German Research/Language Interests: Vladimir Nabokov, creative writing, queer theory, reparative knowledge, contemporary Russian culture, Russian emigre culture, classical antiquity. About Me: My main research interest has been Vladimir Nabokov. My dissertation was about the uses of the classical tradition, the reception of Greek and …

Biography Language(s): Russian, German Research/Language Interests: Literature and politics in Russia and Europe from the early modern period to the nineteenth century; literary theory; political theory. About Me: My research interests generally revolve around the interplay between literature, political theory, political theology, and intellectual history in early modern and imperial Russia in a pan-European (German, …

Biography Language: Russian Research/Language Interests: Lyric poetry. Translation. Osip Mandelstam; Pushkin; Joseph Brodsky; modern literary theory (especially theories of influence and intertextuality); modern Russian poetry; the elegy; modern Russian prose (especially the work of Venedikt Erofeev and Victor Erofeyev); Latin poetry; English and American poetry (especially 20th-century); the “ethical turn” in literary criticism. About Me: …

Biography Language: Russian Research/Language Interests: Russian modernist literature and art; Russian émigré literature; late Soviet and post-Soviet culture; Russian poetry; Russian intellectual history; nationalism studies. Education:• Stanford University, Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures (1998)• Stanford University, M.A. in Russian (1994)• University of Tartu, Estonia, Diploma (BA/MA) in Russian Language and Literature (1991) IRINA SHEVELENKO …

Biography Language(s): Russian Research/Language Interests: Twentieth-century Russian literature; Russian civilization; Russian language; women in Russian literature; literary responses to atrocity. About Me: I am the lead staff member responsible for managing the daily operations of the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA). My work combines academic administration, advising, grant writing, and project management …

Biography Language(s): Russian Research/Language Interests: Language teaching methodology, instructional technology, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and culture. About: Anna Tumarkin (PhD, Russian Literature, UW-Madison) is Russian Language Program Director and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of Slavic Languages at UW-Madison. Her research interests include language teaching methodology, instructional technology, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian …

Biography Language(s): Russian Research/Language Interests: The representation of the musician in 19th century Russian literature. About Me: I received my PhD from UW-Madison in 2002. As a graduate student, I taught first- and second-year Russian and was also a TA for a nineteenth-century Russian literature class and an interdisciplinary course on Russia. Before beginning graduate school, I …