CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRENT POSITIONS
Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Department of German and Russian, University of Notre Dame

Co-Director (with Semion Lyandres, Associate Professor of History), Program in Russian and East European Studies, University of Notre Dame

EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1998) University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Slavic Languages

Major: Russian Literature; Minor: Polish Literature
Dissertation: "Exorcising the Beloved: Problems of Gender and Selfhood in Marina Tsvetaeva's Myths of Poetic Genius"
Advisor: Professor David M. Bethea

   Major: English and American Literature; Minor: Mathematics
   Highest Honors in English and American Literature
   Honors thesis: "A World Imagined: The Feminine Resolution of Tension in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens"

LANGUAGE INSTITUTES
Summer Institute of Polish Language and Culture, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Summer 1996

Ohio State University Russian Language Program, Pushkin Institute of Russian Language Moscow, Russia, Spring 1990

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian poetry and prose. Pushkin. Tsvetaeva. Silver Age poets. Modernism in Russia. The psychology of poetic genius. Gender issues in Russian and Polish poetry. Emigre poets and writers. Myth and literature. Poetics and metaphysics. Russian language, all levels.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Tenured Faculty Career Enhancement Grant, for attendance at Oxford Pushkin Seminar, July 2007

Summer Research Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, Summer 2003

Faculty Research Program Grant, University of Notre Dame Graduate School, Summer 2001

Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Publication Subvention Grant, Fall 2000

Foreign Language and Area Studies Graduate Fellowship, Spring 1997 and 1995 - 1996

HONORS AND AWARDS
My book A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva named "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2001 by Choice Magazine, a publication for academic librarians

Polanki Award in Polish Studies, Polish Women’s Cultural Club of Milwaukee, April 1995

J. Thomas Shaw Prize for best graduate student paper at Wisconsin-AATSEEL, April 1994

Dorothy B. Moyer Memorial Award for creative work in languages and literatures, May 1989

Monograph
A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva. University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

Monograph in Progress
Dangerous Verses: Alexander Pushkin and the Ethics of Inspiration (a study of the interrelationship between poetic inspiration and motifs of crime, guilt, conscience, and responsibility in Pushkin’s works)

Edited Volume
Russian Literature in the Age of Realism,vol. 277 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale Group, 2003.

Edited Volume in Progress
The Other Pushkiniana: Taboo Texts, Topics, Interpretations, co-edited with Professor Katya Hokanson of the University of Oregon (a collection of essays discussing aspects of Pushkin’s biography and works that have long been subject to taboo in Russian culture)

Articles
“Through a Glass Darkly: Doubling and Poetic Self-Image in Pushkin’s ‘The Gypsies,’” The Russian Review (accepted for publication; forthcoming 2009) .

“Murderous Mirror Magic: Pushkin’s Mythopoetic Reflections on Transgression and the Artistic Impulse,” Russian Literature and the West: A Tribute for David M. Bethea, edited by Alexander Dolinin, Lazar Fleishman, and Leonid Livak, 2 vols. (Stanford: Stanford Slavic Studies, 2008), 1: 41-65.

"Between Myth and History: An Interpretation of Osip Mandel'shtam's Poem 'V Peterburge my sojdemsja snova'" Russian Literature 56:4 (fall 2004), 363-95.

"Side-Stepping Silence, Ventriloquizing Death: A Reconsideration of Pushkin's Stone Island Cycle," The Pushkin Review 6/7 (2003-2004), 39-83.

"Poem as Performance: A New Interpretation of Sep-Szarzynski's Sonnet V 'On the Impermanent Love for Things of This World,'" Slavic and East European Journal 47:4 (winter 2003), 569-88.

“That Distant Road, That Sadness: The Creation of Exile in Poems by Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and Marina Tsvetaeva,” in Russkaia emigratsiia. Literatura. Istoriia. Kinoletopis’, edited by V. Khazan, I. Belobrovtseva, and S. Dotsenko (Jerusalem: Gesharim & Moscow: Mosty kul’tury, 2004), 88-108 [republished in Polish translation as “‘Ten trakt daleki, ten smutek.’ Kreacja wygnania w wierszach Marii Pawlikowskiej-Jasnorzewskiej i Mariny Cwietajewej” in Polonistyka po amerykańsku: Badania nad literaturą polską w Ameryce Północnej (1990-2005), edited by Halina Filipowicz, Andrzej Karcz, and Tamara Trojanowska (Warsaw: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk Wydawnictwo, 2005), 206-28].

"Thirsting for Angelic: Death and Reciprocity in Tsvetaeva’s Poems to Rilke," Canadian-American Slavic Studies 37:1-2 (spring-summer 2003), 3-27.

"Sexual Transcendence in Tsvetaeva’s Poems to Pasternak," Slavic Review 59:3 (fall 2000), 547-71.

"Bearing the Standard: Transformative Ritual in Gorky's Mother and the Legacy of Tolstoy," Slavic and East European Journal 42:1 (spring 1998), 76-101.

"Ambiguity as Agent in Pushkin's and Shakespeare's Historical Tragedies," Slavic Review 55:3 (fall 1996), 525-51.

Encyclopedia Entries
“Osip Mandel’shtam,” in Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since 1914—Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter, 5 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006), 3: 1718-21.

“Joseph Brodsky,” in Russian Writers Since 1980, edited by Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky, vol. 285 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography (Detroit: Gale Group, 2003), 17-39; [republished in an expanded version in Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature, Part 1: Agnon-Eucken (Detroit: Gale Group, 2007), 184-202].

Translations
Alexander Pushkin, “Mniszek’s Sonnet” (from Boris Godunov). In Pushkin Review (forthcoming).

Selected poems by Russian-Jewish poets. In Anthology of Russian-Jewish Literature: Two Centuries of a Dual Identity (1800-present), edited by Maxim Shrayer (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2007).

Marina Tsvetaeva, “Stikhi k Chekhii: Mart (8).” In Marina Tsvetaeva: Lichnye i tvorcheskie vstrechi, perevody ee sochinenii (Moscow: Dom-muzei Mariny Tsvetaevoi, 2001), 407-8.

"Poem of the Mountain" and "Poem of the End" (translations of Marina Tsvetaeva's "Poema gory" and "Poema kontsa"), The Silver Age Journal 2 (1999), 52-111.

Notes
“Invitation to a Feast: Teaching Russian Culture in the 21st Century.” In Forum: University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Lettters Faculty Newsletter 1:2 (spring 2006), 3

"Suggestions for Improving Enrollments in Russian-Language Programs: Interviews and Letters about Success Stories." In The AATSEEL Newsletter 46:2 (April 2003), 6-7.

Book Reviews
Catherine Ciepiela, The Same Solitude: Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva. In Slavonica 14:1 (spring 2008), 72-73.

Ute Stock, The Ethics of the Poet: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Art in the Light of Conscience. In Slavonica 13:1 (spring 2007), 80-81.

Chester Dunning with Caryl Emerson, Sergei Fomichev, Lidiia Lotman, and Antony Wood, The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Pushkin’s Original Comedy, with Annotated Text and Translation. In Slavic and East European Journal 50:4 (winter 2006), 696-8.

Michael Wachtel, The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry. In The Russian Review 64:3 (July 2005), 505-6.

Diana Greene, Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century. In Slavic Review 64:1 (spring 2005): 230-31.

Jan Kochanowski, Treny: The Laments of Kochanowski, translated by Adam Czerniawski. In Slavic and East European Journal 47:2 (summer 2003), 305-7.

Emily Klenin, The Poetics of Afanasy Fet. In Slavic Review 62:3 (fall 2003), 629-31.

"Verse and Subversion," review of David MacFadyen's Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse. In The Review of Politics 63:4 (fall 2001), 815-17.

David Burnett, Marina Tsvetaeva; David Burnett, Akhmatova. In Slavic and East European Journal 43:4 (winter 1999), 707-8.

Olga Peters Hasty, Tsvetaeva's Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word. In Slavic and East European Journal 42:3 (fall 1998), 174-76.

Robin Kemball, Efim Etkind, and Leonid Heller, eds., Marina Tsvetaeva: Actes du 1-er colloque international; Viktoria Schweitzer, et al., eds., Marina Tsvetaeva: One Hundred Years. In Slavic and East European Journal 41:2 (summer 1997), 373-5.

Conference Organized
Alexander Pushkin and Russian National Identity: Taboo Texts, Topics, Interpretations (A Working Conference on the Campus of the University of Notre Dame), January 9-11, 2009 -- for more information, see the conference website

Grants received in support of this conference: Nanovic Institute for European Studies Symposium Sponsorship ($12,500); Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Mini-Conference Grant ($5,000) and Seed Grant for Cooperative Projects ($2,500); University of Notre Dame Graduate School Office of Research Matching Grant ($5,000)

Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
“Pushkin and the Poetics of Secrecy,” AAASS National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008

“Teaching Gender through Pushkin,” AAASS National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008

“The Ethical Dimension of Pushkin’s Boris Godunov,” AATSEEL National Conference, Chicago, Illinois, December 2007

“Sex, Sin, Seduction, and the Sacred: Pushkin's ‘Gavriiliada’ as a Meditation on the Risks and Responsibilities of Being a Poet,” AAASS National Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2007

"Pushkin's Criminal Doubles," AAASS National Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2005

"Looking Back from Beyond: The Poetics of Pushkin's Stone Island Cycle," AAASS National Convention, Toronto, November 2003

"Pushkin's Poetics of Transgression," AAASS National Convention, Pittsburgh, November 2002

"Thirsting for Angelic: Death and Reciprocity in Tsvetaeva's Poems to Rilke," Guest Lecture, University of Toronto, February 2001

"Along an Invisible Track: Tsvetaeva's Poetics of Exile," AATSEEL National Conference, Washington, D. C., December 2000

"Battling Aphrodite: Tsvetaeva's Polemical Poems to Akhmatova," British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies Convention, Cambridge, England, April 2000

"Poet as Aeronaut: Brodsky's Dialogue with Tsvetaeva on Aging and the Poetic Death-Wish," AATSEEL National Conference, Chicago, Illinois, December 1999

"When Psyche Vanquishes Eve: Marina Tsvetaeva's Poetics of Renunciation," Gender Studies Forum, University of Notre Dame, October 1999

"The Russian Psyche: Tsvetaeva's Asexual Ideal," AATSEEL National Conference, San Francisco, California, December 1998

"Ne serdtse, a serdtsevina: Trees in the Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva," AAASS National Convention, Boca Raton, Florida, September 1998

"Marina Tsvetaeva's 'Poem of the End,'" Guest Lecture, Wellesley College, April 1998

"'Son glubok': Writing Blo(c)k in Marina Tsvetaeva's Stikhi k Bloku," New England Slavic Association Annual Meeting, Medford, Massachusetts, March 1998

"Boris Pasternak and the Metaphysics of Rain: My Sister, Life and Doctor Zhivago," AATSEEL National Conference, Washington, D.C., December 1996

"Music of Death: Marina Tsvetaeva and her Cruel Genius," AAASS National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1996

"Textual Schizophrenia in F. M. Dostoevskij's Dvojnik: A Re-Exploration of the Problem," AATSEEL National Conference, Chicago, Illinois, December 1995

"Dramatic Rituals: The Moral and Aesthetic Role of Language in the Historical Tragedies of Pushkin and Shakespeare," AAASS National Convention, Washington, D.C., October 1995

"The Flagpole scenes of War and Peace and Mother as Transformative Ritual: Gor'kij's Polemic with Tolstoj," Wisconsin-AATSEEL Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 1995

"Unraveled Texts: The Problem of Return in Poems by Wallace Stevens and Osip Mandel'shtam," AATSEEL National Conference, San Diego, California, December 1994

Panels Organized
“Reconsiderations of Pushkin’s Boris Godunov” (sponsored by the North American Pushkin Society), AATSEEL Conference, Chicago, Illinois, December 2007

“Pushkin Unsainted: Taboo Texts, Topics, Interpretations,” AAASS Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2007

“The Darker Side of Pushkin” (North American Pushkin Society panel), AAASS Convention, Boston, December 2004

“‘Vnov’ ia posetil’: The Pushkin Myth Revisited,” AAASS Convention, Pittsburgh, November 2002

“Russian Women’s Autobiographical Writing: Theory and Praxis,” AATSEEL Conference, New Orleans, December 2001

“Portrayals of Nature in Russian Modernist Poetry,” AAASS Convention, Boca Raton, September 1998

“Generic Intersections: Poets in Prose and Prose Writers in Poetry in Russian Literature,” AATSEEL Conference, Washington, D.C., December 1996

Panels Chaired
“Taboo Topics in Russian Literary Studies: Griboedov, Pushkin, Lermontov,” AAASS Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2007

“Russian Modernism and the West,” AATSEEL Conference, Toronto, December 1997

“The Cultural Landscape of Russian Women,” AAASS Convention, Boston, November 1996

Language Courses
     Beginning Russian I
     Beginning Russian II
            (Textbook: Marita Nummikoski, Troika: A Communicative Approach to Russian Language, Life, and Culture)

Literature Courses in Translation
      Russia’s Literary Search for Self
      Russian Literature and the Arts Through History
      Russian Women Memoirists

Film Course (Taught in English)
      Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

Literature Seminars (Taught in Russian)
      Introduction to Russian Poetry
      Chekhov
    Russian Romanticism
      Pushkin

Extra-Curricular Events
Co-director (with Visiting Instructor of Russian Molly Peeney) of Russian Ensemble, Fall 2008

Taught students the ancient art of making pysanki, Ukrainian Easter eggs, using beeswax and successive dye baths, during a weekend session at my home, April 2008, November 2004, and April 2001--watch the film!

Organized visiting lecture by Oleg Proskurin of Emory University, entitled “Sex, Politics, and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Russia, ” November 29, 2007

Organized presentation on Ukraine and Ukrainian culture by Penn High School exchange student Oksana Semenyuk, November 12, 2007

Organized visiting lecture by Professor William Brumfield of Tulane University, entitled “Church and Identity in Russia: The Tikhvin-Dormition Monastery and the Return of the Tikhvin Icon of the Theotokos,” March 21, 2006

Guest curator, Darker Shades of Red: Official Soviet Propaganda from the Cold War, an exhibit at the University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art, September 19 - November 14, 2004

Organized weekly film series, “New Directions in Russian Cinema,” Spring 2004

Organized concert by the Luther College Balalaika Ensemble at Notre Dame, April 2003

Directed a Russian-language student production of Anton Chekhov’s one-act play "Predlozhenie" ("The Marriage Proposal"), a major component of my Chekhov course, November 2001--watch clips!

Organized guest presentation of Russian folk art objects by Ludmila Chapman of Ludmila’s Russian Treasures (located in Middlebury, Indiana), September 2000

Administrative Positions Held
Executive Fellow, College of Arts and Letters Dean’s Office, 2007-2008

Service to the Department of German and Russian (selected)
Member, Russian Program Learning Goals Committee, 2007-2008

Member, Department of German and Russian Committee on Appointments and Promotions, Fall 2005-present

Organizer of numerous efforts to recruit students to the study of Russian at Notre Dame and promote the ND Russian program, 1999-present

Service to the College and University (selected)
Elected Member, Arts and Letters Task Force on Women and Diversity, 2007-2009

Member, Language Grant Selection Committee, Office of International Studies, 2008-09

Chair, Subcommittee on Retention of Women Faculty, University Committee on Women Faculty and Students, 2007-2008

Faculty Member, College Council (Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters), 2005-2008

Discussion Group Leader for New Notre Dame Freshmen, August 1999, 2001, and 2004

Service to the Slavic Profession
Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships competition Germanic and Slavic Studies panel, Washington, D.C., July 29, 2008

Manuscript Reviewer for Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, and Russian Review

Member of Heldt Book Prize Committee, AWSS (Association for Women in Slavic Studies), 2005

Abstract Reviewer: Division of Theory and Special Topics, AATSEEL Conference, 2004

Division Head for Theory and Special Topics, AATSEEL Program Committee, 2000-2001

Assistant Division Head for Theory and Special Topics, AATSEEL Program Committee, 1999-2000

Abstract Reviewer: Division of Twentieth-Century Russian Literature, AATSEEL Conference, 1997

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2003 - present.   North American Pushkin Society (NAPS).
2003 - present.   American Councils of Teachers of Russian (ACTR).
1995 - present.   American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).
1995 - present.   Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS).
1994 - present.   American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL).

LANGUAGES
Near-native command of Russian (reading, writing, speaking). Reading knowledge of Polish and German.