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The profiles of permanent faculty and lecturers which follow describe main academic and research interests and give lists of selected publications. They are updated yearly. Listings divided into two groups: core faculty and lecturers, and are alphabetized within each group. Emeriti professors, who are listed separately, are actively involved in the program and are available for consultations and as members of the Ph.D. examinations and dissertation committees. Distinguished scholars from the international community (Russia, Europe, America) are regularly invited as visiting professors and visiting scholars. For more information, contact the Department or individual faculty members. (We apologize for the absence of diacritical marks: a technical difficulty.)

RONELLE ALEXANDER, Professor
ralex@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. Harvard University (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Teaching: South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian, BCS [Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian]) and literatures (Bulgaria and lands of former Yugoslavia); Slavic linguistics (with emphasis on South Slavic); Slavic & East European folklore (with emphasis on South Slavic and the theory of oral composition); Yugoslav cultural history (the rise and fall of Yugoslavia). Recent graduate seminars have included: Balkan linguistics; South Slavic Sociolinguistics; Orality and Literacy; Slavic Accentology.

Research interests: Language and ethnicity; Balkan Slavic dialectology; Balkan linguistics, language contacts, historical accentology, clitic phenomena. Oral tradition, Parry-Lord theory of oral composition, South Slavic epic singers.

Current projects: (1) Description and analysis of the language situation in the former Yugoslavia. (2) Analysis of conversations between Milman Parry and South Slavic epic singers, in an attempt to reconstruct the performance context underlying the formulation of the Parry-Lord theory. (3) Analysis of clitic sequences and accentual patterns in Balkan Slavic dialect material testing the hypothesis that word order and prosody have mutually influenced each other in the contact environment of the Balkans.

Selected publications:

Linguistics

• Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology, ed. UCIAS Digital publications, 2004.
• "The Scope of Double Accent" (in Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology).
• "Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, One Language or Three?" International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 44-45 (2002-03).
• "Bridging the Descriptive Chasm, the Bulgarian Generalized Past". In Of All the Slavs my Favorites..., ed. H. Aronson and V. Friedman (2001).
• In Honor of Diversity, the Linguistic Riches of the Balkans. OSU Slavic Department, 2000.
• "Tracking Sprachbund Boundaries, Word Order in the Balkans". Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 28 (2000).
• Intensive Bulgarian, A Textbook and Reference Grammar (2 vols.), 2000.
• "The Balkanization of Wackernagel's Law. Indiana Slavic Studies 7 (1995).
• ""Remarks on the Evolution of South Slavic Prosodic Systems." American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, ed. A. Timberlake, v. I, 1993.
• "Directions of Morphophonemic Change in Balkan Slavic, the Accentuation of the Present Tense." In American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists. Slavica, 1983.
• "Torlak Accentuation. Slavistische Beitraege 94. Munich: Otto Sagner, 1975.

Folklore/Literature

• "Propp and Parry, Structure and Performance". Kunstkamera, etnograficeskie tetradki 8-9 (1995).
• "Narrative Voice and Listener's Choice in the Prose of Ivo Andric". Ivo Andric Revisited, the Bridge Still Stands, ed. W. Vucinich (1996).
• "The 'Tension of Essences' in South Slavic Epic." In O Rus! Studia litteraria slavica in honorem Hugh McLean. ed. S. Karlinsky et. al. (1995).
• "Folklorni elementi u poeziji Vaska Pope" [Elements of Folklore in Vasko Popa's Poetry]. Knjizevnost 46, 94 (1991).
• "The Poetics of Vuk Karadzic's Kosovo Songs, an Analysis of Kosovka Djevojka. Kosovo, Legacy of a Medieval Battle (1991).
• The Structure of Vasko Popa's Poetry. 1985. [Translated into Serbian as: Struktura poezije Vaska Pope, 1996].
• "Timeless and Timebound in Serbian History, Vasko Popa's 'Uspravna zemlja.'" International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 31-32(1985).

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ARKADY ALEXEEV, Lecturer
arkalexeev@yahoo.com

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Teaching: Advanced Russian; practical Russian Phonetics; Russian-English-Russian Translation; Business Russian. Director of second-year intensive Russian summer program.

Research interests: Development of instructional materials for Russian language courses. Slavic linguistics; synchronic, historical and comparative semantics; lexicology. Russian and European history. Translation.

Current projects: Reader on poetic translation; reader "Business Russian." Textbook/reader "Techniques of Russian-English, English-Russian Translation." The novel on the life of the Marquis de Lafayette.

Publications:

• Textbook/reader "Practical Russian Phonetics."
• Translation of "Lay of Prince Igor's Host" into English in unrhymed verse (forthcoming).
• Historical novel: The Adventures of Giulio Mazarini. Book One. Author House, 2004; Book Two, Fultus, 2004. Books Three and Four, forthcoming.

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DAVID FRICK, Professor.
(Affiliated with Department of History)
frick@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. Yale University (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Teaching: Polish literature (all periods); advanced Polish language; history of Poland (including literary language); Old Church Slavic; Medieval Orthodox Slavic texts; history of Eastern Europe. Recent graduate seminars have included: History of Cities; Early Modern East-Central Europe.

Research interests: Orthodox Slavic Reform in the Ukraine and Belorussia in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Polish sacred philology in the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Textual criticism and cultural polemics in Muscovy in the 17th century. Poland-Lithuania in the Age of Confessionalization. Enlightenment Poland. Cities. Vilnius/Wilno.

Current projects: Neighborhoods and Networks in Seventeenth-Century Vilnius.

Informational Links:
Staropolska
Old Polish Literature
Mikolaj Rej
Literature and Other Works

Selected publications:

Books

• Polish Sacred Philology in the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation: Chapters in the History of the Controversies (1551-1632). University of California Publications in Modern Philology 123. Berkeley, 1989.
• Meletij Smotryc'kyj. Cambridge, MA, 1995.
• Rus' Restored: Selected Writings of Meletij Smotryc'kyj (1610-1630). Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature. English Translations, Volume 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005.

Articles

• "Szymon Budny and Sacred Philology: Between East and West." Commentary to: Biblia Slavica, Serie II: Polnische Bibeln, Band 3, Budny: Teil 2, Kommentar, Paderborn, 1994.
• "The Brest Bible of 1563: Translators, Sponsors, Readers." Commentary to: Biblia Slavica, Serie II: Polnische Bibeln, Band 2, Brester Bible: Teil 2, Kommentar, Paderborn, 2001.
• "Misrepresentations, Misunderstandings, and Silences (Problems of Seventeenth-Century Ruthenian and Muscovite Cultural History)." In Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine, eds. Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann, DeKalb, Illinois, 1997.
• "The Uses of Authority and the Authority of Use (Philological Praise and Blame in Early Modern Rus')." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 18 (1994).
• "Sailing to Byzantium: Greek Texts and the Establishment of Authority in Early Modern Muscovy." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 19 (1995).
• "Franklin's Free Will; Or, Optimism in Cracow, 1798." Austrian History Yearbook 28 (1997).
• " 'Foolish Rus' '": On Polish Civilization, Ruthenian Self-Hatred, and Kasijan Sakovyc; Harvard Ukrainian Studies 18 (1994).
• "The Bells of Vilnius: Keeping Time in a City of Many Calendars." In Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel, eds. Lesley Cormack, Natalia Pylypiuk, Glenn Berger, and Jonathan Hart, Edmonton, Alberta, 2003.
• "Lazar' Baranovyc: The Union of Lech and Rus." In Culture, Nations, and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, 1600-1945, eds. Andreas Kappeler, Zenon E. Kohut, Frank E. Sysyn, and Mark Von Hagen, Edmonton and Toronto, 2002.
• "Slowa uszczypliwe, slowa nieuczciwe: The Language of Litigation and the Ruthenian Polemic." In Xrusai Pulai, Zlataja Vrata: Essays Presented to Ihor Sevcenko on His Eightieth Birthday by His Colleagues and Students. Ed. Peter Schreiner and Olga Strakhov. Palaeoslavica 10 (2002), Vol. 1.
• "The Councilor and the Baker's Wife: Ruthenians and Their Language in Seventeenth-Century Vilnius." In Speculum Slaviae Orientalis: Ruthenia, Muscovy and Lithuania in the Late Middle Ages. UCLA Slavic Studies, n.s., IV. Moscow, 2005, pp. 34-65.
• "Jews and Others in Seventeenth-Century Wilno: Life in the Neighborhood." Jewish Studies Quarterly 12 (2005): 8-42.
• "Aethiopem dealbare difficile, Wilkiem orac trudno: The Adagia of a Seventeenth-Century Ruthenian Polemicist." In Slavia Orthodoxa and Slavia Romana: Essays Presented to Riccardo Picchio by His Students on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, September 7, 2003, ed. Harvey Goldblatt, Krasimir Stanchev, and Giorgio Ziffer. Yale Russian and East European Publications 15. New Haven, 2006, pp. 95-124.
• "Since All Remain Subject to Chance." Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century Wilno. Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 55 (2006): 1-55.

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LUBA GOLBURT, Assistant Professor
lgolburt@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. Stanford University (Comparative Literature)

Teaching: 18th- and 19th-century Russian and European literature, the novel, history and fiction, visual culture, Romanticism, Realism, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy.

Research interests: Russian literature and culture of the 18th and 19th centuries; 19th-century visual experience; history and genre; Derzhavin, Pushkin, Tolstoy; institutions of culture: universities, the Academy, salons, literary journals; fashion; cultural polemics in Russia, France and England; authors' museums in Soviet and post-Soviet culture.

Current project: "The Vanishing Point: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Historical Imagination, 1800-1850"

Selected Publications:

Articles

• "Derzhavin's Ruins and the Birth of Historical Elegy." Slavic Review, Winter 2006; thematic cluster, "Ruins in Russian Culture," ed. Andreas Schonle.
• "O chem svidetel'stvuiut pamiatniki?" In Istoria i povestvovanie/History and Narration, ed. Gennadi Obatnin, Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2006.
• "Derzhavin's Monuments: Sculpture, Poetry, and the Materiality of History." Toronto Slavic Quarterly 13, Summer 2005. http://www.utoronto.ca/tsq/13/golburt13.shtml

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ELLEN R. LANGER, Lecturer.
erlanger@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Teaching: Czech language.

Research interests: Norm and variation in Slavic. Czech language and culture. Nineteenth- century Russian literature. Russian women writers. Historical linguistics. Language pedagogy of heritage and less commonly taught languages.

Current projects: Course materials for Czech language instruction, continuing development of elementary reading curriculum. Grammatical variation as a literary device in Anna Karenina. Instrumental singular variation in nineteenth-century Russian prose.

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LISA LITTLE, Lecturer
lclittle@berkeley.edu

M.A. University of Texas (Slavic Linguistics).

Teaching: Advanced Russian conversation; advanced Russian for graduate students. Teaching methodology. Pre-service workshop and training program for Graduate Student Instructors. Coordinator of Russian undergraduate language program (Slavic 1 through Slavic 4).

Research interests & current projects: Development of instructional materials for Russian language courses.

Selected Publications:

• Speak Russian! Fushille and Little. U.T. Press, 1990.

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OLGA MATICH, Professor
omatich@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. UCLA (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Teaching: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and culture (Dostoevsky, Modernism, Soviet society and culture, contemporary Russian literature), literature and the visual arts. Recent graduate seminars have included: Russian Modernism; Literature and Other Arts; Petersburg: Material Culture and Everyday in Early 20th Century.

Research interests: Russian Modernism; post-Stalin and émigré literature and culture; literature and the visual and performing arts; gender; decadence and degeneration theory; representation of emotions; modern city in literature and culture; theory and practice of everyday life; Russians in Hollywood.

Current projects: Petersburg/Petersburg: Novel and City, website and book/DVD-Rom on Andei Bely's novel and imperial capital, in collaboration with Berkeley graduate students; Russian dance and visual arts; narrative and the everyday; a modernist poetics of disgust.

Selected publications:

Books

• Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in the Russian Fin-de-Siecle. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Russian translation to appear in 2008 (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie).
• Laboratory of Dreams: Russian Avant-garde and Cultural Experiment (co-edited with John Bowlt), Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
• The Third Wave: Russian Literature in Emigration, editor. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1984.
• Paradox in the Religious Poetry of Zinaida Gippius. Munich: Fink Verlag, 1972.

Articles

• "Cultural Return: The Personal Myth of Zinaida Gippius." Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: From the Golden Age to the Silver Age. (eds. B. Gasparov and R. Hughes), University of California Press, 1991.
• “The Symbolist Meaning of Love: Theory and Practice,” Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, (eds. Irina Paperno and Joan Grossman), Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• “‘Rassechenie trupov’ i ‘sryvanie pokrovov’ kak kul’turnye metafory” [Dissection and Unveiling as Cultural Metaphors], Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 6, 1994.
• “Remaking the Bed: Utopia in Daily Life,” Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-Garde and Cultural Experiment, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
• “Diaspora kak ostranenie: Russkaia literatura v emigratsii,”Russian Studies 2.2 (1996).
• “Uspeshnyi mafiozo - mertvyi mafiozo: kul’tura pogrebal’nogo obriada” [A Successful Mafioso Is a Dead Mafioso: A Cultural Study of Burial Practices], Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 33, 1998.
• “Doctor Zhivago: Voyeurism and Shadow Play as Narrative Perspective,” Die Welt der Slaven, 44, 1999.
• “Gender Trouble in the Amazonian Kingdom: Turn-of-the-Century Representations of Women in Russia,” Amazons of the Avant-Garde (eds. John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt), New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1999.
• “What is a Russian Harem?,” In the Realm of Slavic Philology: To Honor the Teaching Scholarship of Dean S. Worth (eds. John Dingley and Leon Ferder). Bloomington: Slavic, 2000.
• “Russkie v Gollivude/Gollivud o Rossii” [Russians in Hollywood/Hollywood on Russia], Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 54, 2002.
• "Pokrovy Salomei: Eros, Smert' i istoriia," Erotizm bez beregov (ed. M.V. Pavlova), Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2004, pp. 90-121.
• "Three Russian Dancers: Art Nouveau, Decadence, Degeneration," Experiment (sp. issue on Performing Arts and the Avant-Garde), 10, 2004.
• "The White Emigration Goes Hollywood," Russian Review, 64/2, 2005.
• "Eduard Limonovs Poetik der Verärgerung," Zurück aus der Zukunft: Osteuropäische Kulturen im Zeitalter des Postkommunismus (eds. Boris Groys, Anne von der Heiden & Peter Weibel), Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2005.
• "Backs, Suddenlys, and Surveillance in Andrej Belyj's Petersburg," Russian Literature (Special Issue: Andrej Bely - On the Occasion of His 125th Birthday), LVIII-I/II, 2005.
• "Cernyševskij's What Is To Be Done? Transgressive Vision and Narrative Omniscience," International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 44-5, 2006.
• "Mobster Gravestones in 1990s Russia," Global Crime, 7/1, 2006.

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AGNES MIHALIK, Lecturer

Graduate of Lajos Kossuth Tudomanyegyetem, Debrecen
MA, School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.

Teaching: Hungarian language program. Taught introductory Hungarian and advanced readings in Hungarian.

Agnes Mihalik passed away July 31 after a brave battle with cancer. Her colleagues in the Slavic Department offer sincere condolences to her family, friends and students.

A memorial will be held at 5PM on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at the Faculty Club. All are welcome.

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ANNA MUZA, Lecturer
amuza@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. Russian Academy of Performing Arts (theory and history of dramatic art).

Teaching:Advanced Russian for native speakers; advanced Russian for graduate students; history of performing arts in Russia; Chekhov.

Research interests: Soviet theater and visual culture of the 1930s; theater in Russian culture in the early 20th century; Russian and Soviet emigration in America; bilingualism and cultural identity.

Current projects: Passion and Power on the Soviet Stage of the 1930s; co-editing (with Oksana Bulgakowa) a collection of Kazimir Malevich's writings on film.

Selected publications:

• "Kornei Chukovskii and 'Men and Books of the 1860s' in the 1920s." -- forthcoming in Forgotten Episodes of Soviet Literary History, ed. N. Luker, Astra Press, Nottingham, England.
• "Science, Philosophy, Music: Chekhov's Three Germans." In: Cold Fusion, ed. G. Barabtarlo, Berghahn Books, New York & Oxford, 2000.
• "Meyerhold at Rehearsal. New Materials on Meyerhold's Work with Actors." Theatre Topics, vol. 6, No.1, 1996.
• "Chukovskii and the Nabokovs." The Nabokovian, No. 36, Spring 1996.
• "Reading the Soviet Bukvar'". Almanac Mesto Pechati, No.1, 1993, Moscow.
• "Beyond the Morality Principle: Body on Stage." Teatr (Theatre Journal), No. 3, 1992, Moscow.
• "Incomplete Utterance: Experiment in Contemporary Russian Theatre." Teatr, No. 12, 1991, Moscow.

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ERIC NAIMAN, Associate Professor
(Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Comparative Literature)
naiman@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages & Literatures)

J.D. Yale Law School

Teaching: 19th and 20th Century Russian Literature. Nabokov. Dostoevsky and Modernism. Early Soviet Culture. Literature and Ideology. The Body in Russian Culture. Recent graduate seminars have included: The Gothic Novel; The Master and Margarita; Andrei Platonov; Mikhail Bakhtin.

Research interests: Early Soviet Culture. Russian Law and Society. Gender Studies. Andrei Platonov. History of Soviet Medicine. Vladimir Nabokov.

Current projects: Vera Mukhina and Aleksei Zamkov. Andrei Platonov. Vladimir Nabokov. Soviet subjectivity.

Selected publications:

Books

• Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology. (Princeton University Press, 1997).
• co-edited, with Evgeny Dobrenko, The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003).
• co-edited, with Christina Kiaer, Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006).

Articles

• "Of Crime, Utopia and Repressive Complements: The Further Adventures of the Ridiculous Man." Slavic Review, 50 (1991).
• "Historectomies: The Metaphysics of Reproduction in a Utopian Age," in Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture, ed. J. Costlow, S. Sandler and J. Vowles (Stanford Univeristy Press, 1993).
• "When a Communist Writes Gothic: Aleksandra Kollontai and the Politics of Disgust," Signs, vol. 22, no. 1, 1996.
• "Shklovsky's Dog and Mulvey's Pleasure: The Secret Life of Defamiliarization," Comparative Literature, vol.50, no.4 (1998).
• "V zhopu prorubit' okno: seksual'naia patologiia kak ideologicheskii kalambur u Andreia Platonova," Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 32, 1998.
• "'Introduction' to Andrey Platonov, Happy Moscow, trans. by Robert Chandler. (London: Harvill Press, 2001).
• "Perversion in Pnin (Reading Nabokov Preposterously)," Nabokov Studies, 7 (2002/2003).
• "A Filthy Look at Shakespeare's Lolita," Comparative Literature, Winter 2006, vol. 58, no. 1, 1-23.

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ANNE NESBET, Associate Professor
(Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Program in Film Studies)
nesbet@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Comparative Literature).
D.E.A. Universite de Paris - III (General & Comparative Literature).

Teaching: Russian and Soviet Literature; Russian and Soviet Film; Eisenstein; Russia and the West; Literary Theory; Film Theory; Russia and America; Gogol. Recent graduate seminars have included: Literature of the 1920s; Eisenstein.

Research interests:Silent and Early Sound Film (France, Germany, Russia). Early Soviet Culture. Sergei Eisenstein. Soviet Film. GDR History and Culture. The Soviet Union and American Minority Movements.

Current projects: “Time Machines of the Everyday: Cinema and the Dialectical Image in Europe (1920-1939).”

Selected publications:

Books

• Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003).

Articles

• “Ecstasy in the Margins: How Bely’s Gogol Helped Eisenstein Build His House,” forthcoming in The Russian Review , 2005.
• “In Borrowed Balloons: The Wizard of Oz and the History of Soviet Aviation,” Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2001.
• "Sergei Eisenstein and the 'Juncture of Beginning and End,'" in Eisenstein at 100, (Rutgers Unversity Press, 2001).
• "Inanimations: Snow White and Ivan the Terrible," Film Quarterly, vol. 50, no 4, 1997.
• "Coming Home to Homer: Gogol's Odyssey," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3, 1995.
• "Formy vremeni v <>: Khronosomy khronotopa," (written jointly with Eric Naiman), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2, 1993.
• "Mise en abime: Platonov, Zolia i poetika truda," (written jointly with Eric Naiman), Revue des Etudes Slaves, vol. 64, No. 4, 1992.
• "Suicide as Literary Fact in the 1920s," Slavic Review, Vol. 50, No. 4, 1991.
• "Tokens of Elective Affinity: The Uses of Goethe in Mandel'stam," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1988.

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JOHANNA NICHOLS, Professor (Graduate Adviser, Linguistics)
(Affiliated with Department of Linguistics)
johanna@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Linguistics).

Teaching: All aspects of Slavic linguistics. Historical linguistics, comparative grammar, typology. Languages, peoples, and cultures of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Recent seminars on: Russian morphosyntax, linguistic writing, case and related issues in the morphological marking of NP's, language change in geographical perspective, verbal lexicon and derivational history, typology, Ingush language, Chechen language.

Research interests: Historical linguistics; typology, including historical typology; linguistic geography and areal linguistics. Syntax. Slavic languages; languages of northern Eurasia, particularly languages of the Caucasus. The linguistic and cultural prehistory of the Eurasian steppe and adjacent areas; interaction of the Slavic and North Caucasian languages with steppe languages. Slavic, Indo-European, and North Caucasian myth and folklore.

Current projects: Chechen and Ingush grammar. Transitivity, reflexivization, and aspect in Russian. Transitivity, reflexivization, and aspect in Balkan and other Slavic languages. Origin and dispersal of Slavic, of Indo-European languages. .

Selected publications:

Books

• Predicate nominals: A Partial Surface Syntax of Russian. University of California Press, 1981.
• Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field. Co-edited with Anthony C. Woodbury. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
• Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
• Noxchiin-ingals dosham / Chechen-English and English-Chechen Dictionary. With Arbi Vagapov. London: Curzon/Routledge, 2003.
• Ghalghaai-ingalsii, ingalsa-ghalghaai lughat / Ingush-English and English-Ingush Dictionary. London: Curzon/Routledge, 2003.

Articles

• Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages. (With David A. Peterson and Jonathan Barnes.) Linguistic Typology 8:2.149-211, 2004.
• Diversity and stability in language. Brian Joseph and Richard Janda, eds., The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. London: Blackwell, 2003.
• Why "me" and "thee"? Laurel Brinton, ed., Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam-Philadelphia, 1999.
• "The Comparative Method as Heuristic." The Comparative Method Reviewed: Regularity and Irregularity in Language Change, ed. Mark Durie and Malcolm Ross. Oxford University Press, 1996.
• "The Epicenter of the Indo-European Linguistic Spread." Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations, ed. Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs. London: Routlege, 1997.
• "The Eurasian Spread Zone and the Indo-European Dispersal." Archaeology and Language II: Correlating archaeological and Linguistic Hypotheses. ed. Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs. London: Routledge, 1999.
• "Modeling Ancient Population Structures and Population Movement in Linguistics and Archeology." Annual Review of Anthropology, 26: 359-84, 1997.
• "The Linguistic Geography of the Slavic Expansion." R. Maguire and A. Timberlake, eds., American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists. Columbus: Slavica, 1993.
• "Heads in Discourse: Functional and Structural Centricity." G. Corbett et. al., eds., Heads in Grammatical Theory. Cambridge University Press.
• "The linguistic geography of the Slavic expansion. In American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, ed. A. Timberlake, 1993.
• ""Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon: Evidence from Russian". In Causatives and Transitivity, ed. by B. Comrie et. al. Amsterdam, 1993.
• ""Linguistic diversity and the first settlement of the New World." Language 66:3. (1990).
• ""Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose." In Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse. Edited by J. Haiman and S. A. Thompson. Philadelphia, 1988.
• ""Some parallels in Slavic and Northeast Caucasian folklore." In American Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists: Literature. Columbus: Slavica, 1988.
• ""Head-marking and dependent-marking grammar." Language, 62 (1986).
• ""Aspect and inversion in Russian." In The Scope of Slavic Aspect. Edited by M. S. Flier and A. Timberlake. Columbus: Slavica, 1986.
• "The grammatical marking of theme in literary Russian." In Issues in Russian Morphosyntax. Edited by R. D. Brecht and M. S. Flier. Columbus: Slavica, 1985.
• "Functional theories of grammar." Annual Review of Anthropology 13 (1984).
• "Direct and oblique objects in Chechen-Ingush and Russian." In Objects. Edited by F. Plank. London: Academic Press, 1984.
• "Prominence, cohesion, and control: Object-controlled predicate nominals in Russian." In Studies in Transitivity. Edited by P. Hopper and S. A. Thompson. New York: Academic Press, 1982.
• "The meeting of East and West: Confrontation and convergence in contemporary linguistics." BLS 5:261-76 (1979).

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IRINA PAPERNO, Professor
(Affiliated with Department of History)
ipaperno@berkeley.edu

M.A. Tartu University (Russian language and literature).
M.A. Stanford University (Psychology).
Ph.D. Stanford University (Slavic languages and literatures).

Teaching: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature; Russian intellectual and cultural history. Literary/cultural theory. Discourse analysis and analysis of text. Taught the following research seminars: Soviet Culture: A Semiotic Approach; Individual Experience and Culture; Memoir, Diary, Autobiography as History and Literature (co-taught with Prof. R. Zelnik of History); Self and History.

Research interests: Narrative; the novel; literature and history; literature and experience.

Current projects: The history of the individual: diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and the novel (Tolstoy, Herzen, and others). The Soviet experience in personal accounts from recent years (memoirs, diaries, dreams).

Selected publications:

Books

• Intimacy and History: The Herzen Family Drama Reconsidered, Russian Literature 61: 1-2 (Special Issue), ed. Irina Paperno, (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03043479
• Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. Russian translation: Samoubiistvo kak kul'turnyi institut. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 1999; Chinese translation: Jilin: Jilin People's Publishing House, 2003.
• Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. Russian translation: Semiotika povedeniia: Nikolai Chernyshevsky -chelovek epokhi realizma. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 1996.
• Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, co-edited with Joan Delaney Grossman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994
• Christianity and the Eastern Slavs: Russian Culture in Modern Times. Co-edited with Irina Paperno. University of California Press, 1994.

Articles

• "Dreams of Terror: Dreams from Stalinist Russia as a Historical Source," Kritika: Exploration in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 7, no. 4 (Fall 2006), pp. 793-824.
• "Sovetskii opyt, avtobiograficheskoe pis'mo, istoricheskoe soznanie: Ginzburg-Gertsen-Gegel" [Soviet Experience, Autobiographical Writing, and Historical Consciousness: Ginzburg-Herzen-Hegel], Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Review], no. 68, 2004, pp. 102-127.
• "What Can Be Done with Diaries?" The Russian Review 63: 4 (October 2004).
• "Personal Accounts of the Soviet Experience," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 3, no. 4 (Fall 2002).
• "Exhuming the Bodies of Soviet Terror," Representations 75 (Summer 2001).
• "Tolstoy's Diaries: The Inaccessible Self," in Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler, Self and Story in Russian History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000). Translated into German: Individualitaetskonzepte in der russischen Kultur, ed. Christa Ebert (Berlin: Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, 2002). Translated into Russian: Novoe literturnoe obozrenie, 61 (2003).
• "On the Nature of the Word: Theological Sources of Mandelshtam's Dialogue with the Symbolists." In Christianity and the Eastern Slavs. Volume 2, edited by Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1994).
• "Pushkin v zhizni cheloveka Serebrianogo veka." In Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: From the Golden Age to the Silver Age, ed. by Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1992. Reprinted in: Sovremennoe amerikanskoe pushkinovedenie. Sbornik statei. St. Petersburg, 1999.
• "How Nabokov's Gift Is Made." In Festschrift in Honor of Joseph Frank. Ed. by Edward J. Brown, Lazar Fleishman, Gregory Freidin and Richard Schupbach. (Stanford: Stanford Slavic Studies, 1992). Translated into Russian: Vladimir Nabokov: Pro et contra, ed. B. Averin, M. Malikova. St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo RHGI, 1997.

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HARSHA RAM, Associate Professor; Graduate Adviser in Literature
(Affiliated with Department of Italian Studies.)
ram@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. , Yale University (Comparative Literature).
M.Phil, Yale University (Comparative Literature).
B.A. Honours, University of Sydney (Italian).
B.A. Honours, University of New South Wales (Russian)

Teaching: Late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Russian literature, Romanticism, the Russian avant-garde, Russian lyric poetry, theory of literature, poetics, literary and cultural history, literature and crosscultural encounters, European modernism, twentieth-century Italian literature, Indian literature

Research interests:Russian and European lyric poetry and poetics. Derzhavin, Pushkin, Lermontov, Khlebnikov, Mandel'shtam. Poetics and politics of the eighteenth century and the Russian Golden Age. The Russian and European avant-garde. The Caucasus. Georgian romantic and modernist poetry. History of Russian nationalism and imperialism. Russian and European orientalist discourse. Intellectual history of Russian Eurasianism.

Current project: The symbol and symbolism as a problem of literary history and geography; 19th-20th-century Russian/Georgian literary relations and Tbilisi as a cultural site.

Selected publications:

Books

• The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

Articles

• "Towards a Crosscultural Poetics of the Contact Zone: Romantic, Modernist and Soviet Intertextualities in Boris Pasternak's translations of T'itsian T'abidze." Comparative Literature 59/1 (Winter 2007): 63-89.
• "From 'Petersburg' to 'Petrograd': The Creative History of a Georgian Lyric Poem and its Russian Recreation by Boris Pasternak." Eternity's Hostage. Selected Papers from the Stanford International Conference on Boris Pasternak, May 2004. Ed. Lazar Fleishman. Stanford Slavic Studies, 31:1, Part 2 (2006): 356-374.
• "Between 1917 and 1947: Postcoloniality and Russia-Eurasia," Forum: Conference Debate, "Are We Postcolonial? Post-Soviet Space." PMLA 121: 3 (May 2006), 831-833.
• "Andrei Belyi and Georgia: Georgian Modernism and the Reception of the 'Petersburg text' in Peripheral Space." Russian Literature, 58 (2005): 243-276.
• "Pushkin and the Caucasus," The Pushkin Handbook, ed. David M. Bethea, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, (2005): 379-402.
• “Modernism on the Periphery. Literary Life in Postrevolutionary Tbilisi.” Review Essay of two books by Tat’iana Nikol’skaia. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 5,2 (Spring 2004)
• “Romantic Topography and the Dilemma of Empire: The Caucasus in the Dialogue of Georgian and Russian Poetry.” Coauthored with Zaza Shatirishvili, Russian Review, 63 (January 2004).
• “Velimir Chlebnikov’s ‘Odinokij licedej’.” Die Welt der Slaven, 46 (2001).
• “Imagining Eurasia: The Poetics and Ideology of Olzhas Suleimenov's AZ i IA.” Slavic Review 60, no.2 (Summer, 2001).
• “The Poetics of Eurasia: Velimir Khlebnikov between Empire and Revolution.” Social Identities in Revolutionary Russia, ed. Madhavan K.Palat. Basingstoke: Palgrave Publishers, 2001.
• “Prisoners of the Caucasus: Literary Myths and Media Representations of the Chechen Conflict”. Berkeley Program in Soviet and post-Soviet Studies Working Papers Series,1999 http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~bsp/publications.htm
• “Kavkazskie plenniki: Kul'turnye mify i medial'nye reprezentatsii v chechenskom konflikte.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 34 (1998).
• “Russian Poetry and the Imperial Sublime.”Russian Subjects: Empire, Nation and the Culture of the Golden Age, ed. Monika Greenleaf and Stephen Moeller Sally. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998.

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CATHERINE SKARICA (Taylor-Skarica), Lecturer
cskarica@berkeley.edu

MNA (nonprofit administration), University of San Francisco.
Graduate studies in comparative literature, University of Zagreb.

Teaching.Introductory Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian; Advanced Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian; English to native speakers of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.

Research interests.Translation equivalence. Genre literature in BCS.

Publications:

Translations and reviews. “The concept of time in American language and culture study.” Strani jezici 1-2 (1982).

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ALAN TIMBERLAKE, Professor
(Affiliated with Department of Lingistics)
timberlake@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. Harvard University (Linguistics)

Teaching: Synchronic and historical Slavic and Russian linguistics; Slavic culture; Czech literature

Research interests: Descriptive grammar of Russian; chronicles.

Selected publications:

Books

• Russian Reference Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004

Articles

• "Hierarchies in the Genitive of Negation." Slavic and East European Journal 19 (1975).
• "Isochrony in Late Common Slavic," Robert A. Maquire and Alan Timberlake [eds.] American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists. Bratislava, August-September 1993. Literature. Linguistics. Poetics. Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1993.
• "Russian," Bernard Comrie and Greville Corbett [eds.], The Slavonic Languages, London-New York: Routledge, 1993.
• "Avvakum's Aorists," Russian Linguistics, 19, 1995.
• "Older and Younger Recensions of the First Novgorod Chronicle," Oxford Slavonic Papers, 33:135, 2000.

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VICTOR ZHIVOV, Professor
(Department of Slavic and Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley and Institut russkogo iazyka, Akademiia nauk, Moscow)
zhiv@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. Moscow University (Linguistics)

Teaching: Old and early modern Russian Literature; history of Russian literary language; East Slavic linguistic history; history of East Slavic Medieval culture; Orthodox religious culture. Recent graduated seminars have included: History of Russian Literary Language; Orthodox Religious Culture; 18th-century Russian Literature.

Research interests: History of the Russian language; history of Slavic literary languages, East Slavic and Byzantine cultural history, Old and 18th century Russian literature.

Current projects: Sin and salvation in Russian cultural history; The Emergence of Russian nationalism (Karamzin and Rostopchin); Syntax and rhetorical strategies in medieval and early modern Russian texts.

Selected publications:

Books

• Ocherki istoricheskoi morfologii russkogo iazyka XVII - XVIII veka. Moscow: Iazyki slavianskoi kul’tury, 2004
• Razyskaniia v oblasti istorii i predystorii russkoi kul’tury. Moscow: Iazyki slavianskoi kul’tury, 2002
• Jazyk I kul'tura v Rossii XVIII veka. Moscow: Shkola "Iazyki russkoi kul'tury", 1996.
• Kul'turnye konflikty v istorii russkogo literaturnogo iaszyka XVII - nachala XIX veka. Moscow: Institute of the Russian Language, 1990.
• Il russo. A cura di N. Marcialis e A. Parenti. Firenze: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1995 [written jointly with L. Kasatkin and L. Krysin].
• Car i Bog. Semiotyczne aspekty sakralizacji monarchy w Rosji. Przelozy i wstepem opatrzyl H. Paprocki. Panstwowy Instytyt Wydawniczy. Warszawa, 1992 [written jointly with Boris Uspenskij].
• Ocherki po sintagmaticheskoi fonologii. Moscow University Press, 1980.

Articles

• Sviatost'. Kratkii slovar' agiograficheskikh terminov. Moscow: Gnosis, 1994.
• Johann Ernst Glueck. Grammatik der russischen Sprache. (1704). Herausgegeben und mit einer Einleitung versehen. Bohlaeu Verlag. Koeln - Weimar - Wien, 1994 [written jointly with Helmut Keipert and Boris Uspenskij].
• Koshchunstvennaia poeziia v sisteme russkoi kul'tury konsta XVIII - nachala XIX veka, Semiotika kul'tury. Trudy po znakovym sistemam, 13. Tartu, 1981.
• Pravila i proiznoshenie v russkom tserkovnoslavianskom pravopisanii XI - XIII veka, Russian Linguistics, 8 (1984).
• Zur Problematik und Spezifik des russischen Klassizismus: die Oden des Vasilij Majkov. - Zeitschrift fuer slavische Philologie, Bd.XLVII (1987) [written jointly with J. Klein].
• The Mystagogia of Maximus the Confessor and the Development of the Byzantine Theory of Image. St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, vol. 31, (1987), No 4.
• Rol' russkogo tserkovnoslavianskogo v istorii slavianskikh literaturnykh iaszykov, Aktual'nye problemy slavianskogo iazykoznaniia. Moscow, 1988.
• Smena norm v istorii russkogo literaturnogo iazyka XVIII veka, Russian Linguistics, 12 (1988).
• Gosudarstvennyi mif v epokhu Prosveshscheniia i ego razrushenie v Rossii kontsa XVIII veka., Vek Prosveshcheniia. Rossiia i Frantsiia. Le siecle des lumieres. Russie. France. Moscow, 1989.
• Iz istorii russkoi grammatiki: iterativy i imperfektivy v strukture glagol'noi paradigmy, The Pre-Lomonosov Period of the Russian Literary Language. Stockholm, 1992.
• Kosmologicheskie utopii v vospriiatii bol'shevistskoi revoliutsii i antikosmologicheskie motivy v russkoi poezii 1920-1930-kh godov ("Stikhi o neizvestnom soldate" O. Mandel'shtama), Sbornik statei k 70-letiiu prof. Iu. M. Lotmana. Tartu, 1992.
• La doppia fede e il particolare carattere della storia della cultura russa. -- Intersezioni. Rivista di storia delle idee, anno XIV, n. 1, aprile 1994.
• Osobennosti retseptsii vizantiiskoi kul'tury v drevnei Rusi. - Ricerche slavistiche, vol. XLII (1995).
• Palatal'nye sonornye u vostochnykh slavian: dannye rukopisei i istoricheskaia fonetika. - Rusistika. Slavistika. Indoevropeistika. Sbornik k 60-letiiu A. A. Zalizniaka. Moscow: "Indrik", 1996.
• Kul'turnye reformy v sisteme preobrazovanii Petra I. - Iz istorii russkoi kul'tury, vol. III (XVII - nachalo XVIII veka). Moscow, 1996.
• O meste grammatiki I. V. Pausa v razvitii russkoi grammaticheskoi traditsii: interpretatsiia otnoshenii russkogo i tserkovnoslavianskogo. - Voprosy iaszykoznaniia, 6, 1996 [written jointly with H.Keipert].
• Religious Reform and the Emergence of the Individual in Russian Seventeenth Century Literature. - Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine. Ed. by S.H.Baron and N.Sh.Kollmann. Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1997.
• Rasstavaias’ so strukturalizmom (tezisy dlia diskussii). Voprosy iazykoznaniia, 3, 1997 [written jointly with A.Timberlake].
• Pervye russkie literaturnye biografii kak sotsial’noe iavlenie. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 25, 1997.
• Avtonomnost’ pis’mennogo uzusa I problema preemstvennosti v vostochnoslavianskoi srednevekovoi pis’mennosti. --Slavianskoe iazykoznanie. XII Mezhdunarodnyi s”ezd slavistov. Krakov, 1998.
• Church Reforms in the Reign of Peter the Great. Russia in the Reign of Peter the Great: Old and New Perspectives. -- Proceedings of an International Workshop, held at the Villa Feltrinelli, Gargnano, Italy, 17-20 September 1997. Ed. by A.Cross. Pt.1. Cambridge, 1998.
• Pervyi literaturnyi iazyk slavian. Ricerche slavistiche, XLV-XLVI (1998-1999).
• Vosemnadtsatyi vek v rabotakh G.A.Gukovskogo, ne zagublennykh sovetskim khronosom. In : G.A.Gukovskii. Rannie raboty po istorii russkoi literatury XVIII veka. Ed. by V.Zhivov. Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kul’tury, 2001.
• Literaturnyi iazyk i iazyk literatury v Rossii XVIII veka. Russian Literature, LII (2002). Special Issue, 18th Century Russian Literature.
• Delovoi iazyk srednevekovoi Rusi I sintaksis berestianykh gramot. Berestianye gramoty: 50 let otkrytiia I izycheniia. Ed. by V.L.Ianin. Moscow: “Indrik”, 2003.

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LECTURERS

VAKHTANG CHIKOVANI, Lecturer, Georgian language
vachisite@yahoo.com

EMA FISCHER-MIKOLAVICH, Lecturer, Czech language
emamikolavich@yahoo.com

SANTOUKHT MIKAELIAN, Lecturer, Armenian language
santoukht@berkeley.edu

JON STONE, Lecturer
jcstone@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

WALDEMAR SZYNGWELSKI, Lecturer, Polish language
waldemar@berkeley.edu

GERGO TOTH, Lecturer, Hungarian language
tothgl@berkeley.edu

http://german.berkeley.edu/people/showprofile.php?id=81

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EMERITI

Emeriti professors, who are listed below, are actively involved in the program and are available for consultations and as members of the Ph.D. examinations and dissertation committees.

OLGA ASTROMOFF, Senior Lecturer Emerita
olgaabez@aol.com

M.A. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

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JOAN GROSSMAN, Professor Emerita
grossman@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. Harvard University (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Research interests: Russian symbolism and decadence viewed especially as a cultural process. General interests: questions of literary evolution; Russian modernism.

Current projects: Preparing a monograph on Ivan Konevskoi, decadent-mystic of early symbolism, and his links with Western art, philosophy, and poetry: "Ivan Konevskoi and the Rise of Russian Modernism." Co-editing a volume on William James and Russian culture.

Selected publications:

Books

• William James in Russian Culture. Eds. Joan Delaney Grossman and Ruth Rischin. Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books, 2003.
• Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, edited with Irina Paperno. Stanford University Press, 1994.
• Valery Bryusov and the Riddle of Russian Decadence. University of California Press, 1985.
• The Diary of Valery Bryusov (1893-1905). Edited, translated, with introductory essay. University of California Press, 1980.
• Edgar Allan Poe in Russia: A Study in Legend and Literary Influence. Wurzburg: JAL-Verlag, 1973 (Russian translation, St. Petersburg, 1998).

Articles

• “Variations on the Theme of Pushkin in Pasternak and Brjusov." In: Boris Pasternak and His Times. Ed. Lazar Fleishman. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1989.
• "Words, Idle Words: Discourse and Communication in Anna Karenina." In Tolstoy: Essays in Interpretation. Ed. Hugh McLean. University of California Press, 1989.
• "Transformations of Time in Turgenev's Poetic." Literature, Culture, and Society in the Modern Age. In Honor of Joseph Frank. Eds. Edward J. Brown et. al. Stanford Slavic Studies, 1991.
• "Moi Pushkin. Briusov's Search for the Real Aleksandr Sergeevich." Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism. Eds Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes, and Irina Paperno. University of California Press, 1992.
• "Ivan Konevskoi: Bogatyr of Russian Symbolism." The Silver Age in Russian Literature. Ed. John D. Elsworth. Macmillan, 1992.
• "Alternate Beliefs: Spiritualism and Pantheism Among the Early Modernists," Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, vol. III: Russian Literature in Modern Times, eds. Boris Gasparov et al., University of California Press.
• "Valery Bryusov and Nina Petrovskaia: Clashing Models of Life in Art," in Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, eds. Irina Paperno, Joan Delaney Grossman, Stanford University Press, 1994.
• "Neo-Kantianism, Pantheism, and the Ego. Symbolist Debates in the 1890's," in Studies in East European Thought, December 1995.
• "Rise and decline of the 'literary' journal: 1880-1917," in Literary Journals in Imperial Russia. Ed. Deborah A. Martinsen, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• "Ivan Konevskoi's Metaphysical Journey to Finland," in Studia Slavica Finlandensia, XVI/2, Helsinki, 1999.
• “From the Finland Station: Ivan Konevskoi,” in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Eds. Karen L. Ryan and Barry Scherr. St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
• “The Transformation Myth in Russian Modernism: Ivan Konevskoi and Nikolai Zabolotskii,” in Metamorphoses in Russian Modernism. Ed. Peter I. Barta. Central European University Press, 2000.
• “Philosophers, Decadents, and Mystics: James’s Russian Readers in the 1890s,” in William James in Russian Culture. Eds. Joan Delaney Grossman and Ruth Rischin, Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books, 2003.
• “Briusov and the Healing Art: Northern Nature in ‘Na granitakh,” The Russian Review, 62: 1 (2003).

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ROBERT P. HUGHES, Professor Emeritus
rph@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Research interests: Modern Russian poetry; Symbolism (Solov'ev, Belyi, Blok) and post-Symbolism (Mandel'shtam, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Khodasevich); Brodskii; twentieth-century experimental prose; Nabokov; Russian emigre culture; Pushkin.

Current project. Khodasevich's studies of Pushkin and his period (3 volumes, Berkeley); Collected works of V.F. Khodasevich (8 volumes, Moscow); Remizov’s epistolary circle.

Selected publications:

Books

• V.F. Khodasevich, Pushkin i poety ego vremeni, vol. III. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, forthcoming.
• V.F. Khodasevich, Pushkin i poety ego vremeni, vol. II. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 2001.
• V.F. Khodasevich, Pushkin i poety ego vremeni, vol. I. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1999.
• Russkii Berlin, 1921-1923. Co-edited with Lazar Fleishman and Olga R. Hughes. Paris: YMCA, 1983; second edition: Moscow, 2003.
• Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: from the Golden Age to the Silver Age. Co-edited with Boris Gasparov and Irina Paperno. University of California Press, 1991.
• Christianity and the Eastern Slavs: Russian Culture in Modern Times. Co-edited with Irina Paperno. University of California Press, 1994.
• Vladislav Khodasevich, Stat'i i retsenzii (1905-1926). [Vol. 2 of the collected works of Khodasevic in five volumes.] Co-edited, commentary, with John Malmstad. Ardis, 1989.
• Vladislav Khodasevich, Sobranie sochinenii: Stikhotvoreniia. [Vol. 1 of the collected works of Khodasevich in five volumes.] Co-edited, introductions and commentary with John Malmstad. Ardis, 1983.

Articles

• "Andrei Belyi i Vladislav Khodasevich: k istorii otnoshenii." Vestnik russkogo khristianskogo dvizheniia. Paris, 1988 [With first publication of Khodasevich's "Moskovskaia simfoniia."]
• "Vladislav Khodasevich /Wladyslaw Chodasiewicz and Polish Romanticism." Language. Literature. Linguistics. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1986.
• "Vladislav Khodasevich to Mikhail Karpovich: Six Letters (1923-1932)." Co-edited with John Malmstad. Oxford Slavonic Papers, 19 (1986).
• "Nabokov Reading Pasternak." Pasternak and His Times. Berkeley, 1989.
• "Pushkin in Petrograd, February 1921." In Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism.
• "Poets without '-isms' -- Cvetaeva and Chodasevich." Marina Tsvetaeva.. Bern, 1992.
• "Poems With a Heroine" [recent translations of Anna Akhmatova]. The Washington Post Book World, XXIII/7 (April 25, 1993).
• "Khodasevich in Venice," in For SK. In Celebration of the Life and Career of Simon Karlinsky. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1994.
• "Some Reflections on Khodasevich's Ode to the Russian Iambic Tetrameter," in: O Rus! [Festschrift for Hugh McLean]. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1995.
• "Russia's Cassandra, Russia's Antigone," [on Roberta Reeder's Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (New York, 1994)]. The New York Times Book Review, January 1, 1995.
• "Duel in the Snow" [on Robin Edmonds' Pushkin (New York, 1995)]. The New York Times Book Review, December 17, 1995.
• "Khodasevich: Oda russkomu chetyrekhstopnomu iambu," in Blokovskii sbornik, XIII (Tartu, 1996).
• "V.F. Khodasevich: Pis'ma k M.A. Tsiavlovskomu", Russkaia literatura, No. 2, 1999.
• “’… s Vami beda - ne perevesti’ (Pis’ma D.P. Sviatopolka-Mirskogo k A.M. Remizovu. 1922-1929),” Diaspora V. Novye materialy (Paris-St. Petersburg, 2003).
• ”Brodskij, Mandel’shtam, and an Elegaic Epitaph,” Telling Forms. 30 Essays in Honour of Peter Alberg Jensen. (Stockholm, 2004).
• "Pushkin and Russia Abroad" in The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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OLGA RAEVSKY HUGHES, Professor Emerita
orhughes@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Research interests: Centered on the literature and culture of the 20th century, specifically: 1) in-depth study of works of Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, and Remizov, with attention to their autobiographical prose; 2) history and literature of Russian emigration, with emphasis on the period between the wars; 3) Russian literary developments and cultural life of the early 20th century.

Selected publications:

Books

• Vstrecha s emigratsiei. Iz perepiski Ivanova-Razumnika 1942-1945 godov. [An Encounter with the Emigration. From the Correspondence of Ivanov-Razumnik with Emigre Writers. (1942-1946)] Publication, introductory article, editing and annotating. (In Russian). Paris: YMCA Press; Moscow: Russkii Put’, 2001.
• Russkii Berlin, 1921-1923. Co-edited with Lazar Fleishman and Robert P. Hughes. Paris: YMCA, 1983, 2nd ed: Paris: YMCA-Press - Moskow: Russkii put', 2003.
• Aleksej Remizov, Iveren'. [Collected, edited and annotated Iveren', Aleksej Remizov's late book of autobiographical prose.] Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1986.
• The Poetic World of Boris Pasternak. Princeton University Press, 1974

Articles

• "Aleksei Remizov's Defense of the Russian Language." Language, Literature, Linguistics. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialies, 1987.
• "Volshebnaja skazka v knige A. Remizova Iveren'. Aleksej Remizov. Approaches to a Protean Writer. Vol. 16. UCLA Slavic Studies. Los Angeles: Slavica, 1987.
• "O samoubiistve Vladimira Maiakovskogo v 'Okhrannoi gramote' Borisa Pasternaka." Boris Pasternak and His Times. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1989.
• "Alexey Remizov's Later Autobiographical Prose." Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth Century Russian Literature. Princeton University Press, 1990.
• "Liturgicheskoe vremia i Evkharistiia v romane Pasternaka Doktor Zhivago," Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, III. Russian Literature in Modern Times. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
• "Ivanov-Razumnik v 1942 godu", Russkaia kul'tura 20-go veka: Metropolia i diaspora. Blokovskii sbornik, 13. Tartu, 1996.
• "L'action chretienne des etudiants russes et son Messager. Orthodoxie et culture," La Russie en devenir. En hommage a Nikita Struve. Paris: Institut d'etudes slaves, 2002.
• "Rozhdestvenskaia zvezda B. Pasternaka (Neskol'ko nabliudenii)". Telling Forms. Thirty Essays in Honour of Peter Alberg Jensen. Stockholm, 2004.

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SIMON KARLINSKY, Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. University of Californa, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Research interests: The cultural figures of Gogol, Chekhov, Tsvetaeva, Nabokov, and I. Stravinsky; music, especially Russian composers; the interaction of Russian literature with French, English and German cultures; women's studies and gay literatures.

Current projects: An autobiographical memoir. A study of Chekhov as a Russian playwright.

Selected publications:

Books

• The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol. 2nd ed.: Chicago University Press, 1992.
• Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, Her World, and Her Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 1985, 1987, 1988.
• Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin. University of California Press, 1986, 1987.
• Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, editor. Harper & Row,. 1979, 1980. Revised and Expanded Edition, 2001.
• Letters of Anton Chekhov. Co-editor with Michael Henry Heim. Harper & Row, 1973. 2nd ed.: Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought. Northwestern University Press, 1998.
• Vladimir Zlobin, A Difficult Soul: Zinaida Gippius. Edited and annotated. University of California Press, 1980.
• Boris Poplavsky, Collected Works. 3 vols. Co-editor with Anthony Olcott. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1980, 1981.
• The Bitter Air of Exile: Russian Writers in the West 1922-1972. Co-editor with Alfred Appel, Jr. University of California Press, 1977.
• Marina Cvetaeva: Her life and Art. University of California Press, 1966.

Articles

• Russia's Gay Literature and Culture: The Impact of the October Revolution. In Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. Edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey Jr. New American Library, Penguin 1989.
• Three articles in The Christopher Street Reader. Edited by Michel Denneny, Charles Ortleb, and Thomas Steele. Coward-McCann, Inc. New York 1983. --- 1. The Case of Gennady Trifonov 2. Sergei Diaghilev: Public and Private 3. Decadence
• Russia's Gay History and Literature from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries. In Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine. Edited byWinston Leyland. Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco 1991. Revised from an article published in 1976.

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HUGH McLEAN, Professor
hmclean@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. Harvard University (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Research interests: Mainly prose fiction of the 19th century (Gogol, Tolstoy, Kushchevskij, Leskov, Chekhov), with occasional forays in the 20th century (Zoshchenko), and poetry (Majakovskij).

Selected publications:

Books

• Nikolai Leskov: The Man and His Art. Harvard University Press, 1977.
• In the Shade of the Giant: Essays on Tolstoy. [A volume of essays on Tolstoy edited by Hugh McLean, with contributions from his students and colleagues. McLean's contribution is entitled, "Truth in Dying."] California Slavic Studies 13. University of California Press, 1989.

Articles

• "Gogol's Retreat From Love: Toward an Interpretation of Mirgorod." American Contributions to the Fourth International Congress of Slavists, Moscow, 1958. Mouton and Co., 1958. Rpt. Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis, ed. Daniel Rancour-Laferrier (Amsterdam, 1989).
• "Walls and Wire: Notes on the Prison Theme in Russian Literature." International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 25-26 (1983).
• "A Linguist Among the Poets." In International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 27 (1983). [Supplement entitled Roman Jakobson: What He Taught Us. Edited by Morris Halle.]
• "Majakovskij's 'How to Make Verses' and Jakobson's Theory of Verse." Language, Poetry, and Poetics: The Generation of the 1890s: Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Majakovskij. Edited by Krystyna Pomorska et. al., 1987.
• "Negation of the Negation: Or, Remote Control in Nikolaj Negorev." In Language, Literature, Linguistics. Editors Michael S. Flier and Simon Karlinsky. Berkeley, 1987.
• "Tolstoy and Jesus," Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, II, ed. Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno (U.C. Press, 1995).
• "The Case of the Missing Mothers, or, When Does a Beginning Begin," For SK. In Celebration of the Life and Career of Simon Karlinsky, ed. Robert P. Hughes and Michael Flier), 1996.
• "Rousseau's God and Tolstoy's," Tolstoi Studies Journal, 1998.
• "The Countryside in the Russian Novel," In Cambridge Companion to the Russian Novel, ed. Malcolm Jones and Robin Feuer Miller, 1998.
• "Hemingway and Tolstoy: A Pugilistic Encounter," Tolstoy Studies Journal, 1999.
• "Jakobson's Metaphor/Metonymy Polarity: A Retrospective Glance." In Roman Jakobson: Teksty, dokumenty, issledovanija (Moscow, 1999).
• "Roman Jakobson Repatriated," Slavonica, 1996-97
• "Which English Anna?" Tolstoy Studies Journal, 2001.
• "Resurrection," in Donna Tussing Orwin, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (Cambridge, 2002)
• "A Clash of Utopias: Tolstoy and Gorky," Tolstoy Studies Journal, 2002
• "Afterword," in Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories. Signet Classics, 2003
• "Pamfil Chekhov: Whose Son?" Bulletin of the North American Chekhov Society, 2003.
• "Foxes into Hedgehogs: Berlin and Tolstoy," in The Cultural Gradient: The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789-1991, ed. Catherine Evtuhov and Stephen Kotkin, 2003.
• "Introduction," in Leo Tolstoy, Master and Man and Other Stories. Penguin Classics, 2004.
• "Could the Master Err? A Note on 'God Sees the Truth but Waits'," Tolstoy Studies Journal, 2004.
• "Nikolai Leskov," in Histoire de la litterature russe. Le XIXe siecle, le temps du roman, 2005.
• "A Woman's Place...The Young Tolstoy and the Woman Question," in Word, Music, History: A Festschrift for Caryl Emerson, ed. Lazar Fleishman et al, 2005.
• Ed., with Lazar Fleishman, A Century's Perspective: Essays on Russian Literature in Honor of Olga Raevsky Hughes and Robert P. Hughes, 2005.
• "Buried as a Writer and as a Man: The Puzzle of Family Happiness," in A Century's Perspective, 2005.
• "Anthony Briggs's Translation of War and Peace" (review article), Tolstoy Studies Journal, 2006.
• "Claws on the Behind: Tolstoy and Darwin," Tolstoy Studies Journal, 2007 (forthcoming).

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CZESLAW MILOSZ, Professor Emeritus

Magister juris, University of Wilno, Poland

Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 1980

Czeslaw Milosz passed away on August 14, 2004.
When Milosz received the Nobel Prize, he had been teaching in Berkeley’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literature for 20 years; on the day of the Nobel announcement he cut short the celebration to attend to his undergraduate course on Dostoevsky. He retired as a professor in 1978, but continued to teach and to read poetry on campus. Milosz offered his last campus reading, in Polish and English, in February 2000, at age 89. His publications include not only renown books of poetry and essays, but also The history of Polish literature published by the University of California Press in 1969 and 1983.

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WALTER SCHAMSCHULA, Professor Emeritus
prague@berkeley.edu

Ph.D. University of Frankfurt (Slavic Philology).

Research interests: Influences of cultural contacts on Czech literatures, especially Germanic; movement and migration of literary themes and topics in Europe; Czech cultural history; Czech theory of literature; theory and practice of translation; completion of history of Czech literature (in German and English).

Current projects: Czech medieval texts: Old Czech drama, satire, poetry and its connections with medieval Latin and German literatures; the Russian historical novel. The relationship of oral and written epic poetry in Slavic literatures; the imag eof the rhapsode/bard/guslar in early narrative.

Selected publications:

Books

• Geschichte der tschechischen Literatur, Vol. I: Von den Anfaengen bis zur nationalen Wiedergeburt. Cologne - Vienna, 1989.
  Vol. II: Von der Romantik bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Cologne - Vienna, 1996.
  Vol. III: Von der Gruendung der republik bis zur Gegenwart. Cologne-Vienne-Weimer, 2004.
• Die Anfaenge der tschechischen Erneuerung und das deutsche Geistesleben (1740-1800). Munich, 1973.
• Der russische historische Roman vom Klassizismus bis zur Romantik (Diss.). Osteuropastudien der Hochschulen des Landes Hessen, Reihe III, Frankfurter Abhandlungen zur Slavistik, Bd. 3. Meisenheim/Glan 1961.
• Jaroslav Hasek 1883-1983. Proceedings of the International Hasek Symposion Bamberg, June 25-28, 1983. [West Slavic Contributions - Westslavische Beiträge vol. 1] Frankfurt - Bern - New York, 1989.
• An Anthology of Czech Literature, 1st Period: From the Beginnings Till 1410. [West Slavic Contributions, vol. 2] Frankfurt - Bern - New York, 1991.
• An Anthology of Czech Literature, 2nd Period: The Age of Religious Discord (1410-1740) [West Slavic Contributions, vol. 3] Frankfurt - Bern - New York, 1997.
• Adam Mickiewicz, Die Ahnenfeier (Dziady). (Bilingual Polish and German), Cologne - Weimar - Vienna, 1991.
• Juliusz Slowacki, Koenig Geist (Krol - Duch). (German annotated transation) [West Slavic Contributions, vol. 4]. Frankfurt - Bern - New York, 1997.

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