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Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Studied in Washington D.C. and spent
two sum mers at the then University of
Leningrad. Two years military service in the US
Army as a paratrooper. One summer of study at the University
of Zagreb (in the former Yugoslavia). For the past twenty years, Professor
of Russian at Middlebury College where I teach Russian language and literature.
I have also taught a class of thirty
high school students using Vermont Interactive Television. Author of a
dozen
books including the new 501 English Verbs, 501 Russian Verbs, Russian
at a Glance, Russian the Fast and Fun Way, Pronounce it Perfectly in Russian.
Translator of Andrey Bely's The Christened Chinaman and Glossolalia.For
further information, check out my Curriculum Vitae.
I have been using the Web for my courses since the spring of 1996 in 20th
Century Russian Literature with a worksheet on "How
does a story mean?" A Senior
Seminar on Practical Russian and Dostoevsky.
I have had students contribute in an ongoing fashion to my own work. In the
spring students prepared annotated bibliographies of works by and about Dostoevsky
in Middlebury's College library
(which has a wonderful set of resources). In the fall of 1996 students prepared
web pages to accompany the great novels of Dostoevsky.
Russia Today
is a resource for anyone learning Russian. More recently I have used the web
for projects on The Da Vinci Code and Russian Berlin.
Before the dawning of the web I prepared Russian
Alphabet a HYPERCARD stack with sound for Macintoshes
that still can be downloaded.
The database
contains a list of texts and materials for learning Russian.
Middlebury College