Horace Mann School 1959-62 Diploma
New York, NY (Cum laude)
Williams College 1962-66 B.A. in Russian
Williamstown, MA (Summa cum laude)
Oxford University 1966-72 B.A. (First class)
Oxford, England M.A. and D. Phil.
U. of Leningrad 1970-71 Research
Leningrad, USSR
Williams College 1972-83 Asst. and Associate Professor
Williamstown, MA
University of Texas 1984-97 Professor, Chairman,
Austin, TX Center Director
Books:
The Literary Ballad in Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1976.
Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-century Russian Fiction, University Press of New England, 1984.
Annotated Translations:
Who is to Blame? by Alexander Herzen, Cornell University Press, 1984.
What is to be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Cornell University Press, 1989.
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Norton Publishers, 1989; second edition forthcoming.
Tolstoy's Short Fiction, Norton Publishers, 1991.
Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oxford University Press, 1992; reissued 1999.
Polinka Saks and The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich by Alexander Druzhinin, Northwestern University Press, 1992.
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Norton Publishers, 1994; and Norton Critical Edition, 1995.
Prologue by Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Northwestern University Press, 1995.
Antonina by Evgeniya Tur, Northwestern University Press, 1997.
Sanin by Mikhail Artsybashev, Cornell University Press, 2001.
Articles:
"Love and Marriage in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin," Oxford Slavonic Papers, XVII, I (1984).
"Pushkin's Creative Assimilation of Zhukovsky and Irving," in The Old and New World Romanticism of Washington Irving, Greenwood Press, 1986.
"Chernyshevsky in English Translation," Slavic Review, 46 (Spring, 1987), 1.
"The Raven's Eye: Pushkin and Chaadaev," Studies in Russian and German, I (1988).
"Dostoevsky and Natural Science," Dostoevsky Studies, 9 (1988).
"Vera Pavlova's Dreams in Chernyshevsky's What is to be Done?" Issues in Russian Literature Before 1917, Slavica, 1989.
"The Theme of Maternity in Alesha Karamazov's Four-year-old Memory," Slavic and East European Journal, 34 (1990), 4.
"The Nihilism of Sonya Marmeladova," Dostoevsky Studies, New Series 1 (1992).
"Fathers and Sons [and Daughters]," in Fathers and Sons, Norton Critical Edition, 1995.
"Once More on the Subject of Dostoevsky and the Jews," in People of the Book, ed. by J. Rubin-Dorsky and S. Fisher Fishkin, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
Selected Presentations:
"Vera Pavlova's Dreams in Chernyshevsky's What is to be Done?", World Congress of Slavists, Washington, D.C., November, 1985.
"Chernyshevsky in English Translation and American Slavistics," (in Russian) Sixth International Congress of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature, Budapest, Hungary, August, 1986.
"Chernyshevksy's What is to be Done?", Moscow Linguistic University, May 1989.
"Alyosha's Karamazov's Four-Year Old Memory," AATSEEL Conference, Washington, D.C., December, 1989.
"The Image of Catherine the Great in Pushkin's Prose," AATSEEL Conference, Chicago, Il., December, 1990.
"The Nihilism of Sonya Marmeladova," Texas Tech. University, April, 1992.
"Dostoevsky's Anti-Semitism," International Dostoevsky Symposium, Oslo, Norway, July, 1992.
"Fathers and Sons [and Daughters]," AATSEEL Conference, Toronto, Canada, December, 1993.
"Chernyshevksy's `Other' Novel," AAASS Convention, Washington, D.C., November, 1994.
"Dostoevsky's Homophobia/Homophilia," Conference on Gender and Sexuality in Russian Culture, University of Surrey, Guildford, England, June, 1996.
"The Impact of the Crystal Palace on the Russian Imagination," University of Nottingham, UK, June 1999
"Concordia, Middlebury, Monterey: A Model for Articulation in Languages and International Studies, ACTFL, Dallas, Texas, November 1999.
Undergraduate:
The Russian Novel
Chekhov and the Drama
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
The Soul of Russia
Readings in 19th-c. Russian Literature (in Russian)
Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Russian Language
Political Russian
Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies (UG)
The Russian Religious Experience
Graduate:
Bakhtin and Dostoevsky (Bratya Karamazovy; Besy)
Tolstoy's Voina i mir
Russian Literature and Ideology
Herzen,Turgenev,Chernyshevksy
Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose
Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies (G)
Visiting Scholar, UC-Berkeley, 1975-76
Research Associate, Dartmouth College, 1979-80
NEH Translation Grant, 1980-82
IREX Senior Scholarship, 1983
Max Hayward Translation Prize, 1983
ACLS Travel Grant, 1986
IREX Academy of Sciences Exchange, 1989
Fulbright Group Seminar Abroad, 1989
Texas Foreign Language Teachers' Association,
Slavic Teacher of the Year, 1990
Stanley and Elsie Adams Professorship in Liberal Arts, 1995-97
Title II (Inservice Institute for Russian Teachers), 1986-88
Title VI (UG Foreign Languages and International Studies), 1986-87
Greve Foundation (Soviet television), 1987
Title VI (National Resource Center and FLAS Fellowships), 1988-98
SSRC and ACLS (Cost-shared appointments), 1989-91
USIA Grants for Exchange Programs (Moscow and Prague), 1991-95
Endowment for Texas Chair in Czech Studies, 1991-
National Endowment for the Humanities (Inservice Institutes for Russian Teachers), 1992-95
Texas Committee for the Humanities (Exploratory Languages), 1993
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (Fellowships for Graduate Students), 1994-97
Ford Foundation, "Crossing Borders Initiative, 1999-2002
Title VI (UG Foreign Languages and International Studies), 1999-2001
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS):
Southwest Regional Affiliate, 1987-95.
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL):
Vice-President, 1989-92
President-Elect, 1995-96
President, 1997-98
Past-President, 1999-2000
American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR):
Board of Directors, 1988-
American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 1985-
Council of Title VI National Resource Centers
Representative for Russian Centers, 1996-97
Modern Language Association (MLA):
Delegate Assembly, 1988-92
Editorial Board for Texts and Translations Series, 1992-2000
Executive Committee of Associated Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL), 2000-