Departmental News
Departmental News
2010 ACTR National Post-Secondary Essay Contest
Once again, several students in our undergraduate language classes were winners in the annual ACTR Essay Contest. In this year's contest, there were 1,023 essays submitted from 64 universities and colleges across the United States. Our winners are:
- Joshua Cantor-Stone (First Year Russian)
- John-Michael Arnold (First Year Russian)
- Jennifer Simon (Intensive Elementary & Intermediate Russian)
- Nick Walter (Third Year Russian)
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Graduate Study Abroad Program
Nicholas Kupensky is our first student to participate in the Graduate Study Abroad program at Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Gumanitarnyi Universitet (RGGU) Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. For more information click RGGU.
Awards and Recognition
Professor Tomas Venclova has recently been awarded honorary doctorates from Gdansk University in Poland, and Kaunas Vytautas the Great University in Lithuania.
Professor Robert Greenberg has been awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal in recognition of his distinguished scholarship and outstanding teaching. The medals are awarded yearly by the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at their annual dinner. The medal is named for William Clyde DeVane, who was dean of Yale College 1938-1963 and served as president both of the Yale and United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa.
Zakhar Ishov received the 2009 Charles Hall Grandgent Award for best submission by a graduate student from The Dante Society of America for essay entitled "Introduction to Poetry in the Form of Poetry: Dante Read by Mandelstam."
Recent Publications and Presentations
"Creating a Web-Based Test for the Heritage Learners of Russian" as part of the panel "Russian: Best Practices" at the First International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages at UCLA, February 2010.
paper "Select Issues in Testing and Assessment of Heritage Learners," presented at the annual AATSEEL convention in Philadelphia, December 2009.
"Splinters of Messianic Time: Elements of Elegy in Mandelstam's poem 'V Peterburge my soidemsia snova...,'" "My Russia" Conference (In Memory of Jennifer J. Day), Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 2010.
"Words and Meaning in Osip Mandelstam’s 'V Peterburge my soidemsia snova...,'" Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Swarthmore, PA, March 2010. Winner of the Graduate Student Essay Contest of the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference.
"Pelevinova prica 'Kristalni svijet' kao odgovor na teorije Bjelog o vremenu i povijesti." [Viktor Pelevin's "Crystal World" as a Response to Andrei Bely's Theories on Time and History] Transl. Margareta Cvitanovic. Knjizevna smotra [Literary Review, Croatia], 41.153 (2009), 93-100.
"'A Yearning for World Culture': The Acmeist Poetry of Vasilii Komarovskii and Konstantin Vaginov," AAASS National Conference, Boston, November 2009.
"Skuka and the Absurd in Gogol''s Tale of the 'Two Ivans,'" Canadian Slavonic Papers, 51.2-3 (June-September 2009), 287-303.
"The Aesthetics of Modernity in Innokentii Annenskii's 'Trilistnik vagonnyi,'" 29th Slavic Forum, University of Chicago, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, May 2009.
“Is Working-Class Literature at the Center or on the Periphery of the American Cultural Scene?” American Cultural Scene, The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), Moscow, Russia, February 2010
“Translating Literature: Literary Creation and Translation,” MLA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2009 and Why Translation? Yale University Slavic Colloquium, New Haven, CT, December 2009
“Поэт как приём: The Teaching of ЁПС and the Problem of Postmodernist Play, 1979-1991,” Reality, Identity, Postmodernity – Russia and the West, Moscow, April 2009, paper delivered by internet teleconference
“Pushkin, the Poet, and Acts of Creation in Victor Erofeyev’s Art and Thought,” Pushkin/Anti-Pushkin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 2009
“Lincoln, Tolstoy, a Portrait, and a Horse,” Abraham Lincoln: Lessons of History and the Contemporary World, RSUH, Moscow, February 2009
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