Education
PhD. University of Toronto, Slavic Languages and Literatures
M.A. Pennsylvania State University, Russian and Comparative Literature
Interests
Second language pedagogy, nineteenth-century Russian literature, Russian religious thought, cultural history, and political mythology
Selected Publications
Articles
“Immersive VR in the Development of Speaking Skills,” FLTMAG Special Issue on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, (November 2022).
“Integrating and Assessing the Use of a ‘Makerspace’ and Immersive Virtual Reality in a Russian Cultural Studies Course,” Elizabeth Enkin, Olha Tytarenko, & Eric Kirschling. (second author). Calico Journal 38:1 (2021): 103-127.
“The Paganism in Antonych’s Three Rings: Return or Escape?” Ukrainian Quarterly 65:3 (2009): 213-226.
Book reviews
Hayes, Natalia. Acquiring the Major Speech Functions in Russian: For Intermediate and Advanced-Level Students. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 2016. The Russian Language Journal 71 (Spring 2021): 202-204.
Anindita Banerjee, ed., Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Companion. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. The Slavic and East European Journal 63.1 (Spring 2019): 144-146.
Marullo, Thomas G. Fyodor Dostoevsky: In the Beginning (1821-1845). A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. The Russian Review 77:1 (January 2018): 131-132.
Mark Andryczyk. The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Slavic and East European Journal 58:4 (Winter 2014): 737-739.
Translations
Alexandr Strashny’s manuscript Ukrainian Mentality (forthcoming with ibiden Press). Co-translated by Michael Naydan.
Nikolai Gogol’s novel Taras Bul’ba (original version; forthcoming). Co-translated with Michael Naydan.
Yuri Vynnychuk’s novel Tango of Death. Co-translated with Michael Naydan Spuyten Duyvill Publishers, 2019.
Maria Matios’s novel Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages. Co-translated with Michael Naydan. Spuyten Duyvill Publishing, 2019.
Andrei Sinyavsky, “A Journey to the River Black,” co-translated by Slava I. Yastremski and Michael M. Naydan, in Strolls with Pushkin, translated by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava I. Yastremski. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Pp. 133-192.
Iren Rozdobudko’s novel The Lost Button. London: Glagoslav Publications, 2012. Co-translated with Michael M. Naydan.