CURRICULUM VITAE
Jenifer Presto
Comparative Literature Department
5242 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5242
Home Tel: (541) 485-7400 Office Tel: (541) 346-4065
E-mail: presto@uoregon.edu
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures with Comparative Literature Minor May 1996
Dissertation: “Zinaida Gippius and the Fashioning of Gender,” Advisor: Clare Cavanagh
M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures May 1989
Middlebury College
M.A. Russian Language August 1988
Smith College
A.B. Magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa Russian Literature May 1985
Study Abroad
Middlebury College Academic Year Program in Moscow 1987-1988
CIEE Semester Program in Leningrad Fall 1983
Additional Language Study
Italian Language Courses (Audit) University of Oregon Fall 2003-Winter 2006
Middlebury College Intensive Second-Year Russian Program Summer 1982
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Russian Modernism, Gender Studies, Literature and the Visual Arts, Imaginative Geographies, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Russian Émigré Literature
EMPLOYMENT
University of Oregon
Director of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2013-present
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian 2006-present
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian 2003-2006
University of Southern California
Assistant Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature 1997-2003
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Slavic Languages and Literatures 1996-1997
University of Virginia
Visiting Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures 1995-1996
Moscow State University
Resident Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Exchange Program 1994-1995
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teaching Assistant in the Russian Language Program 1990-1991 & 1986
Research Assistant for Faculty in the Slavic Department 1988-1990
HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
CAS Program Grant for the Biennial REEES Graduate Symposium Spring 2017
Oregon Humanities Center VPRI Completion Grant Winter 2017
University Nominee for 2016 NEH Summer Stipend
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Academic Support Grant Fall 2015
Faculty Research Award Summer 2015
CAS Program Grant for a Symposium in Memory of Prof. James Rice Spring 2014
Center for the Study of Women in Society Faculty Research Grant Fall 2012
Summer Stipend for Humanities and Creative Arts Faculty 2012
CAS Program Grant for “Russian and East European Arts, World Stage” Spring 2012
Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship Spring 2007
CAS Program Grant for “The Oregon Brodsky Symposium” Fall 2006
NCEEER Policy Research Fellowship ($22,000) Summer 2006
Summer Research Award 2005
Summer Workshop in Proposal Development 2005
Research Associate and Housing Grant Russian Center Champaign, IL Summer 2005
Junior Professorship Development Award 2004-2005, 2005-2006
University of Oregon New Faculty Award 2004-2005
Instructional Technology Workshop Stipend Fall 2004
Zumberge Research and Innovation Grant 2000-2001
Five College Women’s Studies Research Center Associate 2000-2001 (declined)
Marilyn Simpson Research Grant in the Humanities 1998-1999
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship USC 1996-1997
NEH Summer Seminar on Gender and Identity in Russian Literature 1996
J. Thomas Shaw Prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay at Wisconsin AATSEEL 1993
Research Associate Russian Institute Champaign, IL Summer 1992
SSRC Dissertation Fellowship 1991-1992
University of Wisconsin Dissertation Fellowship 1991-1992
Dobro Slovo Honor Society 1986
Title VI Fellowship 1985-1986
Smith College Alumnae Scholarship 1985
First Group Scholar Smith College 1982, 1983 & 1985
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Beyond the Flesh: Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist Sublimation of Sex.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xviii + 334 pp.
Special Issue
Special section on “Russian Geopoetics,” coedited and introduced with Anindita Banerjee,
Slavic Review vol. 75, no. 2 (2016): 247-330.
Journal Articles
“Introduction: Toward a Russian Geopoetics, or Some Ways of Relating Russia to the
World,” coauthored with Anindita Banerjee, Slavic Review vol. 75, no. 2 (2016): 247-55.
“Uncanny Excavations: Khodasevich, Pompeii, and Remains of the Past,” Russian Review
vol. 74, no. 2 (2015): 272-92.
“The Aesthetics of Disaster: Blok, Messina, and the Decadent Sublime,” Slavic Review vol.
70, no. 3 (2011): 569-90.
“Unbearable Burdens: Aleksandr Blok and the Modernist Resistance to Progeny and Domesticity.” Slavic Review vol. 63, no. 1 (2004): 6-25.
“The Androgynous Gaze of Zinaida Gippius.” Russian Literature XLVIII-I (2000): 87-115.
“Reading Zinaida Gippius: Over Her Dead Body.” Slavic and East European Journal vol. 43, no. 4 (1999): 621-35.
“The Fashioning of Zinaida Gippius.” Slavic and East European Journal vol. 42, no. 1 (1998): 58-75.
“Ivan Fedorovich Shpon’ka i ego tetushka’ as ‘Oral’ Narrative, or ‘Food for the Critics.’” Russian Literature XXXIX (1996): 359-72.
Book Chapter
“Women in Russian Symbolism: Beyond the Algebra of Love.” In A History of Women’s Writing in Russia, ed. Adele M. Barker and Jehanne Gheith. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 134-52.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Decadence.” Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Fourth Edition. Eds. Roland
Greene and Stephen Cushman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. 338-40.
“Zinaida Gippius.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Vol. 2. Ed. Bonnie G.
Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 380-81.
“The Silver Age.” Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire. Vol. 4. Eds. John Merriman & Jay Winter. Detroit: Chas Scribner’s Sons, 2006. 2181-83.
“N. A. Teffi.” Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. Eds. Anne Commire & Deborah Klezmer. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 2002. 257-61.
“Zinaida Gippius.” Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. Eds. Anne Commire & Deborah Klezmer. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 2000. 253-58.
Book Reviews
Elena Glazov-Corrigan’s Mandel’shtam’s Poetics: A Challenge to Postmodernism. Slavic
and East European Journal vol. 47, no. 4 (2004): 686-88.
Temira Pakhmuss’s Zinaida Gippius: Hypatia dvadtsatogo veka. The Russian Review vol. 63, no. 1 (2004): 154-55.
WORK UNDER REVIEW
Special Issue
Forum on “World Revolution,” coedited and introduced with Anindita Banerjee, Slavic and
East European Journal (scheduled for fall 2017; 5 articles slated for the forum are currently under review)
Article
“Revolutionary Ecology: Maxim Gorky’s Italy,” Slavic and East European Journal
(8,826 words, currently under review for the forum on “World Revolution”)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Books
Modernism and Catastrophe: Russian Writing between Etna and Vesuvius (anticipated
completion date for the manuscript: September 14, 2017)
Table of Contents
Introduction
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Slow Catastrophe: Gippius, Taormina, and the Grand Tour
2. Seismic Landscapes: Blok, Messina, and the Decadent Sublime
3. Revolutionary Ecology: Gorky, Italy, and Global Geopoetics
4. Isle of the Dead: Bunin, Capri, and Traces of Tiberius
5. Flowers of the Ruins: Lozina-Lozinsky and Meditations on Exile
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Uncanny Excavations: Khodasevich, Pompeii, and Russian Remains
7. Distant Disasters: Nabokov, Naples, and Modernist Aftershocks
Epilogue
Nabokov’s Ecological Niche (in the planning stage)
Article
“Nabokov’s ‘Brambling in Oregon’” (in the planning stage)
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES
“The Geopoetics of Gorky’s Italy” (ASEEES, Philadelphia, 2015)
“Lessons from ‘Lines Written in Oregon,’ or Finding Your ‘Ecological Niche’” (UO
Departmental Commencement Ceremony, Eugene, OR, June, 2015)
“Uncanny Excavations: Khodasevich, Pompeii, and Remains of the Past,” University of
Illinois-Chicago and Northwestern University (February 2015)
“Zinaida Gippius on the Shores of the Ionian Sea,” A Symposium on Russian and
Comparative Literature in Memory of James L. Rice (Eugene, OR, May 2014)
“Ionian Reflections: Zinaida Gippius, Taormina, and the World of Art” (ASEEES,
Boston, 2013)
“Uncanny Archaeology: Khodasevich, Pompeii, and the Russia’s Remains” (AATSEEL,
Seattle, 2012, Russian and East European Arts, World Stage, UO, May 2012, Wisconsin AATSEEL, UW-Madison, Oct 2012, Italy-Russia: Cases in Cultural Appropriation, Reed College, Oct 2012, AAIS, Eugene, OR April 2013)
“The Aesthetics of Disaster: Blok, Messina, and the Decadent Sublime” (UO Course on
“The Idea of Europe,” May 2011)
“Big Night, or the Failure of Excellence” (UO Nomad Lecture and Film Series on
Sustenance, February 2011)
“Seismic Southern Italy, Revolutionary Russia, and the Writing of Rupture” (AAASS,
Boston, 2009)
“The Politics of Disaster: Blok, Gorky, and the 1908 Messina Earthquake” (Oregon Humanities Center, Spring 2007)
“Blok, Messina, and the Revolutionary Sublime” (AAASS, Salt Lake City, 2005)
“From Catastrophe to Strophe: The Messina Earthquake and Its Aftershocks in Russian Culture” (AAASS, Boston, 2004)
“Alexander Blok and the Modernist Family Romance” (Symposium on Russian Literature in the World Context, Smith College, April, 2003; AAASS, Pittsburgh, 2002)
“Poetry against Progeny: Alexander Blok and Modernist Filicide” (U of Pennsylvania, February, 2003; U of Oregon, January, 2003)
“Poetry against Progeny: Blok and the Problem of Poetic Reproduction” (USC Slavic Dept., December, 2001)
“Unbearable Burdens: Alexander Blok’s Resistance to Progeny and Acmeism” (AAASS, Denver, 2000)
“Infanticide as Creative Imperative in Alexander Blok” (BASEES, Cambridge, England,
2000; Rocky Mountain Slavic Conference, San Diego, 2000)
The Space between St. Petersburg and Leningrad: Liudmila Ivanova and the Transformation
of Russian Culture” (Rountable Presenter, USC Fisher Gallery, March 2000)
“20th Century Russian Women Writers and the Fashioning of Female Poetic Identity”
(USC First-Year Russian Program, Fall 1998)
“Gender and Russian Poetry” (USC First-Year Russian Program, Spring 1998)
“A Taste of Gogol” (USC Emeriti Association Lecture Series, Valley Oasis, December, 1997; Stetson U, March, 1997)
“Male Appropriation of the Maternal Metaphor: Alexander Blok and Poetic Reproduction” (AAASS, Seattle, 1997)
“Contemporary Russian Women” (USC First-Year Russian Program, Fall 1997)
“Reading Zinaida Gippius: Over Her Dead Body” (USC, March, 1997; Duke U, March, 1996; UVa, Feb. 1996; Bucknell U, January, 1995; MLA, Toronto, 1993)
“Zinaida Gippius and the ‘Body’ of Criticism” (AATSEEL, Washington D.C., 1996; Smith College, April, 1996)
“Zinaida Gippius” (USC First-Year Russian Program, Fall 1996)
Contes d’amour, or ‘Loving to be Able to’” (AATSEEL, Chicago, 1995)
“Redressing a Cultural Figure: Zinaida Gippius as Female Dandy” (AATSEEL,
San Diego, 1994)
“Critical (Mal)practice on Zinaida Gippius” (Wisconsin AATSEEL, 1994)
“The Fashioning of Zinaida Gippius” (Wellesley College, January, 1994; Wisconsin
AATSEEL, 1993)
“’Ivan Fedorovich Shpon’ka i ego tetushka’ as ‘Oral’ Narrative, or ‘Food for the Critics’” (AATSEEL, Toronto, 1993; Wisconsin AATSEEL, 1991)
TEACHING
University of Oregon
COLT 203: Modernist Lyric (Fall 2004 & 2005)
COLT 305: Cultural Studies (Spring 2010)
COLT 360: Adulterous Fiction (Fall 2007)
COLT 360: Marriage “Plots” (Spring 2004)
COLT 405: Directed Reading on Nabokov and Postmodernism (Summer 2014)
COLT 405: Directed Reading on the Epistolary Novel (Fall 2004)
COLT 405: Directed Reading on Modernist Poetry (Fall 2004)
COLT 410/510: Visuality and Literature (Spring 2015)
COLT 418/518: Gender and Modernism (Winter 2005)
COLT 430/530: Symbolism and Decadence (Spring 2011)
COLT 461/561: Writing Disaster (Winter 2006)
COLT 605: Directed Reading on Russian Literary Theory (Spring 2012)
COLT 605: Directed Reading on Gastronomy and Early Soviet Literature (Fall 2010)
COLT 605: Directed Reading on Vladimir Propp and Russian Fairy Tales (Spring 2010)
COLT 614: Introduction to Comparative Literature (Winter 2009)
COLT 615: Word, Image, Statue, Text (Spring 2012)
REES 605: Directed Reading on Russian and Soviet Cinema (Winter 2006)
RUSS 205: Russian and Soviet Literature, 1905-1962 (Winter 2004)
RUSS 205: Russian Literature and the Politics of the Fantastic (Winter 2005-2016)
RUSS 331: The Russian Short Story (Fall 2005, 2006 & 2010, Winter 2008 & Spring 2013)
RUSS 334: Dostoevsky (Spring 2008, 2010, 2012 & 2016)
RUSS 351: Russian Literature and Western Cinema (Spring 2005 & 2013, Winter 2007,
2008, 2010 & 2011 & Fall 2008)
RUSS 399: Special Topic: Russian and Soviet Cinema (Summer 2008, 2010 & 2011)
RUSS 399: Special Topic: Russian Short Story (Winter 2004)
RUSS 405: Directed Reading on 20th Century Russian Prose (Summer 2007)
RUSS 405: Directed Reading on Gender Studies (Winter 2010)
RUSS 405: Directed Reading on Dostoevsky (Summer 2016)
RUSS 407/507: Film and Culture: Russia’s Roaring 20s (Fall 2004, 2007, 2009, 2013,
& Winter 2012)
RUSS 410/510: Nabokov’s America (Fall 2015)
RUSS 410/510: Vladimir Nabokov: Between Worlds, Languages, and Media (Spring 2014)
RUSS 426/526: Russian Modernism (Fall 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 & 2014)
RUSS 426/526: Russian Symbolism and Decadence (Spring 2004)
RUSS 605: Directed Reading on Russian Futurism (Spring 2013)
RUSS 605: Directed Reading on Simonov and Soviet War Poetry (Spring 2013)
RUSS 605: Directed Reading on Soviet Magical Realism (Spring 2011)
RUSS 605: Directed Reading on Brodsky and Émigré Literature (Fall 2008)
RUSS 605: Directed Reading on Film Adaptation of Russian Classics (Winter 2007 & 2008)
RUSS 605: Directed Reading on Russian Modernism (Fall 2006)
University of Southern California
ARLT 100: Imagination and Revolution in Modern Russian Literature (Fall 1999,
Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Fall 2002 & Spring 2003)
ARLT/LTA 100: Political Fictions (Fall 1997, Fall 1998 & Spring 1999)
COLT 335: Symbolism and Decadence (Spring 2003)
COLT 345: Realist Fiction (Spring 1999 & Spring 2002)
COLT 357: The Avant-Garde (Spring 1998)
COLT 401: Senior Seminar on Symbolism and Decadence (Spring 2000)
COLT 490: Directed Reading on Symbolism (Spring 2000)
SLL 321: Russian Culture (Fall 1998)
SLL 420: Seminar in Russian Language (Spring 1998)
SLL 450: Current Issues in Russian Culture (Spring 1997)
SLL 490: Directed Reading on Death and Femininity in Russian Literature (Spring 2003)
SLL 490: Directed Reading on Gippius and 20th Century Poetry (Spring 1998)
SLL 490: Directed Reading on The Brothers Karamazov (Fall 1997)
SLL 501: Graduate Proseminar (Fall 1997, Fall 1999, Fall 2001 & Fall 2002)
SLL 542: Graduate Course on Russian Symbolism (Fall 1996 & Fall 2001)
SLL 590: Directed Reading on Slavic Literatures: Desire, Tourism, and Exile (Fall 2002)
SLL 590: Directed Reading on Sexing the City in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (Fall 1999)
SLL 590: Directed Reading on Russian Symbolist Prose (Spring 1998)
SLL 590: Directed Reading on Russian Symbolism (Fall 1996)
University of Virginia
RUSS 401: Fourth-Year Russian (Fall 1995)
RUSS 402: Fourth-Year Russian (Spring 1996)
RUSS 493: Directed Reading on Russian Language for Graduate Students (Spring 1996)
RUTR 247: 20th Century Russian Culture (Spring 1996)
RUTR 256: Marriage “Plots” (Spring 1996)
RUTR 335: 19th Century Russian Literature (Fall 1995)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
RUS 101: First-Year Russian (Fall 1986 & Fall 1991)
RUS 102: First-Year Russian (Spring 1992)
SERVICE
Student Advising—UO
Dissertation Advisor for Daria Smirnova (COLT) Fall 2016-
Master’s Thesis Reader for Iryna Zagoruyko (REEES) Spring 2016
Master’s Thesis Advisor for Anastasia Savenko-Moore (REEES) Spring-Fall 2015
Master’s Thesis Reader for Maya Larson (REEES) Spring 2015
Master’s Thesis Reader for Eric Spreat (REEES) Spring 2015
Dissertation Reader for Matthew Hannah (ENG) Spring 2015
Senior Honors Thesis Reader for Tahni Nikitins (COLT) Spring 2015
Interim Advisor for Daria Smirnova (COLT) Spring 2014
Master’s Thesis Advisor for Tatiana Yarygina (REEES) Spring 2014
Master’s Thesis Advisor for Rick Moore (REEES) Spring 2014
Master’s Thesis Reader for Paul Forehand (REEES) Spring 2014
Senior Honors Thesis Reader for Alescia Dichmann (CHC) Spring 2013
Senior Honors Thesis Reader for Anthony Topoleski (REEES) Spring 2013
Senior Honors Thesis Advisor for Jacob Plagmann (COLT) Winter-Spring 2013
Master’s Thesis Reader for Alena Nekrasova (REEES) Spring 2013
Master’s Thesis Advisor for Michael Butler (REEES) Spring 2012
Master’s Thesis Reader for Daria Smirnova (REEES) Spring 2012
Dissertation Reader for Rachel Bash (ENG) Fall 2011-2014
Master’s Thesis Reader for Alexis Gunderson (REESC) Spring 2011
Master’s Project Reader for Randianne Leyshon (Journalism) Spring 2011
Senior Honors Thesis Advisor for Alexis Gibbons (REESC) Winter-Spring 2010
Senior Honors Thesis Reader for Shona Allison (REESC) Spring 2010
Dissertation Reader for Jacque Pollard (ENG) Summer 2009
Dissertation Reader for Greg Miller (Journalism) Spring 2009-Fall 2010
Doctoral Exam Committee for Greg Miller (Journalism) Spring 2009
Master’s Thesis Reader for Kathryn Dooley (REESC) Spring 2009
Master’s Exam and Thesis Advisor for Melissa Cook (REESC) Spring 2009
Master’s Thesis Reader for Christopher Pike (REESC) Spring 2009
Senior Honors Thesis Reader for Anna Harbaugh (HIS) Spring 2009
Senior Honors Thesis Advisor for Mary Renolds (COLT) Winter-Spring 2009
Dissertation Reader for Roger Adkins (COLT) Fall 2007-Spring 2010
Dissertation Reader for Stacy Kaplan (ENG) Fall 2007-Winter 2010
Senior Honors Thesis Advisor for Rosalia Gobeo (CHC) Fall 2007-Spring 2008
Dissertation Reader for Kathryn Olsen (COLT) Spring 2005-Fall 2007
Reader for Master’s Thesis for Alexander Kashirin (REESC) Spring 2005
Dissertation Advisor for Thomas Dolack (COLT) Fall 2004-Spring 2007
Reader for Master’s Thesis of Hillary Colter (Folklore) Spring 2004-Summer 2006
Reader for Senior Honors Thesis of Sara Kirker (COLT) Spring 2004
Reader for Senior Honors Thesis of Krzysztof Sokolowski (REESC) Spring 2004
Student Advising—USC & UVa
Undergraduate Advisor for Slavic 1997-1999 & Spring 2003
Faculty Advisor for Czech and Russian Programs 1998-1999 & Spring 2003
Recruiting Advisor for the Graduate Program (SLL) 2001-2003
SARAL Graduate Student Association Advisor 1997-1998 & Spring 2000
Dissertation Reader for Natasa Varnica (SLL) 2001-2003
Dissertation Reader for Michele Torre (Cinema) 2000-03
Dissertation Reader for Elizabeth Durst (SLL) 1999-2003
Dissertation Advisor for Peter Huk (COLT) 1998-2003
Faculty Liaison to the UVa Russian House 1995-1996
Departmental Service—UO
Nomination Committee Chair for Selection of COLT Head Winter 2016
Tenure Review Committee for COLT Faculty Member Fall 2015
Co-organizer of Symposium on Russian Literature and Culture in Memory of Professor
James Rice Spring 2014
Merit Review Committee COLT Spring 2014
Contract Renewal Committee COLT Winter 2014
Co-organizer of REEES Graduate Symposium Spring 2013 & 2015
Tenure Review Committee Clark Honors College Spring 2012-Fall 2012
Co-organizer of Conference on Russian and East European Arts, Word Stage Spring 2012
COLT Speaker’s Committee Fall 2011-Fall 2012
COLT Graduate Committee Spring 2010-Fall 2012
REESC Undergraduate Fellowship Committee Spring 2010
Consultative Committee Chair for Selection of REESC Director Spring 2010
European Studies Committee 2007-2009, 2014-present
Oregon Humanities Center Advisory Board Fall 2006-2009
COLT Graduate Curricular Review Committee Fall 2006-Spring 2007
COLT Undergraduate Curricular Review Committee Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Organizer of Oregon Brodsky Symposium Fall 2006
Search Committee for Literature Position at Clark Honor’s College Fall 2006-Winter 2007
Tenure Review Committee for COLT Faculty Member Fall 2006
Summer Advising (REESC) 2005, 2009, 2012-present
REESC Committee Fall 2004-present
REESC Russian Committee Fall 2003-Spring 2004
Departmental Service—USC & UVa
Selection Committee for COLT Chair 2002-2003
Comp. Lit. Merit Review Committee Spring 2002 & 2003
Slavic Graduate Studies Committee Spring 1998 & 2001-2003
Comp. Lit. Graduate Studies Committee 2001-2003
Lawrence C. Welch Comparative Literature Essay Prize Committee Spring 2000
Organizer of Lecture Series for the Slavic Dept. 1999-2000
Consultative Committee for the Selection of a Slavic Chair Fall 1999
Comp. Lit. Undergraduate Studies Committee Fall 1998-1999
Slavic Merit Review Committee Spring 1998, 2002 & 2003
Search Committee for Tenure-Track Position in Slavic Linguistics 1998-1999
Seminar for COLT Graduate Students on the Academic Job Market Fall 1998
Search Committee for Tenure-Track Position in Russian Literature 1997-1998
Seminar for Slavic Graduate Students on the Academic Job Market Fall 1997
Search Committee for Replacement Position in Russian Literature Summer 1997
Representative of Slavic Department at Majors Fair Fall 1996 & 1997
Critical Theory Discussion Group for Slavic Graduate Students 1996-1997
Russian Language Committee 1995-1996
Study Abroad Committee 1995-1996
University Service—UO
University Library Committee Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Director of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Summer 2013-present
Board Member of the Oregon Consortium of International Areas Studies Summer 2013-
present
Off-Campus Scholarships & Grants Committee 2005-2007
University Service—USC
Faculty Fellow to USC Residence Hall 2002-2003
USC Ambassador 2001-2003
Co-organizer of Exhibition on Russian Decadence at IMRC October 1999
Interviewer for Trustee/ Presidential Scholars Spring 1998, 1999 & 2002
Freshman Orientation Summer 1997 & 1998
Judge for Russian Olympiad Spring 1998
Search Committee Liaison to the Provost’s Office 1997-1998
Service to the Profession and the Community
Member of the Advisory Board of the Multicultural Children’s Art Museum & Education
Center, Eugene, OR 2016-present
Associate Editor of Comparative Literature 2010-present
Manuscript Reviewer for Comparative Literature, Northwestern University Press, Slavic and
East European Journal, Russian Review, and Slavic Review
Organizer of AAASS Panels on “Dreams, Illusions, and Russian Modernist Aesthetics”
(2010), “Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents in Russian Modernism” (2003), “Decadence
and Degeneration in Russian Culture” (2001), “Rethinking Alexander Blok” (2000), and
“Women in Russian Symbolism: Between Signifier and Signified” (1998), and
Co-organizer of AAASS Panel on “The Family Romance of Russian Modernist Poetry” (2002)
Abstract Reviewer for AATSEEL Conference 1998-2003
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Near-Native Fluency in Russian
Fair Working Knowledge of Italian
Reading Knowledge French, German, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, and Old Church Slavonic
REFERENCES
David M. Bethea
Vilas Research Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: (608) 262-9766
Email: dmbethea@wisc.edu
Eliot Borenstein
Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies
New York University
19 University Place, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003
Tel: (212) 998-8676
Email: eb7@nyu.edu
Clare Cavanagh
Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies
Northwestern University
4-130 Crow Hall
1860 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2163
Tel: (847) 467-2360
Email: ccavanagh5@northwestern.edu
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