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Julian W. Connolly Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Virginia

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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Virginia Cabell Hall 109 P.O. Box 400783 Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4783 Phone: (434) 924-3548; Fax: (434) 982-2744 E-mail: jwc4w@virginia.edu	211 2nd Street NW, Unit A Charlottesville, VA 22902 Telephone: (434) 296-8623

EDUCATION
Ph.D. A.M. A.B.	Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1977 Major: Russian Literature Dissertation: "The Poetry of Ivan Bunin" Advisors: Vsevolod Setchkarev and Kiril Taranovsky Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1974 Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1972

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1993 - 1983-1993 1977-1983 1973-1977	Professor, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia Associate Professor, Dept. of Slavic Langs. and Lits., University of Virginia Assistant Professor, Dept. of Slavic Langs. and Lits., University of Virginia Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

HONORS AND AWARDS

2005 2001 2000 2000 1999 1999 1998 1998 1998 1995 1995 1994 1993 1990 1988 1987 1985 1984 1984 1982 1981 1980 1979 1976 1972-1976

Mead Honored Faculty Award, University of Virginia University Seminar Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Small Research Grant, University of Virginia Distinguished Faculty Award, The Society of the Sound and the Fury, University of Virginia All-University Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Associateship, University of Virginia University Seminar Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Faculty Senate Teaching Initiative Award to develop web site for courses in Russian Literature, University of Virginia Short-Term Travel Grant for travel to Poland, International Research and Exchanges Board Short-Term Travel Grant for travel to Russia, International Research and Exchanges Board Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Associateship, University of Virginia Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Grant to prepare new course on East European Literature, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Virginia Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Associateship, University of Virginia Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Research Fellowship for recent Ph.D. recipients, American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University NDEA Title VI Fellowship, Harvard University Arthur Lehman Fellowship, Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa John Harvard Scholarship Harvard College Scholarship History and Literature Book Prize Detur Book Prize

PUBLICATIONS

Books Authored

The Intimate Stranger: Meetings with the Devil in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.: New York, 2001. Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and Other. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Ivan Bunin. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982.

Books Edited

The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Invitation to a Beheading: A Critical Companion. Northwestern University Press / AATSEEL Critical Companions to Russian Literature. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1997. Studies in Russian Literature in Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev. Edited with Sonia I. Ketchian. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1987.

Articles

“Dostoevskij’s Guide to Spiritual Epiphany in The Brothers Karamazov.” Studies in East European Thought 59 (2007): 39–54.     “Why are Nymphets ‘Demonic’?: Remarks on the Cultural Roots of Nabokov’s Lolita.” In The Real Life of Pierre Delalande.  Studies in Russian and Comparative Literature to Honor Alexander Dolinin. Stanford Slavic Specialities, vol. 34. Ed. David M. Bethea, Lazar Fleishman, and Alexander Ospovat. Stanford: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, 2007. 2: 674–86     “The Challenge of Interpreting and Decoding Nabokov: Strategies and Suggestions.”  Cycnos 24.1 (2007): 155–170.     “Nabokov, Pushkin, and Eugene Onegin.”  In Nabokofu Yakuchu Evugenii Onegin Chukai [Translation with Commentary of Nabokov’s Translation with Commentary of Eugene Onegin].  Ed. Honyaku No Shoso Kenkyukai [Research Group on “Aspects of Translation”].  Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Daigaku Daigakuin Bungakukenkyuka, 2007.     “The Brothers Karamazov.” In Masterplots II: Christian Literature.  Ed. John K. Roth.  4 vols.  Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2007.  2:229–32.     “Black and White and Dead All Over: Color Imagery in Nabokov’s Prose.”  Nabokov Studies 10 (2006): 1–14.       “Introduction: The Many Faces of Vladimir Nabokov.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov.  Ed. Julian W. Connolly.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.  1–8.     “The Major Russian Novels.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov.  Ed. Julian W. Connolly.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.  135–50.      “Ivan Bunin.”  Twentieth-Century Russian Émigré Writers.  Ed. Maria Rubins.  Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 317.  Detroit: Thomson–Gale, 2005.  50–62.   “Vladimir Nabokov.”  Twentieth-Century Russian Émigré Writers.  Ed. Maria Rubins.  Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 317.  Detroit: Thomson–Gale, 2005.  248–68.       “The Daedalus–Icarus Theme in Nabokov’s Fiction.”  In Nabokov at Cornell.  Ed. Gavriel Shapiro.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. 151–60.      “Metamorphosis of a Dreamer: From Dostoevsky’s ‘White Nights’ to Nabokov’s The Eye.” American Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists. Volume 2: Literature. Ed. Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2003. 31–38.         “The Quest for Self-Discovery in Gogol’s ‘Vii.’” Slavic and East European Journal 46.2 (2002): 253–67.       “The Daedalus–Icarus Theme in Nabokov’s Work.” In Nabokov at Cornell. Ed. Gavriel Shapiro. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. 151–60. "Nabokov's Approach to the Supernatural in the Early Stories." In Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin. Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 35. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. 21-34. "The 'Flutter of Fantasy' in Nabokov's Early Fiction." In Vladimir Nabokov-Sirine: les années européenes. Cahiers de l'emigration russe 5 (2000): 45-58. "The Quest for a Natural Melody in the Fiction of Vladimir Nabokov." In Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. Ed. Lisa Zunshine. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1999. 69-85. "Nabokov at 100." Introduction to Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives. Ed. Julian W. Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1-12. "Nabokov's (re)visions of Dostoevsky." In Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives. Ed. Julian W. Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 141-57. "A New 'Spirit of Negation': Danilov the Violist and the Image of the Devil in World Literature." American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists. Ed. Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake. Bloomington: Slavica, 1998. 41-51. "To See or Be Seen: The Function of the Gaze in Nabokov's Russian Fiction." And Meaning for a Life Entire: Festschrift for Charles A. Moser on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. Ed. Peter Rollberg. Bloomington: Slavica, 1998. 269-86. "Nabokov's Dialogue with Dostoevsky: Lolita and 'The Gentle Creature.'" Nabokov Studies 4 (1997): 15-36. "'Terra Incognita' i Priglashenie na kazn' Nabokova: bor'ba za svobodu voobrazheniia." Trans. T. Strelkova. In Nabokov: Pro et Contra. Lichnost' i tvorchestvo Vladimira Nabokova v otsenke russkikh i zarubezhnykh myslitelei i issledovatelei. Ed. B. Averin and M. Malikova. St. Petersburg: Izd. Russkogo Khristianskogo gumanitarnogo instituta. 1997. 354-63. [Translation of "Nabokov's 'Terra Incognita' and Invitation to a Beheading: The Struggle for Imaginative Freedom." Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 12 (1983): 55-65.] "Invitation to a Beheading: Nabokov's 'Violin in a Void.'" Invitation to a Beheading: A Critical Companion. Ed. Julian W. Connolly. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1997. 3-44. "The New Man as Object of Desire in Olesha's Envy." After the Watershed: Russian Prose, 1917-1927: Selected Essays. Ed. Nicholas Luker. Nottingham: Astra Press, 1996. 57-73. "Cincinnatus and Différance: Subversive Discourse in Invitation to a Beheading. In Nabokov at the Crossroads of Modernism and Postmodernism. Cycnos 12.2 (1995): 73-82. "'Nature's Reality' or Humbert's 'Fancy': Scenes of Reunion and Murder in Lolita." Nabokov Studies 2 (1995): 41-61. "Ania v strane chudes." In The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Vladimir E. Alexandrov. New York: Garland, 1995. 18-25. "King, Queen, Knave." In The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Vladimir E. Alexandrov. New York: Garland, 1995. 203-14. "Laughter in the Dark." In The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Vladimir E. Alexandrov. New York: Garland, 1995. 214-26. "Nabokov and Narrative Point of View: The Case of 'A Letter That Never Reached Russia.'" Nabokov Studies, 1 (1994): 9-20. "Zagadka rasskazchika v Priglashenii na kazn' V. Nabokova." In Russkaia literature XX veka: issledovaniia amerikanskikh uchenykh. Ed. Boris Averin and È. Nitraur (Elizabeth Neatrour). St. Petersburg: Petro-Rif, 1993. 446-57. "From Biography to Autobiography and Back: The Fictionalization of the Self in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight." Cycnos 10.1 (1993): 39-46. "The Play of Light and Shadow in 'The Fight.'" In A Small Alpine Form: Studies in Nabokov's Short Fiction. Ed. Charles Nicol and Gennady Barabtarlo. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1993. 25-37. "Inserted Texts in Ivan Bunin's Fiction." The Short Story in Russia 1900-1917. Ed. Nicholas Luker. Nottingham: Astra Press, 1991. 129-44. "Madness and Doubling: From Dostoevsky's The Double to Nabokov's The Eye." Russian Literature Triquarterly 24 (1991): 129-39. "The Otherworldly in Nabokov's Poetry." Russian Literature Triquarterly 24 (1991): 329-39. "Nabokov and the Fiction of Self-Begetting." In Literature and Exile. Ed. David Bevan. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature 4. Amsterdam, 1990. 55-66. "The Nineteenth Century: Between Realism and Modernism, 1880-1895." In The Cambridge History of Russian Literature. Ed. Charles Moser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 333-386. "Vladimir Nabokov's The Defense and the Legacy of Nikolai Gogol." Studies in Modern and Classical Language and Literature. Ed. Ruth M. Mésavage. Madrid: Orígenes, 1989. 131-38. "Nabokov's 'The Thunderstorm' and the Mock Epic." Russian Language Journal 43.145-46 (1989): 143-55. "Delusions or Clairvoyance? A Second Look at Madness in V. Nabokov's Fiction." In Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature. Ed. Arnold McMillin. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica 1989. 110-17. "Vladimir Nabokov and Valerij Brjusov: An Examination of a Literary Heritage." Die Welt der Slaven 33.1 (1988): 69-86. "Briusov's The Fiery Angel: By Love Possessed." Selecta 8 (1987): 102-108. "Boris Vakhtin's 'The Sheepskin Coat' and Nikolai Gogol's 'The Overcoat.'" In Studies in Russian Literature in Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev. Ed. Julian W. Connolly and S. Ketchian. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1987. 74-86. "Yevgeny Zamyatin." In Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Supplement. La Canada, California: Salem Press, 1987. 366-74. "The Russian Short Story 1880-1917." In The Russian Short Story: A Critical History. Ed. Charles Moser. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986. 103-46. Excerpt reprinted in Short Story Criticism, No. 28. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1998. "The Structure and Imagery of Pushkin's 'Imitations of the Koran.'" In New Studies in Russian Language and Literature. Ed. Anna Lisa Crone and Catherine V. Chvany. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1986. 59-72. "Nabokov and Dostoevski: The Case of Despair". In Dostoevski and the Human Condition After a Century. Ed. Alexej Ugrinsky et al. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986. 155 162. "Evgenii Zamyatin." In Critical Survey of Fiction: Foreign Language Series. La Canada, California: Salem Press, 1984. 866-876. "Bunin's Translations of Byron's Dramas: A Writer's Apprenticeship." Russian Language Journal 38.129-30 (1984): 93-100. This article also appeared as a supplement to American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, Vol. II, Literature. "Mikhail Lermontov." In Critical Survey of Poetry: Foreign Language Series. La Canada. California: Salem Press. Inc. 1984. 866-876. "Nabokov's 'Terra Incognita' and Invitation to a Beheading: The Struggle for Imaginative Freedom." Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 12 (1983): 55-65. "Nabokov and Zhukovsky." The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter 11 (1983): 43-47. "Through a Transforming Lens: Madness and Art in Nabokov's Fiction." Delta 17 (1983): 1 - 10. "The Function of Literary Allusion in Nabokov's Despair." Slavic and East European Journal 26.3 (Fall 1982): 302-313. "Ivan Bunin and the Middle East: A Poetic Encounter." Russian Language Journal 36.123 24 (Winter-Spring 1982): 123-132. Republished as "Ivan Bunin i Vostok: poeticheskaia vstrecha." Trans. N. Beliachkova and K. Viktorovskaia. In Ivan Bunin: Pro et Contra. Lichnost' i tvorchestvo I. A. Bunina v otsenke russkikh i zarubezhnykh myslitelei i issledovatelei. Ed. B. Averin et al. St. Petersburg: Izd. Russkogo Khristianskogo gumanitarnogo instituta. 2001. 552-61. "Pnin: The Wonder of Recurrence and Transformation." In Nabokov's `Fifth Arc': Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work. Ed. Charles Nicol and J. E. Rivers. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1982. 195-210. "Medium and Message: Oral Utterances in Melkij bes." Russian Literature 9.4 (1981): 357 368. "Desire and Renunciation: Buddhist Elements in the Prose of Ivan Bunin." Canadian Slavonic Papers 23.1 (Spring 1981): 11-20. Excerpts from this article are reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Edited by Sharon K Hall. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1982. "A Note on the Name 'Pnin.'" The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter 6 (1981): 32 33. "Bunin's 'Petlistye ushi': The Deformation of a Byronic Rebel." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 14.1 (1980): 52-61. "The Real Life of Zhorzhik Uranski." The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter 4 (1980): 35-37. With Catherine V. Chvany, 'Three Unpublished Letters of Ivan Bunin to N. P. Vakar." Russian Language Journal 34.118 (1980): 155-161. "A Modernist's Palette: Color in the Prose Fiction of Evgenij Zamjatin." Russian Language Journal 33.115 (1979): 82-98. "The Theme of Duality in Sologub's Tvorimaja legenda." Die Welt der Slaven 19-20 (1974-1975): 25-36.

Book Reviews and Review Essays

Dostoevsky's "The Idiot": A Critical Companion, ed. Liza Knapp. Slavic Review 58.4 (1999): 937-38. The World of Nabokov's Stories, by Maxim D. Shrayer. The Russian Review 58.4 (1999): 693-94. I>Russian Women's Shorter Fiction: An Anthology 1835-1860, ed. Joe Andrew. Slavic and East European Review 41.3 (1997): 501-3. Telling Silence: Russian Frame Naratives of Renunciation, by Charles Isenberg. Slavic and East European Journal 41.2 (1997): 358-59. Readings in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth Century, ed. Sandra F. Rosengrant and Elena D. Lifschitz. The Modern Language Journal 81.1 (1997): 139-40. The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction, by Michael Wood. Magill's Book Reviews. Dow-Jones Retrieval System, 1996. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, by Vladimir Nabokov. Magill's Literary Annual 1996. Vol. 2. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1996. 724-27. Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem, 1885-1920. A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Fiction, by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. Slavic and East European Journal 38.2 (Summer 1994): 377-79. Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the "First" Emigration, by Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour. Canadian-American Slavic Studies 27.1-4 (1993): 369-71. Vladimir Nabokov. The American Years, by Brian Boyd. Slavic and East European Journal 36.4 (1992): 514-16. Bohin Manor, by Tadeusz Konwicki. Magill's Literary Annual 1991. Vol. 1. Pasadena: Salem Press. 86-90. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova. Magill's Literary Annual 1991. Vol. 1 Pasadena: Salem Press, 1991. 165-69. Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago", by Angela Livingstone. The Modern Language Review 86.2 (1992): 544. Text and Context, Essays to Honor Nils Åke Nilsson. Slavic and East European Journal 34.1 (1990): 99-100. Pasternak's Novel: Perspectives on 'Doctor Zhivago', by Neil Cornwell. The Modern Language Review 84.2 (1989): 539-40. Problems of Nabokov's Poetics: A Narratological Analysis, by Pekka Tammi. The Modern Language Review 82.4 (1987): 1052-53. Worlds in Regression. Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov, by D. Barton Johnson. Slavic and East European Journal 30.2 (1986): 295-97.   The Burn, by Vassily Aksyonov. Magill's Literary Annual 1985. Vol. 1. Englewood Cliffs. N.J.: Salem Press, 1985. 68-73. The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov, by Laurie Clancy. Slavic Review 45.1 (1986): 165-166. Metropol. Literary Almanac. Magill's Literary Annual 1984. Vol. 2. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1984. 533-38. Vladimir Nabokov. A Critical Study of the Novels, by David Rampton. Russian Review 45.2 (1986): 221. Fiction and Drama in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, edited by Henrik Birnbaum and Thomas Eekman. Russian Language Journal 38.129-30 (1984): 293-95. The Doubles. Fantastic Stories, by Vladimir Mikhanovsky. The Modern Language Journal 67.3 (Autumn 1983): 305-6. An Anthology of Russian Neo-Realism: The "Znanie" School of Maxim Gorky, translated and edited by Nicholas Luker. The Modern Language Journal 67.1 (1983): 92. Ivan Bunin. A Study of His Fiction, by James B. Woodward. Slavic and East European Journal 25.1 (1981): 101-3. Complete Short Stories by Andrei Bely, translated and introduced by Ronald Peterson. The Modern Language Journal 65.1 (1981): 81-82. Chekhov's Art of Writing: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Paul Debreczeny and Thomas Eekman. The Modern Language Journal 63.5-6 (1979): 319. Nabokov: The Dimensions of Parody, by Dabney Stuart. South Atlantic Bulletin 44.4 (1979): 66-67. Poèzija Bunina. Ètjudy, by V. V. Nefedov. Slavic and East European Journal 22.1 (1978): 87-88.

Miscellaneous

Revision of article entitled "Russian Long Fiction" for Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition, ed. Carl Rollyson (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2000). Articles on Nikolay Gogol's collection, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, and on Vladimir Nabokov's novels, The Defense and Despair, for the Reference Guide to Russian Literature, ed. Neil Cornwell (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998), pp. 332-33, 564-66. Two articles (with annotated bibliography) on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. In Exploring Novels. CD-ROM Edition. Gale Research Inc., 1997. "Dark Avenues." In Masterplots II: Short Story, Supplement. Ed. Frank N. Magill. 4 vols. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1996: 3053-55. Articles on The Cowards, The Defense, The Double, The Gift, Mary, The Memorandum. In Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II. Edited by Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990. 349 50, 384-85, 419-20, 581-82, 981-82, 995-96. Review Essays on Anton Chekhov's "The Gentleman from San Francisco," "Gusev," "The Lady with the Dog," "The Man in a Case," "Twenty-six Men and a Girl," "Ward No. 6," for Masterplots II. Short Stories. Edited by Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1986. Introduction to 'The Final Martyrs' by Valeri Briusov, translated by V. Wozniuk. Virginia Literary Review 1.2 (1979): 29.

PAPERS AND LECTURES

"Black and White and Dead All Over: Color Imagery in Nabokov's Prose." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December 2001. "Fluid Identities and Hazardous Substitutions in Dostoevsky's The Gambler." XI Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society, Baden-Baden, Germany, October 2001. Three Visions of Personal Dignity: Berberova, Bunin, Nabokov." International Berberova Colloquium, Arles, France, October 2001. "Pushkin and the Spirit of Seduction." Duke University, April 2001. "Revelation and Renunciation in Gogol's 'Vii'." Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Annual Conference, Alexandria,Virginia, March 2001. "The Quest for Self-Discovery in Gogol's 'Vii.'" Sixth International Council for Central and East European Studies World Conference, Tampere, Finland, August 2000. "The Flight of Daedalus and Icarus in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov." Vladimir Nabokov International Centennial Conference, Cambridge, England, July 1999. "Vladimir Nabokov and the Creative Legacy of F. M. Dostoevsky." International Conference on V. V. Nabokov in Russian and World Literature, Moscow, Russia, April 1999. "Nabokov and Dostoevsky: From Mary to Lolita." Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Richmond, Virginia, March 1999. "'Broken to Bits': Nabokov Rewrites Dostoevsky." Vladimir Nabokov Centenary Festival, Cornell University, September 1998. A New 'Spirit of Negation': Danilov the Violist and the Image of the Devil in World Literature." Twelfth International Congress of Slavists, Cracow, Poland, August 1998. "Points of Tension in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment." Presented for two Advanced Placement English classes at Woodberry Forest Preparatory School, February 1998. "Cultural Icons in Conflict: Lolita and 'The Gentle Creature.'" Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1997. "Nabokov's Dialogue with Dostoevsky: Lolita and 'Krotkaia.'" Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Association of Slavic Studies, Albuquerque, April 1997. "The 'Flutter of Fantasy' in Vladimir Nabokov's Early Fiction." International Nabokov Colloquium, Paris, France, November 1996. "Spirits and Sprites in the Early Stories of Vladimir Nabokov." Rocky Mountain Association of Slavic Studies Annual Conference, Sparks, Nevada, April 1996. "Cincinnatus and Différance: Subversive Discourse in Invitation to a Beheading." International Colloquium on Vladimir Nabokov, Nice, France, June 1995. "The 'Author-Hero' Relationship in Vladimir Nabokov's Fiction: A Bakhtinian Perspective." Seventh International Bakhtin Conference, Moscow, Russia, June 1995. "Gogol's Magic Circle: Narrative Defenses Against the Demonic in the Dikanka Tales." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Meeting, San Diego, December 1994. "An Afternoon with Vladimir Nabokov." Governor's Academy, James Madison University, Summer 1994. "`Nature's Reality' or 'Humbert's Fancy'?: Scenes of Reunion and Murder in Lolita." American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Diego, June 1994. "`Who's Who in Humbertland: Creation of Identity in Lolita." National Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, November 1993. "Vladimir Nabokov -- Russian-American Writer." Governor's Academy, James Madison University, Summer 1993. Nabokov and Narrative Point of View." National Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Phoenix, November 1992. "From Biography to Autobiography and Back: The Fictionalization of the Narrated Self." International Colloquium on Vladimir Nabokov, Nice, France, June 1992. "Soviet Film: Recent Perspectives and Outlook." Presentation at the Governor's Academy, James Madison University, Summer 1992. "Nabokov and the Fiction of Self-Begetting." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1991. "The Power Behind the Throne: Author and Character in Nabokov's King, Queen, Knave." National Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Miami, November 1991. Russian Translations of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland." University of Virginia, September 1991. Presentation on Soviet film for seminar on "The Soviet Union in Turmoil." University of Virginia, November 1991. "Nabokov and the Fiction of Self-Begetting." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association. San Francisco, December 1991. "Contemporary Developments in Soviet Film." Presentation in a seminar entitled "The Soviet Union in Crisis," University of Virginia, June 1991. "Contemporary East European Literature and Film." Seminar for Community College Faculty. Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, Virginia, July 1990. "Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading: The Narrator Interrogated." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 1989. "Author or Character: The Quest for Identity in Nabokov's Fiction." Twenty-Eighth Annual Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1989. "Nabokov and Gogol: Evidence in The Defense." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Twentieth National Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 1988. "Vladimir Nabokov and the Legacy of Nikolai Gogol." Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, Winter Park, Florida, February 1988. "Lolita, Butterflies, and Cosmic Synchronization." University of Virginia, December, 1987. "Valery Briusov's The Fiery Angel: By Love Possessed." Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages Annual Meeting, Seattle, May, 1987. "'Through a Glass Darkly': Perception and Delusion in Nabokov's Prose." Given at conference entitled "The Legacy of Vladimir Nabokov: A Conference Commemorating The Tenth Anniversary of His Death." Yale University, New Haven, February 1987. "Briusov's The Fiery Angel." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November, 1986. "Nabokov's 'The Thunderstorm' and the Mock Epic." Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, Winter Park, Florida, February 1986. "The Otherworldly in the Poetry of Vladimir Nabokov." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 1985. "Delusions or Clairvoyance?: A Second Look at Madness in V. Nabokov's Work." Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Washington, D.C., October 1985. "Vladimir Nabokov's Fictional Universe." James Madison University, May 1985. "Nabokov and the Russian Symbolists." Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, Winter Park, Florida, February, 1985. "Nikolaj Gogol' at the Metropol¿." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 1984. "Madness and Art in Nabokov's Fiction." Harvard University, April 1984. "Nature and Spirituality in the Works of Anton Chekhov." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Annual Meeting, New York, December 1983. "Madness and Doubling: From Dostoevsky's The Double to Nabokov's The Eye." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Fifteenth National Convention, Kansas City, October 1983. "Bunin's Translations of Byron's Dramas: A Poetic Apprenticeship." Ninth International Congress of Slavists, Kiev, U.S.S.R., September 1983. "Nabokov's 'Terra Incognita' and Invitation to a Beheading." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Meeting, December 1982. "Ivan Bunin and the Realist Tradition." International Symposium on Russian Realism 1880 1920, Northwestern University, October 1982. "The Fusion of Art and Memory: Ivan Bunin's Triumph Over Oblivion." Tenth Annual Conference on Twentieth-Century Literature, Louisville, Kentucky, February 1982. "To Live for the Moment: Ivan Bunin's Late Love Stories." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Meeting, New York, New York, December 1981. "Russian Voices in Nabokov's Despair." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Thirteenth National Convention, Monterey, California, September 1981. "Nabokov and Dostoevski: The Case of Despair." International Dostoevski Symposium. Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, April 1981. "Zhizn' Arsen'eva: The Victory of Art Over Death." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, December 1980. "Language as Medium and Message in Sologub's Melkij bes." Second World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Federal Republic of Germany, October 1980. "The Middle East in Bunin's Poetry." Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Nineteenth Annual Meeting, College Park, Maryland, September 1980. "Sense and Nonsense: The Language of Melkij bes." Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. Eighteenth Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1979. "'The Night of Renunciation' -- Aspects of Bunin's Prose in the Twenties." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Meeting, New York, New York, December 1978. "Ivan Bunin and the Decadents." Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 1978 "Color in the Prose Fiction of Evgenij Zamjatin." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Tenth National Convention, Columbus, Ohio, October 1978. "Bunin and Byron: The Theme of the Rebel." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington. Kentucky, April 1978. Structures of Duality in Fedor Sologub's Tvorimaja legenda." New England Slavic Association, April 1978.

 

COURSES TAUGHT
University of Virginia	1977&endash;present
Undergraduate
USEM 171 USEM 181 RUSS 201-202 RUSS 301-302 RUTR 273/373 RUTR 335 RUTR 336 RUTR 346 RUTR 391 RUTR 391 RUTR 391 RUTR 395 RUSS 453S RUSS 492	Images of Fatherhood in Russian Culture Defining Evil: The Russian Perspective Second-year Russian Third-year Russian Dostoevsky l9th-Century Russian Lit. in Translation 20th-Century Russian Lit. in Translation Russian & East European Drama The Devil in Russian Lit. Contemporary East European Lit. in Translation Russian & East European Film Nabokov Vvedenie v russkuju literaturu Vvedenie v russkuju literaturu dvadcatogo veka
Graduate
RUSS 552 RUSS 553 RUSS 555 RUSS 556 RUSS 558 RUSS 573 RUSS 575 RUSS 592 RUSS 701 RUSS 729 RUSS 732 RUSS 793	Rise of the Russian Novel The Golden Age of Russian Poetry The Silver Age of Russian Poetry Soviet Literature Russian Prose from 1881-1917 Dostoevsky Russian Poetry The Female Protagonist in Russian Literature Proseminar in Russian Literature Old Russian Literature Gogol Nabokov
Harvard University 1973 - 1977	Teaching Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Slavic 150 Slavic 155 Slavic 157 Sophomore Tutorial in Russian Literature	Survey of Russian Literature Dostoevsky Tolstoy

ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICE

National

Member of AAASS, AATSEEL, MLA, SAMLA, SCSS President, Vladimir Nabokov Society, 1988-89 Vice President, Vladimir Nabokov Society, 1986-87 Member, Executive Committee, Vladimir Nabokov Society, 1989-1998 President, Nikolai Gogol Society, 1987 Vice President, the Nikolai Gogol Society, 1986 Member, Editorial Board, Slavic and East European Journal, 1994-99 Member, Publications Committee, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 1992-96 Referee for PMLA, Russian Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Slavic Review, Nabokov Studies, Mosaic, Studies in the Novel, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature and the National Endowment for the Humanities Editorial Consultant for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Penn State Press, Peter Lang Publishing, University of Florida Press, University of Washington Press,Yale University Press Outside Consultant for promotion and tenure evaluations: Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College, Northwestern University, Princeton University, University of Missouri, University of Rochester, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Member of American Councils for International Education ACTR/ACCELS Research Scholar Selection Committee, 2001

University of Virginia

Chairman, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1988-1993, 2001-present Graduate Advisor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1980-1988, 1998-2001 Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1979-80 Member, Faculty Senate, 1997-present Member, Executive Committee, Faculty Senate, 2000-present Member, Executive Council, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1996-98 Chair, Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1995 96 Literature Committee Coordinator, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1982-1993, 1994- Faculty Associate (Lower Division Faculty Advisor), College of Arts and Sciences, 1977-79, 1986-87, 1994-98 Faculty Secretary, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1977-78, 1980-81 Coordinator of Third-year Russian, 1981-84 Coordinator of Second-year Russian, 1977-78, 1980-81 Member, Faculty Committee on Special Programs, 1985-1989, 1994-96 Chair, Faculty Committee on Special Programs, 1987-88 Member, Executive Committee, Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1986-1993 Member, University Committee on Comparative Programs in Literature and Culture, 1988-present Member, Steering Committee, Interdisciplinary Program in Political and Social Thought, 1991-1993 Faculty Fellow, Brown College at Monroe Hill, 1986-1997 Faculty Honor Advisor, 1979-86 Member, Phi Beta Kappa Book Award Committee, 2001 Member, University Self-Study Committee on Non-Traditional Students, 1994-95 Member, University Team for MLA Teacher Education Project, 1995-96. Campus Representative, Cooperative Russian Language Program, Council on International Educational Exchange, 1979-80, 1989-present Chair, Literature Curriculum Committee, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1977-79, 1982-87, 1994-present University Representative to Symposium on Funding for Foreign Languages and International Studies in the 1980s, University of South Carolina, 1980

Harvard University

Resident Tutor in Slavic at Kirkland House Member of House Fellowship Committee Sponsor, Russian Table in Kirkland House Sponsor, Literature Table in Kirkland House Freshman Proctor and Resident Advisor, Harvard College Member, Student-Faculty Committee in Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Revised: January 2002

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