Kevin McKenna Curriculum Vitae
Kevin
J. McKenna
Curriculum Vitae May, 2009EDUCATION:Ph.D. Degree 1977, University of Colorado: Slavic Languages and Literatures
M.A. Degree 1971, University of Colorado: Russian Literature
B.A. Degree 1970, Oklahoma State University (OSU): Humanities
NDEA Intensive Slavic Language Institutes at the University of Kansas and Leningrad State
University, 1968, 1969, 1970
Dissertation Title: Catherine the Great's ‘Vsiakaia Vsiachina’ and The ‘Spectator’ Tradition
of the Satirical Journal of Morals and Manners
RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS: Recipient
of the Robert V. Daniels Award for Outstanding Contributions to the
Field of International Studies, May 7, 2009
Nominee for Kroepsch-Maurice Outstanding Teacher Award, 2009/2010
U.S.
State Department grant ($350,000.00) “Karelia/Vermont Sustainable
Development Partnership, 2007-2010.” Co-Principal Investigator with
Prof. Pat Stokowski.
Named as UVM Woodrow Wilson Fellow for "Scholars as Teachers," 2000-2001
Named as UVM Service-Learning Faculty Fellow, 2000-2001
Principal
Investigator for Department of Education Undergraduate International
Studies and Foreign Language Program Grant (application not funded)
A&S
Dean’s Fund Grant to Conduct Research on my Book at the New York Public
and Harvard University Libraries, 1997-1998 ($1500.)
"A
Cross-College Endeavor: Development and Preparation for a Business
School/International Studies Course on The Culture of Doing Business in
Russia and Eastern Europe," UVM Instructional Incentive Grant,1995-1996
($1,300.)
"Building Russian into the Business Curriculum and
Business into the Russian Studies Program," UVM Instructional Incentive
Grant, 1994-1995 ($3560.)
UVM Kidder Award Nominee, 1994
UVM Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Teaching Excellence, 1992-1993.
UVM Nominee for CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Professor of the Year Award, 1992-1993.
UVM Kroepsch-Maurice Nominee for Teaching Excellence, 1989, 1990, 1991.
University
of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant: "Perspectives in Comparative
Russian and American Civilizations and Cultures." 1989-1990.
University
of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant: "Readings in the Soviet
Press: 'Glasnost', 'Restructuring' and Images of the United States in
the Gorbachev Era." 1988-1989.
National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend: "Changing Images of the United States
in Pravda Political Cartoons," 1988.
Kaltenborn Foundation Award
to continue research on my book: All The Views Fit To Print: Changing
Images of the United States in Pravda Political Cartoons--1917-1992,
1986 & 1987.
University of Vermont Committee on Research and
Scholarship Grant: "All the Views Fit to Print: Changing Images in
Pravda Political Cartoons During the Detente and Post-Detente Years,"
1985-1986.
University of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant:
"The View From Red Square: Political Cartoons in Soviet Newspapers,"
1984-1985.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Grant for
Research and Writing of Reading Russian (co-author), Ohio State
University, Summer, 1984.
U.S. Office of Education "Developing International Perspectives" Grant, Summer, 1983.
University of Utah Faculty Research Grant, 1983-1984.
NDEA Title VI Fellowships: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972.
TEACHING and JOB-RELATED EXPERIENCE:Director, Area & International Studies Program, University of Vermont, 1989-2007.
Chair, Provost’s International Advisory Council, 1996-1997; 1998-2001.
Special Advisor to the UVM President, UVM, 1995-1997.
Faculty Director, UVM “Russian House,” 2005-2010
Professor of Russian, University of Vermont, 2001-present.
Associate Professor of Russian, University of Vermont, 1990-2000.
Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Vermont, 1984-1990.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Utah, 1981-1984.
Resident Director, CIEE Russian Language Program at Leningrad State Univ., 1980-81.
Visiting Lecturer in Russian, University of Colorado, 1979-1980.
U.S. Information Agency Cultural Exhibit Foreign Service Officer for the following itinerant exhibits in the USSR:
(a) "Technology and the American Home," 1975-1976.
(b) "USA Bicentennial Exhibit," 1976.
Instructor of Russian at the following scientific institutes:
(a) National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder, Colorado, 1973-1975, 1977-1978.
(b) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency: Environmental Research Laboratory; Boulder,
Colorado, 1973-1975,1977-1979.
(c) U.S.Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center; 1974-1975, 1977-1979.
Official Russian Language Interpreter at these Conferences:
(a) Second International Symposium on Mineral Engineering and Metallurgy, Vail, Colorado, 1974.
(b) International Cloud Physics Conference; Boulder, Colorado, 1976
(c) World Meteorological Organization Conference on Weather Modification, Boulder, Colorado, 1976.
PUBLICATIONS--BOOK:The
Proverbial “Pied Piper”: A Festschrift Volume of Essays in Honor of
Wolfgang Mieder On the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, editor
(New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2009), 307 pp.
All the Views
Fit to Print: Changing Images of the U.S. in Pravda Political Cartoons,
1917-1991 (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2001), 256 pp.
[reviewed in Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 48, no. 1, Spring,
2004, pp. 140-141.]
Proverbs in Russian Literature: From
Catherine the Great to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Monograph Supplement
Series of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship,
1998, edited with an introduction by Kevin J. McKenna,, 113 pp.
[reviewed in Revue Des Etudes Slaves, vol. LXXVI (2005), fascicule 2-3,
Sorbonne, Paris, pp. 351-355.
Reading Russian Newspapers,
co-authored with Alexander Nakhimovsky and Anelya Rugaleva, The Center
for Slavic & East European Studies, Ohio State University, 1985.
PUBLICATIONS—BOOKS IN PROGRESS:The Role of Russian Proverbs in the Prose Fiction of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (2 chapters written, 6 remaining).
A
History of Proverbial Wisdom in Russian Literature: From the Middle
Ages to Post-Modernism. (I am conducting research on 12 Russian
authors for this book, and have already written two chapters.)
An
Intermediate-/Advanced-Level Handbook of Russian Word Roots: A Mnemonic
Keyword Approach to Learning Russian Vocabulary (a textbook intended
for inter-mediate and advanced-level students of the Russian language
with English-Latinic corresponding roots; word-root exercises; examples
from the Russian news media).
PUBLICATIONS--ARTICLES:“Proverbs
and the Folk Tale in Russian Cinema: An Analysis of Sergei Eisenstein’s
Film Classic Aleksandr Nevsky, in The Proverbial “Pied Piper: A
Festschrift Volume of Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Mieder On the
Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by Kevin J. McKenna (New
York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2009), pp. 277-292; reprinted in
Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, vol. 26
(2009), pp. 217-236.
“Preface” to The Proverbial “Pied
Piper: A Festschrift Volume of Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Mieder On
the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by Kevin J. McKenna
(New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2009), pp. xiii-xvi.
“Didactics
and the Proverb: The Case of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Literary Memoirs,
The Oak and the Calf,” Proverbium, vol. 25 (2008), pp. 289-317.
“’Poshlust’,
Syllogisme Hegelien Et Proverbe: Une approche paremiologique du roman
de Vladimir Nabokov Rire dans la nuit,”Revue des Etudes Slaves
(Sorbonne, Paris), vol. LXXVI (2005) fascicule 2-3, pp. 325-337;
reprinted in English translation: “Poshlust’, Hegelian Syllogism, and
the Proverb: A Paremiological Approach to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel,
Laughter in the Dark,” Proverbium, vol. 24 (2007), pp. 245-260.
“If
a Claw Gets Stuck, The[Whole] Bird is Lost”: Proverb Function in Leo
Tolstoy’s Play The Power of Darkness,” Res Humanae Proverbiorum et
Sententiarum: Ad Honorem Wolfgangi Mieder. ed. by Csaba Foldes.
Unter Narr Verlag, Tubingen, 2004, pp. 197-204.
“Proverbs and the Poet: A Paremiologic Analysis of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago,” Proverbium, vol. 21 (2004), pp. 137-159.
“A
Nation Adrift: The Russian ‘Ship of State’ in Pravda Political Cartoons
During the Decade of the 1990’s,” Proverbium, vol. 20 (2003), pp.
237-258.
“Politics and the Proverb: A Retrospective of
Pravda Political Cartoons in the 1990’s,” Proverbium, vol. 19 (2002),
pp. 225-252; reprinted in Cognition, Comprehension, and Communication:
A Decade of North American Proverb Studies 1990-2000, ed. Wolfgang
Mieder (Baltmannsweiler, Germany: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, 2003).
“'Fishing
in Muddy Waters'": Vladimir Putin Takes on Russia's Twentieth-Century
Proverbial 'Oligarchs,’" Proverbium, vol. 18, (2001), pp. 219-230.
“Changing
Images of the U.S. in Pravda Political Cartoons at the End of the 20th
Century: From ‘Glasnost’ to ‘Democratic Capitalism,’” in The Image of
the 20th Century in Literature, Media, and Society, ed. Will Wright and
Stephen Kaplan (Pueblo, Colorado: The Society for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Social Imagery, 2000), pp. 301-309.
“Propaganda and
the Proverb: An Analysis of ‘Big Fish Eat Little Fish’ in Pravda
Political Cartoons,” Proverbium, volume 17, (2000), pp. 217-242.
“’One
Does Not Dispute a Proverb, Argue with a Fool, or with the Truth’: An
Introduction to the Use of Proverbs in Russian Literature,” in Proverbs
in Russian Literature: From Catherine the Great to Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, ed. Kevin J. McKenna (Burlington, Vermont: Monograph
Supplement Series of Proverbium, (1998), pp. 1-6.
“‘Poslovitsa—Vvek
ne slomitsya: The Proverb as Linguo-Cultural Medium in American Russian
Language Textbooks,” Russian Language Journal, LIV (1999), pp.
21-38.
“Proverbial Wisdom of an Enlightened Empress:
Russian Proverbs in Catherine the Great’s O, Vremia!,” Proverbium ,
volume 15 (1998), pp. 163-178.
"Proverbs and the Empress: The
Role of Russian Proverbs in Catherine the Great's Vsiakaia Vsiachina,"
in Katharina II. Eine russische Schriftstellerin, ed. by F. K. Göpfert,
(Wilhemhorst: Verlag, 1996), pp. 61-80; (reprinted in Proverbs in
Russian Literature: From Catherine the Great to Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
ed. by Kevin J. McKenna; and in Literary Criticism, volume 69, ed. by
Larry Trudeau (Warren, Michigan: The Gale Group, 2001).
"Proverbs and Perestroika: An Analysis of Pravda Headlines, 1988-1991," Proverbium, vol. 13 (1996), pp. 215-233.
“Rol’
poslovits v kurse obucheniya russkogo yazyka,” [Russian Folklore
Language], ed. Z. K. Tarlanov (Petrozavodsk: Izdatel’stvo
petrozavodskogo universiteta, 1996), pp. 78-90, [translation of my 1991
RLJ article, “’Na poslovitsu ni suda ni raspravy’: The Role of
Proverbs in the Russian Language Curriculum,” requested by Prof.
Tarlanov to be included in his book of essays.]
"Catherine
the Great," Dictionary of Russian Women Writers (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1994), 2 vols., ed. Mary F. Zirin, pp. 117-120.
"'Na
poslovitsu ni suda ni raspravy': The Role of Proverbs in the Russian
Language Curriculum," Russian Language Journal, XLV, Nos. 151-152,
1991, pp. 17-37; [Translated in Iazyk russkogo fol’klora: sbornik
nauchnykh trudov , Petrozavodsk, 1996, pp. 78-90.]
"George
Sand's Reception in Russia: The Case of Elena Gan," The World of George
Sand, ed. Natalie Datloff, et. al., (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press,
1991), pp. 227-233.
"The 'Cowboy President': Changing Images of
President Ronald Reagan in Pravda Political Cartoons," Manhattan Comic
News, September, 1990, pp. 9-ll.
"New Trends
in Pravda Political Cartoons," American Association of Teachers of
Slavic and East European Languages Newsletter, May 1990, p. 22;
October, 1990, p. 4.
"The Reagan Presidency in Pravda Political Cartoons," AATSEEL Newsletter, February 1990, pp. 22-23.
"Associative Mnemonics in Russian Vocabulary Building," Russian Language Journal, XLIII, Nos. 145-146, 1989, pp. 37-59.
"New Trends in Pravda Political Cartoons," AATSEEL Newsletter, October 1989, pp.30-31; December 1989, pp.18-19.
"Empress
Behind the Mask: The Persona of Md. Vsiakaia Vsiachina in Catherine the
Great's Periodical Essays on Manners and Morals, "Neophilologus, Fall
(1989), pp.1-11.
"Pravda Cartoons Reflect Changing Moods of US-Soviet Relations," The Soviet Observer, (March 31, 1989), p.10.
"Political
Cartooning in Pravda," AATSEEL Newsletter, October 1988 (pp.17-19);
November 1988 (p. 18); February 1989 (pp. 18-19); May 1989 (p. 18).
"Pravda's Self-Criticism Cartoons," AATSEEL Newsletter, February 1988 (pp. 12-13).
"Russia Revisited: A Cultural Update to the Marquis de Custine's Journey for Our Time," Selecta, vol.8 (1987), pp. 109-114.
"Elena Gan," Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature, vol.8 (1987), 101-105.
"Reading
Russian Expository Prose: the Role of Functional and Derivational
Grammar in Textual and Lexical Analysis," Russian Language Journal,
XXXIX, No.131, 1985, pp. 29-35. Reprinted in: Russian Without a
Dictionary, ed. Frank Ingram, East Lansing, Michigan, 1985, pp. 23-29.
"Ezhemesiachnye sochineniia," Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature, vol. 7, 1984, pp. 125-126.
"The
Contextual Method: An Innovative Method for Attracting Science Majors
to Our Language Programs," Applied Language Study: New Observations,
New Methods. University Press of America, 1984, pp. 62-68.
"'Truth'
Comes to the College Campus: Pravda's Contribution to Russian
Enrollment," Russian Language Journal, XXXVII, No.128, 1983, pp. 35-39.
"Teaching
a Civilization Course: Perspectives in Comparative Russian and American
Civilizations," Bulletin of the ADFL, March, 1983, pp. 62-63.
"Teaching a Course on the Soviet Press," Russian Language Journal, XXXV, No.121-122, 1981, pp. 15-18.
"Teaching Russian to Scientists: A Single Skill Approach, "Slavic and East European Journal, Vol.24, No. 4, 1980, pp. 400-411.
MANUSCRIPT REVIEW:“Allusions
to Hoffmann in Gogol’s Ukrainian Horror Stories from the Dikan’ka
Collection,” (the editor of The Canadian Slavonic Papers has requested
that I write a review of this article for possible inclusion in the
journal, February, 2009; 29 pp.)
What Goes Around Comes Around:
The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life, edited by Kimberly J.
Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick (Logan, Utah: Utah State
University Press, 2004), 190 pp.
BOOK REVIEWS:The
Large Dictionary of Russian Proverbial Expressions, V. M. Mokienko and
T. G. Nikitina (Moscow: OLMA Media Group, 2008), 784 pp. To
appear in
Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, vol. 26 (2009), pp.
The
Politics of Proverbs: From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial
Stereotypes, by Wolfgang Mieder (Madison, WI.: The University of
Wisconsin Press, 1997), pp. 260. Proverbium: Yearbook of
International Proverb Scholarship, vol. 24 (2007), pp. 449-454.
What
Goes Around, Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary
Life, edited by Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick
(Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2004), 190 pp., Acta
Ethnographica Hungarica: An International Journal of Ethnography, vol.
52, (2007), no. 1, 62-64.
Shkol’nyi slovar’ zhivykh
russkikh poslovits, ed. V. Mokienko (Sankt Peterburg: “Neva,” 2002),
350 pp. Proverbium, vol. 21 (2004), pp. 451-454.
Soviet and
Russian Press Coverage of the United States, Jonathan Becker (London:
Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002). European Journal of Communications, vol. 18,
no. 4, pp. 532-534.
"A Barking Dog...":Russian Through
Proverbs. By Igor Dmitriev. Read by Vitaly Shamov
(Russian Text and Soundtrack on Video). Arlington, Virginia:
Interlingua Audio-Books, 1992 , Proverbium, pp. 397-399.
A
Proverb a Day Keeps Boredom Away. Anna T. Litovkina.
Illustrated by Oleg Dobrovol'skij, Proverbium, vol. 18, (2001),
pp. 433-436.
7777: Sbornik starinnykh i novykh poslovits,
pogovorok, zagadok, velerizmov, etc., V. Chernelev, comp., Proverbium,
vol. 18, (2001), vol. 17, 2000, pp. 439-440.
The Comparative
Russian-English Dictionary of Russian Proverbs and Sayings, Peter
Mertvago, Proverbium, vol. 15, (1998), pp. 433-435.
Grammatika v
kontekste/Russian Grammar in Literary Contexts, Benjamin Rifkin, Slavic
and East European Journal, vol. 40, No. 3 Fall, 1996, pp. 147-149.
The Random House Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms, comp. Sophia Lubensky, 1995, Proverbium, vol. 13, 1996, pp. 373-375).
Russkie
poslovitsy i pogovorki: uchebnyi slovar' [Russian Proverbs and
Proverbial Expressions: A Learner's Dictionary], V.I. Zimin, et. al.,
Moscow: "Shkola-Press, 1994, Proverbium, vol. 13, 1996, pp.
409-410.
The Perception of English Literature in
Russia, Yu. D. Levin, Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 39,
No. 2, Summer, 1995 pp. 283-284.
Russkie poslovitsy Litvy : iz
sobraniia Elizavety Kolesnikovoi [Russian Proverbs of Lithuania: From
the Collection of Elizaveta Kolesnikova], ed. by Iu. A. Novikov and T.
S. Shadrina. Vilnius: Vaga, 1992, Proverbium, vol. 11 (1994), pp.
315-316.
Slushai, chitai, smotri--govorim! (Listen Read, Look,
Then Speak!), O. Rudnenko-Morgun, T. Vasilyeva, Slavic and East
European Journal (SEEJ ), Vol. 36, No. 4, 1992, p. 122.
The
Russian Desk: A Listening and Conversation Course, Cynthia L.
Martin, Joanna Robin, and Donald K. Jarvis, SEEJ, Vol. 36, No. 3,
1992.
Chitaite gazetu, slushaite radio (Read the Newspaper,
Listen to the Radio), N. V. Lebedeva, SEEJ, vol. 35, No. 4, 1991, p.
594.
Slovar' upotrebitel'nykh angliiskikh poslovits/A Dictionary of English Proverbs in Modern
Use, M.V. Bukovskaia, S.I. Vial'tseva,et. al.; Angliiskii iazyk v poslovitsakh i
pogovorkakh/ English Through Proverbs, G.A. Stefanovich, L.I. Shvydkaia, et. al;
Frazeologicheskie oboroty russkogo iazyka, N.M. Shanskii, E.A. Bystrova, et. al.; Russkaia
frazeologiia, N.N.
Kokhtev, D.E. Rozental'; Russko-angliiskii slovar' krylatykh slov/ Russian-English Dic-
tionary of Winged Words, I. A. Walshe, V. P. Berkov, Proverbium, Vol. 8 (l991), pp. 211-
216.
Reading and Speaking About Russian Newspapers, Frank J. Miller, SEEJ, Vol. 34, No. 3
(Summer, 1990), pp. 281-283.
English Proverbs and Sayings, S. Kuskovskaya; A Dictionary of English Proverbs in Modern
Use, M.V. Bukovskaia, S.I. Bial'tseva, P.I. Dubianskaia, L.P. Zaitseva, Ia. G. Birenbaum,
Proverbium, Vol. 6 (1989), pp. 255-258
Russia and the World of the Eighteenth Century, ed. R.P. Bartlett, A.G. Cross, Karen
Rasmussen, SEEJ, Vol. 33, No.3 (Summer 1989), pp.447-448.
Pravda: Inside the Soviet News Machine, Angus Roxburgh, SEEJ, Vol. 32, No.3 (Fall 1988), pp.
484-85.
Publishing, Printing and Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia 1700-1800, Gary Marker,
SEEJ, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter 1986), pp. 567-568.
Nikolay Novikov: Enlightener of Russia, W. Gareth Jones, SEEJ, Vol. 29, No.4 (Winter 1985),
pp.108-110.
Who Is To Blame, tr., annot. and intr. Michael Katz, SEEJ, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Fall 1985).
The Soviet Union Today: An Interpretive Guide, ed.James Cracraft, SEEJ, Vol.29, No.2
(Summer 1985), pp.198-199.
The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionary: Russian-English, English-Russian, comp. Jessie
Coulson, Rocky Mountain Review, Fall, 1983, pp.104-105.
TRANSLATIONS:G.L.Permiakov, "K voprosu o russkom paremiologicheskom minimume (On the Ques-tion of a
Russian Paremiological Minimum)," Proverbium, Vol. 6, 1989, pp.91-102.
R.G. Barry, ed. Soviet Avalanche Research, (Boulder, Colorado: World Data Center for
Glaciology, 1984), 264 pp.
N.V. Kondorskaya, N.V. Shebalin, eds. New Catalog of Strong Earthquakes in the USSR from
Ancient Times Through 1977, (Boulder, Colorado: World Data Center A for Solid Earth
Geophysics, 1982), 192 pp.
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS, INVITED LECTURES, GUEST INTERVIEWS:“The Two Russias: Perm’ and St. Petersburg,” invited lecture to Rotary International GES,
Randolph, Vt., May 9, 2009.
“First Step in a New ‘Cold War’? An Analysis of the August, 2008 Russian Invasion of
Georgia,” Invited lecture to the Global Village of the UVM Living/Learning Center (October
22, 2008)
“The Putin ‘Revolution’: Understanding Russia’s Political Transformation in Light of the
August, 2008 Invasion of Georgia,” Invited Lecture for the Elder Education Enrichment
Program (Burlington, VT), October 10, 2008.
“’A Prophet in His Own Land’: The Legacy of Alexander Solzhenitysn to the Russian People,”
invited lecture to the Global Village of the UVM Living/Learning Center (September 22, 2008)
Guest interview on the topic of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Death and His Legacy for Russian
Literature, Radio Vermont WDEV (August 5, 2008).
“Analysis of the March 2nd Presidential Elections in Russia,” Invited lecture for the Osher
Insitute (Rutland, VT), May 23, 2008.
“Mafia and Capitalism—Russian Style: Doing Business in Today’s Russia,” Invited lecture for
the Osher Institute (Rutland, VT), May 16, 2008.
“Prospects for Democracy and Capitalism in Today’s Russia,” Invited lecture for the Osher
Institute (Rutland, VT), May 9, 2008.
“The Putin ‘Revolution’: Understanding Russia’s Social, Political, and Economic
Transformation, 2000-2008,” Invited Lecture for the Osher Institute (Rutland, VT), May 2,
2008.
“What’s Become of the Russian Oligarchs: From Plutocracy to Democracy?” Invited lecture for
the Osher Institute (Stowe, VT), May 1, 2008.
“The New Russian Diarchy: Understanding Dmitry Medvedev’s Recent Presidential Election,”
Invited lecture for the Osher Institute (Stowe, VT), April 24, 2008.
“The Kleptocratic State: Crime and Corruption in Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” Invited lecture
to the College of Business, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana, (February 24,
2006).
“Russia’s Version of the ‘Peter Principle’: The Legacy of Peter the Great in Vladimir
Putin’s Russia,” Invited lecture to the Russian Department, University of Evansville,
Evansville, Indiana, (February 24, 2006).
“Poshlust, Hegelian Syllogism, and the Proverb: A Paremiological Approach to Vladimir
Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark,” International Vladimir Nabokov Society Meeting at the
American Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Conference (San
Diego, December 29, 2003).
“The Putin ‘Revolution’: The Formula for Russian-Chechnya Relations in a Time of Crisis,”
Guest lecturer for the Clifa Women’s Society (November 7, 2002, Burlington).
“American ‘Pipe Dreams’ and Russian Oil Prospects,” Keynote address to a meeting of the
Vermont Elder Hostel, April 3, 2002.
“Peter the Great’s Impact on Vladimir Putin: A Russian President Looks to the West,” Keynote
Speaker for the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Society of Russian Specialists (November
15, 2001).
“Ten Years After the Fall of the USSR: Literature and the News Media in Russia Today,”
invited speaker on the Fall of the USSR Panel (November 7, 2001).
“Prospects for Russian ‘Democracy’ and ‘Capitalism’ under Vladimir Putin,” invited lecture
to the Robert C. Fischer Policy and Cultural Institute, Nichols College, Dudley
Massachusetts (November 29, 2000).
“The Trans-Siberian Railroad in Russian Social and Literary History,” invited lecture to the
Champlain Valley Chapter of the Nat’l. Railway Historical Society (Nov. 8, 2000).
“Politics and the Russian Proverb: A Retrospective of ‘Pravda’ Political Cartoons in the
Decade of the 1990’s,” UVM Area & International Studies Program Brown Bag lecture (October
24, 2001).
“Changing Images of the U.S. in Pravda Political Cartoons at the End of the 20th Centu-ry:
From Glasnost’ to ‘Democratic Capitalism,’” (paper delivered at the University of Southern
Colorado Conference: The Image of the 20th Century in Literature, Media, and Society,
Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 10-12, 2000).
Southern Colorado Conference: The Image of the 20th Century in Literature, Media, and
Society, Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 10-12, 2000).
“Marx and Lenin Must Be Rolling over in their Graves: From World Communism to ‘Capitalism’
in One City,” invited lecture for the Robert C. Fischer Policy and Cultural Institute on
International Affairs, Nichols College (November 6, 1999).
Russia Today,” guest speaker for the NYC UVM Alumni Meeting (September 23, 1999, Chase
Manhattan Bank).
"Proverbs and the Russian Empress: The Use of Russian Proverbs in Catherine the Great's
Early Drama," National Meeting of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East
European Languages/AATSEEL Conference, Toronto, December 30, 1997.
“End of the Cold War: Opportunities and Dangers,” invited lecture for the Vermont Women’s
Society, April 4, 1997.
"Catherine the Great's Use of Russian Proverbs in her Satirical-Moralistic Literary Journal
Vsiakaia Vsiachina,” National AATSEEL Conference, Wash., D.C., December 30, 1996.
"Adding Business Russian to the Liberal Arts Curriculum: An Approach to Increasing Our Russ.
Lang. Enrollments," Nat’l. AATSEEL Conf., Chicago, (December 29, 1995).
"'Deconstruction' of the Wall? An Analysis of Andrei Codrescu's The Disappearance of the
Outside," invited lecture for the Vermont Council on the Humanities Series—Litera-ture of
Soviet Life (Fairfax, Vermont, November 23, 1992).
"New Feminist Voices in Contemporary Russian Literature: The Case of Natalya Baran-skaya,"
invited lecture for the Vermont Council on the Humanities Series--Literature of Soviet Life
(Lyndonville Public Library, March 19, 1992).
"The End of the Cold War? The Changing Nature of Pravda Political Cartoon Depictions of the
U.S. in an Age of Improved U.S.-Soviet Relations," National AATSEEL Meeting, San Francisco,
December 29, 1991.
"Catherine the Great as Belletriste," Regional Meeting of the Northeast American Society for
Eighteenth Century Studies Group, University of Vermont, November 1, 1991.
"One Day in the Life of Alexander Issaevich Solzhenitsyn's Transformation of Life into Art,"
invited lecture for the Vermont Council on the Humanities Series--Literature of Soviet Life
(Danville, Vt. October 22,1991).
"A Nineteenth-Century View on the Soviet Union Today: The Marquis de Custine's Jour-ney to
Russia," invited lecture for the Vermont Council on the Humanities Series--Liter-ature of
Soviet Life (Danville, Vt., September 10, 1991).
"All of the Views Fit to Print: Pravda Political Cartoon Depictions of the United States in
an Age of Glasnost," invited lecture to the Michigan State University Russian and East
European Studies Center, October 9, 1990.
"An Analysis of Recent Events in the USSR and Eastern Europe," Moderator and Parti-cipant in
ISP/Fletcher Free Library Series--Global Perspectives on a Rapidly Changing World, September
13, 1990.
"The Political Role of the Cultural Intelligentsia in Glasnost' and Perestroika," Vermont
Council on the Humanities Lecture Series: A Culture in Transition: Perspectives on To-day's
Soviet Union, UVM Campus, September 5, 1990.
"Literature of Modern Soviet Life," Vermont Reading Project Program Conference, South
Royalton, Vt., June 14, 1990.
"Trends in Recent Soviet Literature: The Role of Glasnost," Harvard Alumni College Lecture,
Moscow, USSR, May 23, 1990.
"Ethnic Unrest Among Soviet Nationalities," UVM International Studies Program "Brown Bag"
Lecture Series, October 4, 1989.
"The 'Enemy Image' and Gorbachev's 'New Political Thinking': The Case of Pravda Pol-itical
Cartoon Images of the United States," UVM Humanities Center Lecture (September 21, 1989).
"The Gorbachev Revolution: Pravda Editorial Cartoons in an Era of Glasnost’ and Re-
structuring," Lecture at the Arthur M.Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, May
26, 1989.
"The Effects of Glasnost’ on Soviet Literature and the News Media," The Vermont Council on
World Affairs, May 15, 1988 (Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont).
"A New Era in Soviet Glasnost: The Editorial Cartoon on Pravda's Self-Criticism Page," UVM
Bailey/Howe Library Brown Bag Seminar, February 10, 1988.
"Gorbachev's Glasnost: Editorial Cartoons on Pravda's Self-Criticism Page," National AATSEEL
Meeting, San Francisco, December 1987.
"The Continuing Russian Revolution in the Gorbachev Era: Glasnost and Restructuring,”
UVM Panel Discussion observing the 70th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Nov-ember
4, 1987.
"Russia Revisted: A Cultural Update to the Marquis de Custine's Journey for Our Time,"
Pacific Coast MLA Conference, May 9, 1987 (Seattle, Washington).
"George Sand's Reception in Russia: The Case of Elena Gan," Seventh International George
Sand Conference, Hofstra University, October 16-18, 1986.
"Empress Behind the Mask: The Persona of Madame Vsiakaia Vsiachina in Catherine the Great's
Periodical Essays on Manners and Morals," Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts Conference,
Hofstra University, October, 1985.
"Report on Russian Employment Opportunities in the Federal Government for Russian Area
Studies Majors," National AATSEEL Meeting, Washington, D.C., December, 1984.
"The Marquis de Custine's Journey for Our Time: An Outsider's View of Nineteenth-Century
Russia," Northern New England Meeting of AATSEEL, Dartmouth College, October, 1984.
"The Single Skill Emphasis on Reading: Rationale, Objectives, Methodology," National
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Meeting, Kansas City,
1983.
"Perspectives in Comparative Russian and American Culture," National AATSEEL Meet-ing,
Chicago,1982.
"Elena Gan: The Russian George Sand," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Salt Lake
City, 1982.
"How We Can Use Russian-Soviet Culture Classes to Attract Students to Our Programs?" Rocky
Mountain American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Denver, 1982.
"Superfluous Women: the Heroines of Elena Gan and Maria Zhukova," National AATSEEL Meeting,
San Francisco, 1979.
"Teaching Russian to Scientists: A Single Skill Approach," National Meeting of the Am-
errican Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), San
Francisco, 1979.
"George Sand's Reception in Russia," George Sand Conference, Boulder, Colorado, 1979.
"Bicentennial Footnote: Soviet Views of America's Two Hundred Years," Hollow Square Guest
Lecturer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, 1977.
Invited Guest on NBC Today Show: "Reactions of the Soviet People to the Election of
President Carter," (December 20, 1976).
UVM TEACHING:Named as UVM Woodrow Wilson Teacher/Scholar, 2000-2001
Named as UVM Service-Learning Fellow, 2000-2001
The Russian Idea: Ideology in the 19th-Century Russian Novel
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (Spring, 2005)
Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (Fall, 2003)
“The ‘Fictional’ World of Alexander Solzhenitsyn” (Fall, 2002)
UVM TEACHING (continued)
“Fin de Siecle Russia: From Emancipation of the Serfs to Grigorii Rasputin,” (Spring, 2002)
“Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago: From Page to Stage,” (Fall, 2001)
"Mafia and Capitalism--Russian Style: Doing Business in Today's Russia," (Spring, 2001, ‘04)
"Comedy and Satire in 19th-20th Century Russian Literature," (Fall, 2000)
“The Intellectual and Cultural Contributions of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great to
Russia” (Spring, 2000)
“Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita: the Russian and American Contexts” (Fall, 1999)
TAP Course: “Witches, Goblins, and Ghosts: The Supernatural and Fantastic in 19th-20th
Century Russian Literature,” (Spring, 1999)
Development of Innovative Team-Taught, Interdisciplinary Course: "The Culture of Doing
Business in Russia Today," Fall, 1996 (funded by a UVM Instructional Incentive Grant, 1995-
1996).
Development of an Innovative "Business Russian" Course, Spring, 1995 (funded by a UVM
Instructional Incentive Grant, 1994-1995).
Nominated for 1994 Kidder Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service
Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Teaching Excellence, 1992
Selected to organize and conduct first UVM Humanities Institute Seminar and Sym-posium:
Perspectives in Comparative Russian and American Civilizations and Cultures, Fall,1989,
through Spring, 1990.
Author, Compiler of Workbook for "Business Russian" Course," (Russ. 195), Spring, 1995, pp.
148.
Author, Compiler of Workbook for "Russian Lexicology," (Russ. 161), Fall, 1992, pp. 195.
Author, Compiler of Workbook for "Intermediate Russian," (Russ. 52), Spring, 1992, pp. 240.
Author, Compiler of Workbook for "Intermediate Russian," (Russ. 51), Fall, 1991, pp. 138.
Author, Compiler of Workbook for "Advanced Russian Reading" (Russian 141), Fall, 1991, pp.
172.
Author, Compiler of Workbook for "Russian Lexicology" (Russian 195), Fall 1988, pp.129.
Honors Thesis Advisor, "Content Analysis of Pravda Coverage of 1988 U.S. Presidential
Election", 1988-1989.
Organizer and Editor of Russian Class Translations Appearing Weekly in UVM "Cynic" under the
title "All the Views Fit to Print," 1988, 1989
Author, compiler of a "Reader" for Russian 204 course, Spring 1988 (first version of a
textbook I hope one day to develop for publication), pp.94.
Author, compiler of Russian 001 and 002 Workbooks for Sections A & B, Spring 1988, 1989,
pp.109.
Author, compiler of a Reader and Workbook for Russian 051, Fall 1985, 1986, 1987.
Author, compiler of a Reader and Workbook for Russian 052, Spring 1989, pp.172.
Business Russian Course
Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced Russian.
Survey Courses of 19th and 20th Century Russian Literature (in Russian and English).
Readings in the Soviet Press.
Russian and Soviet Culture.
Russian Word Roots and Vocabulary Development.
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita: From Page to Stage.
Contribution of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great to Russian Culture
Comedy and Satire in 19th-20th Century Russian Literature.
Witches, Goblins, and Ghosts: the Fantastic and Supernatural in Russ. Lit.
Mafia and Capitalism—Russian Style: Doing Business in Today’s Russia.
Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago: From Page to Stage.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL).
Northern New England AATSEEL
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/NATIONAL/UVM SERVICE:Senior Honor’s Thesis Advisor, “The Nature of a Soviet Bard: A Study of Vysotsky’s Lyrics,”
(Arseny Knyazev, May, 2009)
Senior Honor’s Thesis Chairman, “An Analysis of Soviet Censorship in the Case of Yurii
Daniel and Alexander Sinyavsky,” (Caitlin Moroney, May, 2009)
“Tolstoy vs Dostoevsky: The Politics of Aesthetics in Anna Karenina, invited lecture to
Prof. Tom Simone’s IHP class, March 5, 2009
Organizer and Host for Surprise Festschrift Reception for Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of
his 65th birthday, February 17, 2009
“All the Views Fit to Print: Changing Images of the U.S. in ‘Pravda’ Political Cartoons,
1917-1991,” Global Village Lecture, January 31, 2009
Host for Professor Douglas Smith’s UVM Campus Lecture, “The Pearl,” (November 17, 2008)
“A Prophet in His Own Counry: The Legacy of Alexander Solzhenitsyn to Russian and Her
People,” Global Village Lecture, September 22, 2008
Member of Faculty Senate Committee to Review the Vermont Studies Program, 2008-2009
Member of Provost’s Committee to Review UVM International Education, 2007-08.
College of Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2008.
UVM Faculty Senate Program Review Committee, Vermont Studies Program, 2008.
Faculty Director of Living/Learning “Russian House,” 2006-2009.
Member of Global Village Steering Committee, 2007-2008.
Outside Reviewer for Temple University’s Department of Slavic Languages Promotion to Full
Professor, August-September, 2007.
Invited Speaker at the Fall Trustees/Alumni Meeting, “Were It Not For You,” October 5, 2007.
Submission of Dan and Carole Burack President’s Distinguished Lecture Series Nominee,
Professor Marshall I. Goldman, Davis Professor of Russian Economics, Emeritus at Wellesley
College, and Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasia Studies at
Harvard University (March, 2008).
Invited lecture for Geography 002 course: “Consequences of the ‘Putin Revolution,’ 2000-
2008, (February 14, 2008).
Invited lecture for Professor Tom Simone’s IHP course: “The ‘Anna/Levin’ Axis of Tolstoy’s
Moral Philosophy in the Novel Anna Karenina.” (March 27, 2008).
Honors Thesis Chair for Alan Wilson’s thesis, “The Battle for the Street: Combating Urban
Insurgency in Chechnya,” (AIS, May 1, 2008).
Honors Thesis Chair for Amanda Rachel Tanner thesis on “The Russian Civil War,” (History,
May 1, 2008).
Review Committee Member for University Administration Support Program (UASP) for Carnegie
Foundation Endowment (New York) to select next round of UASP Pilot Program Grant awardees
from Russia (February-March, 2007).
Recipient of Dan and Carole Burack Distinguished Presidential Lecture Series grant to host
Russian poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko on the UVM campus (October, 2006).
“The Kleptocratic State: Crime and Corruption in Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” Invited lecture
to the College of Business, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana, (February 24,
2006).
“Russia’s Version of the ‘Peter Principle’: The Legacy of Peter the Great in Vladimir
Putin’s Russia,” Invited lecture to the Russian Department, University of Evansville,
Evansville, Indiana, (February 24, 2006).
Honors thesis advisor for Elissa Owens “The Emerging Roles of Women During the Siege of
Leningrad: Changing Roles of Female Laborers and Women Poets” (2005-2006)
Committee member on Review of Japanese and Chinese minors for the UVM Faculty Senate
Chair of Search Committee for UVM Canadian Studies Director (Fall, 2005)
Panelist on International Careers Symposium (for UVM students; November 15, 2005)
Invited lecturer to Prof. Tom Simone’s Integrated Humanities Program course: “The Historical
and Cultural Context of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina” (March 31, 2005)
Invited lecturer to the UVM Osher Lifelong Learning Conference: “Democracy in Russia Today:
Putin vs. the Oligarchs” (May 25, 2004)
Invited lecturer to Prof. Caroline Beer’s International Relations course to give a lecture
on the 2004 Russian presidential elections,, March, 2004.
Invited Program Reviewer (graduate and undergraduate levels) for the Foreign Language
Department at the University of Northern Iowa, February, 2004.
Series of Five Lectures Given for the Smithsonian Institution, July 31-August 10, 2005 in
St. Petersburg, Russia:
--“The Legacy of Muscovy: Russian Cultural History Prior to 18th Century”
--“Alexander Pushkin’s The Bronze Horseman: The Legacy of Peter the Great and Post-Soviet
Russia”
--“The Literary/Cultural History of St. Petersburg from Empress Catherine the Great through
Emperor Nicholas II”
--“From St. Petersburg to Leningrad and Back: The Fate of Peter the Great’s city in 20th-
Century Russia”
--“The ‘Peter Principle’ in 21st-Century Russia: Vladimir Putin, 2000-2005”
Series of Five Lectures Given for the Smithsonian Institution, August 11-19, 2004 in St.
Petersburg, Russia:
--“Russia Prior to the Reign of Peter the Great”
--“Peter the Great Transforms Russia: Building a ‘Window’ Unto Europe”
--“Catherine the Great’s Intellectual and Cultural Contributions to Russia”
--“Russia in the Imperial Stage: the 19th Century”
--“From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin: the Politics of Russian History”
Organizer and Host to Bowman Miller, Director of Research and Intelligence on Europe, U.S.
State Department, Lecture: “Tensions in U.S.—European Relations,” November 19, 2003 (John
Dewey Lounge of Old Mill)
Member of Organizing Committee for NEASECS (New England Association of
Eighteenth-Century Scholars) Meeting, to take place at UVM, November, 2004
Member of Planning Committee for the 2004 George Aiken Lecture Series, “The Future of the
American Empire,”(September 2003-2004)
Welcome Address to the 2003 Golden Key International Honor Society, November 16, 2003 (UVM
Campus) A&S Dean’s Office VIP program speaker to address visiting high school students and
their parents on Sept. 29, Oct. 17 & 20th, and Nov. 17th, 2003.
A&S Dean’s Office Students at Risk Faculty Advisor, invitation from Dean Joan Smith to
advise A&S Sophomores at risk (September, 2003---)
Member of German and Russian Department Chairperson, Professor Wolfgang Mieder
A&S Dean’s Office Orientation Speaker to address incoming UVM students during their June,
2003 orientation on campus
Chairperson, M.A. Thesis Defense (UVM History Dept.) for Ms. Tony Nicholas: “Ordinary Women,
Extraordinary Times: The Culture of Soviet Women in Combat During World War II,” (defense
date: January 31, 2003)
Series of Five Lectures Given for the Smithsonian Institution, August 11-19, 2003 in St.
Petersburg, Russia:
--“Pre-Petrine Russia: From Prince Vladimir to the Rise of the Romanovs”
--“Peter the Great Transforms Russia: Building a ‘Window’ Unto Europe”
--“Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great”
--“Russia in the Age of Reform: From Alexander Pushkin to Grigorii Rasputin”
--“The Putin Revolution: Politics, Economics, and Society in the Post Post-Soviet Union
Today”
Invited Speaker on WCAX Channel 3 “Across the Fence” show to speak about my recent book, All
the Views Fit to Print: Changing Images of the U.S. in ‘Pravda’ Political Cartoons, 1917-
1991, May 15, 2002.
Invited Speaker to the Carnegie Foundation’s “Future of Russian Higher Education” Symposium,
Moscow, April 12-17, 2002.
Invited Guest Specialist on WCAX Channel 3 “Across the Fence’s” five-week feature on
Contemporary Russian Agriculture, March-April, 2002.
Invited Lecture to the Professor Tom Simone’s Integrated Humanities Program: “The Power of
Leo Tolstoy’s Novel—Anna Karenina,” (March 12, 2002).
Invited Lecture to the Vermont Elder Education Hostel: “Trends in Russian-American Relations
After September 11th,” South Burlington, (March 1, 2002).
Series of Five Lectures Given for the Smithsonian Institution, August 11-19, 2002 in St.
Petersburg, Russia:
--“Kievan Rus’ Prior to Muscovy and the Rise of the Romanovs”
--“The Rise of Muscovy and Russian Autocracy”
--“Russia in the Age of Peter and Catherine the Great”
--“Russian History through its Literature: the 19th-Century Russian Novel”
--“Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs”
Invited guest speaker for Burlington High School In-Service Day (November 21, 2001)
“Vladimir Putin’s Russia: Why the Sudden Pro-American Shift?” Invited guest on Vermont
Public Radio’s Switchboard program prior to Vladimir Putin’s NPR Interview (November 15,
2001)
“Vladimir Putin’s ‘Pipe Dream’: Russia’s Quest for Oil Revenue in Central Asia,” Invited
Guest Lecturer for the New Hampshire Russian Society,” (November 13, 2001).
Organizer and Moderator for International Career Information Session (November 7, 2001)
Organizer and Moderator for UVM Panel Discussion of the National and International
Implications of the September 11th World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks (September 14,
2001)
Organizer of UVM International Studies Outreach Program to 7 area high schools (September,
2001-)
Outside reviewer for Artemi Romanov’s tenure/promotion consideration at the University of
Colorado, August, 2001.
Series of Five Lectures Given for the Smithsonian Institution, September 23-October 2, 2001
in St. Petersburg, Russia:
--”Pre-Petrine Russia: the Roles of Geography, Culture, Religion, and Historical
Developments in Shaping the Russian Civilization Experience Prior to the Reign of Peter the
Great”
--”The Cultural and Intellectual Contributions of Peter the Great to Russia”
--”The Cultural and Intellectual Contributions of Catherine the Great to Russia”
--”The Literary Facades of St. Petersburg: Catherine the Great through Joseph Brodsky”
--”The Putin Revolution: The Future of Russia After Boris Eltsin,”
Chair of A&S College Search Committee for ALANA Chair replacement (Winter, 2001)
Member of A&S Curriculum Committee, 2000-2003
“Prospects for Russian ‘Democracy’ and ‘Capitalism’ under Vladimir Putin,” invited lecture
to the Robert C. Fischer Policy and Cultural Institute, Nichols College, Dudley
Massachusetts (November 29, 2000).
“The Trans-Siberian Railroad in Russian Social and Literary History,” invited lecture to the
Champlain Valley Chapter of the Nat’l. Railway Historical Society (November 8, 2000).
Series of Five Lectures Given for the Smithsonian Institution, September 23-October 2, 2000
in St. Petersburg, Russia:
--”A Synthetic View of Russian History From Kievan to Post-Soviet Russia”
--”Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg in Russian History and Culture”
--”Cultural and Intellectual Contributions of Peter and Catherine the Great”
--”Russian History Through its Literature: Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Solzhenitysn”
--”The Demise of Boris Yeltsin: What is the Future of Russia?”
Guest speaker for the NYC UVM Alumni Meeting (September 23, 1999, Chase Manhattan Bank):
“What’s Going On in the Kremlin? The Status of ‘Democracy’ and ‘Capitalism’ in Russia
Today,”
Organizer of UVM Russian Film Series: Fall, 1999
Series of Five Lectures at the Smithsonian Institution in Moscow, Russia: Aug. 9-17, 1999:
--”Russia: The Land, the People, and the Idea”
--”Moscow through the Ages: From the Rise of Muscovy to Yuri Luzhkov’s Empire in the 1990’s”
--”The Legacies of Gorbachev and Yeltsin: Glasnost’, Perestroika, the Disintegration of the
USSR, and the “Rise” of Russia in the 1990’s”
--”The 1990’s: Are We Witnessing the Death of Russian Literature?”
--”Has “Democracy” Come to Russia? The Upcoming Parliamentary and Presidential Elections”
UVM Admissions Office Faculty Speaker for Yield Day Activities in NYC, April, 1999
UVM Admissions Office Search Committee for International Education Recruiter, 1999
Invited lecturer for Professor Tom Simone’s Integrated Humanities Program (IHP): “The
Cultural Contexts of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment,” April, 1999.
Organizer of UVM Russian Film Series, Spring, 1999
Graduate College Review Committee of French M.A. Program, October-December, 1998
Invited lecturer for Professor Peter Stavrakis’ Pol.Sci. 051 course: “Cultural
Transformations in Post-Soviet Russia,” July 7-9, 1998
Invited lecturer for Professor Daniel Krymkowski’s TAP Course, The Sociology of Eur-ope,
“Developments in Cultural and Intellectual Life in Today’s Russia,” April 16, 1998
Invited lecturer for Professor Tom Simone’s IHP Course: “The Cultural and Intellectual
Background to mid-19th Century Russian Literature, March 31, 1998
Invited lecturer Holland Hall High School Russian Culture Class: “The Course of Democracy
and Capitalism in the ‘New Russia,’” March 13, 1998
UVM Representative to Recruit Students from Tulsa Oklahoma’s Holland Hall High School, March
13, 1998
Series of Six Lectures Given for the Smithsonian Institution, August 19-30, 1998 in St.
Petersburg, Russia:
--”Pre-Petrine Russia: the Roles of Geography, Culture, Religion, and Historical
Developments in Shaping the Russian Civilization Experience prior to the Reign of Peter the
Great”
--”The Cultural and Intellectual Contributions of Peter the Great”
--”Cultural and Intellectual Contributions of Catherine the Great”
--”The Re-Burial of Nicholas II and his family: A Cultural and Historical Analsysis”
--”The Gorbachev Revolution: Glasnost', Perestroika, and Russian culture at the Twilight of
Scientific Marxism; Political and Economic Changes in Russia during the 1990's”
--” The Three Stages of Glasnost' in Russian Literature and the Arts”
Faculty Representative/Guest Speaker on UVM Recruitment Trip to Putney and St. Johnsbury,
VT, October 6, 1998
Special Advisor to the UVM President, 1995-1997
University Marshal for UVM Commencements and Convocations, 1995-1997
Series of Six Lectures Given for the Smithsonian Institution, August 21-30, 1997 in St.
Petersburg, Russia:
--"An Overview of Russian Culture to 1700"
--"The Contributions of Peter the Great to Russian History and Culture"
--"The Role of Catherine the Great in 18-Century Russian Culture"
--"The Fall of the Romanovs"
--”The Rise of Glasnost’ and Perestoika”
--”Prospects for Russian ‘Capitalism’ and ‘Democracy’ in the 1990’s”
Member of UVM Outreach Council, 1996-1997
Invited Guest Lecturer to Professor Veronica Richel’s German 195 “Faust” Course, “The
Contributions of Mikhail Bulgakov to 20th-Century Russian Culture,” April 5, 1997
Invited Guest Lecturer to Professor Tom Simone’s IHP Seminar, “The Role of Anna Akhmatova in
Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry,” April 13, 1997
UVM Faculty Moderator and Speaker to Series of Four Student/Parent Recruitment/ Cam-pus
Visitation Days, Sponsored by UVM Admissions Office, April, 1997
UVM Faculty Speaker for Connecticut State High School Recruitment, Sponsored by UVM
Admissions Office, March, 1997
Series of Six Lectures Given for the Smithsonian Institution, August 21-30, 1996 in St.
Petersburg, Russia:
--"From Kievan to Petrine Russia: An Overview"
--"The Rise of Muscovy and the Romanovs"
--"Contributions of Peter and Catherine the Great to 18-Century Russian Culture"
--"The Fall of the Romanovs: the Revolutions of 1917"
--”The Gorbachev and Eltsin Revolutions in Context”
--”Boris Eltsin’s Re-Election Campaign: An Analysis”
UVM Faculty Speaker Principal Investigator/Co-Director for USIA funded UVM/ Petro-zavodsk
State University Partnership Program to Establish a Public Administration Cur-rciulum at
PSU, 1995-1996
Guest Lecturer at Meeting of the National League of American Pen Women on Art, Letters,
Music, Southern Vermont Chapter, "Post-Soviet Russian Literature: The Challenges of
Democracy," Rutland, Vt, (August 16, 1995)
Invited to give "Dean's Address" to incoming Fall, '95 students and their parents during the
summer orientation sessions (June 10th and 18th 1995)
UVM Host to Gordon and Lulie Gund , honorary doctoral degree recipients, May, 1995
Guest Lecturer to UVM Embassy for International Understanding Lecture Series, "Rus-sia's
Lost Empire," April 13, 1995
High School Recruitment/Outreach Visit and Lecture: "The Role of Peter the Great in Russian
Literature," Cavendish High School, March 2,1995
Interpreter/Delegation Member for UVM/Petrozavodsk State University USIA Public
Administration Program Grant, September 24--October 2, 1994
"The Moscow-Grozny Conflict: An Historical Analysis of the War in Chechnya," UVM Russian
House Lecture, March 5, 1995
Guest Lecture to Professor Robert Clark's "Business Finance" Course: Russia Enters the
Market Economy: An Analysis, March, 1995
Lecture to Vermont Elder Education Society, "Russia's Transition to a Market Economy: An
Analysis," December 8, 1994
"Russian 'Biznes' in the 90's: Preparing for a Business Career in To-day's Russia," UVM
Russian House Lecture, October 23, 1994
Series of Five Lectures Given for Smithsonian Institute, March 18-28, 1994 in St. Peters-
burg, Russia:
--"Role of Peter the Great in Russian History and Culture"
--"Understanding Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin"
--"The Politics of Glasnost' and Perestroika"
--"Russian Society and Politics in the 1990's"
Member of three-person Vermont delegation during week-long visit to Karelia as official
observers to April 17, 1994 national elections.
Member of Provost's International Education Advisory Group, 1994-
Member of Provost's International Education Task Force, 1993-1994
Member of Provost's Committee for UVM Undergraduate Foreign Student Exchange Programs, 1992
-1993
"The Superfluous Heroine in 19th Century Russian Literature," Russian Club lecture, May 1,
1994
Understanding the Current Political Scene in Russia," Lecture to Junior Conference of High
School students, May 27, 1994
"The Fruits of Glasnost' and Perestroika: A Summary," Parents' Session at June, 1994
Orientation
"A Cultural Approach to Understanding the October, 1993 Coup in Moscow," High School Lecture
given to South Burlington High School (November, 1993)
"New Tendencies in Contemporary Russian Literature, 1985-1993," UVM Russian Club Lecture
Series, October 24, 1993
Organizer of Russian/East European Studies Student Lecture Series, 1993-1994
Organizer of Russian Film Series, 1993-1994 (six films)
Living/Learning Russian House Director, 1994-1995
UVM Campus Representative for IIE International Education Scholarship, October 1993-May 1994
High School Russian/ISP Recruitment Visits--2 (fall semester. 1994)
TV Interviews (channels 3 and 22) regarding April 17th Karelian Elections prior to our
delegation's departure (April 13, 1994) and upon our arrival to Burlington (April 19, 1994)
"Vladimir Zhirnovskii and Boris Yeltsin: An Analysis of the December, 1993 Russian
Elections," invited guest on the Jack Berry Show, WXXX Radio Station, December 15, 1993
"Another 'October Revolution'? An Analysis of the Anti-Yeltsin Coup of September-October,
1993," UVM Trustees Lecture, October 10, 1993
Faculty Lecturer for Connections Freshman Orientation Session, "Making the Academic
Connection," August 29, 1992, August 26, 1993
Lecturer for 1993 A&S Summer Orientation: "The New Russian Literature: Post-Glasnost'
Directions," June 5, 1993
Search Committee Member for Director of the Office of International Education Services,
July-August, 1992
Lecturer for 1992 A&S Summer Orientation: "Developments in Russian Literature Since
Gorbachev," June 7, 1992
Lecturer for 16th Annual UVM Junior Conference, "Why Study Russian: Career Oppor-tunities
in the New Commonwealth of Independent States," May 28, 1992.
Grant-Writing Committee Member for UVM/Middlebury College Econometrics Institute/ Vermont
Technical College Federal Grant Project to Bring Estonian Students to UVM College of
Business ($500,000.) 1992
Member UVM International Education Sub-Committee, 1992-1995.
Selection Committee Chair, Frederick M. and Fannie C. Corse Endowed Professorship of English
Language and Literature, 1992.
German/Russian Department Chairperson Review Committee, 1992.
Lecturer/Tour Leader for "Art and Architecture" USSR Tour for National Trust for Historic
Preservation, February, 1991
Panel Member of Problems in the USSR and Eastern Europe Forum, sponsored by the UVM Russian
and East European Studies Program, September 25, 1991.
Invited guest scholar for KLDR Mark Johnson Show, "Analysis of the Coup in the USSR," August
23, 1991.
Contributor to Why Study Russian, published by the American Teachers of Slavic and East
European Languages, 1991
Panel Chair for Glasnost' and Soviet News Media Section at the National AATSEEL Meeting,
San Francisco, December, 1991
Discussion Leader for Reading Methodology Section at the Northern New England AATSEEL
Meeting, Middlebury, September 21, 1991
Organizer of the Elder Educational Enrichment's Fall 1990 Series Program--A Culture in
Transition: Perspectives on Today's Soviet Union,
Co-Planner for Vermont Council on the Humanities' Program--Perestroika and Soviet/East
European Literature
Co-Planner for Vermont Council on the Humanities Lecture Series--Modern Soviet Lfie
Arts & Sciences Freshmen Orientation Lecture: "What's in a Name? From Sankt Peterburkh to
Leningrad and Back," June 24, 1991.
Interview on KJOY Radio Station: "Prospects for the Success of Mikhail Gorbachev's Social
and Economic Reforms in the USSR," February 7, 1991.
Co-organizer for UVM Persian Gulf Teach-In, January 17, 1991.
Member of Search Committee for Economics Department Chairperson, November,
1990--February, 1991
Lecturer/Tour Leader for the Harvard University Alumni College's Glasnost’ Tour to the USSR,
May-June, 1990
Tenure review evaluation for Professor John Dick, Department of Russian, Georgetown
University, February 1990
Lecturer and Discussion Leader at the Vermont Council on the Humanities Annual Fall
Conference--Different Dreams of Freedom, November 10-11, 1990
Organizer and Participant for International Studies Program/ Fletcher Free Library
Roundtable Lecture Series, Perspectives on a Rapidly Changing World, September 26, 1990
Governor Kunin's Luncheon Interpreter for Karelian ASSR Agricultural Delegation, July 16,
1990
Old Mill Design Review Committee, 1990
College of Arts & Sciences Summer Orientation Lecture: "Recent Developments in Soviet News
Media," June 10, 1990
Invited Guest Lecturer to UVM Graduate Business School Seminar: "Obstacles to Social and
Economic Change in the USSR," June 9, 1990
Invited Guest Lecturer to Business Administration 262 course: "The Fast Food Industry Comes
to the USSR: Adaptation or Acculturation?", March 1, 1990
UVM Residence Hall/Faculty Involvement Seminar guest lecturer: "Has Democracy Come to the
USSR?", February 28, 1990
Guest Lecturer in UVM Evironmental Studies course: "Tourism and the Soviet Economy,"
February 12, 1990
Keynote Speaker at College of Arts and Sciences Career Development Seminar: "The 'Big Mac
Attack' on Moscow: Some Observations on the Changing Way Americans Do Busi-ness in the
Foreign Arena," February 10, 1990
Coordinator of UVM International Studies Program "Brown Bag" Lecture Series, 1989-2000
Member of Ad Hoc Committee on NEH Challenge Grants for UVM,1989-1990 (charged with
submitting a $3,000,000.Challenge Grant proposal for endowing a "distinguished teaching
professorship" as well as a Humanities Center)
Member of Steering Committee for Provost Hennessey's International Education Task Force,
1989-1990
Interviewed on WVNY-TV regarding recent developments in Soviet Government, February 5, 1990
Discussion Leader for UVM President's Forum: "Preparing for the 1990's--Choosing a Liberal
Arts Education," (October 21, 1989)
Discussion Leader for College of Arts and Sciences/UVM Development Office Forum:
"International Studies in the Liberal Arts Program," (November 17, 1989)
Faculty Representative for UVM Admissions Office interviews to fill Assistant Director
position, August, 1989
Guest on WVNY-TV FORUM: Reflections on My Recent USSR Trip (half-hour interview with Gary
Wheelock), July 16, 1989
Chair of the College of Arts & Sciences Admissions Committee, 1989-1990
Faculty Speaker at College of Arts & Sciences Admission's Visitation Day, April 26, 1989
Interview in five-part news feature on "Soviet Education," WVNY-TV, April 24-28, 1989
Faculty Participant in Graduate College Grant Writing Workshop, April 11, 1989; asked to
give a presentation on grant applications to the National Endowment for the Humanities
Lecturer/Tour Leader for Smithsonian Institution Tour to Russia and Central Asia: Timur and
the Princely Vision--Caravan Cities of Central Asia, May-June 1989
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Reviewer for 1989 Summer Research Stipends
"Soviet News Media Depictions of American Life," lecture presented at Friends of the Arts
and Sciences College meeting, November 11,1988
Outside Faculty Member on Search Committee for Political Science Chairperson, 1988-1989
Host and Organizer for Campus-wide Lecture by U.S. News & World Report journalist, Nicholas
Daniloff, October 31,1988
Arts & Sciences Faculty Panel Member asked to speak to prospective UVM students and their
parents, October 21, 1988
Interpreter for UVM Visit by a Yaroslavl, USSR delegation, October 21,1988
College of Arts & Sciences Admissions Committee,1988-1990; Committee Chair, 1989-1990
Asked by UVM Development Foundation Office to meet with potential UVM donor, May 21 and
October 8, 1988
UVM Host Interpreter for USSR Delegation of University Rectors, March 2, 1988
Lecturer/Tour Leader for Virginia Museum of Fine Arts tour to USSR, May-June 1987
Lecturer/Tour Leader for Friends of the Harvard Art Museum Tour to the USSR, May-June 1986
National AATSEEL Chairperson, Committee on Employment Opportunities for Russian Language and
Area Studies Majors. 1984-1987
Associate Editor, "AATSEEL Newsletter," 1984-1989
Organizer of "Glasnost' and Restructuring" Symposium, UVM Campus, November 4, 1987
NEH Consultant to review Russian language textbook, 1985
Princeton Educational Testing Service Consultant: National Listening-Reading Exam, 1984-1986
Fulbright/USIA Consultant: Review of American Russian Language Programs in the USSR, 1985
Faculty Senate Departmental Representative, 1984-1987
Departmental Russian bibliographer, 1984-present
Arts and Sciences Nominations Committee, 1985-1988
Faculty Advisor for UVM Russian Club, 1984-1989
Organizer of UVM Russian Film Series, 1984-1989
UVM Interpreter for Soviet Hockey Team, December, 1985
Interviewed by WJOY Radio Station: "The USSR--'Evil Empire' or Misunderstood Nation?" May 4, 1985
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