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Curriculum Vitae

Linda J. Ivanits

Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature

Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

311 Burrowes Building

Penn State University

University Park, PA 16802

Education:

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1973	Russian literature
Dissertation: “The Grotesque in F.K. Sologub’s Novel The Petty Demon”
MA University of Wisconsin
BA Penn State University

Employment:

July 1, 1989-present	Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Penn State
Sept. 1973-July 1989	Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Penn State

Tenure Granted:

1980; Associate member of Graduate Faculty: 1978

Awards:

July 1, 1980-June 30, 1993	NEH fellowship for University Teachers
Jan. 9-May 31 1990	ACLS/USSR Academy of Sciences Exchange to USSR (IREX)

Significant Publications:

a) Books and separately bound publications:

Ivanits, Linda J. Russian Folk Belief, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1989, 257 pp.

Intro., trans., ed., Russian Folk Narratives about the Supernatural, Soviet Anthropology and Archeology, vol. 26, no. 2 (Fall 1987), 84 pp.

b) Articles in referred journals:

Ivanits, Linda J. “ Dostoevskij’s Mar’ja Lebjadkina,” Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 22, no. 2 (Summer 1978), pp. 127-140.

“Hagiography in Brat’ja Karamazovy: Zosima, Ferapont, and the Russian Monastic Saint,” Russian Language Journal, Vol. 34 no. 117(1980), pp. 81-91.

“Sologub’s Fantasy Creatures: Folk Superstition in “Elkic,’ ‘Belaja sobaka,’ and “Cervjak’,” Russian Language Journal, Vol. 40, no. 135 (1986), pp. 81-91.

“As the Year 1900 Drew Near...,” SEEFA Journal, Vol. IV, No. 2 (Fall 1999), pp. 6-9. (Russian folk belief about the end of the world)

“Biblical Imagery in Sologub’s Short Stories,” Russian Literature (North Holland), L (2001), 125-140.

c) Chapters in books

Ivanits, Linda J. “Fairy Tale Motifs in Sologub’s ‘Dream on the Rocks,’” in L.G. Leighton ed., Studies in Honor of Xenia Gasiorowska, Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1983, pp. 81-87.

“Folk Beliefs about the Unclean Force in The Brothers Karamazov,” in L.G. Leighton and G.J. Gutsche, eds., New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1982, pp. 135-146.

“The Grotesque in Fedor Sologub’s Novel The Petty Demon,” in R. Freeborn, R.R. Milner-Gulland, and C.A. Ward, eds., Russian and Slavic Literature, Cambridge, Mass: Slavica, pp. 137-174.

“The Grotesque in Sologub’s Novel The Petty Demon,’ in Fyodor Sologub, The Petty Demon, tr. by S.D. Cioran, ed., by Murl Baker, Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1983, pp. 312-323.

“Suicide and Folk beliefs in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment,” in Derek Offord, ed., The Golden Age of Russian Literature and Thought, London: Macmillan, 1992, pp. 138-148.

“Three Instances of the Peasant Occult in Russian Literature,” in Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, ed., The Occult in Russian and Soviet Literature, Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell UP, 1997, pp. 59-74.

Courses Taught

a) For Slavic and east European languages: Russian language (all levels); surveys of Russian literature in translation (19^th and 20^th centuries); courses devoted to Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Russian folklore, Eastern Orthodoxy, Women in Russian literature, Russian Soviet literature.

b) For Comparative Literature: Introduction to Western Literature; Myths and Mythologies; International Folktale; Heroic Literature; Literature and Psychology; Senior Seminar.