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Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine |
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Home: RR3, Box 260, Mifflinburg,
PA 17844 |
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Telephone: (570) 966-6835 |
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IsI12@psu.edu |
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| EDUCATION |
Ph.D., June 2000, Slavic Languages
and Literatures, Princeton University |
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M.A., 1996, Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Princeton University
Charles University, 1996, Philosophy Faculty, Summer Language Program
--advanced Czech (Prague )
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B.A., 1993, Rutgers College, Rutgers University
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ACADEMIC
HONORS |
1993-1998: Five-year Princeton
University Graduate Fellowship |
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1996: FLAS Foreign
Language Fellowship (for Czech) |
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1993: Phi Beta Kappa I Henry Rutgers Scholar (B.A. honors
thesis, awarded with Highest Honors) |
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| DISSERTATION |
"From the Lyric to the Epic: Some Trends in the Early
Twentieth-Century Russian Poema." |
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| TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Penn State
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Russian
Culture and Civilization
First-semester Russian
Third-semester Russian
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| Wellesley College: |
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Seven
Decades of Russian Film |
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Contemporary Russian Film |
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Fourth-year Russian |
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Third-year Russian |
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Advisor on a project in poetic translation for the annual Wellesley student
conference |
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| Princeton University: |
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Soviet
Literature, 1917-1965 |
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History of Russian
Literature, 1860-1917 |
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Second-year Russian |
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First-year Russian |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
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“Aleksandr Blok’s The Twelve: The
Transformation of comedia dell’arte into an Epic,” in progress.
“The Epic, the Lyric, the Dramatic, and Marina
Tsvetaeva’s Poema of the End.” Die Welt der Slaven, XVLIX
(2004).
"Konstantin Mikhailovich Fofanov ." Dictionary of Literary
Biography ( DLB ): Russian Literature in the Age of Realism. Columbia: BCL,
2003. |
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"Poetry , Prose and Push kin ' s Egyptian Nights." Slavic
and East European Journal 42.3 (1998): 402-422. |
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| PAPERS PRESENTED |
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"Epic Utopia: Vladimir Mayakovsky's War and the Universe"
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages,
national meeting, New York, December 2002. |
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"Boris Pastemak's The Year 1905: Visual Arts in the Genre of
Epic Poetry," American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European
Languages, national meeting, San Francisco, December 1998. |
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"The Long Lyric at the Turn of the Century and Vladimir
Mayakovsky's The Backbone Flute," American Association of Teachers of Slavic
and East European Languages, national meeting, Toronto, December 1997. |
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"Igor' Severianin's Sonnets," American Association of
Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, national meeting, Washington
D.C. December 1996. |
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"The Male-Female Dichotomy in the Lyrical Voice of Vladimir
Mayakovsky's Pre-Revolutionary Poetry ," AAASS Mid-Atlantic Slavic
Conference, New York, March 1995. |
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| GUEST SPEAKER |
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"Boris Pastemak's Lieutenant Schmidt as a Reply to Marina
Tsvetaeva's Poem of the End." Olga Hasty's graduate seminar, "Major Russian
Poets and Poetic Movements: Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pastemak," Princeton,
October 1999. |
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| GRANTS |
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Wellesley College, Summer 2000, Received two university
grants to develop course materials for advanced language courses (third- and
fourth-year Russian). |
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| TECHNICAL TRAINING |
| Wellesley College, Fall
2000, Training in non-linear editing. |
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| PEDAGOGICAL
TRAINING |
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Spring 1995, Participated in an ongoing tutorial for
language instructors; introduced to various aspects of the communicative and
cognitive teaching methods. |
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| LANGUAGES |
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Russian (Native ) |
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Czech (fluent
reading and moderate speaking) |
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French (Reading and
limited speaking) |
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German (Reading) |
