Russian Literature

In teaching: Old Russian literature, eighteenth century, drama, folklore; Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky; Russian Civilization; Humanities Core

In research: Medieval Russian and Slavic literature and culture

A.B., Middlebury College, 1957, in German and in Russian; Cum Laude, Honors in Russian, Phi Beta Kappa

M.A., University of Michigan, 1959, in Russian Language and Literature

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963, in Slavic Languages and Literatures

• Middlebury College, German Summer School, 1955 and 1956; Russian Summer School, 1956 and 1957
• Freie Universitaut Berlin, 1957-58; Slavic philology
• Summer Linguistics Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1959
• Leningrad State University, 1961-62; Russian language and literature
• Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and the Charles University, Prague, 1963-64; post-doctoral study and research
• Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies (Harvard University), in Washington, D.C., 1972-73; research

• Fulbright Fellow in Germany, 1957-58
• Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan, 1958-59
• Faculty of Arts and Sciences Fellow, Harvard University, 1959-60, 1962-63
• NDEA Title VI Fellow, Harvard, 1959-60 and 1960-61
• Traveling Fellow, Harvard, 1961-62
• Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants [predecessor of IREX], for study and research in the USSR, 1961-62
• Teaching Fellow, Harvard, 1962-63
• Research Fellow, Harvard, 1963-64
• Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, for study and research in Czechoslovakia, 1963-64
• Summer Research Grant, Harvard, 1967
• American Council of Learned Societies, travel grant to attend International Congress of Slavists in Prague, 1968
• Visiting Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, 1972-73

Indiana University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Assistant Professor, 1964-65

Harvard University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Assistant Professor, 1965-70; Lecturer, 1970-71

University of Chicago, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (and in the College since 1977), Associate Professor, 1971-82, Professor, 1982-; Acting Chairman, 1976; Chairman, 1977-83; Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1977-83; Advisor for Graduate Studies in Literature, 1995-97, 2000- . Chairman, Committee on Slavic and East European Studies, 1982-91. Director, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, 1991-96; Acting Director, 1996

Fluency in Russian and German. Speaking ability in French and Czech. Reading knowledge of Bulgarian, (Old) Church Slavonic, Polish, Serbian and Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian; Greek and Latin; Italian, Spanish, and other European languages

• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). Representative to Council of Member Institutions, 1985-96; area representative, National Advisory Committee for East European Language Programs, 1985-96)
• American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
• Early Slavic Studies Association. Vice President, 1993-95; President, 1995-97
• Slavic and East European Folklore Association (a founding member)
• Chicago Consortium for Slavic and East European Studies. Vice President, 1982-84, 1998; President, 1984-86, 1998-; Executive Council, 1992-96

• Byzantine Studies, Associate Editor, 1973-81
• American Committee of Slavists, 1977-83
• Slavic and East European Journal, Editorial Board, 1978-87; Advisory Board, 1987-89

• Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (formerly Committee on Slavic Area Studies, then Committee on Slavic and East European Studies), 1971-; Executive Committee, 1977-; Committee Chairman, 1982-91; Center Director, 1991-96
• Committee on Medieval Studies
• Humanities Collegiate Division (HCD)
• Russian Civilization Program, SSCD
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Associate Member, 1994-
• Social Sciences Collegiate Division (SSCD), 1995-
• Governing Committee, HCD, 1979-81; 1990-93
• College Council, 1992-93
• Advisory Council, Center for International Business Education and Research, Graduate School of Business, 1992-95
• Eastern Europe and U.S.S.R. Language and Area Center, 1971-91; Director, 1978-81; 1982-91
• Center for Balkan and Slavic Studies, 1982-91
• Committee on International Relations, Associate Member, 1986-88

Abbreviations:
IJSLP = International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics
SEEJ = Slavic and East European Journal
Verouffentlichungen = Verouffentlichungen der Abteilung fuur Slavische Sprachen und Literaturen des Osteuropa-Instituts (Slavisches Seminar) an der Freien Universitaut Berlin

• Editor. The Church and Religious Culture in Old Rus'. Special volume of Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 25/1-4 (1991 [pub. 1993]). 246+ pp.
• E. T. A. Hoffmann's Reception in Russia. Colloquium Slavicum: Beitrauge zur Slavistik, 6. Wuurzburg: JAL-Verlag, 1974. 303 pp.
• Co-editor (with Joachim T. Baer). Mnemozina: Studia litteraria russica in honorem Vsevolod Setchkarev. Centrifuga: Russian Reprintings and Printings, 15. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1974. 359 pp.

29. "Mode and Genre in the Old Rusian Military Tale," in press in the International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics.

28. "Has a Missing Daughter of Iaroslav Mudryi Been Found?" Russian History 25 (1998 [pub. 1999]): 231-70.

27. "A Slavist's View of Agatha, Wife of Edward the Exile, as a Possible Daughter of Yaroslav the Wise." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 152 (1998): 216-23. [Cross-listed here.]

26. "Genealogy and Identity in the Rhetoric of Muscovite Rulership." In Culture and Identity in Muscovy, 1359-1584; Moskovskaia Rus' (1359-1584): kul'tura i istoricheskoe samosoznanie, edited by A. M. Kleimola and G. D. Lenhoff, 166-80. UCLA Slavic Studies, n.s., 3.Moscow: ITZ-Garant, 1997

25. Zemlia russkaia and zemlia polovetskaia in the Poetic Structure of Slovo o polku Igoreve." In The Frontier in Russian History, edited by Richard Hellie, Russian History 19 (1992 pub. 1995]): 97-114.

24. "Early East Slavic Literature as Sociocultural Fact." In Medieval Russian Culture, II, edited by Michael S. Flier and Daniel Rowland, 3-17. California Slavic Studies, 19. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994.

23. "Povestvovatelen modus i literaturen zhanr v srednevekovnite pravoslavni literaturi: Tezisi" "Narrative Mode and Literary Kind in Medieval Orthodox Literatures: Theses", Palaeobulgarica 17 (1993): 36-47. [Article #16, somewhat revised; trans. into Bulgarian by Valentina Izmirlieva.]

22. "Sources on St. Ludmila, III: The Homily and Its `Echoes.'" In American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava, August-September 1993, edited by Robert A. Maguire & Alan Timberlake, 65-73. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1993.

21."On Historical Truth and Hagiographical Truth: Saint Feodosii's Mother." Russian History 18 (1991 [pub. 1992]): 127-41.

20 "Mucweniswtvo svetog Jovana Vladimira Dukljanina." Letopis Matice Srpske166 (1990): 876-96. [Serbian trans., by Adrijana Marcwetica, of #19.]

19. "The Martyrdom of Saint John Vladimir of Dioclea." IJSLP 35-36 (1987 [pub. 1989]): 199-216.

18. "War die heilige Ludmila Erzieherin des heiligen Wenzel?" In Ars philologica slavica: Festschrift fuur Heinrich Kunstmann, edited by V. Setschkareff, P. Rehder, and H. Schmid, 205-13. Sagners Slavistische Sammlung, 15. Munich: Otto Sagner, 1988.

17. "The Lost Church Slavonic Life of Saint Ludmila." In Studia slavica mediaevalia et humanistica Riccardo Picchio dicata, edited by Michele Colucci, Giuseppe Dell'Agata, and Harvey Goldblatt, 1:349-59. Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1986 [pub. 1987].

16. "Narrative Mode and Literary Kind in Old Russian: Some Theses." In Gattung und Narration in den aulteren slavischen Literaturen, edited by Klaus-Dieter Seemann, 173-84. Verouffentlichungen, 64.Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1987.

15. "The Case of the Unreliable Narrator: Leskov's `White Eagle.'" In Studies in Russian Literature in Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev, edited by Julian W. Connolly and Sonia I. Ketchian, 153-65. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1986 [pub. 1987].

14. "The groza of Ivan Groznyi in Russian Folklore." Russian History 14(1987), Ivan the Terrible: A Quarcentenary Celebration of His Death, edited by Richard Hellie, 225-45.

13. "Genre-Theory and Old Russian Literature." SEEJ 31 (1987): 234-45.

12. "`By the Will of Our Lord God and Savior.'" In New Studies in Russian Language and Literature, edited by Anna Lisa Crone and Catherine V. Chvany, 159-67. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1987.

11. "Sources on Saint Ludmila, II: The Translation of Her Relics." IJSLP 31-32 (1985 [pub. 1986]), Slavic Linguistics, Poetics, Cultural History: In Honor of Henrik Birnbaum on His Sixtieth Birthday, 13 December 1985, edited by Michael S. Flier and Dean S. Worth, 197-206.

10. "The Martyred Prince and the Question of Slavic Cultural Continuity in the Early Middle Ages." In Medieval Russian Culture, edited by Henrik Birnbaum and Michael S. Flier, 31-53. California Slavic Studies, 12. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1984.

9."Jedna opomenutaa textovaa filiace a jejia vyaznam pro studium ciarkevnewslovanskea literatury" [An Unnoticed Text Filiation and Its Significance for the Study of Church Slavonic Literature]. Slavia (Prague) 52 (1983): 161-63.

8. "Parody in Povest' o Gore i Zlocwastii." SEEJ 27 (1983): 141-57.

7. "Genre Characteristics of the Kievan Lives of Princes in Slavic and European Perspective." In American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists (Kiev, September 1983), 2, Literature, Poetics, History, edited by Paul Debreczeny, 223-37. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1983.

6. "Irony in Povest' o Gore i Zlocwastii." SEEJ 24 (1980): 333-48.

5. "Turgenev in the Garden." In Mnemozina: Studia litteraria russica in honorem Vsevolod Setchkarev, edited by Joachim T. Baer and Norman W. Ingham, 209-28. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1974.

4. "The Sovereign as Martyr, East and West." SEEJ 17 (1973 [pub. 1974]): 1-17.

3. "The Limits of Secular Biography in Medieval Slavic Literature, Particularly Old Russian." In American Contributions to the Sixth International Congress of Slavists (Prague, 1968), 2, Literary Contributions, edited by William E. Harkins, 181-99. The Hague: Mouton, 1969.

2. "The Litany of Saints in `Molitva sv. Troicew.'" In Studies Presented to Professor Roman Jakobson by His Students, edited by Charles E. Gribble, 121-36. Cambridge, Mass.: Slavica, 1968.

1. "Czech Hagiography in Kiev: The Prisoner Miracles of Boris and Gleb." Die Welt der Slaven 10 (1965): 166-82.

6. Klaus-Dieter Seemann. "Allegorical-Exegetical Devices in Kievan Literature." In The Church and Religious Culture in Old Rus' (Canadian-American Slavic Studies 25 [1991 (pub. 1993)]), 27-41. [Translation from the German.]

5. Klaus-Dieter Seemann. "Genres and the Alterity of Old Russian Literature." SEEJ 31 (1987): 246-58. [Translation from the German.]

Guest editor. "Forum: The Problem of Old Russian Genres." SEEJ 31 (1987): 234-79. [Includes an "Afterword" (272-74) and the translation of Seemann (#6 above) as well as article #13.]

4. Heinrich Kunstmann. "Where the Hutsuls Got Their Name." In Studies in Russian Literature in Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev, edited by Julian W. Connolly and Sonia I. Ketchian, 189-96. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1987. [Translation from the German.]

3. "O zhanrovoi prirode zhitii kievskikh kniazei v slavianskoi i evropeiskoi perspektive." Resiume dokladov i pis'mennykh soobshchenii; IX Mezhdunarodnyi s"ezd slavistov (Kiev, sentiabr' 1983) [On the Genre Characteristics of the Vitae of Kievan Princes in Slavic and European Perspective, in Reasumeas of Papers and Written Communications, Ninth International Congress of Slavists, Kiev, September 1983], 235-36. Moscow: Nauka, 1983.

2. "The Hagiographical Tradition of the Kievan Saints Boris and Gleb." In Minutes of the Seminar in Ukrainian Studies Held at Harvard University during the Academic Year 1970-1971, no. 1, 66-68. Cambridge, Mass., 1971. [Abstract of guest lecture, with discussion and bibliography.]

1. Administration of Teaching in Social Sciences in the U.S.S.R.: Syllabi for Three Required Courses. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Univ. of Michigan, 1960. [Unattributed book translation from the Russian.]

13. The Hagiography of Kievan Rus', tr. with an intro. by Paul Hollingsworth (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature; English Translations, 2; Cambridge, Mass.: Ukrainian Research Institute, 1992). Reviewed in The Russian Review 54 (1995): 137.

12. Robert Mann, Lances Sing: A Study of the Igor Tale (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1990). Reviewed in Russian Language Journal 48 (1994 [pub. 1995]): 277-80.

11. Henrik Birnbaum, Aspects of the Slavic Middle Ages and Slavic Renaissance Culture (American Univ. Studies; Series 12, Slavic Languages and Literature, 4; N.Y.: Peter Lang, 1991). Reviewed in SEEJ 36 (1994): 355.

10. The Nikonian Chronicle, ed. Serge A. Zenkovsky, tr. Serge and Betty Jean Zenkovsky, vols. 2-4 (Princeton, N.J.: Kingston Press, 1984-88), vol. 5 (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1989). Reviewed in SEEJ 35 (1991): 274-75.

9. E. K. Romodanovskaia, Povesti o golom tsare v ruskopisnoi traditsii XVII-XIX vekov, resp. ed. L. A. Dmitriev (Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1985). Reviewed in SEEJ 33 (1989): 118.

8. D. S. Likhachev, Issledovaniia po drevnerusskoi literature, resp. ed. O. V. Tvorogov (L.: Nauka, 1986). Reviewed in SEEJ 32 (1988 [pub. 1989]): 646-47.

7. Maureen Perrie, The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987). Reviewed in Russian History 15 (1988): 129-30.

6. Wolf-Heinrich Schmidt, ed., Gattungsprobleme der aulteren slavischen Literaturen (Berliner Fachtagung 1981) (Verouffentlichungen, 55; Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1984). Reviewed in SEEJ 30 (1986): 438-39.

5. Winfried Baumann, Der Widerspenstigen Zauhmung: Kommentar zur altrussischen Erzauhlung uuber Vasilij Zlatovlasyj (Hamburger Philologische Studien, 58; Hamburg: Helmut Buske, 1984). Reviewed in The Russian Review 45 (1986): 51-52.

4. The `Vita' of St. Sergii of Radonezh, tr., intro., and notes by Michael Klimenko (Houston, Texas: Nordland, 1980). Reviewed in SEEJ 28 (1984): 257-58.

3. Slavica Hierosolymitana: Slavic Studies of the Hebrew University, 5- 6, ed. Lazar Fleishman, Omry Ronen, and Dmitri Segal (Center for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew Univ., 1981). Reviewed in Slavic Review 42 (1983): 338-39.

2. William Edward Brown, A History of Seventeenth-Century Russian Literature (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1980). Reviewed in SEEJ 25 (1981): 95-96.

1. Daniel Clarke Waugh, The Great Turkes Defiance: On the History of the Apochryphal Correspondence of the Ottoman Sultan in Its Muscovite and Russian Variants (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1978). Reviewed in Modern Philology 78 (1981): 307-09.

39. "Violent Words in the Russian Bylina," 35th National Convention of AAASS, Toronto, Nov. 2003.

38. "Proving Agatha Is Agafia," Slavic Forum 2003, Univ. of Chicago, June 2003.

37. Organizer and host, Sixth Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop, Univ. of Chicago, May 2003.

36. "The Military Tale As Relative Mode," Seventh Annual Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies, UCLA, Feb. 2003.

35. Organizer, roundtable "The Igor' Tale in Interdisciplinary Perspective"; paper "Slovo o polku Igoreve, Subtext of Zadonshchina," 34th National Convention of AAASS, Pittsburgh, Nov. 2002.

34. Organizer and host, Fifth Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop, Univ. of Chicago, April 2002.

33. Discussant, panel "Of Time and Testicles: Dostoevsky," Slavic Forum, Univ. of Chicago, April 2002.

32. "The Charm of Accomplishment Revisited," Sixth Annuel Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies, UCLA, March 2002.

31. Organizer and host, Fourth Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop; paper "Kenoticism Revisited," Univ. of Chicago, May 2001.

30. Discussant, panel "Othering Slavic Literatures," Slavic Forum, Univ. of Chicago, April 2001.

29. "Dramatic Form in the Igor' Tale," Fifth Annuel Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies, UCLA, March 2001.

28. Organizer and participant, roundtable "The Legacy of Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev," 32nd National Convention of AAASS, Denver, Nov. 2000.

27. "Slovo Adama k Lazariu As Liturgical Drama," 32nd National Convention of AAASS, Denver, Nov. 2000.

26. Organizer and host, Third Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop. Chicago, May 2000.

25. Discussant, panel "Ethics and Literature." Slavic Forum Graduate Student Conference on Central/East European Literatures and Cultures, Univ. of Chicago, April 2000.

24. Discussant, panel "Kievan and Muscovite Rus'-Literature and Culture." Chaired panel "Monastic Editing: Kievan Texts." 31st National Convention of AAASS, St. Louis, Nov. 1999.

23. Discussant, panel "Crossing the Boundaries between Cultures." Conference: On the Brink of the Modern: In Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Adam Mickiewicz. Univ. of Chicago, Oct. 1999.

22. Organizer and host, Second Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop. Chicago, May 1999. Gave paper "Ghost Bohemisms in the Igor Tale."

21. Discussant, panel "New Perspectives on the Classics," Slavic Forum Graduate Student Conference on Russian and Central/East European Literature and Culture, University of Chicago, April 1999.

20. "Update on the Igor Tale Debate." UCLA Fourth "Winter" Workshop: Topics in Medieval Slavic Culture, Los Angeles, April 1999.

19. "The Magic of Peter and Fevronia" (paper). Also chaired the panels "Popular Beliefs in Medieval East Slavic Culture" and "The Religious Culture of Kievan Rus'." 30th National Convention of AAASS, Boca Raton, Fla., Sept. 1998.

18. Discussant, panel "Disruptions, or `I Got Rhythm.'" Slavic Forum Graduate Student Conference on Central/ East European Literatures and Cultures, University of Chicago, April 1998.

17. "Muscovite Individualism Revisited." UCLA Third "Winter" Workshop: Topics in Medieval Slavic Culture, Los Angeles, March 1998.

16. Organizer and participant, roundtable "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Paradox of Seventeenth-Century Russian Civilization" (with Richard Hellie, Univ. of Chicago; Michael S. Flier, Harvard Univ.; Robert O. Crummey, Univ. of Calif., Davis); gave paper "Literature and the Illusory Paradox of Seventeenth-Century Russian Civilization." 29th National Convention of AAASS, Seattle, Nov. 1997.

15. Organizer and host, Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop. Univ. of Chicago, May 1997.

14. "Of Continuities and Discontinuities: The Old and the New in Russian Literature." Keynote speech, Slavic Forum Conference, Univ. of Chicago, April 1997.

13. "One Zadonshchina, or Many?" UCLA Second "Winter" Workshop: Topics in Medieval Slavic Culture, Los Angeles, March 1997.

12. Organized panel "The Interface of Folklore and Literature: The Slavic Middle Ages"; gave paper "Folklore into Literature: Slovo o polku Igoreve and Zadonshchina." Also, discussant for the panel "Russian Ecclesiastical Culture." 28th National Convention of AAASS, Boston, Nov. 1996.

11. Organized a debate, "On the Trail of the Igor Tale," Univ. of Chicago, May 1996 (with Edward L. Keenan Jr., Harvard Univ.). Gave paper "Turning the Horses and Coming to Igor's Defense."

10. "Zadonshchina, Tail of the Igor' Tale. UCLA "Winter" Workshop: Topics in Medieval Russian Culture. Los Angeles, March 1996.

9. Juxtaposition as Technique in the Slovo o polku Igoreve and Zadonshchina." 27th National Convention of AAASS, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1995.

8. Discussant, panel "The Eighteenth Century." Slavic Forum Literature Conference, Univ. of Chicago, April 1995.

7. "The Dual Ethic of the Slovo o polku Igoreve." 26th National Convention of AAASS, Philadelphia, Nov. 1994.

6. Participated in the international conference Cultural Identity in a Multicultural State: Muscovy, 1359- 1584; presented paper "Genealogy and Identity in the Literature of Muscovy's Elite." UCLA, March 1994. [See article #24.]

5. Organized and served as discussant for panel "Theory and Methodology of Medieval Slavic Letters." Also, chaired panel "Trends in the Muscovite Economy, 1600-1700." 25th National Convention of AAASS, Honolulu, Nov. 1993.

4. Organized and chaired a panel "Medieval Slavic Culture"; paper "Soaring in Thought: The Mind of the Igor' Tale." Also, discussant for the panel "Early Modern Rus' [Ukraine] (16th and 17th Centuries)." Midwest Slavic Conference, East Lansing, Mich., April-May 1993.

3. "Zemlia russkaia and zemlia polovetskaia in the Poetic Structure of Slovo o polku Igoreve." international Conference on the Role of the Frontier in Rus'/Russian History, the Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries, Univ. of Chicago, May 1992. [See article #23.]

2. Organizer of the panel "Genres in Medieval Slavic Literatures"; gave paper "Mode and Genre in the Military Tale." IV World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England, July 1990.

1. Participated in the international Summer Workshop on Medieval East Slavic Culture. Paper "Early East Slavic Literature as Socio-Cultural Fact." UCLA, June 1990. [See article #22.]