Carol R. Ueland
| 390 Riverside Drive
New York, N.Y. 10025 (212) 222-5076 |
| Current Appointment: | ||
| Sept 1998 | Chair of the Department of German and Russian
Director of Russian Studies Drew University, Madison, New Jersey |
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| Education: | ||
| May 1995 | PhD. awarded with distinction from the Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia University.
Dissertation:"Autobiographical Poemy of the Symbolists: Blok's
Retribution,
Ivanov's Infancy and Bely's The First Encounter."
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| June 1975 | M. Phil. in Russian Literature, Columbia University | |
| August 1970 | M.A. in Russian Literature, Fordham University | |
| June 1969 | B.A. in Russian Language and Literature, Mount Holyoke College | |
| Teaching and Related Experience: | ||
| 1996- | Associate Professor of Russian | |
| 1995-96 | Assistant Professor of Russian | |
| 1990-1995 | Instructor (tenure track) in the Dept. of German and Russian, Drew University. | |
| Summer 1991 | Participant-observer in SSRC Working Group on Soviet Culture Workshop held at University of California, Berkeley, June 17-21 | |
| 1988-90 | Lecturer (full-time) in the Dept. of Chinese, Comparative Literature
and Slavic Languages, Rutgers University.
Courses taught: Elementary Russian; Intermediate Russian; Seminar in Translation; Masterpieces of Literature in Translation (1860-1917) |
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| Summer 1987 | Participant in Social Science Research Council Summer Seminar on Soviet Culture Under Gorbachev, Yale University, July 6-17, 1987 | |
| Summer 1986 | Instructor of Elementary Russian I and Intermediate Russian II, Columbia University Summer Session | |
| 1985-86 | Instructor of Intermediate Russian I and Elementary Russian I & II at Columbia and Barnard Colleges | |
| 1983-1985 | Instructor of Elementary Russian I & II at Columbia and Barnard Colleges. Spring 1985 Co-ordinator of Elementary Russian Program | |
| 1982-3 | Editor-in-Chief of the fourth issue of Ulbandus Review, a journal of Slavic literature published by the Columbia University Graduate Department of Slavic Languages. | |
| 1977-82 | Preceptor on the Literature Humanities staff, Columbia College.
Taught year-long core curriculum course on masterpieces of Western European literature and philosophy from Homer to Dostoevsky. |
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| 1973-76 | Russian teacher, Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, New York, N.Y. Taught first through fourth year Russian language courses plus an introductory Russian language course taken by the entire seventh grade. Also taught one-trimester courses in Russian literature in translation on Chekhov plays and short stories, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, twentieth-century prose and a Russian culture course. | |
| 1973 | Teaching assistant for Professor Rufus W. Mathewson for Columbia College course on Dostoevsky. | |
| Courses taught: | ||
| Russian Language | ||
| Beginning Russian I and II
Intermediate Russian I and II Reading and Speaking in Russian Advanced Russian I and II Russian Culture through Language Readings in Russian Literature Readings in Russian Culture Selected Topics in Language Study Selected Topics in Contemporary Literature Seminars in Russian Literature and Culture Ëèòåðàòóðà è ôèëüì Ïóøêèí æèçíü, òâîð÷åñòâî, ìèôîëîãèÿ Russian Women's Poetry: Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva |
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| Russian Literature in Translation | ||
| Romanticism and Realism
Tolstoy to the Revolution The Soviet Period from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin Contemporary Russian Literature Dostoevsky Love and Death in Russian Literature Russian Women's Poetry: Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva |
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| First Year Seminars | ||
| The Fantastic in Russian Literature and Film
The Devil in Russian Culture |
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| Drew International Seminars in Russian | ||
| Russian Culture in Transition: Literary and Architectural Space (1994)
Stages in Russia's Cultural Transition (1995) Writing and Re-writing Russian Literature and History in the 20th Century (1996) National Identity and Museum Culture in Russia (1998) |
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| Russian Studies | ||
| Introduction to Russian Culture | ||
| Publications: | ||
| Book | ||
| The Symbolists' Pushkin (book manuscript, accepted by the Publications of the Harriman Institute Series, currently under consideration at University of Wisconsin Press) | ||
| Translations | ||
| Apollo in the Snow: Aleksandr Kushner Selected Poems 1962-1988, translations (with American poet Paul Graves) and notes, introduction by Joseph Brodsky, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. | ||
| British edition: Harvill/Harper Collins, 1992 | ||
| Individual translations from this collection have also appeared in American Poetry Review, Parnassus, Nimrod, Confrontation, Arion and Partisan Review. | ||
| Reviews of Apollo in the Snow: | ||
| Times Literary Supplement March 19, 1993; Poetry Review Vol 82:4, 1993; Stand Vol. 34:2, 1993; Slavic and East European Journal; World Literature Today; Publishers' Weekly Nov. 30, 1990. | ||
| Lydiia Zinov'eva-Annibal, "The Head of the Medusa," in Russian Women Writers, ed. Christine Tomei, New York and London: Garland, 1999. | ||
| Also in collaboration with poet Paul Graves, translations of: | ||
| Vladimir Druk and Timur Kibirov in Pendulum of Rhetorics, ed. Kent Johnson and Stephen Ashby, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. | ||
| Georgy Vlasenko, Five Fingers Review 8/9,1990. | ||
| Olesia Nikolaeva, Kenyon Review, Fall, 1992 | ||
| ----- Lives in Transit: Recent Russian Women's Writing, Ardis, 1995. | ||
| Olesia Nikolaeva and Aleksandr Kushner in In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era, ed. J. Kates, Brookline, Mass.: Zephyr Press, 1999 | ||
| Articles | ||
| "The Eastern Path of Exile: Russian Women's Writing in China," (with Olga Bakich) in Russian Women's Writing, edit. Adele Barker and Jehanne Gheith, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. | ||
| "Unknown Figure in a Wintry Landscape: Reid Grachev and Leningrad Literature of the Sixties," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 43, No. 2 (1999). | ||
| "Women's Poetry in the Soviet Union,"in Russian Women Writers, eds. T. Clyman and D. Greene, New York: Greenwood Press, 1994. | ||
| "Iunna Morits," and "Anna Barkova," (this article co-authored with Catriona Kelly) Dictionary of Russian Women Writers, ed. Astman, Rosenthal, Zirin, N.Y.: Greenwood Press, 1994 | ||
| "Viacheslav Ivanov's `Malicious Counter-Revolutionary Verses':Pesni Smutnogo Vremeni Reconsidered," Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 26, Nos 1-3, 1992. | ||
| This article, translated into Russian appears in Russkaia literatura XX veka Issledovaniia amerikanskikh uchenykh [Russian literature of the XX century: Research of American Scholars], edit. Elizabeth Neatrour and Boris Averin, Petro-Rif Publishers, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1993. | ||
| "Viacheslav Ivanov's Pushkin: Thematic and Prosodic Echoes of Evgenii Onegin in Mladenchestvo," in Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism, ed. Boris Gasparov and Robert Hughes, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. | ||
| "The Return of the Suppressed: Russian Poetry Since Glasnost'" Poetry Society ofAmerica Newsletter, Vol. 37, Fall 1991. | ||
| "Aleksandr Kushner and the Re-emergence of the Leningrad School," Studies inComparative Communism, Vol. XXI, Nos. 3-4, Autumn-Winter 1988. | ||
| "Blok's Vozmezdie: A Hidden Subtext in Chapter One," Ulbandus Review, no. 5, Fall, 1987. | ||
| "Aleksandr Kushner," The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature, Academic International Press, Gulf Breeze, Fla, upcoming. | ||
| Book Reviews | ||
| "A.D.P. Briggs, A Comparative Study of Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, Nekrasov's Red-Nosed Frost and Blok's The Twelve: The Wild World, Russian Review, Vol 52, no 2, April 1993. | ||
| "Aleksandr Kushner: Kanva," Slavic Review, Spring 1984. | ||
| Papers Delivered | ||
| Oct. 1999 | "Pushkin and the Russian Emigre Community in China," at the "Pushkin Beyind Russia: An International Symposium," Penn. State University, State College, PA. | |
| May 1999 | " Ïóøêèíñêèé ïðàçäíèê â Êèòàå â 1937" [The Pushkin Celebration of 1937 in China, delivered in Russian] at the "Pushkin and Pushkin Studies on the Border of the 20th Century Conference," [International Conference for the 200th Jubilee of Pushkin's Birth organized by the "Pushkin Project" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg University, Moscow University and the Russian State Humanities University, St. Petersburg and Moscow. | |
| Dec 1998 | "'A Swarthy Youth,': Women Re-writng Pushkin's Biography," on the "Pushkin and His African Heritage" Panel, MLA National Convention, San Francisco | |
| Sept 1998 | Organizer and Participant of Roundtable "The Role of Literary Translation in the Field," AAASS National Convention, Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Nov 1996 | "Leningrad Prose: The Case of Reid Grachev" on the "Rediscovering Lost Writers Panel at the AAASS National Convention, Boston. Participant in the roundtable "In memory of Nina Iskrenko: Becoming a Woman-Poet in Russia" | |
| Nov 1993 | "Mikhail Kuzmin's Alexandrian Songs and their Musical Settings," on "Intersecting Planes" panel at the AAASS National Convention, Honolulu. | |
| Nov 1992 | "The Meditative Lyric in Soviet Poetry of the Sixties and Seventies,"on "The Russian Meditative Poetic Tradition" panel at AAASS National Convention, Phoenix. | |
| Nov 1991 | "The New Wave of Lyrical Poets," on "Women Writers Transcending Reality Today" panel at AAASS National Convention, Miami. | |
| Dec 1991 | "From Bohemians to Gypsies: Vjaceslav Ivanov's translations of Baudelaire," on "Russian Modernism and the West" panel at AATSEEL National Convention, San Francisco. | |
| April 1991 | "Echoes of Mandelstam in the Poetry of Aleksandr Kushner," on "Two Poets from Leningrad (Brodsky and Kushner)" panel at Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Bryn Mawr College. | |
| Nov 1989 | "Recent Poetry from the Soviet Union: The Re-discovery and Rejection of Tradition," on "The New and the Old in the Literature of the Period of Glasnost" panel at the AAASS National Convention, Chicago. | |
| Nov 1988 | "An Auspicious Literary Debut: Tatiana Tolstaia's 'Na zolotom kryl'se sideli," on "Tatiana Tolstaia: A New Voice in Soviet Literature" panel, AAASS National Convention, Honolulu. | |
| Oct 1988 | "Translating Soviet Poetry," paper given as part of the Soviet/Russian Translation: Poetry, Prose and Drama panel at the annual meeting of the American Literary Translators Association, New York. | |
| Dec 1987 | "Viacheslav Ivanov's 'Malicious Counter-Revolutionary Verses': PesniSmutnogo Vremeni Reconsidered," on the "Religion and Revolution in Russia" panel at the AATSEEL National Convention, San Francisco. | |
| May 1987 | "Vjaceslav Ivanov's Pushkin: The Poetics of Cultural Continuity," at the "Russian Literary Mythologies: Silver Age on Golden Age" Conference, U of California, Berkeley. | |
| Nov 1986 | "Platonic Imagery in the Poetry of Vjaceslav Ivanov," on the "Plato and Russian Literature" panel at the AAASS National Convention, New Orleans. | |
| Dec 1985 | "Aleksandr Kushner and Lydia Ginzburg: A Symbiotic Relationship inb Contemporary Russian Literature," on the "Literature of the Last Decade" panel | |
| Dec 1984 | "Pervoe svidanie: Its Genesis in the Early Lyrics," at the annual meeting of the Andrej Belyj Society at the AATSEEL National Convention, Washington, D.C. | |
| Nov 1984 | "Of Comets and Meteors: The Sonnet Crowns of M. Voloshin and V. Ivanov," on the "Modern Russian Poetry" panel at the AAASS National Convention, New York. | |
| Apr 1983 | "Aleksandr Kushner: Golos," paper delivered at the "Russian Literature Today" Conference at SUNY, Stony Brook. | |
| Dec 1982 | "Narrative in the Onegin Stanza: Vjaceslav Ivanov's Mladencestvo," on the "Poema" panel at the AATSEEL National Convention, Chicago. | |
| Dec 1981 | "Blok's Vozmezdie: A Hidden Subtext in Chapter One," on the "Poema" panel at the AATSEEL National Convention, New York. | |
| Nov 1980 | "Pervoe svidanie and the Tradition of the Autobiographical Verse Narrative," on the "Andrej Belyj: On the Border of Two Centuries" panel at the AAASS National Convention, Philadelphia. | |
| Other Conference Participation: | ||
| Nov 1999 | Discussant on "Russian Symbolist Rereading/Rewriting of the Nineteenth Century Canon" at the AAASS National Convention, St. Louis | |
| Mar 1999 | Chair of the "Russian Symbolism" panel at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, New York University | |
| Mar 1995 | Chair of the "Soviet Literature and Politics" panel at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, New York. | |
| Dec 1994 | Chair of the "Poetry and Politics" panel at the AATSEEL National Convention, San Diego, Ca. | |
| Nov. 1994 | Chair of "Tatyana Tolstaya" panel at the AAASS National Convention, Philadelphia, PA. | |
| Nov 1993 | Discussant on "Twentieth Century Poets with a St. Petersburg Connection" panel at AAASS National Convention, Honolulu. | |
| March 1991 | Steering Committee and Chair of Poetry Panel for "Glasnost' in Two Cultures: Soviet Russian/ North American Women's Writing," Conference at New York University. | |
| Oct 1991 | Chair of "Integration or Segregation: The Role of Russian-speaking Students in American Programs" panel at New York-New Jersey AATSEEL meeting, Drew University | |
| Dec 1990 | Chair of "The Child in Russian Literature," panel at AATSEEL National Convention, Chicago. | |
| Nov 1988 | Discussant on "The Lyrical Hero and the Reader in Modernist Literature," panel, AAASS National Convention, Honolulu. | |
| Dec 1987 | Chair of the "Literature of the Last Decade" panel at the AATSEEL National Convention, San Francisco. | |
| Dec 1985 | Chair of panel entitled "Theory and Practice in Russian Literature: The Writer and His Craft," at the AATSEEL National Convention, Chicago. | |
| Nov 1985 | Discussant on the "Contemporary Russian Religious Lyric Poetry" panel at the Third World Congress of Slavists, Washington, D.C. | |
| Dec 1983 | Chair of panel entitled "Time and Narrative in Russian Prose," AATSEEL National Convention, New York. | |
| Invited Lectures, Readings and Workshops: | ||
| Nov 1999 | Aquinas Seminar on Russian Culture with Jason Merrill | |
| Feb 1997 | "The Russian Romantic Demons of Pushkin, Lermontov, Rubinshtein and Vrubel'", Princeton University. | |
| Feb 1996 | "Literature and Moral Resistance in Soviet Russia" as part of the lecture series The Legacy of the Soviet Union at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. | |
| Nov 1994 | Poetry reading with Aleksandr Kushner and round table participant at Ninth International Conference on Translation, Barnard College. | |
| Apr 1993 | Lecture/concert of Mikhail Kuzmin's "Alexandrian Songs" with Lydia Ledeen at Fairleigh Dickinson University. | |
| May 1990 | Lecture on Tatyana Tolstaya, Washington and Lee University. | |
| Nov 1990 | Co-Director of Russian Translation Workshop at "Translating the Other," Seventh International Conference on Translation, Barnard College. | |
| Study and Professional Travel Abroad: | ||
| IREX Short Term Travel Grant, St. Petersburg, Sept-Oct. 1997 | ||
| Travel to Russia in March 1993, May-June 1993, May-June 1994, May-June 1995, May-June 1996, May-June 1998, May-June 1999. | ||
| IREX Summer Exchange of Language Teachers, Leningrad State University, June-August 1985. | ||
| Study tour of the Soviet Union as the recipient of the Mogilat Travel Grant, June-July 1972. | ||
| Awards and Fellowships: | ||
| 1969 | Phi Beta Kappa, Mount Holyoke College | |
| 1970 | Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Fordham University | |
| 1971-1972 | Faculty Fellow, Columbia University | |
| 1973-74 | Whiting Fellow, Columbia University | |
| 1981 | Chamberlain Fellow, Columbia College | |
| 1982 | Pushkin Prize for Poetry Translation, Columbia University | |
| 1997 | IREX Short-Term Travel Grant recipient | |
| 1997 | Harriman Institute Fellow | |
| Professional Organizations and Service: | ||
| Member of Executive Committee, American Women in Slavic Studies, 2000- | ||
| Member of the Executive Committee, Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference 1991-1994 | ||
| Member of Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Russian History and Culture, 1987-. | ||
| American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies | ||
| American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages | ||
| American Literary Translators Association | ||
| Serve as manuscript reader for Slavic and East European Journal and Comparative Literature Studies | ||
| Consultant for film, "Fear and the Muse: The Story of Anna Akhmatova," for The Center for Visual History, NY. | ||
| Drew University Service: | ||
| University Senate Library Committee, Division 3 representative 1992-present, Chair 1994-96 | ||
| Honors Committee 1995- | ||
| Faculty Advisory Committee for International and Off-Campus Programs, 1998-2000 | ||
| Chapter Advisor, Dobro Slovo Slavic Honour Society 1992-1999 | ||
| Advisor to Russian House, 1992-93 and 1994-5 | ||
| Russian Areas Studies Search Committee 1991-92 | ||
| Chair, Russian Dept. Search 1998 | ||
| Chinese Language and Literature Search Committee 1999 | ||
Updated 12/99