January 7, 2011 8:00am-10:00am

7A-1 Panel: Pushkin (Room: Santa Clara)

Panel Chair: Catherine O'Neil, United States Naval Academy

Panelist: Kathleen Scollins, University of Vermont
Title: Cursing at the Whirlwind: The Book of Job Subtext of Bronze Horseman

Panelist: Anastasia Kostetskaya, Ohio State University
Title: Narod bezmolvstvuet: avoidance of moral responsibility in Pushkin's “Oprichnik”

Panelist: Amanda Murphy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Preserve Your Honor, Whether Naked or In Rags: An Analysis of Mar'ia Ivanovna's Apparel in The Captain's Daughter

7A-2 Panel: Isolation and Empathy in Dostoevsky (Room: Pacific A)

Panel Chair: Leeore Schnairsohn, Princeton University

Panelist: Mark Pettus, Independent Scholar
Title: The Closed Threshold: Space as Interlocutor in Dostoevsky

Panelist: Alyson Tapp, University of California-Berkeley
Title: Embarrassment and Empathy in Dostoevsky's Idiot

Panelist: Alina Wyman, New College of Florida
Title: The Progress of Dostoevsky's Ideal Hero: From The Idiot to The Brothers Karamazov

Discussants:
Katherine Bowers, Northwestern University

7A-3 Panel: “Vnov’ ia posetil...”: Revisiting the Russian Elegy (Room: Pacific C)

Panel Chair: Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California

Panelist: David Houston, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Figuring Loss: Baratynsky’s “Zapustenie”

Panelist: Molly Thomasy Blasing, University of Wisconsin-Madison (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Death, Still Remains: Marina Tsvetaeva and the Poetics of Photography

Discussants:
Emily Klenin, University of California-Los Angeles

7A-4 Panel: The Economics of Culture (Room: International Ballroom West)

Panel Chair: Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California

Panelist: Oleg Minin, Glendale College
Title: Repression, Fame, Fortune: Soviet Unofficial Art and Bourdieu’s Theory of Cultural Production

Panelist: Yuri Leving, Dalhousie University
Title: The Writer as His Own Literary Agent (Vladimir Nabokov and his Publishers)

Panelist: Frederick White, Utah Valley University
Title: Fathers and Sons…and Stepmothers: Vadim Andreev’s memoir of childhood

Discussants:
Gabriella Safran, Stanford University

7A-5 Panel: Pavel Florensky: Priest and Polymath (Room: San Diego)

Panel Chair: Yuri Corrigan, College of Wooster

Panelist: Riley Ossorgin, Columbia University
Title: Florensky's Betrothal Service for Monks

Panelist: Tim Portice, Princeton University
Title: Florensky’s Sublime Jealousy

Panelist: Lindsay Ceballos, Princeton University
Title: “Ot berega k beregu”: the Artist and the Imaginary in Florensky’s “Iconostasis” and “Imaginary Numbers in Geometry”

Discussants:
Olga Meerson, Georgetown University

7A-6 Panel: Post-Soviet Popular Culture (Room: Santa Barbara)

Panel Chair: Jason Merrill, Michigan State University

Panelist: Mark Swift, University of Auckland (AV: overhead projector)
Title: Religious Motifs in Sergei Luk'ianenko’s Watch (Dozor) Trilogy

Panelist: Olga Mesropova, Iowa State University (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; DVD player)
Title: Ugly Katya: Ne rodis’ krasivoi Series and the Putin-Era Television Culture

7A-7 Panel: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: To Begin Being (Room: Pasadena I)

Panel Chair: Anne Fisher, Independent Scholar

Panelist: Alisa Ballard, Princeton University
Title: Krzhizhanovsky and the Problem of ‘Byt’

Panelist: Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
Title: Krzhizhanovsky as a Critic of Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw

Panelist: Karen Rosenflanz, The College of St. Scholastica
Title: The Eyes Have It

Discussants:
Anne Fisher, Independent Scholar

7A-8 Roundtable: Venerating the Beloved (Room: Sacramento)

Panel Chair: Alexander Burry, Ohio State University

Panelist: Valeria Nollan, Rhodes College

Panelist: Ruth Rischin, Independent Scholar

Panelist: Catherine Legouis, Mount Holyoke College

Panelist: Jamilya Nazyrova, Ohio University

7A-9 Panel: Slavic Morphosyntax (Room: Pacific B)

Panel Chair: George Fowler, Indiana University

Panelist: Hyug Ahn, Yonsei University (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Investigation of Multiple Semantic Interactions in Russian Prefixed Verbs of Motion

Panelist: S. Spencer Robinson, Ohio State University (AV: overhead projector)
Title: Is Russian idti Undergoing Grammaticalization?

Panelist: John Korba, University of Kansas
Title: A Diachronic Approach to the Connection Between Case and Aspect in Slavic

7A-10 Panel: Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (Room: International Ballroom East)

Panel Chair: James Wilson, University of Leeds

Panelist: Natalya Bogoslavskaya, University of Leeds (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: The Use of Corpora and Other Electronic Resources in Teaching Russian: Methodology and Results

Panelist: Natalia Kazakova, Columbia University
Title: Listening Comprehension on the Internet: Media Technologies in the Foreign Language Teaching Process

Panelist: Biljana Belamaric Wilsey, North Carolina State University (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; speakers)
Title: Beyond the Textbook: Four Easy-to-use Twenty-first-Century Technologies for Teaching East European Languages and Cultures Effectively

7A-11: Workshop: Editing Video for Language Purposes (Room: Monterey)

Panel Chair: Richard Robin, George Washington University (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; speakers)

January 7, 10:45am-12:45pm

7B-1 Panel: The Age of Catherine the Great (Room: Pasadena I)

Panel Chair: Alyson Tapp, University of California-Berkeley

Panelist: Matthew Birkhold, Princeton University
Title: O Vremia! The Changing Times of Catherine the Great’s Pedagogical Thought

Panelist: Geoffrey Cebula, Princeton University
Title: Sympathy for the Rebel: The Appeal to Fellow Feeling in Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

Panelist: Valeria Nollan, Rhodes College (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: The Italian-Russian Connection: Catherine the Great’s Reception of Italian Composers, Writers, and Architects at Her Court

7B-2 Panel: Tolstoy and the Philosophical Tradition (Room: Santa Barbara)

Panel Chair: Valeria Sobol, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Panelist: Lina Steiner, University of Chicago
Title: Between Philosophy and Theology: Tolstoy in the 1870s

Panelist: Jeff Love, Clemson University
Title: The Middle Tolstoy

Panelist: Susan McReynolds Oddo, Northwestern University
Title: Eichmann in Petersburg: Ivan Ilych and the Banality of Evil

7B-3 Panel: Literature and Culture of the Stalinist Era (Room: Pacific A)

Panel Chair: Rebecca Reich, Harvard University

Panelist: Anzhelika Khyzhnya, University of California-Berkeley
Title: Taming the Narrator: Zoshchenko’s Letters to the Writer and the Problem of Skaz

Panelist: Elena Svetikova, Independent Scholar
Title: Innovation and Traditions in Georgij Ivanov’s “Raspad atoma”

Panelist: Maria Khotimsky, Harvard University
Title: The Cathedral of Our Former Glory: Nikolai Zabolotsky’s Translation of The Igor Tale

Panelist: James Goodwin, University of Florida
Title: The Literary Saga of Narodnaia Volia Before and After Stalin

7B-4 Panel: 1920s Prose (Room: Pacific C)

Panel Chair: William Leidy, Stanford University

Panelist: Yelena Zotova, University of Illinois-Chicago (AV: DVD/VCR)
Title: Alexander Grin’s The Scarlet Sails: The Red Cinderella?

Panelist: Tatiana Filimonova, Northwestern University
Title: Boris Pilniak’s Eurasianist Pursuit

Panelist: Conor Klamann, Northwestern University
Title: Historical Repetition and the Problem of Allegory in Boris Pil'niak's Volga vpadaet v Kaspiiskoe more

7B-5 Panel: Contemporary Russian Literature (Room: International Ballroom East)

Panel Chair: David McVey, Ohio State University

Panelist: Jacob Edmond, University of Otago (AV: LCD/computer set-up; speakers)
Title: Dmitrii Prigov’s Iterative Poetics

Panelist: Christine Dunbar, Princeton University
Title: Бронзовый Пушкин: On the Image of Pushkin in Prigov's Work

Panelist: Carmen Finashina, Northwestern University
Title: Maternity as a non-static role in Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s Медея и ее дети

Discussants:
Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh

7B-6 Panel: Art, Trauma, and Politics of the Former Yugoslavia (Room: Santa Clara)

Panel Chair: Olga Mesropova, Iowa State University

Panelist: Vladislav Beronja, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Title: The Berlin Text in Post-Yugoslav Literature: Politics of Memory, Trauma, and the Condition of Post-Exile

Panelist: Lenka Pánkova, Metropolitan University of Prague (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Back to the Swamp(s): The Femme Fatale Myth in Miroslav Krleža’s The Return of Philip Latinowicz

7B-7 Panel: Poetry Translation Workshop (Room: San Diego)

Panel Chair: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

7B-8 Panel: Russian-Western Cross-Cultural Communication (Room: International Ballroom West)

Panel Chair: Irina Mikaelian, Pennsylvania State University (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)

Panelist: Anna Zalizniak, Institute of Linguistics, RAN
Title: Connecting People in Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Panelist: Galina Denissova, University of Pisa
Title: Русско-итальянское «свое» и «чужое»: заимствования в межкультурной коммуникации

Panelist: Dmitrij Dobrovolskij, Institute of the Russian Language, RAN
Title: Russian Idioms and their German Equivalents: Cross-Linguistic and Cross- Cultural Perspectives

Panelist: Irina Levontina, Institute of the Russian Language, RAN
Title: Odd Man In: Xenomarkers in Russian

7B-9 Workshop: Between Learner and Text: Mapping out a Pedagogy of Reading at the Intermediate Level (Room: Pacific B)

Panel Chair: William J. Comer, University of Kansas (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; speakers)

7B-10: Works in Progress I (Room: Monterey)

Panel Chair: Molly Thomasy Blasing, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelist: Emily Klenin, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: What Was Fet Thinking? Practical Translation in Context

Panelist: Olga Yokoyama, University of California-Los Angeles (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Translation as Discourse

Panelist: Alexander Zholkovsky, University of Southern California
Title: Infinitive Poetry, Relevance of Linguistics and Other Issues in the Analysis of the Poetic Text

Panelist: Ronald Vroon, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: Writing the History of the Russian Lyric Sequence: Problems and Perspectives

Panelist: Marcus Levitt, University of Southern California
Title: My Eighteenth- and Twenty-First-Century Projects

January 7, 2:15pm-4:15pm

7C-1 Panel: Gogol (Room: Santa Barbara)

Panel Chair: Esther Peters, University of Chicago

Panelist: Daisuke Adachi, Hokkaido University
Title: Gogol in Mirrorland: Voice, Writing, and Self-Reference in Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends

Panelist: Maksim Klymentyev, Independent Scholar
Title: Vagaries of Perception: the Sensory Organisation of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls

Panelist: Irina Ikonsky, Harvard University
Title: Gogol’s Textual Icons: The Medieval Influence in “Christmas Eve”

7C-2 Panel: Dostoevsky in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Room: San Diego)

Panel Chair: Alexander Burry, Ohio State University

Panelist: Jesse Menefee, Princeton University
Title: Phantoms of Guilt: The Dostoevskyan Subtext of Sologub’s Bad Dreams

Panelist: Evgeniya Koroleva, CUNY Graduate Center
Title: The Notes from Underground Intertext in Nabokov’s Despair

Panelist: Inna Tigountsova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Title: Life after Death? Fedor Dostoevsky’s Bobok: From Someone Else’s Diary and Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s Number One, or in the Gardens of Other Opportunities

7C-3 Panel: Crossing the Terek: Rethinking Russian Orientalism (Room: Pacific C)

Panel Chair: Mark Swift, University of Auckland

Panelist: David Powelstock, Brandeis University
Title: Othering the Self: Exile, Selfhood, and Russian Orientalism

Panelist: Catherine O'Neil, United States Naval Academy
Title: Griboedov in Tiflis: Georgia in Russian Romanticism

Panelist: Katya Hokanson, University of Oregon
Title: Reiterations of Journey to Arzrum

Discussants:
Nina Wieda, Northwestern University

7C-4 Panel: Silver Age Poetry (Room: Monterey)

Panel Chair: Jon Stone, Franklin & Marshall College

Panelist: Emily Wang, Princeton University
Title: An Intertextual Interpretation of Nikolai Gumilev’s “Zabludivshiisia tramvai”

Panelist: Tatiana Osipovich, Lewish and Clark College
Title: «Безмолвная» любовь: лесбийские мотивы в поэзии Зинаиды Гиппиус

Panelist: Jessica Sanders, University of Southern California
Title: “You see, I have no children . . . Sometimes it seems to me that I am mother to all”—Elena Guro as the Symbolist Mother of a Futurist God

Panelist: Ana Olenina, Harvard University (AV: overhead projector)
Title: Zvuk-dvizhenie: Viktor Shklovsky on the Psychophysiology of the Poetic Act

Discussants:
Kirsten Lodge, Columbia University

7C-5 Panel: Translating Poetry and Prose (Room: Pasadena I)

Panel Chair: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Panelist: Alexander Burak, University of Florida
Title: Soviet Legacy in the “Enlivening” Russian Translations of English Fiction

Panelist: Timothy Sergay, SUNY-Albany
Title: Pasternak’s Shakespeare Under the Magnifying Glass (Pasternak, Nikiforovskaia, and Chukovsky)

Panelist: Anne Fisher, Independent Scholar
Title: On Translating Ilf and Petrov’s The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf

7C-6 Panel: Lives of the Slavic Poets: Morality, Immorality, Amorality (Room: International Ballroom West)

Panel Chair: Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Panelist: Julia Trubikhina, Hunter College
Title: Elena Shvarts: The Poet’s Life in Paradoxes of Life–Creation

Panelist: Leeore Schnairsohn, Princeton University
Title: “Воскресну я сказать...”: Osip Mandelstam as Translator and Translated

Panelist: Lejla Marijam, University of Georgia-Athens
Title: Morality by Any Other Name: The Poetry of Drago Štambuk, Goran Šimić and Miloš Komadina

Discussants:
Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University

7C-7 Roundtable: Choosing and Using Translations in the Undergraduate Classroom (Room: Sacramento)

Panel Chair: Michael Heim, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelist: Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

Panelist: Harsha Ram, University of California-Berkeley

Panelist: Russell Valentino, University of Iowa

7C-8 Panel: Sociolinguistic Issues (Room: Pacific B)

Panel Chair: Yelena Belyaeva-Standen, Saint Louis University

Panelist: Maria Polski, East-West University
Title: Theory of Language in the Information Age: Marshall McLuhan and Yuri Rozhdestvensky

Panelist: Mark Nuckols, Independent Scholar
Title: Slovak Linguistic Purism Old and New: From the 1930s to the 2000s

Panelist: Andrew Corin, Defense Language Institute (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Forensic Translation: Public and Private Texts of Former Yugoslav Political and Military Leaders

Panelist: Veronika Egorova, University of Washington (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; speakers)
Title: The Pragmatic Function of Questions in Russian TV Commercials

7C-9 Panel: Curriculum Enhancement and Methodology Innovation in Language Education (Room: International Ballroom East)

Panel Chair: Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelist: Thomas Garza, University of Texas-Austin (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; speakers)
Title: That’s Intensive!: The Intensive Model of Instruction Revisited in the Proficiency-Oriented Classroom

Panelist: Stuart Goldberg, Georgia Institute of Technology (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; speakers)
Title: Advanced Language and Culture through Song

Panelist: Maia Solovieva, Oberlin College (AV: DVD/VCR)
Title: Cultural Identity in the Language Classroom: Creating Personal Meanings and Constructing Intercultural Dialogues

Panelist: Benjamin Rifkin, The College of New Jersey (AV: overhead projector)
Title: The Russian Language, Literature and Culture Curriculum and the Liberal Arts in the 21st Century

7C-10 Roundtable: Using Beginner’s Russian (Room: Santa Clara)

Panel Chair: Frank Miller, Columbia University (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; speakers)

Panelist: Anna Kudyma, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelist: Susan Kresin, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelist: Olga Dobrunoff, Columbia University

7C-11 Roundtable: Your Academic Shelf Life: Staying in Academia When the Jobs are Scarce (Room: Pacific A)

Panel Chair: Anna Berman, Princeton University

Panelist: Sarah Bishop, Willamette University

Panelist: Michal Oklot, Brown University

Panelist: Mark Pettus, Independent Scholar

Panelist: Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California

January 7, 7:00pm-9:00pm

7D-1 Panel: AATSEEL Featured Poet: A Reading and Discussion (Room: Pasadena I)

Panel Chair: Keren Klimovsky, Brown University

Panelist: Aleksei Tsvetkov, New York

Discussants:
Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University

January 8, 8:00am-10:00am

8A-1 Panel: Reexaminations of Anna Karenina (Room: Pasadena II)

Panel Chair: Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist: Alexander Burry, Ohio State University
Title: Stiva Oblonsky and Tolstoy's Failed National Ideal

Panelist: Kevin McKenna, University of Vermont
Title: “Na Poslovitsu ni Suda, ni Raspravy”: A Paremiological Approach to Leo Tolstoy’s Novel, Anna Karenina

Panelist: Melissa Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Story of an Unknown Man: Chekhov’s Unknown Response to Tolstoy

Discussants:
Tatiana Filimonova, Northwestern University

8A-2 Panel: New Perspectives on Oblomov: The Text in Context (Room: Pacific A)

Panel Chair: Séamas O’Driscoll, Northwestern University

Panelist: Katherine Bowers, Northwestern University
Title: Oblomov’s Nightmare: Gothic Anxiety and the Anti-Pastoral

Panelist: Nina Wieda, Northwestern University
Title: Spending and Saving in Oblomov

Panelist: Cameron Wiggins, University of California-Berkeley
Title: Goncharov’s Oblomov: Comedy on the Stage of the Novel

Discussants:
Galya Diment, University of Washington

8A-3 Panel: Early Twentieth-Century Russian Culture (Room: Santa Clara)

Panel Chair: Evgeniya Koroleva, CUNY Graduate Center

Panelist: Natalia Dame, University of Southern California
Title: Censorship and the Russian Satirical Journals of 1905-06: The Battle for Freedom of Speech

Panelist: Boris Dralyuk, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: “As Many Street Cops as Corners”: Displacing 1905 in the Pinkertons

Panelist: Keren Klimovsky, Brown University
Title: The Myth of Language in Sologub’s Petty Demon

8A-4 Panel: Dialogues and Intertexts in Russian Poetry and Prose (Room: Pacific C)

Panel Chair: Chloe Kitzinger, University of California-Berkeley

Panelist: Svetlana Corwin, Belmont Abbey College
Title: “Dom bez krom”: Boris Pasternak’s Adoption of the Rilkean Uncanny Poetics

Panelist: Ilja Gruen, Stanford University
Title: Safe Conduct through Hades: Pasternak's Autobiography as a Requiem

Panelist: Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee
Title: Comparative Epistemologies: Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov

8A-5 Panel: The Other in Russian and East European Culture (Room: International Ballroom East)

Panelist: Stoyan Tchaprazov, Drake University
Title: Imagining Europe: Two Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian Perspectives

Panelist: Elena Monastireva-Andsell, Colby College (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Prisoners, Savages, Beautiful Maidens: Representations of the Ethnic Other in Yeltsin-era Cinema

Panelist: Jason Merrill, Michigan State University
Title: Brotherhood, the Caucasus, and National Identity in Post-Soviet Film

Panelist: Yuliya Ilchuk, Colgate University
Title: Faddei Bulgarin’s Bad Times: Sketches of Russian Morals: Mobility, Mimicry, and National Identity

8A-6 Roundtable: In Memory of Elena Shvarts (Room: International Ballroom West)

Panel Chair: Catherine Ciepiela, Amherst College

Panelist: Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California

Panelist: Julia Trubikhina, Hunter College

Panelist: Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University

Panelist: Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Panelist: James McGavran, Princeton University

8A-7 Panel: Russian Rock Music (Room: Pasadena I)

Panel Chair: Charles Arndt, Union College

Panelist: Rita Safariants, Yale University (AV: DVD/VCR; speakers)
Title: The Cinematic Kino: Viktor Tsoi and the Structure of the Soviet Rock Film

Panelist: Ekaterina Fleishman, Defense Language Institute (AV: DVD/VCR)
Title: “In the Beginning was the Word”: Interplay of Verbal and Musical Components in Russian Rock

8A-8 Panel: Danilo Kiš in Comparative Context (Room: San Diego)

Panel Chair: Ayako Oku, Harvard University

Panelist: Tomislav Longinovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: The Post-Authoritarian Connection: Politics and the Fantastic in Kiš and Borges

Panelist: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
Title: The Aesthetic is the Political: Danilo Kiš’s Creative Relationship with Russia and the USSR

Discussants:
Ani Kokobobo, Columbia University

8A-9 Panel: South Slavic Dialectology (Room: Monterey)

Panel Chair: James Lavine, Bucknell University

Panelist: Miriam Shrager, Indiana University
Title: The Accentuation of Masculine Nouns in the Susak Dialect Spoken in New Jersey: New Findings

Panelist: Matthew Curtis, Ohio State University
Title: Macedonian-Albanian Bilingualism: On the have Perfect in Western Macedonian

8A-10 Panel: Enhancing the Efficacy of Reading Instruction (Room: Pacific B)

Panel Chair: Julia Titus, Yale University

Panelist: Filip Zachoval, University of Texas-Austin
Title: The Effect of Implementing a Reading Project on Russian Students’ Reading Comprehension

Panelist: Elena Atitsogbui, North Dakota State University (AV: overhead projector)
Title: Do you mind MIND MAPS for mapping minds?

Panelist: William J. Comer, University of Kansas (AV: overhead projector)
Title: What Happens When Learners Meet Russian Texts? Evidence from Think Aloud Protocols

8A-11 Roundtable: Best Practices in the Russian Classroom (Room: Santa Barbara)

Panel Chair: Jane Shuffleton, Brighton High School (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)

Panelist: Tony Brown, Brigham Young University

Panelist: Elena Farkas, Turnagain Elementary School

Panelist: Richard Robin, George Washington University

Panelist: Elizabeth Sandstrom, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

January 8, 1:15pm-3:15pm

8B-1 Panel: Russian-Western Literary Intersections (Room: International Ballroom West)

Panel Chair: S. Ceilidh Orr, Ohio State University

Panelist: Mikhail Avrekh, Yale University
Title: Where is Liza? Where is Ellenore? Situating Eastern European Heroines within the Late Eighteenth-Century Geographic Discourse

Panelist: Anna Krivoruchko, University of Southern California
Title: Law, Justice and Mercy in Russian and English Literatures

Panelist: Kevin O'Brien, Chapman University
Title: Tolstoy’s Influence on Virginia Woolf

Panelist: Nataliya Gavrilova, CUNY-Graduate Center
Title: T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets in the Perception of Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky

8B-2 Panel: Predecessors and Transpositions of Chekhov’s Works (Room: Santa Clara)

Panel Chair: Sharon Lubkemann Allen, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, State University of New York-Brockport

Panelist: Justin Wilmes, Ohio State University
Title: Griboedov’s Woe from Wit: A Tragi-comedy in the Chekhovian Spirit

Panelist: Sarah Clovis Bishop, Willamette University
Title: Kama Ginkas’s Little Trilogy: Three Chekhov Stories on the Stage

Panelist: Tatiana Alenkina, Independent Scholar
Title: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov in a Postmodern Version of Tom Stoppard (1997)

Panelist: Nikita Nankov
Title: The Algorithm of the Utterance in the Poetics of Chekhov's Prose Fiction

8B-3 Panel: Holy Foolishness and Madness in Russian and Soviet Culture (Room: Pasadena I)

Panel Chair: Kathryn Duda, University of Chicago

Panelist: Charles Arndt, Union College
Title: Wandering ne Khrista radi: The “Heretical” Peregrinations of Nikolai Leskov’s “Enchanted Wanderer”

Panelist: Daria Safronova, Ohio State University (AV: overhead projector)
Title: Grigory Rasputin: Sinful Saint, Holy Devil, or simply, Elder? An Attempt at a Semiotic Analysis

Panelist: Rebecca Reich, Harvard University
Title: The Rhetoric of Madness: Aesthetics and Accountability in Andrei Siniavskii

Panelist: Zlatina Sandalska, University of Southern California
Title: The Alcoholic-Intellectual as a Brezhnev-Era Holy Fool: On S. Dovlatov’s Protagonists

8B-4 Panel: Reexaminations I: Questioning Nationalization and Other Modes of Canonization (Room: Pasadena II)

Panel Chair: Elise Thorsen, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist: Benjamin Paloff, University of Michigan
Title: National Literature After the Nation and After Literature

Panelist: Julie Draskoczy, Stanford University
Title: Rereading Socialist Realism: Maksim Gor'kii’s Mother as Symbolist Work

Panelist: Konstantine Klioutchkine, Pomona College
Title: Literature and Commodity Culture in Mid-nineteenth-century Russia

Discussants:
David Powelstock, Brandeis University

8B-5 Panel: Russian Folklore (Room: Santa Barbara)

Panel Chair: Sidney Dement, University of Kansas

Panelist: David McVey, Ohio State University
Title: And They Lived Queerly Ever After: A Space for Disrupting Heteronormativity in Russian Fairy Tales

Panelist: Jasmine Lin, Ohio State University
Title: Peter Tames His Inner Wolf: A Freudian Analysis of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf

Panelist: Erin Collopy, Texas Tech University
Title: The Vampire in Maria Eliferova’s Смерть автора

8B-6 Panel: Russian and East European Modernist Art and Architecture (Room: Pacific C)

Panel Chair: Kirsten Lodge, Columbia University

Panelist: Joe Troncale, University of Richmond (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Nicholas Rerikh and the Theatricalization of Russian Painting in the Early Twentieth Century

Panelist: Jamilya Nazyrova, Ohio University (AV: overhead projector)
Title: The Fin de Siècle Megapolis and Benois’s Vision of the Imperial Park

Panelist: Geneviève Cloutier, Université du Québec à Montréal (AV: overhead projector)
Title: (Re)Writing Art History in Central and Eastern Europe: the East Art Map Project and the Legacy of the Historical Avant-Gardes

8B-7 Workshop: Tolstoy in the Classroom (Room: Monterey)

Panel Chair: Irina Paperno, University of California-Berkeley

8B-8 Panel: Russian Phonology (Room: Pacific B)

Panel Chair: Olga Yokoyama, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelist: Jane Hacking, University of Utah (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; speakers)
Title: Word Final Devoicing in the Speech of American Learners of Russian

Panelist: Jan Schallert, University of Toronto
Title: Entailment, Implicature, and Rising Intonations in Russian

Panelist: Natalia Bogdanova, Daria Palshina, St. Petersburg State University (AV: overhead projector)
Title: О словаре редуцированных форм русской речи

8B-9 Panel: Teaching Less Commonly Taught Slavic and Central/East European Languages (Room: International Ballroom East)

Panel Chair: Susan Kresin, University of California-Los Angeles (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)

Panelist: Dianna Murphy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Online Methods Courses for LCTL Instructors

Panelist: Olga Kagan, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: Instructional Materials for Heritage language Learners: A Macro-Approach

Panelist: Georgiana Galateanu, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: Teaching Students to Perceive Patterns of Text Organization

8B-10 Panel: Teaching Reading Strategies to the Students of Russian (Room: San Diego)

Panel Chair: William Comer, University of Kansas (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)

Panelist: Meghan Murphy-Lee, Bates College
Title: The Effect of Learning Style on Reading Comprehension in the 2nd Year: Theory and Practice

Panelist: Julia Titus, Yale University
Title: Approaches to Teaching an Authentic Literary Text at the Advanced Level

Panelist: Alla Smyslova, Columbia University
Title: Improving the Reading Skills of Heritage Learners

8B-11 Panel: Russian Lyrical Poetry in the 21st Century: A Reading and Discussion (Room: Pacific A)

Panel Chair: Svetlana Corwin, Belmont Abbey College

Panelist: Elena Suntsova, New York

Panelist: Leonid Drozner, New York

Panelist: Rafael Levchin, REFLECT/KUADUSESHCHT

Panelist: Andrei Filimonov, Tomsk

Discussants:
Maria Khotimsky, Harvard University

January 8, 3:45pm-5:45pm

8C-1 Panel: The Lyric Persona in Russian Poetry and Prose of the Early Twentieth Century (Room: Pasadena II)

Panel Chair: Sasha Razor, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelist: Jeffrey Riggs, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: Obscuring the Lyric Self: Viacheslav Ivanov and the Poetic Problem of Individuation

Panelist: Elena Kapinos, Russian Academy of Science
Title: Персонаж и его границы (И.А.Бунин «Неизвестный друг»)

Panelist: Elena Kulikova, Russian Academy of Science
Title: Puteshestvie i progulka v tvorchestve akmeistov: A.A. Akhmatova

Discussants:
Olga Meerson, Georgetown University

8C-2 Panel: Reexaminations II: Literature as a Vehicle for Ideas (Room: Pacific A)

Panel Chair: Amanda Murphy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelist: Yuri Corrigan, College of Wooster
Title: The Honest Soul and the Disintegrated Mind in Chekhov’s Prose

Panelist: Michal Oklot, Brown University
Title: What did Rozanov and Nabokov See in Tiny Particles of Dust Spinning in a Band of Sunbeams? A Short Story of One Image

Panelist: Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University
Title: Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Daniel Shtain, Perevodchik and the Novel of Ideas

Discussants:
Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee

8C-3 Panel: Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (Room: Santa Barbara)

Panel Chair: Polina Rikoun, University of Denver

Panelist: Chloe Kitzinger, University of California-Berkeley
Title: “Исколотая иглами память”: Proof, Narration, and the Reader in The Master and Margarita

Panelist: Sidney Dement, University of Kansas (AV: DVD/VCR)
Title: Prototypes of Margarita’s Mansion: Towards a Poetics of Space in The Master and Margarita

8C-4 Panel: 1920s-30s Film (Room: Pacific C)

Panel Chair: Robert Efird, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Panelist: William Gunn, University of Southern California (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; speakers)
Title: Directors, Dramaturgs and Deconstruction: Meyerhold’s and Eisenstein’s Textual Adaptations of Alexander Ostrovsky on the Soviet Stage of the 1920s

Panelist: Elise Thorsen, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Modalities of Osvoenie: Boundaries and Citizenship in Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s Aerograd

Panelist: Rad Borislavov, University of Chicago
Title: Radio-film and the Soviet Mediascape in the Early 1930s

8C-5 Panel: Icons not in Churches (Room: Pasadena I)

Panel Chair: Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)

Panelist: Marcus Levitt, University of Southern California
Title: The Icon that Sparked a Riot: The Bogoliubskaia Bogomater and the Moscow Plague Riot in 1771

Panelist: Wendy Salmond, Chapman University
Title: The Collectable Icon: Three Early Collectors (Postnikov, Ostroukhov, Likhachev)

Panelist: Andrew Spira, Christie's (AV: CD player)
Title: The Avant-Garde Icon

Panelist: Tara Young, The Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton MA
Title: Icons in a Museum Setting: Sacred Art, Audiences, and Expectations

Discussants:
Nancy Perloff, Getty Museum and Research Institute

8C-6 Panel: Literary Theatrics: Gestures, Staginess, and Speech Acts (Room: International Ballroom West; AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; CD player)

Panel Chair: Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University

Panelist: Daria Khitrova and Yuri Tsivian, University of Chicago
Title: MotDynamo: Gesture in Valentin Parnakh's Poetry and Dance

Panelist: Lada Panova, University of Southern California
Title: Anna Akhmatova’s “Kleveta”: Staging Slander

Panelist: Alexander Zholkovsky, University of Southern California
Title: Fasil Iskander's Pantomime Narratives

Discussants:
Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

8C-7 Panel: The Interpersonal Czech (Room: Santa Clara)

Panel Chair: Benjamin Paloff, University of Michigan

Panelist: Daniel Pratt, University of Chicago
Title: Seifert and Mourning: the Death of Masaryk, Lidice and the National Poet

Panelist: Esther Peters, University of Chicago
Title: “I am Failure”: the Necessity of Failure in Hrabal’s Writing

Panelist: Kathryn Duda, University of Chicago
Title: Revisiting the Philosopher King? Vaclav Havel and Philosophizing Community

8C-8 Master Class: Approaching the Nineteenth-Century Novel as Art Form, Enterprise, and Institution (Room: Del Mar)

Panel Chair: William Mills Todd, III, Harvard University

8C-9 Panel: East Slavic Dialectology (Room: Monterey)

Panel Chair: Andrew Dombrowski, University of Chicago

Panelist: Elena Boudovskaia, Vassar College (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Declensional Classes in the Plural in Transcarpathian Ukrainian Dialects: Spatial Perspective

Panelist: Natalia Labunets, Tiumen State University
Title: Географическая лексика в русских диалектах западной Сибири

8C-10 Panel: Technology-Enhanced Language Instruction (Room: Pacific B)

Panel Chair: Ekaterina Fleishman, Defense Language Institute

Panelist: James Wilson, University of Leeds (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Developing Corpora for Teaching Foreign Languages: A Case Study of Russian

Panelist: Marina Kostina, University of Iowa (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: “From Isolation to Autonomy”: What Can a Teacher Do to Involve Students in a Web-based Distance Course?

Panelist: Izolda Wolski-Moskoff, University of Pennsylvania (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up; overhead projector; speakers)
Title: Using Tech Tools Available on Blackboard to Create Supplementary Materials for Polish

8C-11: Poster Session: Teaching Less Commonly Taught Slavic and Central/East European Languages II (Room: International Ballroom East)

Panel Chair: Susan Kresin, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelist: Emanuel Buzek and Masako Fidler, Brown University
Title: Error gravity in Czech: how important are precise inflectional endings?

Panelist: Miluse Saskova-Pierce, University of Nebraska
Title: Communicative and student centered language teaching in on-line delivery: the case of Czech

Panelist: Mariana Chodorowska-Pilch, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: Special topics in advanced language courses: their role for heritage and non-heritage speakers

Panelist: Eva Eckert, Connecticut College
Title: Study Abroad strategies of language teaching: Charles University’s semester program CESTA

Panelist: Georgiana Galateanu, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: Using word cards in teaching desinences

Panelist: Christopher Harwood, Columbia University
Title: Real-Life Czech: a video supplement for elementary and intermediate Czech language instruction

Panelist: Susan Kresin, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: Heritage themes in introductory language classes

Panelist: Ellen Langer, University of California-Berkeley
Title: Teaching grammar and culture through reading: examples from the elementary Czech language classroom

Panelist: Viktorija Lejko-Lacan, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: Using advertisements to teach grammar and culture in a BCS class

Panelist: Layne Pierce, University of Nebraska
Title: Teaching Compressed Online Foreign Language

8C-12 Panel: Works in Progress II (Room: Sacramento)

Panel Chair: Valeria Nollan, Rhodes College

Panelist: Kathleen Parthe, University of Rochester
Title: Herzen’s Capacity to Surprise

Panelist: Svetlana Evdokimova, Brown University
Title: Chekhov and the Russian Intelligentsia

Panelist: Harsha Ram, University of California-Berkeley
Title: Crossroads Modernity: Aesthetic Modernism and the Russo-Georgian Encounter

8C-13 Panel: Poetry as the Spoken Word: Performances and Discussion (Room: San Diego)

Panel Chair: Yelena Zotova, University of Illinois-Chicago

Panelist: Psoy Korolenko, Moscow

Panelist: Anton Tenser, Chicago

Discussants:
Gerald Janecek, University of Kentucky
Keren Klimovsky, Brown University

8D-1 Workshop: Translating Chekhov: From Text to Stage (Room: Pasadena I), 7:00-9:00pm

Panel Chair: Marina Brodskaya, Stanford University

Panelist: Karen Landry

Panelist: Chris Mulkey

Panelist: Sharon Chatten

Panelist: Zach Book

January 9, 9:00am-11:00am

9A-1 Panel: New Economic Readings in Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy (Room: Santa Clara)

Panel Chair: Susan McReynolds Oddo, Northwestern University

Panelist: Jillian Porter, University of California-Berkeley
Title: Coin and Corpse: The Miser as Meta-type in Dostoevsky’s “Mr. Prokharchin”

Panelist: Séamas O'Driscoll, Northwestern University
Title: Chichikov as Homo Oeconomicus: The Status of the Debate after 35 Years

Panelist: Russell Valentino, University of Iowa
Title: Love, Exchange Relations, and the Return of “The Virtuous Man” in Anna Karenina

9A-2 Panel: Cross-Dressing in Russian Culture (Room: Pacific A)

Panel Chair: Geoffrey Cebula, Princeton University

Panelist: Jennifer Wilson, Princeton University
Title: (Drag)ging Tolstoy into Queer Theory: On the Cross-Dressing Motif in War and Peace

Panelist: Mark Konecny, University of Southern California
Title: Flying Close to the Sun: Ikar’s Interpretation of Duncanism

Panelist: Joe Peschio, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Title: The Lady on the Field of Mars: Kologrivov in Sollogub’s Memoirs (1830s)

Discussants:
Connor Doak, Northwestern University

9A-3 Panel: Late Soviet Culture (Room: Pasadena I)

Panel Chair: William Gunn, University of Southern California

Panelist: Andrew Chapman, University of Pittsburgh
Title: From Ochered' to Ocherednost': Narratives of Queuing and Waiting in Late Soviet Culture

Panelist: Elizabeth Papazian, University of Maryland-College Park (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Ethnography and subjectivity in Soviet “poetic cinema”

Panelist: Robert Efird, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (AV: DVD/VCR)
Title: Inspirations and Adaptations: Russian Literature and Cinema in Carlos Reygadas’ Japon

9A-4 Panel: Gombrowicz, the Self, and the Other (Room: Pasadena II)

Panel Chair: Jessie Labov, Ohio State University

Panelist: Jennifer Croft, Northwestern University
Title: The Violence of Intersubjectivity from Ferdydurke to Kosmos

Panelist: Catherine LaSota, Columbia University
Title: Constructing New Form in Gombrowicz’s “A Premeditated Crime”

Panelist: William Leidy, Stanford University
Title: The Scandal of Gombrowicz

9A-5 Panel: Geography, Exile, and Displacement in Russian and East European Literature and Film (Room: International Ballroom East)

Panel Chair: Karen Rosenflanz, The College of St. Scholastica

Panelist: Christopher Lemelin, Independent Scholar
Title: Tsvetaeva’s Elegies for Space and Time: “Zaochnost’” and “Minuta”

Panelist: Sharon Lubkemann Allen, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, State University of New York-Brockport (AV: LCD/computer projector; DVD/VCR; speakers)
Title: Re-casting Russian Writers: Geographical Relocations, Generic Reconfigurations: Tarkovsky, Khrzhanovsky

9A-6 Panel: History and Pre-history (Room: Pacific B)

Panel Chair: Robert Channon, Purdue University

Panelist: Eun-Ji Song, Seoul National University (AV: overhead projector)
Title: Subjective and Intersubjective Meaning of the Old Russian Causal Connectives bo and ponezhe

Panelist: Alexey Borovikov, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don
Title: Мутационные глагольные словообразовательные типы с приставкой про- в истории русского языка

Panelist: Matthew Feeney, University of Kansas
Title: Forward Stress Shift in the Reconstruction of Proto-Slavic

9A-7 Panel: Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Room: Pacific C)

Panel Chair: Tatiana Filimonova, Northwestern University

Panelist: Elisabeth Elliott, Lisa Yountchi, Northwestern University (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: What Can Watching Students Doing TPR Teach Us about the Acquisition of Russian Verbs of Motion?

Panelist: Anna Morton, Bill Van Patten, Texas Tech University (AV: DVD/VCR)
Title: Does Explicit Information Help Making Form-Meaning Connections in Russian Inverted Word Order Sentences?

Panelist: Richard Robin, George Washington University (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: Narration and Narrative in Russian Oral Proficiency Interviews

Panelist: Artemi Romanov, University of Colorado (AV: LCD/computer projector set-up)
Title: The Russian Language for Heritage Students: Attitudes and Motivation in Sociolinguistic Perspective

9A-8 Panel: Corpus-based Approaches to Russian Language Investigations and Pedagogy (Room: International Ballroom West)

Panel Chair: Olga Kagan, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelist: Olesya Kisselev and Anna Yatsenko, Portland State University
Title: Using Learner Corpus in Assessment of Student Progress

Panelist: Sophia Malamud, Brandeis University
Title: Annotated Corpus of Heritage Russian: Meaning and Grammar

Panelist: Yekaterina Dobrushina, Pravoslavny Svyato-Tikhonovski University of Humanities
Title: Новые возможности и перспективы Национального корпуса русского языка и их использование в преподавании русистики

Discussants:
James Wilson, University of Leeds
Tetyana Sydorenko, Michigan State University

January 9, 12:15pm-2:15pm

9B-1 Panel: New Approaches to Dostoevsky’s Mature Novels (Room: Pacific A)

Panel Chair: Christine Dunbar, Princeton University

Panelist: Connor Doak, Northwestern University
Title: “Ego sovsem ne stoilo by liubit’ zhenshchine”: Stepan Trofimovich’s Ambivalent Masculinity in Dostoevskii’s Besy

Panelist: Anna Berman, Princeton University
Title: Sister-Brother Dynamics in Dostoevsky’s Adolescent

Panelist: S. Ceilidh Orr, Ohio State University
Title: Getting to the Root of Rakitin: Character Names and Generic Interaction in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov

Panelist: Victoria Thorstensson, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: The Victims and Villains of Nihilism and Their Judges: Reflections of the Political Trials of the 1870s in the Novels of the 1870s (Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Avseenko, Golovin, Markevich)

9B-2 Panel: Power, Language, and Genre in Middle and Late Tolstoy (Room: Pasadena II)

Panel Chair: Lina Steiner, University of Chicago

Panelist: Margarita Zaydman, University of California-Berkeley
Title: One and All in Anna Karenina

Panelist: Adil Dsouza, University of Toronto
Title: The Weight of Anarchism in Tolstoy

Panelist: Ani Kokobobo, Columbia University
Title: Tolstoy's Grotesque Realism in Resurrection

9B-3 Panel: Reexaminations III: Rereading Slavic Literatures between Literary History and Ethnography (Room: Pacific C)

Panel Chair: Katherine Bowers, Northwestern University

Panelist: Jon Stone, Franklin & Marshall College
Title: Merezhkovskii and “Those Greeks”: Russian Decadence and the Lure of Substantial

Panelist: Jonathan Bolton, Harvard University
Title: From Resistance to Ethnography: Dissident Writing as Thick Self-Description

Panelist: Valeria Sobol, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Title: The Imperial Gothic: Russian Literary Ethnography

Discussants:
Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

9B-4 Panel: Gender and the Body in Poetry (Room: International Ballroom East)

Panel Chair: Christopher Lemelin, Independent Scholar

Panelist: Jason Strudler, Princeton University
Title: “Formal” Beauty: Aleksei Kruchenykh and the Faktura of the Female Body

Panelist: Rebecca Pyatkevich, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Title: Hills out of Mountains: Tsvetaeva’s “Poem of the Mountain” and Brodsky’s “Hills”

Panelist: Yuliya Minkova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Title: Idle Bodies and Martyred Poets: How the Body of the Artist Fits in the Symbolic Exchange System of Soviet Discourse

9B-5 Panel: Syntactic Structure (Room: Pasadena I)

Panel Chair: Meghan Murphy-Lee, Bates College

Panelist: Cori Anderson, Princeton University
Title: Case Alternations and Event Structure: Evidence from Lithuanian

Panelist: James Lavine, Bucknell University
Title: Mood, Tense, and a Transitivity Restriction in Lithuanian

Panelist: Leonard Babby, Princeton University
Title: The Argument Structure of Auxiliary Verbs

9B-6 Roundtable: ACTR’s National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest (Room: Pacific B)

Panel Chair: Benjamin Rifkin, The College of New Jersey (AV: overhead projector)

Panelist: Evgeny Dengub, Temple University

Panelist: Susan Kresin, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelist: Alla Smyslova, Columbia University

Panelist: Julia Titus, Yale University

9B-7 Roundtable: The Language Flagship: Reaching Superior in Russian (Room: Sacramento)

Panel Chair: Dianna Murphy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panelist: Olesya Kisselev, Portland State University
Title: Russian Across the Curriculum in Introductory Flagship Russian

Panelist: Olga Kagan, University of California-Los Angeles
Title: Integrating Advanced Students of Russian with Heritage Speakers in Flagship Russian

Panelist: Dan Davidson, American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS; Bryn Mawr College
Title: Achieving Superior Proficiency at the St. Petersburg Flagship Center