In my day job as a Professor of
Professor of Russian at
Swarthmore College
Russian Language and Literature - 20th Century Russian Poetry - Russian Women Writers
Croatian Literature - Serbian Literature - Literary Translation (Theory and Practice)
Folk Music - Fortune Telling (especially Tarot)
and
Tsvetaeva * Tsvetaeva * Tsvetaeva
Courses I'm teaching in Fall 2024:
More or less recent courses:
- Russian 002 First-Year Russian Language
(Intensive First-Year Language, Spring 2024, co-taught with Tsvetelina Yordanova)
- Russian 003, Second-year Russian Language (Last taught Fall 2017)
- Russian 004, Advanced Intermediate Russian
(Spring 2019)
- Russian 015 - Literature 015R, East European Literature in
Translation - First-Year Seminar, Writing-Intensive (Fall 2023)
- Russian 017 - Literature 017R, Love and Sex in Russian
Literature and Culture, First-Year Seminar, Writing-Intensive (Fall 2019)
- Russian 023 - Literature 023R, The Muslim in
Russia (Fall 2012)
- Russian 026 - Literature 026R, Russian
and East European Science Fiction in translation (Spring 2024)
- Russian 047/Literature 047R, Russian
Fairytales (spring 2020)
- Russian 086/Literature 086R, Nature
and Industry in Russia - contributing to Environmental Studies (Fall 2018)
- INTP 091, Interpretation Theory Capstone (team-taught with Steven Hopkins, Spring 2019),
On Translation
- Russian 108: Seminar on Humor and Satire in Russian Literature and Culture (Spring 2015)
- Russian 118: Seminar on Russina and Russophone Jewish Writers (Spring 2023)
- Russian 120: Seminar on Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fall 2019)
Programs for Reading Groups:
Resources for Slavists and others:
A virtual tour of the monastery on Solovki
Islands in the White Sea, with pictures (taken in 1995)
A gallery of photographs from the
village of Kuzaranda, taken in July 1998
Other goodies:
About moi, though at this point extremely outdated:
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Sibelan Forrester
Modern Languages
Swarthmore College
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