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Natalia A. Reed

Personal

Home address: 8 Craigie Circle, Apt. #47, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Telephone: 617-354-3467
e-mail: [email protected]

Education

Ph.D., 1994, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University,
Specialization in Slavic Literatures.

B.A., 1982: University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dissertation

"Reading Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time: Problems of Poetics and Reception."
Readers: Professor Donald L. Fanger,
Professor William M. Todd, III.

Harvard University Current Employment

2001-present Instructor in Russian, Summer School
2003-June 2014 Preceptor in Russian
2000-2003 Lecturer in Russian

Princeton University Previous Employment
1994-2000
1991-1994 Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature
Instructor of Russian, Language Coordinator
College of the Holy Cross
1990-1991 Instructor of Russian Language and Literature

Harvard University Instructor of Russian Language and Literature
1988-1990 Teaching Fellow in Russian Language
1984-1987

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Teaching Experience

Harvard University – 2000-2014

Courses taught: Slavic Ac. Grammar and Vocabulary Review for Heritage Speakers
Slavic A. Beginning Russian
Russ-S-Aab. Beginning Russian (Summer School course)
Slavic B. Intermediate Russian
Slavic 101. Advanced Intermediate Russian: Reading, Grammar

Review and Conversation
Slavic 103. Advanced Russian: Reading, Composition, and Conversation
Slavic 114. Advanced Russian: Readings in 19th- and 20th century

Russian Literature
Slavic 269. Structure of Russian for Instructors.
Course head for Slavic A and B
Course head for "r" tutorials

Princeton University – 1991-2000

Courses taught: Advanced Russian
Intermediate Russian
Beginner's Russian
Pushkin and His Time (seminar)
Soviet Literature
Lermontov's Poetry and Prose (seminar)
History of Russian Literature (1860-1917)
Russian Drama (graduate seminar taught in Russian)

College of the Holy Cross – 1990-1991

Courses taught: Twentieth-century Russian Literature
Russian Novel
Intermediate Russian

Harvard University – 1984-1990

Courses taught: Elementary Russian
Elementary Intensive Russian
Intermediate Russian
Intermediate Intensive Russian (course head)
Advanced Russian (small group practice)
Russian Literature in Translation: From Tolstoy to

Solzhenitsyn (section leader)
Dostoevsky (section leader)

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Supervision and Training Experience

Harvard University – 2001-2014

Course Head, Beginning and Intermediate Russian (Russian A and B)

Engage in extensive individualized pedagogical training and supervision of
graduate student Teaching Fellows who are new to teaching Russian language.
Explain methodologies of, and provide assistance in, preparation of lesson plans,
in-class grammar explanations, writing syllabi, composing quizzes and exams,
correction of written homework assignments, grading written and oral tests.
Attend Teaching Fellows’ classes and offer feedback.

Grants

Directed projects:
2003-2004 (Harvard). Campus-based project funded through Consortium for
Language Teaching and Learning; Course book for Advanced Russian: Reading
Literary Texts.
2002 (Harvard). Introduction to Writing Essays in Russian: instructional materials
for non-native speakers (beginning through advanced-intermediate levels).
1997 (summer, Princeton). Title VI grant; development of new materials for
advanced Russian language course
1992, 94, 95, 96 (summers, Princeton). Title VI grants, improvement and
development of Intermediate Russian language materials
1995 (Princeton). Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning grant,
curriculum development

Participation in Consulting on projects directed by others:
2002 (Harvard). Maksudov, Sergei, Natalia Pokrovsky, Russian Reforms: Revolutions
from Above. Consulting, editing, and contributing content to the Reader for Intermediate
Russian.

Academic Honors

2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012: Certificate of Distinction
in Teaching of Undergraduates, The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning,
Harvard.

1986: Award for Outstanding Teaching of Undergraduates, Harvard Danforth Center for
Teaching and Learning.

1982: Phi Kappa Phi.

Research and Teaching Interests

Russian language and language teaching; pedagogy.
Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature, literary theory, mimetic theory, social
psychology.

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Publications

"The Philosophical Roots of Polyphony: A Dostoevskian Reading." In Critical Essays on Mikhail
Bakhtin. Ed. Caryl Emerson. Twayne/MacMillan Publishers (1999).

Patricia R. Chaput, Natasha A. Reed. MacLang Russian Exercises for Intermediate/Advanced Levels,
1989.

Russian Language Teaching Materials Created

Elementary Level:

Natalia A. Reed, Patricia R. Chaput. "Beginning Russian through Film. Workbook for
Episodes from Eralash and episodes from The Courier." 2001.

Intermediate Level:

Natalia A. Reed, Patricia R. Chaput. Reader III for Intermediate Russian. Supplementary
materials (vocabulary, questions, and exercises) to film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe
in Tears.” 2003-2007.

Patricia R. Chaput, Vladimir E. Gitin, Natalia A. Reed. Reader IV for Intermediate
Russian. Supplementary materials (vocabulary, questions, and exercises) to A. S.
Pushkin’s short story“The Shot,” film documentary “Michael and Svetlana.”
2005.

Revisions of Slavic B materials (Intermediate Russian), 2002-2009.

Pedagogical editor for A. Maksudov and N. Pokrovsky CD Russian Reforms, 2002-2005.

Advanced Level (Harvard):

Natalia A. Reed, Natalia I. Pokrovsky. Reader VI for Advanced Russian (spring
semester). Supplementary materials (vocabulary, questions) to A. P Chekhov’s
“The Lady with a Dog,” film “Fall Marathon,” F. M. Dostoevsky, “The Meek
One.” 2003-2008.

Natalia A. Reed, Natalia I. Pokrovsky. Reader V for Advanced Russian (fall semester).
Supplementary materials (vocabulary and questions) to Shwartz’ play “The Dragon,”
film “Scarecrow,” A. Akhmatova’s narrative poem “The Requiem.” 2004.

Natalia A. Reed. Slavic 114 Reader (Readings in 19th- and 20th-century Russian Literature
for Heritage Speakers and Advanced Students of Russian). Includes supplementary
materials (glossed texts, vocabulary, questions) to A. S. Pushkin’s narrative poem
“Gabrilliade,” selections from Ju. M. Lermontov’s poetry, F. M. Dostoevsky’s “The
Dream of the Ridiculous Man,” A. P. Chekhov's “The Student,” A. Bitov’s “Penelope,”
T. Tolstaya’s “Okkervil River.” 2003-2007.

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Advanced Level (Princeton):

Natalia A. Reed. SLA 207 (Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation).
Supplementaryt materials (vocabulary, worksheets, questions) to Workbook with
accompanying CD Songs by Bulat Okudzhava, 1999.

Natalia A. Reed. SLA 208 Reader (Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation).
Supplementary materials (vocabulary, worksheets, questions) to film
documentaries “The Children” and “Michael and Svetlana,” 1999.

Manuscripts in Progress

The Sickness of Heroic Will: Mimetic Rivalry in Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time."
Expected date of completion: September 2014. To be submitted to the University of
Wisconsin Press.

Supplementary Materials to Russian Film (Intermediate and Advanced levels).
Expected date of completion: Fall 2014.

1997 Papers and Presentations
1995
"Dostoevsky on Self-Sacrifice and Self-Scapegoating: A Reading from a
1994 Girardian Perspective"AATSEEL annual meeting, Toronto, Canada

1993 “Dostoevsky’s The Meek One: The Truth of the Victim.”
1993 “Violence, Mimesis, and the Subject of Responsibility,”
1992
Symposium sponsored by Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Chicago.

“A Hero of Our Time: Lermontov’s Criticism of the Persecutor’s Perspective”;
AATSEEL annual meeting, Chicago.

"Stavrogin's Confession: A Persecutor's Perspective."
"Mimetic Theory and Literature" workshop, "Theology and/or Secular Thinking."

Symposium sponsored by Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Wiesbaden-
Naurod, Germany.
"Maksim Maksimych: A Five-Year History of Snobbism."
AATSEEL annual meeting, San Diego.

"Tolstoy's Theory of Desire: A Reading of the Epilogue to War and Peace."
New England Chapter of AATSEEL Conference ("Leo Tolstoy: Recent
Perspectives" panel) in Providence, RI.

"A Hero of Our Time: the Function of Nature Descriptions in 'Bela.'"
Midwest Slavic Conference, East Lansing, MI

"Training Conversation Teachers."
Roundtable discussion "Issues of Russian Language Teacher Training,"
AAASS Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

"The Primary Narrator of 'Bela': Contesting Pushkin."
AATSEEL annual meeting, New York.

1991 N. Reed. Curriculum vitae, page 6
1990
1988 "Taman': Desire without an Object."
AATSEEL annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

"Advantages of the Second Turn: the Duel in Hero of Our Time."
AATSEEL annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

"'Krotkaia': The Metamorphosis of a Truism."
Presented at the Third Annual Graduate Student Conference in Slavic and
Soviet Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"Povestvovatel'naia tekhnika Lermontova v 'Tamani'."
Lermontov's Symposium at Norwich University, Vermont.

"Tatyana's Dream: Inverting the Relationship of Cause and Effect."
AATSEEL annual meeting, Washington DC.

Related Experience

Spring 2014 Tutoring Laura Tourtellotte, a REECA student and a recipient of Alfa Fellowship
grant, as part of her Russian language training before she leaves for Moscow to
complete her nine-months Alfa Fellowship program in Russia.

Spring 2011 Service as a judge at the North-East American Olympiad for High-School
students of Russian.

1997-2000 Service as Advisor to Freshmen and a Fellow of Butler College,
Princeton University.

1997-1998 Organized weekly Russian language hour for Princeton graduate students.

1991-1995 Serving on Princeton Language Committee.

1993-1994 East Pyne Ad hoc Committee on Technological Resources for Language
Teaching.

1987-1988 Research Assistant to Professor Patricia Chaput to edit and prepare grammar
and reading materials for Intermediate Russian, funded by a grant from Harvard's
Innovation in Teaching Fund.

Spring 1988 Study with a private group of high-school teachers and journalists interested
in professional visits to the Soviet Union (tutoring Intermediate level of
Russian, with focus on culture and civilization).

March 1988 Interpreting for Bella Akhmadulina at the poetry reading for Harvard students.

February 1988 Interpreting for Joseph Brodsky at the American Repertory Theatre
Performance: "The Poets' Theater Presents: An Evening with Joseph Brodsky."

Russian, English: Languages
French, German, Polish:
fluent.
reading knowledge.