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Indiana University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Alumni Newsletter

Vol. 8 College of Arts & Sciences Winter 2003–04

Departmental focus on excellence gets results

Indiana University Slavic students, faculty, and alumni continue Natasha Ruser, center, received the 2002–03 Chair’s Award for
to distinguish themselves in their field. Russian Language, which is presented to the outstanding junior-
Two IU students of Russian placed nationally in the fourth year student of Russian. Congratulating her at the awards cer-
annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest. emony are, from left, Nina Perlina, Laurence Richter, Jerzy
Leslie Lutz (instructor Ronald Feldstein) was one of three second- Kolodziej, and Ronald Feldstein. A member of the Honors College,
place winners in Category 1, Level 3 (Non-Heritage Learners). Ruser was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the spring.
Natasha Ruser (instructor Nina Perlina) was one of four third-
place winners in Category 1, Level 4 (Non-Heritage Learners). IU Also in attendance at the ceremony were six current members of
had 13 participants in its first year of competing. Dobro Slovo: Jacquelyn Henderson (MA student, REEI), Anna
Jacobson (PhD student, history), and David Klecha (PhD
During spring semester, Jeffrey Holdeman reinstituted the student, education), and Slavic faculty members Jeffrey
Indiana University Zeta Zeta chapter of the Dobro Slovo National Holdeman, Jerzy Kolodziej, and Laurence Richter.
Slavic Honor Society, which had been inactive since the mid-1970s.
Dobro Slovo serves as a means of recognizing academic excellence
in the study of Slavic languages, literature, history, and culture. The
Zeta Zeta chapter inducted 14 new members at a ceremony on
April 22.

The new Zeta Zeta members are Sarah Atterson (undergradu-
ate, Russian), Julia Ann Decker (continuing studies), Nathan
John Gilbert (folklore/ethnomusicology), Christopher Howard
(MA student, Slavic), Jonathan Watts Hudgens (MA student,
REEI), Lina Mohamed Khawaldah (MA student, Slavic), Galina
V. Krivonos (MA student, Slavic), Leslie Ann Lutz (MA student,
REEI), Colin Nisbet (undergraduate, Slavic, Liberal Arts and
Management Program), Michelle Marie Petroff (undergraduate),
Jennifer Sanders (PhD candidate, Slavic), and Mary Margaret
Underwood (undergraduate).

Ronald Feldstein, chair, was inducted in the faculty category,
and Denise Gardiner, assistant director of REEI, was inducted in
the honorary (staff) category.

Nathan John Gilbert, left, receives his Dobro Slovo lapel pin, Graduate student Jennifer Sanders, center, presents Mentor of the
personalized membership card, and membership certificate from Year awards to Nina Perlina (literature) and George Fowler
Laurence Richter, center, and Jeffrey Holdeman. (linguistics) in gratitude for their outstanding dedication to the
mentoring and support of graduate students in the department.
This a new award through the Indiana University Graduate School,
with winners selected by the graduate students of the departments.

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Department News

Faculty news From the chair and Serbian/Croatian. We are maintaining
our offerings with the help of a visiting
The faculty, graduate students, and alumni As I begin my second year as chair of professor of Polish, Krzysztof Koehler,
of the Slavic department do not just teach. the Department of Slavic Languages who was invited under the auspices of a
They also do a wide variety of research. and Literatures, we continue to get good Kosciuszko Foundation exchange
From publishing books and articles to news about our language enrollments, program, which we hope to continue next
presenting papers at national conferences thanks to the consistent hard work of our year. Indiana University is also hosting
and local gatherings, to teaching in the language coordinator, Jeffrey Holdeman. Blazenka Martinovic, from Pula Univer-
classroom, they carry out their mission of Our graduate program has also had a nice sity in Croatia, for the 2003–04 academic
sharing the fruits of their academic labors. increase in enrollments, with five new year. This exchange program was negoti-
graduate students entering our depart- ated by Professor Henry Cooper.
Henry Cooper was on sabbatical leave ment, representing the fields of literature
for 2002–03 after having stepped down as and linguistics. In recognition of our In the linguistics field, we continue to
chair of the Slavic department. During his ongoing improvements, the College of maintain strong ties to the Department of
sabbatical, he traveled extensively, especially Arts and Sciences has authorized a search Linguistics, which is facilitated by our
in southeastern Europe, and also worked on for a tenure-track position in Russian own Professor Steven Franks, who chairs
his next monograph, a study of the literature. At a time of tight budgets linguistics. Similarly, on the literature side
vernacular translations of the Bible into all across the country, we view this as a we benefit from our ties to the Depart-
of the Slavic languages and Romanian and strong vote of confidence. ment of Comparative Literature and are
Hungarian. Cooper published two books eager to bolster our ranks with our
this year: Slavic Scriptures: The History of the At the same time, we cannot rest on authorized tenure-track position in
Formation of the Church Slavonic Version of our laurels. We have very serious needs as Russian literature.
the Holy Bible (Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh well, since our department operates in
Dickinson University Press/London: many areas. We constantly endeavor to All in all, we have an active department
Associated University Presses, 2003) and maintain our full strength not only in that is involved in many fields and is
Bilingual Anthology of Slovene Literature Russian language and literature, but also working hard to maintain its strengths
(Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2003; in the areas of Czech, Polish, Romanian, and national visibility.
also issued as Slovene Studies 20–21 [1998–
99, published in 2003]). Issues of Reorganizing the Russian One- — Ronald Feldstein
Stem Verb Classes” last March at Duke
Andrew Durkin published the articles “A University for the annual Conference on Humanities at Ohio State University to
Guide to the Guides: Writing about Birds in Internationalizing the Curriculum. present the first paper in the OSU research
Russia in the 19th Century,” in Russian Stud- series. The paper, presented last January,
ies in Literature 39, No. 3 (summer 2003): Steven Franks has been awarded a was titled “Erie Old Believer Russian: A
4–24, and “Pushkin and Joseph Conrad: Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Linguis- Grave Situation.” In March, Holdeman was
From the Povesti Belkina to the Limits of tics and Philosophy of Language. Franks invited by the University of Michigan
Parody,” in American Contributions to the XIII will spend three months next year at the Center for Russian and East European
International Congress of Slavists University of Venice, where he will deliver a Studies to conduct its annual pedagogy
(Bloomington: Slavica, 2003): 76–84. series of lectures on Slavic syntax from a workshop, “Teaching Students of Varied
universal grammar perspective and consult Preparation and Background: Challenges
Ronald Feldstein continues to serve on with faculty and students. Franks was and Approaches in the Language Class-
the Executive Committee of the Duke elected to serve as a vice president of room.” During the evening before the
University/University of North Carolina AATSEEL for the January 2004–December workshop, he gave a concert of Czech and
Slavic and East European Language 2006 term. In October, he gave the talk Russian music (guitar and vocal) at the
Resource Center, for which he edited an “Exceptional Object Shift in Lithuanian,” university. In April, he presented “Language
online Romanian grammar manual and once at IU and again in Groningen, Table 101: What I Have Learned from 15
submitted an original online manual of Netherlands. He also presented “What Years of Russian Table” at the Kentucky
Romanian conjugation. Feldstein also Makes Clitic Doubling Obligatory?” in Foreign Language Conference. Last
published the reference grammar Polish in collaboration with Catherine Rudin, summer, he conducted research in the
collaboration with Steven Franks, who PhD’82, at the 25th meeting of the lexical card catalog of the Pskov Regional
wrote the sections on syntax (Munich: Bulgarian Studies Association. Dictionary at St. Petersburg State Univer-
Lincom Europa, Languages of the World/ sity in connection with his efforts to
Materials Series, 2002). At the 33rd Jeffrey Holdeman presented the paper compile a lexicon of the Russian Old
Linguistic Symposium on Romance “Erie Old Believers: The Construction of an Believers in the eastern United States.
Languages (LSRL 33), which was held last Ethnic Identity” at the 2002 AAASS
April at IU, Feldstein delivered the paper national convention. He presented another Dodona Kiziria received an REEI
“On the Structure of Syncretism in paper, “Names and Nicknames Among the Summer 2003 Curriculum Development
Romanian Conjugation.” His paper has Russian Old Believers of Erie, Pennsylva- Grant to work on a new course in interme-
since been expanded and submitted for nia,” at the 2002 AATSEEL national diate Georgian. She traveled to Georgia in
inclusion in the conference proceedings. For convention. He was invited by the Endan- May to collect new course materials and
last year’s AATSEEL conference, Feldstein gered and Minority Languages and hired a student assistant to create digital
delivered the paper “Basic Forms for the Cultures Working Group of the Institute files for classroom use.
Prediction of Russian Stress,” which is for Collaborative Research and Public
currently being revised for publication. In Nina Perlina wrote a successful nomina-
addition, he delivered the paper “Some tion to the IU Institute for Advanced Study

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to support a three-week visit to Bloom- high school students. The As everyone
ington by Roman Timenchik, a professor event took place on April 28 gathers
from the Department of Russian and Slavic at Jefferson High School in around the
Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Lafayette, Ind. Twelve Olympiada
Timenchik delivered lectures for the Slavic students from two high feast, Katya
department and the Jewish Studies Program schools participated. The Dunatov and
during this visit. Olympiada chair and Russian Todd
teacher from the host school, Golding,
Bronislava Volkova participated last Todd Golding, MAT’93, had below, get
summer in the Poetics of Exile conference seven students compete. The things
in Auckland, New Zealand. This conference visiting school was University started.
was organized by the comparative literature Laboratory High School of University of
department of the University of Auckland. Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, with five Recreation adult education class to give a
Volkova presented the paper “Exile Inside students taught by Katya Dunatov. Judges performance of Russian folk and popular
and Out” and performed a poetry reading for the Olympiada included Jonathan music. In the fall, Holdeman teamed up
titled “Transforming the Absence.” She was Ludwig, PhD’95, who was teaching with internationally renowned anthropolo-
invited to participate in the Women Writers Russian at Illinois last spring, and Zinaida gist Anya Peterson-Royce to offer a mini-
in Exile colloquium in a plenary session and Breschinsky, associate professor of Russian course on Russian dance and folk music
gave a public performance of her poetry, at Purdue. All five of Dunatov’s students — through the IU School of Continuing
titled “Entering Light,” with other poets Stephen Bruce, Emily Buss, Jack Studies. The course was a companion to the
and musicians from Bulgaria, Hungary, Liebersohn, Kate Peisker, and Alexander visit by the Krasnoyarsk Dance Company
China, Cyprus, Fiji, Nigeria, and Iraq. Steinberg — received gold medals. and was subsidized by REEI.
Volkova also gave poetry readings in Golding’s students were also recognized for
Bloomington at the Runcible Spoon outstanding achievement: Bonnie Stockwell Russian language
coffeehouse in August and at the John (gold medal), Phil Dorroll (silver medal), teachers
Waldron Arts Center in October. and Marko Ljoljic (bronze medal). Xoe
Higginbottom, Jake Hubbard, Sherrod During his visit to campus last year to
Visiting faculty James, and Vanessa Varajas received accept a distinguished alumnus award,
honorable mentions. The American Council William Hopkins, PhD’77, reminded us of
Malgorzata Cavar returns to IU for her of Teachers of Russian coordinates the state how powerfully our lives and careers were
second year as a visiting faculty member to and regional Olympiada contests. We look shaped by the exceptional training we
teach first-year Polish. She recently forward to conducting the Indiana–Illinois received from the émigré Russian language
Olympiada again in 2004. teachers affiliated with the IU Slavic
Koehler Martinovic department and the summer workshop that
Outreach began in the 1960s. Hopkins noted that
completed her PhD at the Universitat these dedicated educators made an invalu-
Potsdam, with a dissertation on Polish As part of REEI’s Title VI mission, we are able contribution to the success of their
palatalization. increasing outreach to universities, colleges, students, to the enhancement of IU’s
and communities around the state of reputation, and to the strength of Slavic
Krzysztof Koehler is a visiting faculty Indiana. Last fall, Jeffrey Holdeman and studies throughout the nation and conse-
member teaching intermediate and Denise Gardiner visited the Russian quently to the national security of the
advanced Polish and Polish literature. He program of Jefferson High School in United States during the Cold War and
was sponsored by the Kosciuszko Founda- Lafayette, Ind., and organized a presenta- after. Hopkins proposed that a memorial
tion for the fall semester at IU. He has been tion on Russian for middle-school students plaque be installed on campus to recognize
a part of Polish Studies Center activities in visiting IU as part of the Intro to World the efforts of these émigré teachers. The
the past, reading his poetry and leading a Languages program. In the spring, department has begun the process of
discussion of it in October 2002. Gardiner and Holdeman visited Heather applying to the university architect’s office
Rogers’s Russian language classes at for placement of a plaque on campus. If
Blazenka Martinovic will be at IU for Indiana Academy High School in Muncie, you would like to contribute, please make
2003–04 as a lecturer of Serbian and Ind., and a Bloomington Parks and checks payable to the IU Foundation and
Croatian. She comes to IU from the send them care of the department.
University of Rijeka (Croatia) through an
exchange program organized by Henry 3
Cooper.

Olympiada

Indiana University, Purdue University, and
the University of Illinois at Urbana–
Champaign organized the first Indiana–
Illinois Olympiada of Spoken Russian for

Spotlight: Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Languages

L ast summer marked the Participants in last year’s workshop student had an individual East European
53rd annual Summer Language Fellowship from ACLS; and one
Workshop in Slavic and Learned Societies for Bosnian/Croatian/ student had a David L. Boren Fellowship
East European Languages. As in Serbian, Czech, Macedonian, and Roma- from the U.S. Department of State.
the past, the Russian program nian. ACLS support pays for the instructor
offered nine levels of study, from and ensures that Indiana University will SWSEEL offered numerous extracurricu-
first- to sixth-year. The East offer the language tuition-free to graduate lar opportunities for its participants to
European program offered six students in East European studies. The immerse themselves in the languages and
languages: Bosnian/Croatian/ workshop has already received ACLS cultures of the region. A total of 45 lectures
Serbian, Polish, Hungarian, support for four languages that will be were delivered over the course of the
Macedonian, Czech, and Roma- taught in summer 2004: Bosnian/Croatian/ workshop. Feature films were regularly
nian. All six languages were Serbian, Polish, Romanian, and Slovene. shown in the original language. Participants
offered at the first-year level. The The 2003 Russian program was awarded also had the opportunity to sample foods
program in the languages of $26,000 from the Social Science Research by attending any of the eight cooking
Central Asia and the South Council for salaries and fellowships. demonstrations. The students also per-
Caucasus offered eight languages. formed a drama skit, hosted a choir, and
Introductory Georgian and — for Overall fellowship support in this year’s read poems by various Russian poets.
the first time ever — intermediate workshop was extraordinary. Of the 111
Georgian were taught by Dodona Kiziria students in the Russian and East European The workshop hosted 25 instructors in
and her brother, Benito. The remaining program, the majority had fellowship the Russian and East European programs.
Central Asian languages (Azeri, Kazakh, support: 52 had FLAS fellowships from IU Ten came from places other than IU,
Turkmen, and Uzbek at the first- and or from other Title VI centers nationwide; including Moscow, St. Petersburg,
second-year levels and Pashto, Uyghur, and eight had SSRC awards; seven military Vladivostok, Ljubljana, and Ostrava.
Tajik at the first-year level) were taught by officers had their expenses paid by the U.S. Because the instructors who taught in
the Slavic department’s partners in Army, Navy, or Air Force; two students SWSEEL this year are highly respected in
SWSEEL, the IU Department of Central received fellowships from the CIC; one their fields, the students learned from some
Eurasian Studies and the Inner Asian and of the best Russian and East European
Uralic National Resource Center. language instructors in the world.

The summer also saw a substantial Slavic Languages
increase in SWSEEL enrollments, continu- & Literatures
ing the upward trend seen since Sept. 11,
2001. Total enrollment was 163, with 72 This newsletter is published by the Indiana
students in all levels of Russian, 39 in the University Alumni Association, in coopera-
East European languages, and 52 in the tion with the Department of Slavic Lan-
languages of Central Asia and the Caucasus. guages & Literatures and the College of
Romanian enrollments were the highest Arts and Sciences Alumni Association, to
ever at 13. encourage alumni interest in and support
for Indiana University. For activities and
The 2003 workshop was successful in membership information, call (800) 824-
terms of external grant competitions. The 3044 or send e-mail to iualumni@
East European program was awarded indiana.edu.
$28,000 from the American Council for
Department of Slavic
Summer Workshop Languages & Literatures

in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Chair .......................... Ronald Feldstein
Languages at Indiana University Supervising Editor ..... Jeffrey Holdeman
Newsletter Editor ............. Colin Nisbet
Russian East European
• First-year Czech, Hungarian • First- and second-year Azeri, Kazakh, College of Arts & Sciences
• First-year Polish, Romanian, Bosnian/ Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, and Georgian
Serbian/Croatian, and Slovene are • First-year Pashto and Tajik Dean .............. Kumble R. Subbaswamy
tuition-free for graduate students in East Executive Director of Development
European fields (ACLS funded) & Alumni Programs ........ Tom Herbert

• FLAS and SSRC fellowships are available IU Alumni Association
• Application deadline for fellowships is April 1, 2004
President/CEO .................. Ken Beckley
• In-state tuition for all languages Director of Alumni
Programs ............................ Nicki Bland
More information is available at www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel.shtml. Or write Editor for Constituent
to SWSEEL Director, Ballantine 502, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. Periodicals ............................ Julie Dales
Or call (812) 855-2608. Fax (812) 855-2107. Assistant Editor for Constituent
Periodicals ........................... Carol Edge
Editorial Assistant ........... Jackie Corgan

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Student News

Graduate Program Students learned about all aspects of the department in May. The number of
field, including its history and development, departmental majors has more than
The Slavic graduate program has seen many data management, idea development, doubled since spring, due in large part to an
exciting events in the past year, from the professional organizations and journals, exceptionally strong Russian 101 class last
granting of several degrees to a new networking, funding, development of fall. Enrollment in Serbian/Croatian, taught
professional development seminar to a new specializations, publishing, and preparation by Henry Cooper, is at 17. We had three
incoming class of outstanding, diverse, for academic and nonacademic job searches. students studying abroad in St. Petersburg
interesting graduate students. For their final project, students developed in fall semester and more than 10 are
their CVs, teaching philosophies and looking to study there next fall. Every week
Five new students entered the graduate portfolios, and a professional Web page. there is an impressive list of extracurricular
program this fall. Bora Chung is studying activities for all five of our languages, and
Slavic literature. She completed her Graduate student news our undergraduate literature and culture
undergraduate work at Yonsei University in courses are maxing out enrollments.
South Korea and then came to the United Galina Krivinos gave birth to her first
States, completing her MA in Russian and child, a son, Max Andrew Revelle, on Sept. Outreach efforts — such as visits to high
East European studies at Yale University. 25. She teaches fourth-year Russian. schools, meetings with prospective
After receiving her MA, she traveled to students, and involvement with the
Krakow, Poland, to study Polish for a year Stu MacKenzie recently passed his PhD Olympiada — are beginning to show effects
at Jagiellonian University. Chung has admissions examination in Russian on direct admissions into the Slavic major.
worked as a translator and has published literature. He also completed SWSEEL This fall, we offered a third year in Polish,
three books (in Korean), of which one is a Level 9 (sixth year) this summer, the Serbian/Croatian, and Czech. In Russian,
translation of the short stories of Polish highest level of Russian offered at IU. In we offered a redesigned fourth-year course
writer Bruno Shulz. Her interests include addition to his work in our department, that focuses on issues of contemporary life
20th-century avant-garde. MacKenzie is also pursuing a PhD in in Russia, taught by graduate student
philosophy. Galina Krivonos. We also opened the
Bora Kim is studying Slavic linguistics. academic year with a free two-hour foreign
She completed her undergraduate work at Jennifer Sanders spent two weeks last language study skills workshop, conducted
Yonsei University in South Korea and then summer as a research associate at the by Holdeman and attended by almost 50
received her MA in Slavic languages and Summer Research Laboratory at the students.
literatures from the University of Virginia University of Illinois in Urbana–
last spring. Champaign, primarily researching first- Courses
language acquisition of Slavic languages.
Elizaveta Moussinova is studying She also participated in the Seminar in The department continues to enjoy
Russian literature. She has already com- Balkan Studies hosted by Illinois and excellent enrollment figures in four new
pleted three degrees: an MBA and LLB, worked there to develop an interdisciplinary beginning-level undergraduate literature
both at International University in Moscow, course on the successor states of the former and culture courses. All four of these
and an MA in liberal studies at Dartmouth Yugoslavia. Currently, Sanders teaches courses have full enrollments. Henry
College. Her primary interests lie in discussion sections for a Topics class and is Cooper offered The Balkans Yesterday,
Russian folklore. completing her comprehensive exams in the Today, Tomorrow, with an enrollment
Slavic department and the linguistics limited to 20. The course explores the
Heather Rice is focusing on Russian department. sources of tension that motivate the peoples
and other Slavic languages, as well as of the Balkans — emphasizing the various
general linguistics. Rice graduated in 1998 Degrees granted lingual, religious, historical, and cultural
with a BA in both Russian and linguistics divisions — by presenting authentic local
from the University of Texas. She moved to One PhD degree and three MA degrees voices (in English translation) through
Washington, D.C., after graduation and have been completed this year. Sukhoon short stories, poems, and films. During the
worked as a research assistant at the Choo, PhD’03, defended his dissertation, semester, students researched a Balkan
Woodrow Wilson Center for International “The Decline of Null Pronomial Subjects in country of their choice.
Studies and then as a linguist at Old Russian.” His adviser was George
AnswerLogic Inc. Rice has spent the past Fowler. Choo has returned to Korea, where Andrew Durkin taught Russian Short
two years in Slovakia and Russia teaching he teaches Russian at the Hankuk Univer- Fiction, with an enrollment of 45. This class
English as a second language. Her interests sity of Foreign Studies. Jisun Eom, Milan introduces students to the masterpieces of
include language acquisition and compara- Bohachek, and Christopher Howard Russian short fiction in a variety of literary
tive linguistic tendencies of differing received MA degrees. modes, from the early 19th century to the
generations among Slavic speakers. present, with particular attention to Russian
To apply to or to learn more about the writers and works that have influenced the
Chiu-Wen Wu is focusing on Russian graduate program, visit the department’s short story worldwide. Students read works
literature. Wu received a bachelor’s degree Web site at www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic. by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov,
in Russian from National Chengchi Babel, and Nabokov. In linguistics, 142
University in Taiwan. She spent her junior Undergraduate students enrolled in George Fowler’s
year abroad at Moscow State University. Program Semiotics of Advertising and 118 enrolled
in Howard Keller’s How Language
Graduate seminar Our undergraduate program continues to Depends on Thought.
get stronger. Jeffrey Holdeman took over
A new professional development seminar as the undergraduate adviser for the (continued on page 6)
for Slavic graduate students was introduced
in the spring by Jeffrey Holdeman.

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In memoriam In 1959, he returned to the United States, Marina Kanevskaya, an alumna and
taking a professorship at Stanford Univer- longtime friend of Indiana Univer-
Cornelis Hendrik van Schooneveld, sity. In 1966, he moved to a professorship sity, died on Dec. 13, 2002, as a result of a
known as “Kees” to his colleagues, at Indiana University, and several of his hit-and-run accident. Kanevskaya was an
died on March 18, 2003, at age 82, in his graduate students followed him to associate professor of Russian at the
home at Amancy, France. He was born in Bloomington. University of Montana, Missoula.
Gravenhage, Netherlands, on Jan. 19,
1921. He first came to work at IU in 1966 Van Schooneveld’s work built on the The local press reported that she will be
and retired in 1987. semantic theories of Jakobson, which had remembered as a woman with a brilliant
the goal of establishing the ultimate personality, a scholarly mind, and heart for
Professor van Schooneveld was a major semantic distinctive features of Russian, but her students. Some students thought of her
international figure in Slavic linguistics and with further application to the other Slavic as a second mother. Kanevskaya received
linguistic publishing for many decades. He systems and to language universals. Some her PhD from IU in 1997 in Slavic
began the study of linguistics under the of van Schooneveld’s most important work languages and literatures and in 2001
tutelage of Nicolas van Wijk, at Leiden focused on the semantic features of Russian published N.K. Mikhailovsky’s Criticism of
University in the Netherlands. He first prepositions and verbal prefixes. Many Dostoevsky: The Cruel Critic (Mellen Press).
came to the United States to study with the doctoral dissertations based on the van
premier Slavic linguist of that time, Roman Schooneveldian semantic theories were The University of Montana has an-
Jakobson, who was teaching at Columbia written at IU during the 1966–87 period, nounced a scholarship to be established in
University. After receiving his doctorate in which could well be called the period of van her honor. To donate, contact the Univer-
1949, he taught at the University of Schooneveldian linguistics in the IU sity of Montana Foundation, P.O. Box
Oklahoma, then moved back to Leiden to Department of Slavic Languages and 7159, Missoula, MT 59807, mentioning
become chair of Slavic and Baltic philology. Literatures. the Kanevskaya Scholarship.

Student news to learn more about or to apply for the obvious benefits of language acquisition
admission as a Slavic major at IU, please and learning about the culture in an
(continued from page 5) visit www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic, or go to everyday context, I’m also learning to look
the admissions office at www.indiana.edu/ at America more objectively. I think that is
Language tables ~iuadmit. Contact the department by what I am most happy to get out of my
e-mail at iuslavic@ indiana.edu to schedule experience here; no longer am I always
Language coffee hours, teas, and tables give a campus visit. judging everything with America as the
IU Slavic students the opportunity to use ‘norm.’ I’m learning to realize that each
and improve their language skills. All Study Abroad culture has its differences, some good and
department languages have active language some bad, but most without any value
practice meetings: Russian tea (Tuesdays), Study abroad has become a priority for our judgment.”
Romanian and Polish coffee hours (Thurs- department. We have students (and faculty)
days), Czech club (every other Thursday), returning from study abroad, students Ippoliti has also sent correspondence.
and Russian, Polish, and Serbian/Croatian currently in-country, and a growing list of “The CIEE program has been a great way
language tables (Fridays). students who will be going in the summer to experience St. Petersburg,” he wrote. “I
and fall. This mission is aided by the have talked to other students, who are here
Extracurricular activities addition of a new study abroad adviser, independently, and it simply does not seem
Melinda Fountain, who is responsible for that they get the full depth of experience we
There has been a flurry of events outside Eastern Europe in the Office of Overseas in the program do. We have already gone
the classroom to engage students in the Study. on several tours with our group, including
languages and cultures that they are tours of Peter and Paul Fortress, Novgorod,
learning. Graduate student Lina Undergraduate Russian major Amy Pavlovsk, Peterhof, and Tallinn (Estonia).
Khawaldah organized “Chebarashka Fest” Zerebnick is back from spending the Finally, knowing other people was one of
in the spring semester, an event at which academic year in St. Petersburg, Russia. In my biggest helps when I first got here. I
students of Russian had the opportunity to addition to earning stellar grades, she holds had an instant support group, people I
view classic Russian cartoons. The Slavic the distinction of being the first student to simply had to call up who were just as eager
department and the Russian and East complete an internship through the Council as I to go out and be together. Overall, my
European Institute have sponsored several for International Educational Exchange’s experience with CIEE has been very
recent Russian films, including Russian Ark new internship program. Amy’s host? Peter positive.”
and House of Fools. Last spring, we hosted a the Great’s Kunstkamera. Lucky two-
lecture/concert by the Russian bard headed dog! Graduate student Miriam Shrager
Vladimir Kapger. This fall, IU was visited participated in the 2003 Intensive Summer
by the Krasnoyarsk Dance Company of Nathan Gilbert is studying this fall at Language Program in Olomouc, Czech
Siberia, and Bronislava Volkova held the American University in Bulgaria in Republic, through a CIC fellowship with
several poetry readings and lectures in Blagoevgrad. Ohio State University.
Czech and English.
Three undergraduate Russian majors are Language coordinator Jeffrey
Degrees granted studying abroad in St. Petersburg. Sarah Holdeman participated in the 2003
Atterson, John Ippoliti, and Kristen American Council of Teachers of Russian
Undergraduate majors in Slavic languages Stoltz are participating in the CIEE Summer Russian Language Teachers
and literatures David Lawrence (Roma- program for the fall semester. Program, funded by the U.S. Department
nian) and Kira Griffitt (Russian) com- of Education Fulbright Hays. The program
pleted their bachelor’s degrees in May. “Going to Russia was my first time out included six weeks of language study at
of the country,” Stoltz wrote in an e-mail Moscow State University and housing with
If you know of someone who would like message, “and so far it has been the most a Russian host family.
incredible experience of my life. Aside from
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Alumni Notebook

Before 1970 president of the Arizona Lan- became editor of the linguistics AATSEEL, representing pre-
guage Association and am journal Word. A resident of collegiate instructors. Also, for a
Commander John M. Kratt, chairing the annual AZLA Ferndal, Wash., his research second year, Golding led a
BA’59, is retired from the Navy conference in September.” The interests include aboriginal student tour from Jefferson
and serves as a National Secu- Litchfield Park, Ariz., resident languages of Siberia. He can be High School in Lafayette, Ind.,
rity Agency representative at the can be reached at joyce.story@ reached at [email protected]. to Uzbekistan as part of the
Department of Commerce. He gcmail.maricopa.edu. ACTR Secondary School Excel-
lives in Arnold, Md. Maria Carlson, PhD’81, has lence Exchange Grant he was
Mary V. Volland, MA’68, is returned to her position as awarded.
Victoria Moessner, BA’59, a head of reference services at professor of Russian literature
professor of German at the Cook Library at Towson Uni- and intellectual history in the Andrea R. McDowell,
University of Alaska, has pub- versity in Baltimore, where she University of Kansas Depart- MA’95, PhD’01, MS’02, joined
lished her first book, The First also serves as liaison to modern ment of Slavic Languages and the staff of the Seattle Univer-
Russian Voyage Around the languages. The Ellicott City, Literatures after serving for 11 sity School of Education as an
World: The Journal of Hermann Md., resident can be reached at years as director of the Center adjunct faculty member teach-
Ludwig von Loewenstern, 1803– mvolland@ towson.edu. for Russian and East European ing in the Student Development
1804 (University of Alaska Studies. She intends to continue Administration’s master’s pro-
Press, 2003). She can be 1970s her investigation into the Rus- gram.
reached at [email protected]. sian occult and is currently
Jerald J. Jordan, BA’73, writes, writing on Russian neo-pagan Curt Woolhiser, PhD’95,
In 1972, Michael E. “I retired in May after 30 years movements. wrote the article “Constructing
Slobodkin, BA’61, moved to with the Department of De- National Identities in the Pol-
Israel, where he worked as a fense. I live with my wife and Robert Fradkin, PhD’85, is ish-Belarussian Borderlands,”
Russian-speaking operator from son in Queenstown, Md.” He teaching high school Latin and which was presented in two
1975 to 2001 for Bezeq, the can be reached at jjjordan@ one Russian class in Columbia, parts for the journal Ab Imperio
Israeli telecommunications dmv.com. Md. He previously spent 25 (April 2003 issue).
company, at the international years teaching Russian and
telephone exchange. He lives in Allan I. Grafman, BA’75, Hebrew at several universities Jonathan Ludwig, PhD’95,
Petah Tikva, Israel, and can be was appointed president of (Washington, Brown, Duke, served as assistant to the direc-
reached at mikejiroo@ Archie Comics Entertainment Old Dominion, and Maryland). tor of SWSEEL in 2003 before
bezeqint.net. Inc. In charge of the company’s Fradkin still teaches a class on beginning a new position as
worldwide operations, Grafman the history of the alphabets senior lecturer of Russian in the
Alexandra Baker, MA’63, will head the areas of original once a year through the classics Center for the Study of Lan-
retired in 2000 as a lecturer at television programming, theat- department at the University of guages at Rice University in
Middlebury College in Ver- rical motion pictures, DVD/ Maryland. Houston, Texas, last fall.
mont. In 2002, she was married home video, video games,
to Ken Wilkins, of Clinton, Internet, music, live events, and 1990s Stephen Dickey, PhD’97,
Wash. She can be reached at all areas of retail promotions, began a new position as assis-
[email protected]. product licensing, and merchan- Sibelan Forrester, PhD’90, tant professor of Slavic lan-
dising. He lives in White Plains, published the article “Where guages and literatures at the
Janet G. Tucker, BA’63, N.Y., with his wife, Beth. the Dog Is Buried: Clues to the University of Kansas in August.
MA’65, PhD’73, recently pub- Ancestry of Tsvetaeva’s Canine
lished an essay, “The Religious Kathleen Charla, PhD’79, Devil” in the March–June 2002 2000s
Significance of Clothing in writes, “After retiring from my issue of the Canadian Slavonic
Dostoevksy’s Crime and Punish- advertising business in 1998, I Papers. Jennifer Day, PhD’01, ac-
ment,” in the summer 2002 have been the director of Inter- cepted a tenure-track position as
issue of SEEJ; it is scheduled for national Winter Festival Arts Kasia B. Jarski-Firlej, assistant professor of Russian at
reprint in Harold Bloom’s new Square in St. Petersburg, Rus- BA’92, ACREE’92, of St. John, Bard College, which she began
translation of Crime and Punish- sia, for the past four years. The Ind., teaches business and mar- in the fall. She also co-authored,
ment. She writes, “My edited festival is organized by the St. keting at Purdue University, with Anna Lisa Crone, the
Against the Grain: Parody, Satire, Petersburg Philharmonia, the Calumet. She writes, “This book My Petersburg/Myself:
and Intertextuality in Russian State Russian Museum, and the summer, I strengthened my ties Mental Architecture and Imagi-
Literature (Slavica) appeared in Grand Hotel Europe.” E-mail with Eastern Europe by invest- native Space in Modern Russian
2002.” The professor of Rus- the Ann Arbor, Mich., resident ing in a business in Poland. It is Letters, set to be published by
sian at the University of Arkan- at [email protected]. a private business that involves Slavica Publishers.
sas lives in Fayetteville, Ark., meat distribution and retail
and can be reached at 1980s establishments. I will probably Zofia A. Plummer, BA’02, is
[email protected]. lose the capital, but hope to currently undergoing navigator
Edward Vajda, BA’80, is a gain the experience in interna- training with the U.S. Air Force
Joyce A. Story, MA’64, professor of Russian, linguistics, tional retailing that will eventu- at Randolph Air Force Base.
PhD’75, writes, “I continue to and Eurasian studies at Western ally be the focus of my thesis.”
be a faculty member at Glendale Washington University. In She can be reached at firlej@ Be sure to visit the
Community College in Glen- 2001, he published Yeniseian calumet.purdue.edu. Indiana University
dale, Ariz., teaching Russian Peoples and Languages (London: Alumni Association
and Spanish. Russian enroll- Curzon Press). In 2002, he Todd Golding, MAT’93, online all year.
ment has increased greatly this was elected a vice president of
fall. I currently am serving as

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Indiana University was well PAID
represented at the 2003 Conven-
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Teachers of Slavic and East European Alumni Association
Languages, in San Diego. Several
alumni, faculty, and graduate students £Printed on recycled paper in U.S.A.
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Alumni: Michael Finke, PhD’89,
presented “The Autobiographical and What’s new with you?
Metapoetic Significance of Chekhov’s
‘Rasskaz neizvestnogo cheloveka.’” The IU Alumni Association is charged with maintaining records for all IU alumni. Please print
Andrew Drozd, PhD’95, partici- as much of the following information as you wish. Its purpose, in addition to providing us with your
pated in the roundtable discussion class note, is to keep IU’s alumni records accurate and up to date. To verify and update your
“Using the Internet in Czech information online, visit our online alumni directory at www.alumni.indiana.edu/directory.
Language Instruction.” Sibelan
Forrester, PhD’90, presented Publication with this form: Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures Date ________
“Marina Cvetaeva and the Economy
of Romance.” Jennifer Day, PhD’01, Name _______________________________________________________________________
presented “Petersburg in the Films of Preferred name _______________________________________________________________
Aleksej Balabanov.” Margo (Scholl) Last name while at IU _______________ IU Degree(s)/Yr(s) ________________________
Rosen, MA’89, of Columbia Soc. Sec. # or Student ID # ____________________________________________________
University, presented “Natasha Home address ___________________________________ Phone ______________________
Rostova at Meyerbeer’s Robert le City ______________________________ State ___________ Zip ______________________
Diable.” Todd Golding, MAT’93, Business title __________________________ Company/Institution ___________________
chaired a roundtable session for pre- Company address ________________________________ Phone ______________________
college teachers of Russian. City ______________________________ State ___________ Zip ______________________

Faculty: Ronald Feldstein *E-mail _____________________ *Home page URL _______________________________
presented “On Roman Jakobson’s
Concept of Irregularity in Russian *Please indicate clearly upper and lower case.
Conjugation.” George Fowler co-
presented, with Sukhoon Choo, Mailing address preference: r Home r Business
PhD’03, the paper “Pro-Drop and
Clitic-Second in Old Russian: Spouse name ___________________________ Last name while at IU _________________
Doesn’t Something Have to Give?”
Jeffrey Holdeman presented IU Degree(s)/Yr(s) ____________________________________________________________
“Doublets in the Russian Lexicon of
the Old Believers of Erie, Pennsylva- Your news: ___________________________________________________________________
nia.” Nina Perlina presented “The
Jews and the Poles As Two ‘Cultural ____________________________________________________________________________
Others’ in Dostoevskij’s Writings.”
____________________________________________________________________________
Graduate students: Galina
Krivonos presented “Following the ____________________________________________________________________________
‘Red Brick’ Road: Was There a
Wizard in Bulgakov’s Moscow of the ____________________________________________________________________________
1920s?” Lina Khawaldah presented
“The Theater As an Enchanted r Please send me information about IU Alumni Association programs,
Kingdom and As a State: Authors services, and communications.
and Authority in Bulgakov’s Molière
Cycle and Theatrical Novel.” Jennifer Please mail to the address above, or fax to (812) 855-8266.
Sanders chaired the panel
“Roundtable on Teaching the
Languages of the Former Yugoslavia”
and served as a panelist for the
roundtable session on music and
song in the Slavic language class-
room. Saera Yoon presented “The
Demon Myth and History in
Lermontov’s Vadim.”

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