Rebecca Jane Stanton
Assistant
Professor of Russian
Slavic Department, Barnard College
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for teaching Russian language Ulbandus, The Slavic Review of Columbia University The Birch, Columbia's undergraduate journal of Slavic culture, literature and politics Columbia University Slavic Department
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[bio]
I was born in Wellington, New Zealand, where I lived for most of my life until university. I've also lived, worked, and/or studied in London, Paris, Cologne, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Philadelphia, and New York. In addition to English, I speak Russian, French, German, intermediate-level Ukrainian, and just enough Spanish to get by in my Dominican neighbourhood; on my list for future study are Polish, Yiddish, Georgian, Mongolian, and Hindi. I can also read Latin and Old Church Slavonic, within reason. When I'm not chained to my desk doing the things that academics do, I'm generally singing in some ensemble or other, or attempting some form of athletic activity (most recently yoga and boxing). |
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mail | 226A Milbank Hall, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 phone | 212-854-3133 • email | |
[current
courses]
For a full list of the courses I teach, click here.
fall 2007
- BC1617, Reacting to the Past (Barnard First-Year Seminar)
- Russian V3595, Senior Seminar (for Russian majors)
Note: required of all students writing a senior thesis in the Slavic Department.
spring 2008
- Russian V3221, Literary Avant-Garde and Revolution
Note: this course counts toward the Russian major or minor and can also be used to fulfil the LIT requirement at Barnard. It can also count toward a major in Comp. Lit. -- consult your adviser for details.
- Russian G6039, Literature, Politics, and Tradition After Stalin
Notes: Knowledge of Russian not required (dual reading list available). Open to advanced undergraduates with the instructor's permission.
[official interests]
| modern Russian (and German) literature • music • the 1920s • auto/biography and first-person narrative • poetics of place • Jewish-Slavic coterritoriality • technology • popular culture • stories that come true |
[unofficial interests]
English Renaissance poetry • Radio Four • avant-garde theatre • Girl's Own genre fiction • modern art • historical linguistics • virtual communities • mediaeval mystic nuns • fandom • cricket |
[works in progress]
- Isaac Babel and the Self-ishness of Odessan Modernism (book manuscript)
- "Magical Discourses in Soviet Literature" (book project in development)
- "'A Monstrous Staircase': Inscribing the Revolution of 1905 On Odessa" (book chapter)
- "Feminine Resurrections: Gendering Redemption in the Last Novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky" (book chapter, under contract)
- "A Dog's-Eye View of the Soviet Union" (article in progress)
- "Nabokov's Hero of Our Time: A Five-Fold Self-Narrative" (article in progress)
- "Valentin Kataev and the Problem of Longevity" (article MS)
- "Battlestar Canonical: 'Galactica' and the Texts of Classical Antiquity" (book chapter, under contract )
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