[courses taught]

  At Barnard:

• BC 1169: Reinventing Literary History -- Legacy of the Mediterranean (Barnard First-Year Seminar)

• BC 1330: Reinventing Literary History -- Women and Culture (Barnard First-Year Seminar)
  
  
• BC1617, Reacting to the Past (Barnard First-Year Seminar)
  
  
• Russian V3221, Literature and Revolution
  Note: this course counts toward a major in Russian or in Comp. Lit. and can also be used to fulfil the LIT requirement at Barnard.
  
  
• Comp. Lit. V3235: Imagining the Self (undergraduate lecture, Comp. Lit.)
  
  
• Russian V3467:20th-Century Prose Writers: Short Fiction of the 1920s and '30s [in Russian]
  
  
• Russian V3595, Senior Seminar (for Russian majors)
  Note: required of all students writing a senior thesis in the Slavic Department.
  
  
• Russian V3596: Supervised Individual Research
  
  
• Russian W4033: The Making of Socialist Realism (graduate-level seminar, open to advanced undergraduates)
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Comp.Lit.--Russian G6110: The Discourse of Self in Russia and the West (graduate seminar, Comp. Lit./Russian)
  
  
• History--Poli.Sci. G8445: Legacies of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union (Harriman Institute Core Colloquium, crosslisted with History and Political Science). Co-taught with Alexander Motyl.
  
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• HSSL W3224: Cities and Civilizations: Intro. to Eurasian Studies (guest lecturer)

  Before Barnard:

• Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy* (1999-2000, 2001-2002)
• What is Great Literature? (Summer 2000)
• Logic and Rhetoric (1997-1998)
• Intermediate Russian (Summers: 1997, 1998, 2002)
• Elementary Russian (1996-1997, 1998-1999, Summer 2003)

  *nominated for teaching award in 2001-02

[course materials]

Masterpieces of Western Literature & Philosophy

• My Lit. Hum. website
• Syllabi: Fall | Spring
• Class plan: Plato, Symposium
• From the Close Reading Dept.:
  • Structural Diagram of Iliad I
  • Heredotus, Histories, I:1
• Sample Paper Topics:
  • Homer to Exodus
  • Vergil and Augustine
  • Dante to Cervantes
  • Final Paper
• Self-Help Sheet (for students writing papers)
• Study Guide (Fall Midterm)
• Sample Study Questions:
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Pride and Prejudice
    
    
• Student Evaluations

Elementary and Intermediate Russian
Some handouts may appear blurry when viewed at full size.

• Original In-Class Exercises and Games:
  • The Three Bears ("fitting-room" expressions)
  • Reading comprehension/enrichment exercise (history of Cyrillic)
  • Questionnaire: Sports
• Sample Handouts:
  • Genitive Plural Flowchart
  • "Dysfunctional Families" (Nom. Pl. of animate nouns)
  • Unprefixed Verbs of Motion (usage table)
• Sample Test (V Puti, Ch. 8):
  • page 1
  • page 2
  • page 3
    
    
• Student Evaluations   

What is Great Literature?

• Syllabus (designed to complement "What is Art History?" course)
• Homework assignment (Macbeth)

[unoffical student evaluations]

• Unsolicited Student Testimonials
• "Underground" reviews of my teaching by students on CULPA
  (Columbia Underground Listing of Professor Ability)