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The Faculty of the
Division of Russian and Slavic Languages consists of professors and a
varying number of adjunct teachers. The appended vitae provide evidence of
the wide variety of interests, publications, and professional activities of
the faculty.
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Alex E. Alexander
aalexand@hunter.cuny.edu
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Professor
Alexander's primary fields are Medieval Russian literature, Folklore and
Slavic Mythology. He has published two books on these topics: Bylina and Fairy Tale, and Russian
Folklore, and articles on topics such as Gogol,
Lewis Carroll and Nabokov. He is versatile,
commanding not only Russian and English but also Polish. He offers
courses in Russian language, Russian literature, Russian Culture and
comparative folklore. His approach to literature is historical, social
and cultural. In language instruction, he follows a four skills approach,
giving due emphasis to each. Besides serving as head of the Division of
Russian and Slavic Languages, Professor Alexander is a frequent
departmental representative on the Academic Senate and is a member of the
Governing Council of the College's Women's Studies Program.
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Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour
ebeaujou@hunter.cuny.edu
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Professor
Beaujour is the author of The
Invisible Land: The Artistic Imagination of Iurii
Olesha, and
Alien
Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the "First" Emigration.
She has contributed a number of chapters to collective books and is the
author of articles on the relationship between architecture and Russian
literature, and on Modern Russian Literature. Her current areas of
interest include Nabokov, the interaction of
French and Russian literature, and Russian women writers. She is on the
faculty of the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature at the CUNY
Graduate Center.
Over the years, she has served the College in many ways, having been
Acting Provost and Chair of the Academic Senate as well as being the
long-term chair of the College's interdisciplinary Thomas Hunter Honors
Program.
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Emil A. Draitser
edraitse@hunter.cuny.edu
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Professor
Draitser is a short-story writer whose works
have appeared extensively in both Russian and English. He is also the
author of several scholarly books:
Techniques
of Satire: The Case of Saltykov-Shchedrin,
Forbidden
Laughter, Taking
Penguins to the Movies: Russian Ethnic Humor, Making
War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor, and two collections
of short stories. You may read some stories in English right
here: “Clown,”
“Dvorkin,” “It’s
Not a Simple Thing,” and “Zugzwang.” Professor Draitser
earned his doctorate degree in Russian literature from the University
of California at Los Angeles in 1983. His areas of
specialization are Russian satire and humor, contemporary Russian folk
culture, and creative writing. His last book-length publication is his
memoir entitled Kto ty takoi (Who Are You).
Professor Draitser teaches advanced language
courses, modern and contemporary Russian culture courses, and courses in
Russian cinema. He has taught courses in Russian literature in Russian,
particularly the Russian poetry, both classical and modern, and Russian
short story.
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Nadya L. Peterson
npeterso@hunter.cuny.edu
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Professor
Peterson is a specialist on contemporary Russian prose and women's
literature. She is the author of Subversive
Imaginations: Fantastic Prose and the End of Soviet Literature,
1970s-1990s, Living
Language Russian Manual and of a number of articles on various
aspects of Russian studies, including "The Private 'I' in the Works
of Nina Berberova," The
Slavic Review, vol. 60, No. 3, Fall 2001; "Dirty Women:
Cultural Connotations of Cleanliness in Stalinist Russia ," in Russia--
Women-- Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966);
"The Games Women Play: the Erotic Prose of Valeriia
Narbikova," in Fruits
of Her Plume: Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture, ed. By
Helena Goscilo (M.E. Sharpe, 1993); "The
Languages of Chekhov's "Darling", Canadian-American Slavic
Studies, vol.24, No.2 (Summer 1990). Her interests also include Russian
culture, history, and Russian education. Prof. Peterson teaches advanced
language courses, courses on translation, women's literature, nineteenth
and twentieth century Russian literature, as well as courses on Pushkin, Tolstoy,
and Dostoevsky
both in Russian and in English.
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