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EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
granted jointly by the departments of Slavic Languages and
Literatures and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University, 1976
Dissertation
Title - The Turkish Minstrel Tale Tradition
M.A.,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
University, 1969
B.A.,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Radcliffe
College, 1967
also
attended Cornell University 1963-65.
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ACADEMIC
EMPLOYMENT
Professor of
Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
(1998-)
Associate
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
(1980-98)
Department
Chair (1993-96)
Summer Chair
(1982, 94, 95, 96)
Assistant
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
(1976-80)
Acting
Assistant Professor (1974-76)
Assistant
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
(1975-1979)
Teaching
Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University (1969-73)
DISTINCTIONS
AND AWARDS
Ukrainian
Academy of Sciences in the United States, elected
2000
Raven
Society, University of Virginia Literary, Academic, and
Service Honorary, elected 1999
Shevchenko
Scientific Society, Ukrainian Academic Honorary, elected
1998
Best book
prizes for Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing:
Kovaliv prize (an international award), 1997; American
Association for Ukrainian Studies book prize, 2000.
University
of Virginia Alumni Association Young Teacher Award, 1979
(first woman to receive this award)
Omicron
Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honorary, elected
1982
Faculty
Senate of the University of Virginia, 1982-86
Teaching
Grants
University
of Virginia Teaching and Technology Initiative to develop a
searchable Slavic folklore database, 2000
Social
Science Research Council for a symposium on the teaching of
Russian, 1995
American
Council of Teachers of Russian for a Russian language
pedagogue, 1994-96
International
Research Exchanges Board for a Teaching Assistant from Tuva,
to study American teaching methods, 1994-95
University
of Virginia Academic Computing Program to develop
computer-assisted Russian language instruction, 1994-95
Teaching
Resource Center at the University of Virginia to develop a
new course in the methodology of teaching Russian, 1992
Dean of the
Faculty, University of Virginia, to develop a new set of
folklore courses, 1991. These courses are now cross-listed
with Women's Studies and meet the non-Western perspectives
requirement
University
of Virginia Academic Computing Program to develop
computer-assisted language instruction: access to Russian
television broadcasts and to the Listening Comprehension
Electronic Network, 1990.
Council of
Higher Education, State of Virginia grant to implement
proficiency-oriented language instruction, written in
conjunction with the Departments of French, Spanish and
German: permitted university-wide language curriculum
restructuring, 1986-88.
Council of
Higher Education, State of Virginia seed money to initiate
the summer Foreign Language Institute, 1979-81. The
Institute has grown to include additional languages and a
study-abroad component. Russian study abroad at the
University of Kazan began 1996.
Teaching
Grants in Conjunction with Other Institutions
with Penn
State C National Endowment for the Humanities to write a
computer-adaptive Russian listening comprehension test,
1995
with the
University of Illinois C National Endowment for the
Humanities grant for a series of seminars on women in the
Slavic world; I taught a two-week summer seminar on women
and folklore, 1989
Research
Grants
Associate,
University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in
the Humanities, folklore
digital archive development, 2001-02.
University
of Virginia Summer Fellowship for folklore fieldwork in
Ukraine, 2000.
University
of Virginia Sesquicentennial Fellowship for research on
Ukrainian ritual, 1998-99.
International
Research Exchanges Board
short-term
travel grant for archival research, Ukrainian Academy of
Sciences, Kiev, 1994
semester-long
grant for archival and field work on Ukrainian epic poetry
and its performers, Kiev and L'viv, 1987
University
of Virginia Sesquicentennial Fellowship for research and
writing on Ukrainian epic poetry and its performers,
1988-89
University
of Virginia Summer Fellowships for research and writing,
1976, 78, 93
Social
Science Research Council - travel to Turkey for research on
minstrelsy, 1978
American
Council of Learned Societies - travel to Turkey for research
on the Turkish minstrel tradition, 1977
Grants in
Conjunction with Other Institutions
with the
Roberson Gallery, Binghampton, New York, grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts and from the Council for the
Arts of the State of New York C exhibit of East European
embroideries, coordinated lecture series, book C
1985-87.
with the
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, National Endowment for
the Arts for a series of lectures and performances on
Ukrainian minstrelsy and the Ukrainian national instrument,
the bandura, 1984.
Other
Travel - not grant-sponsored
Ukraine -
participate in conference on oral history and conduct field
work in the Cherkasy region, summer, 1998; to conduct
archival research and to do field work in the Kiev region,
fall, 1998
Ukraine - to
present the key-note speech at a conference on folklore and
oral theory, 1997
Ukraine - to
attend the 1st and the 2nd World Congresses of
Ukrainianists, 1990, 93
USSR/Russia
- as a tour leader and lecturer, 1978, 88. Led Academic
Travel Abroad's first
large group of students to the Soviet Union in 1978.
Turkey - to
attend the 3rd International Turkish Studies Congress,
1986
Germany - to
work as a translator and interpreter, 1965
LANGUAGE
COMPETENCE
English,
Ukrainian, and Russian C native or near-native
Turkish C
fluent
German,
French, Spanish, Azeri, Turkmen, Tatar, Polish C read
easily
Uzbek,
Serbian and Croatian, Bulgarian, Ottoman Turkish, Kazakh,
Kirghiz, Italian C read with dictionary
currently
studying Tatar
COMPUTER
EXPERTISE:
course web
pages; currently up:
http://faculty.virginia.edu/kononenko
public
information pages:
http://www.brama.com/art/wedding.html
http://www.brama.com.art/kobzar.html
bulletin
board master: http://www.brama.com/art/traditions/traditionsbb.html
computer-assisted
Russian listening comprehension assessment package with
Patricia Dunkle, Georgia State and Michael Naydan, Penn
State.
Currently
developing a searchable Slavic folklore database
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
Ukrainian
Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing. M.E. Sharpe,
Armonk, New York and London, England, 1998. 360 pages.
Reviewed in Slavic Review, Vol. 58, No. 2 (summer, 1999),
pp. 475-476; Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 43, No.
3 (fall, 1999). pp. 551-552. See also http://www.brama.
com/art/kobzar.html.
The Magic
Egg and Other Tales from Ukraine (with Barbara Suwyn),
Libraries Unlimited, Englewood, Co., 1997. 222 pages.
The
Turkish Minstrel Tale Tradition. Garland Publishing, New
York and London, 1990. 267 pages.
Ukrainian
Dumy. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Toronto and Cambridge,
1979. Wrote the introduction and did a substantial portion
of the selection and editing of texts.
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Refereed
Articles
"Fieldwork
in Ukraine: Reports on the Death of the Ukrainian Village
Have Been Greatly Exaggerated," essay, NewsNet, Vol.
41, No. 1 (January, 2001), pp. 8-10.
"Contemporary
Ukrainian Wedding Rituals: Collected Central Ukraine, 1998,"
Slavic and East European Folklore Association
Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp.
65-72.
"Strike Now
and Ask Questions Later: Witchcraft Stories in Ukraine,"
Ethnologies (formerly Canadian Folklore/Folklore
Canadien) special issue on Wicca/witchcraft, Vol. 20,
No. 1 (1998), pp. 67-89.
"Duma
pro Chornobyl': Old Genres, New Topics," Journal of
Folklore Research, Vol 29, No. 2 (1992), pp.
133-154.
"Baida
Molodetskyi vs. Baida Vyshnevetskyi: Franko on the
Historicity of a Folklore Text," The Ukrainian
Quarterly, Vol. XLVII, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp.
28-35.
"The
Influence of the Orthodox Church on Ukrainian Dumy,"
Slavic Review, Vol. 50, No. 3 (fall, 1991) pp.
566-575.
"Soviet
Concepts of Space," New York Folklore, Vol. 7, Nos. 1
& 2 (1981), pp. 83-96.
reprinted
in Folklore Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader,
Elliot Oring, ed. Utah State University Press, 1988, pp
87-97.
"Folktale
Patterns in Gogol's "Vii"," Russian Literature,
special issue on Gogol, VII (1979), pp. 665-688.
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Non-Refereed
Major Articles
"Dictated
Text/Sung Text: The Learning Techniques of Ukrainian
Minstrels," Oral Epic: Ethnic Traditions and
Performance, ed. by O. Britsyna, Kiev: IMFE, 1997, pp.
141-151.
"Widows and
Sons: Heroism in Ukrainian Epic," Harvard Ukrainian
Studies; Adelphotes: A Tribute to Omelian Pritsak, Vol.
XIV, No. 3/4 (Dec. 1990), pp. 388-414.
"The Image
of the Asik in Turkish Halk Hikayeleri,"
Milletlerarasi Turk Folklor Kongresi Bildirleri, Vol.
II, Ankara: Feryal, 1986, pp. 269-275.
"Coming or
Going in Russian," Humanities, National Endowment for
the Humanities, Vol. 6, No. 5 (Oct. 1985) pp. 14-17.
excerpted
as the lead article in the American Association of
Teachers of Slavic and East European Language
Newsletter, Dec. 1986, pp. 1-3.
"The
Changing Concept of the Asik: Repertory and Learning
Techniques," II Milletlerarasi Turk Folklor Kongresi
Bildirleri, Ankara: Basbakanlik Basimevi, 1982, pp.
61-69.
"Homer,
Milton, and Asik Veysel: The Legend of the Blind Bard,"
Eucharisterion: Festschrift in Honor of Omelian Pritsak,
Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. III/IV (1979-80), Part
II, pp. 520-529
"The
Techniques of Turkish Minstrelsy: Oral Composition versus
Memorization," Uluslararasi Turk Folklor Kongresi
Bildirleri, Ankara: Ankara Universitesi Basimevi, 1976,
pp. 189-257.
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Book
Chapters
Preface to
From Chantre to Diak: Cantorial Traditions in Canada,
ed. by Robert B. Klymasz, Hull: Canadian Museum of
Civilization, 2000, pp. 5-13.
"Clothes
Unmake the Social Bandit: Sten'ka Razin and the
Golyt'ba," Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as
Performance in Five Centuries, ed. by Lois Potter,
Newark and London: University of Delaware Press/Associated
University Presses. 1998, pp. 111-135.
"Women as
Performers of Oral Literature: A Re-examination of Epic and
Lament," Women Writers in Russian Literature, ed. by
Toby W. Clyman and Diana Greene, Westport, Connecticut and
London: Greenwood Press, 1994, pp. 17-33.
"Mermaids
(Rusalki) and Russian Beliefs About Women," New
Studies in Russian Language and Literature, ed. by Anna
Lisa Crone and Catherine V. Chvany, Columbus, Ohio: Slavica
Publishers, Inc. 1986, pp. 221-238.
"The
Goddess, Prehistoric and Modern," Goddesses and Their
Offspring: 19th and 20th Century Eastern European
Embroideries, Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences,
Binghamton, New York, 1986, pp.16-27.
"Iizha ta
kul'tura kharchuvannia," (Food and Food Behavior in
Ukrainian Proverbs), introduction to M. Nomys,
Ukraiins'ki prykazky, prysliv'ia i take inshe, South
Bound Brook: The Publishing Fund of the Ukrainian Orthodox
Center, 1985, pp. 33-40.
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Encyclopedia
Entries and Notes
entries on
Baba Iaga (pp.39-40), dumy (pp. 169-71),
kobzari (pp. 357-58), rusalka (pp. 572-74),
and Zhirmunskii (pp.721-22) in Encyclopedia of
Folklore and Literature, ed. by Bruce A. Rosenberg and
Mary Ellen Brown, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California,
Denver, Colorado, and Oxford, England, 1998.
"Report from
the Lectern: Reflections on Over Twenty Years of Teaching
Folklore Courses," Slavic and East European Folklore
Association Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 2 (1998), pp.31-35.
Also provided conference reports, bibliographic surveys,
reports on the state of the profession for the same journal.
entries on
Hrushevs'ka (pp. 33-6), Hrebin (pp. 21-2), Hrytsai (p. 36),
Horlenko (p. 12) and Honcharenko (p. 8) in Modern
Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature,
1996.
"Rozmovy,"
Visnyk miznarodnoii asotsiatsii ukraiinistiv (1994),
pp. 25-26.
"Epos ta
plach: pro vytoky ukraiins'koii dumy," Rodovid, No. 6
(1993), pp. 27-30.
"Matriarchy"
in Encyclopedia of Ukraine, ed. by Volodimir
Kubijovych and Danylo Husar Struk, Toronto: Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies/University of Toronto Press,
Vol. III (1993), pp. 347-348.
"Ukrainian
peasantry" in Encyclopedia of World Cultures, ed. by
Paul Friedrich and Norma Diamond, Boston: G.K. Hall and Co.,
Vol VI (1991), pp. 385-388.
"Goddesses
and Their Offspring; Nineteenth and Twentieth Century East
European Embroideries," Iris, Spring/Summer, 1987,
pp. 14-17.
"Ukrainian
dumy" in the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and
Soviet Literature, ed. by Harry B. Weber, Academic
International Press, Vol. 7 (1984), pp. 14-24.
"A Matter of
Perspective-or-Here Today, Art Tomorrow," Creator,
spring 1983, pp. 6-7.
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Book and
Film Reviews
Valentin
Golovin. Russkaia kolybel'naia pesnia v fol'klore i
literature. To be published in the International
Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics.
Rena Jeanne
Hanchuk. The Word and Wax: A Medical Folk Ritual Among
Ukrainians in Alberta. To be published in Slavic and
East European Journal.
W.F. Ryan.
The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia. To be
published in Russian Review.
Faith
Wigzell. Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender,
and Divination in Russia from 1765. The Journal of
Modern History, Vol. 73, No. 1 (March 2001), pp.
Petr
Bogatyrev. Vampires in the Carpathians. Magical Acts,
Rites, and Beliefs in Subcarpathian Rus'. Trans. by
Stephen Reynolds and Patricia A. Krafcik. Slavic and East
European Journal, Vol. 43, No. 4 (winter, 1999), pp.
737-738.
Onchukov, N.
E. Zavetnye skazki iz sobraniia N. E. Onchukova,
Russian Review, Vol. 57. No. 4 (October, 1998), pp.
623-624.
Toporkov,
A., ed. Russkii eroticheskii fol'klor: Pesni, obriady i
obriadovoi fol'klor, narodnyi teatr, zagovory, zagadki,
chastushki, Russian Review, Vol. 57, No. 3 (July,
1998), pp. 464-465.
Ukrainian
Documentaries: Ukraine in the 1990's. Vol. 1:
Ukrainian Folk Celebrations and Vol. 4:
Kiev-Lviv-Chernivtsi (Rukh and Ecology), in
Russian Review, Vol 54, No. 4 (Oct. 1995), pp.
601-602.
Roberta
Reeder, Russian Folk Lyrics, Slavic Review
Vol. 52, No. 4 (winter 1993), pp. 865-866.
N. A.
Krinichnaia, Predaniia Russkogo Severa, Slavic and
East European Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4 (winter, 1992),
pp. 523 -524. .
Frank J.
Miller, Folklore for Stalin: Russian Folklore and
Pseudofolklore of the Stalin Era, Canadian Slavonic
Papers, Vol. 34, No. 2 (1992), pp. 397-398.
G. I.
Mal'tsev, Traditsionnye Formuly Russkoi Narodnoi
Liriki, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol.
36, No. 3 (fall, 1992), pp. 386-387.
Romana M.
Bahry, Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine,
Slavic and East European Journal, Vol 35, No. 3
(fall, 1991), pp. 450-452.
Neonila
Krinichnaia, Legendy, Predaniia, Byval'shchiny,
Slavic and East European Journal, Vol 35, No. 2
(summer, 1991), pp. 592-593.
Linda J.
Ivanits, Russian Folk Belief, Slavic and East
European Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1(spring 1990) pp.
127-128. Different review of the same book in Journal of
American Folklore, Vol. 104, No. 413 (summer, 1991), pp.
374-375.
Joanna
Hubbs, Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian
Culture, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol.
33, No.3 (fall, 1989), pp. 474-476.
John Miles
Foley, ed., Comparative Research on Oral Traditions: A
Memorial for Milman Parry, Slavic and East European
Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4 (winter, 1988)
pp.679-680.
Assya
Humesky et al., Elementary Ukrainian and Intermediate
Ukrainian: Ukrainian Individualized
Instruction, in Slavic and East European Journal,
Vol. 32, No. 1(spring, 1988) pp. 175-177.
D. V.
Sadovnikov, comp. Riddles of the Russian People: A
Collection of Riddles, Parables and Puzzles, Trans. and
intro. by Ann C. Bigelow, Slavic and East European
Journal, Vol 31, No. 3 (fall, 1987) pp. 430-431.
John Miles
Foley, Oral-Formulaic Theory and Research: An
Introduction and Annotated Bibliography in Journal of
American Folklore, Vol. 99, No. 393 (July-Sept. 1986),
p.364.
Egle
Victoria Zygas and Peter Voorheis, eds., Folklorica:
Festschrift for Felix J. Oinas, in Slavic and East
European Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2 (summer 1986),
pp.308-309.
Russell
Zguta, Russian Minstrels: A History of the Skomorokhi
in Journal of American Folklore, Vol 94, No. 371
(spring 1981) pp. 117-119.
Emil
Draitser, Nedozvolennyi Smekh: Anekdoty is SSSR and
its translation: Forbidden Laughter: Soviet Underground
Jokes, in Slavic and East European Journal, Vol.
24, No. 2 (summer 1980), pp. 185-186.
F. V.
Stebleva, Poetika Drevne-tiurskoi Literatury i ee
Transformatsiia v Ranne-klassicheskii Period in World
Literature Today, Vol. 52 (winter 1978), p 175.
A. Stolz and
Richard S. Shannon, eds., Oral Literature and the
Formula in World Literature Today, Vol. 51
(autumn 1977), p. 564.
K. Lebedeva,
Afganskaia Klassicheskaia Poeziia in Books
Abroad, Vol. Oct. 1976, p. 949.
A. A.
Babaev, Nazym Khimet: Zhizn' i tvorchestvo in
Books Abroad: An International Literary Quarterly,
Vol. 50 (Oct. 1976), p. 945
Narodna
tvorchist' ta etnohrafiia, in Recenzija, Vol. 1,
No. 2, 1971.
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Translation
Kamil
Toygar, "Folklore Scholarship in Turkey," Turkish Studies
Association Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 83-88.
Work in
Progress
Books:
Ritual and Family Life in Ukraine. A description and
analysis of Ukrainian wedding, funeral, and birth customs.
For preliminary results see: http://www.brama.com/art/wedding.html
and http://faculty.virginia.edu/kononenko.
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PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
National and
international level
President,
Slavic and East European Folklore Association
(1999-2001)
Co-editor
SEEFA (the publication of this association,
1999)
President,
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (1998-99)
Member,
Senior Scholars Committee (1999-2000)
Member,
Executive Board (1993-96, 99-)
Program
Committee (1993)
Local
Arrangements Committee (1976)
President,
American Association for Ukrainian Studies (1992-95)
Executive
Board (1991-95)
Nominating
Committee (1997)
Editorial
board of Slavic and East European Journal (1984-88,
97-)
Editorial
board of Narodna tvorchist' ta etnohrafiia (the
folklore journal of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences,
1998-)
President,
Slavic Section, American Folklore Society (1981-82)
Secretary/Treasurer
of same organization (1984-86)
President,
Virginia Folklore Society (1985-86)
Executive
Board (1974-90)
Tenure and
Promotion Review, Bucknell University, Bates College,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, University of Alabama,
Huntsville
Member,
Nominating Committee, Association of Women in Slavic Studies
(1990)
Member of
peer review panels for the National Endowment for the
Humanities and Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation grants,
faculty grants. Also served as referee for the same
organizations and for the Guggenheim Foundation.
Referee for
Slavic and East European Journal, Canadian
Slavonic Studies, Middle East Studies Journal,
Gypsylore, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, other
journals.
Referee,
International Research and Exchanges Board, Teaching
Assistants Program (1994)
Selection
Committee, IREX Russian Teaching Assistants Program
(1995)
Provided
briefings for International Research and Exchanges Board
Scholars departing for Ukraine (1988,89)
Member,
Advisory Board to the Virginia State Folklorist
(1988-89)
Non-Academic
Activities
Member of
the Editorial Board for the Libraries Unlimited World
Folklore Series (1996-)
Member of
the Board, Kompass Resources International, a Non-Government
Organization specializing in environmental and women's
issues that affect Russia and Ukraine (1993-96)
Consultant,
Ukrainian Museum, Cleveland, Ohio (2000-)
Professional
Activities on the University Level
Editorial
Board member, Mind and Human Interaction
(1993-)
Member,
University Assessment Program (studying the role of
distribution requirements in undergraduate education,
1997)
Executive
Council, Center for Russian and East European Studies
(1993-96)
Chair,
Laurie Lee Woolen Scholarship Committee (1990-)
Chair,
Committee on Student Affairs (1985-86)
Committee
member (1985-87)
Chair,
Faculty Senate Committee, New and Off-Grounds Programs
(1984-86)
Committee
member (1982-86)
Chair,
Committee on Faculty Rules (1981-84)
Committee
member (1980-84)
Chair,
Committee on Audio-Visual Instruction (1980)
Other
Committee Service
Rhodes
Scholars Committee (1978-98)
Interdepartmental
Language Instruction, Teaching Assistant Training Programs
(1976-97)
Department
Teaching Assistant Training (1993-96)
Workshop
head (1997-98)
Middle East
Studies Committee (1984-)
Foreign
Study Committee, International Students Committee (1981-85,
1993-97)
Summer
Session Advisory Committee (1993-96)
President's
Advisory Committee on Women's Concerns (1991-93)
Committee to
select new director of the Center for Russian and East
European Studies (1989, 93)
Committee to
select new chair of German Department (1990-91)
Committee to
select new Assistant Dean of Students (1987)
Teaching
Awards Committee (1986-87)
Athletic
Advisory Committee (1984-87)
Committee to
select the new Dean of the College (1985-86)
Selection
Committees for Jefferson Scholars (1979-81, 91)
Selection
Committees for Rodman Scholars (1987, 91)
Faculty
advisor to Center for Russian and East European Studies
Graduate Student Symposium
University
Accreditation
served on a
University-wide committee (1983-84) and prepared the Slavic
Department Self-Assessment report toward University
accreditation (1993-94)
University
and Community Service
Speaker,
Echols Scholars Orientation (1999)
Speaker,
first Parent/Faculty Forum (1979); Echols Parent/Faculty
orientation (1996)
Speaker for
student and university groups
Women's
Center
Jefferson
Literary and Debating Society
International
House
University
Union
Judge at
various student events, University Union talent shows
Jefferson
Society Oratorical Contest
Easter egg
workshops for
International
House
Russian
House
Slavic
Society
Piedmont
Community College
Center for
Russian and East European Studies
local
schools and churches
Workshops on
teaching theory and techniques for local elementary and
secondary school teachers, UVa Summer Enrichment Program,
UVa Northern Virginia extension
Ukrainian
folk art demonstrations in Richmond and locally
Radio shows,
television shows - local, national, Ukraine, and USSR
interviews
granted to newspapers, magazines - local, state, national,
USSR, Ukraine
Invited
Lectures
"Celebrating
Marriage, Birth, and Death: Contemporary Ritual in Ukraine,"
15th Ivan Franko Memorial Lecture, Ottawa, Canada, March,
2001
"Christmas
Traditions in Ukraine," Department of State training program
for diplomats, Washington, D.C., January, 2001
"Talking
Ritual/Practicing Ritual: Ukrainian Courtship and Wedding
Customs," Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute,
November, 1999.
"Contemporary
Village Weddings," 18th Annual Ukrainian Studies Symposium,
University of Illinois Summer Slavic Workshop, July,
1999.
"Contemporary
Ukrainian Ritual: Survival of Traditions/Revival of
Traditions," Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York City,
May, 1999.
"Women and
Witchcraft," Part of a series commemorating twenty-five
years of women at the University of Virginia, sponsored by
Women's Studies, October, 1995. This was the most popular
event sponsored by Women's Studies in the 1995-96 academic
year. In 1996, the lecture received nationwide media
coverage and the story was picked up by Associated
Press.
"Contemporary
Kobzari and Medieval Minstrelsy." Penn State Medieval
Conference, March, 1996. I was also responsible for bringing
the blind minstrel Pavlo Suprun from Ukraine and for
interpreting for him at his performances.
"Suffering
and Art: Religious Songs in Ukrainian Minstrelsy," Lecture
at the Library of Congress Ukrainian Table, April,
1995.
"Why the
Blind Should Sing: An Interview with Pavlo and Nadia
Suprun," Conference on the Peasantry in Eastern Europe,
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, April, 1992.
"Folklore
and Ukrainian Identity: Ukraine and the Diaspora,"
University of Illinois, Conference on Ukrainian Studies,
June, 1991.
"Blindness
and Talent: Becoming a Professional Performer in Traditional
Ukrainian Culture," Penn State University, April, 1991.
.
"Mermaids
and Matriarchy: Folklore and the Social Position of Soviet
Women," Bucknell University, April, 1991.
"The Image
of War in Contemporary Soviet Society," Virginia area
American Association of University Women annual meeting,
Norfolk, February, 1990.
Lectures on
a) Russian Folktale, b) Ukrainian Epic, and c) Performers of
Ukrainian Epic at the University of Wisconsin, Madison -
part of an NEH sponsored series - February, 1989.
"Kobzari
and Lirnyky, Performers of Ukrainian Epic," Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies, October, 1988.
"Family
Patterns in Ukrainian Dumy," First Huculak Lecture for the
University of Alberta, Edmonton, October, 1988
"The
Influence of Church Liturgy on Ukrainian Dumy," symposium on
The Millennium of the Christianization of Rus'/Ukraine,
University of Illinois, June, 1988.
"The Role of
Epic and its Performers in Nineteenth Century Ukrainian
Social Structure." Post-Byzantine
Heritage of Byzantium Symposium, University of Virginia,
April, 1988
"Blindness
and the Social Position of Ukrainian Minstrels," University
of Ottawa, March, 1988
"Ukrainian
Dumy: Performance and Scholarship," symposium on Ukraine in
the 1920's and 1930's, University of Illinois, June,
1987.
"Goddesses,
Ancient and Modern," lecture series to open the exhibit of
Slavic and East European Goddess Embroideries, Roberson
Gallery, Binghamton, New York, February, 1987.
"Our
Community and Beyond," session of the Women in Two Worlds
symposium sponsored by the Ukrainian Women's League,
Princeton, New Jersey, October, 1986.
"M.
Drahomanov as Folklorist," one in a series of lectures to
commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Kievan Academy,
Ukrainian Free Academy, New York, May, 1986. .
"Ukrainian
Folk Art -- Embroidery," part of the session on Ukrainian
Art and Culture sponsored by the Ukrainian Women's League,
Kerhonkson, New York, June, 1985.
"Food and
Food Behavior in the Ukrainian Proverbs Collected by Nomys,"
Centennial Celebration Lecture, Ukrainian Free Academy, New
York, November, 1984.
"Fertility
Goddesses, Neolithic and Modern," Symposium on Ukrainian
Culture, University of Illinois, June, 1984.
"Role of
Women in Russian Ritual," College of William and Mary,
September, 1981.
"Taslama and
the Learning Techniques of Two Contemporary Turkish
Minstrels," special symposium of young Middle East scholars,
University of California, Berkeley, May, 1980
"Ukrainian
Epic Traditions," University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
April, 1978.
"Ukrainian
Dumy, Epic or Ballad?" Sevchenko Scientific Society
Centennial lecture, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute,
1973.
Special
Lectures for Piedmont Virginia Community College
James
Madison University (Governor's School)
UVa Women's
Studies Program
UVa Center
for Russian and East European Studies
Miller
Center for Public Affairs
Lectures for
various Ukrainian groups, women's groups
PAPERS
DELIVERED AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
International
Conferences and Symposia
"The
Ethnographic Work of Porfirii Martynovych," conference on
Problems in Oral History Research, Cherkasy, Ukraine,
August, 1998.
"New
Perspectives on Ukrainian Minstrelsy," key-note speech for a
conference on Folklore and Oral Theory, Kiev, September,
1997.
"Epic and
Lament: On the Origin of Ukrainian Dumy," delivered at the
2nd International Congress for Ukrainian Studies, L'viv,
August, 1993.
"Work as
Symbol in Ukrainian Epic," First Congress of the
International Association of Ukrainianists, Kiev, Ukraine,
August-September, 1990.
"A
Structural Analysis of Turkish Minstrel Tales," Third
International Turkish Folklore Congress, Izmir, Turkey,
June, 1986.
"Psychological
Function of Epic," International Seminar on Folk Culture,
Orissa, India, December, 1978.
"Oral
Techniques in Yunus Emre's Poetry," Turk Dili Semineri
(Turkish Language Seminar), Konya, Turkey, 1977
"The
Techniques of Turkish Minstrelsy: Oral Composition Versus
Memorization," First International Turkish Folklore
Congress, Istanbul, June, 1975.
American
Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European
Languages
"Workshop on
Folklore and Teaching," 1999
"Workshop on
Heritage Speakers as Learners and Teachers of Russian,"
1998
"Workshop on
Field Methods," 1997
"Religious
Song and Ritual," 1995
"Ukrainian
Epic and Religious Song," 1993
"Contemporary
Ukrainian Folklore Scholarship," 1992
"Minstrel
Types and Performance Styles," 1991
"History and
Folklore: The Khmelnytskyi Cycle of Dumy," 1989
"Baida
Molodetskyi versus Baida Vyshnevetskyi: Ivan Franko on the
Historicity of Folklore Texts," 1988
"Bandura
Camps and Bandura Ensembles; Folklore and Ethnicity,"
1986
"Folklore
Elements in Nabokov's Lolita," 1984
"Rusalki and
other Russian Mythological Beings," 1981
"Fox Stories
and Other Russian Trickster Tales," 1978
"The Legend
of the Blind Bard," 1975
American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
"Written/Oral
Contrasts in Ukrainian Village Funerals," 2000.
"Ukrainian
Courtship Practices," 1999
"Honor Your
Parents C And Throw them in the Water: Contemporary
Ukrainian Wedding Ritual," 1998
"Witchcraft
Beliefs in Rural Ukraine," 1997
"Dictated
Text/Sung Text: The Learning Techniques of Ukrainian
Minstrels," 1996 C Special session in memory of Albert Bates
Lord.
"Lady,
Please Give Me a Polotentse: On the Magic of Cloth," 1995
"Women
Performers of Epic: Some Newly Discovered Archival Texts,"
1994
"Art as Just
Another Line of Work: on the Home Life of Ukrainian
Minstrels," 1993
"Duma pro
Chornobyl: Old Forms, New Topics," 1992
"Ukrainian
Folklore and Folklorists Today: Questions of Culture and
Identity," 1991
"Blindness
and Beliefs About Ukrainian Minstrels," 1990
"Church
Brotherhoods and Minstrel Guilds: The Influence of the
Cossack Revolution on Ukrainian Minstrelsy," 1989
"The
Perspective of the American Folklorist on Slavic Folklore,"
1988
"Folklore in
>Slovo o Polku Igoreve'," 1977
"Oral and
Written Literature" (Special conference on the Peasantry in
Eastern Europe) 1976
"Folktale
Patterns in Gogol's >Vii'," 1975
American
Folklore Society
"The
Folklorist and the Folk: The Case of Ostap
Veresai,"1989
"Blind
Performers of Ukrainian Epic and Their
Repertories,"1988
"The Russian
Tale of the Frog Princess, or Is the Female More Beastly
Than the Male?" 1986
"Goddess
Embroideries: Female Perception of the Female Form,"
1985
"Dirty
Elephant Jokes: Food, Sex, and Social Metaphor," 1984
"Russian
Devils, or Sneaky is Horrible," 1983
"Russian
Mermaids: Beliefs about Women and Water," 1982
"Spacey
Soviets: Russian and American Concepts of Space," 1981
"The Turkish
Dime Novel and the Transformation of Oral into Written
Literature," 1980
"Death in
Life: Women's Roles in Russian Ritual," 1979
"The Domovoi
and Other Russian Place Spirits," 1978
"Casey
Stengel and Turkish Oral Epic: An Experiment in Oral
Transmission," 1977
"Turkish
Minstrels and Minstrel Tale Heroes," 1972
Association
for the Study of Nationalities
"Soviet
Ritual/Post-Soviet Ritual and National Identity,"
2000
Middle East
Studies Association
"The
Function of Secondary Characters in Turkish Minstrel Tales,"
1986
Papers at
State and Regional Meetings
Demonstration
of Digicoll, Slavic Folklore Database SCSS (Southern
Conference on Slavic
Studies),
2001
"Songs about
Virginity and Out-of-Wedlock Birth," SCSS, 2000; also
conducted a workshop on
teaching
culture.
"Gender and
Aesthetics in Russian Folklore: The Erotic Folksong," SCSS,
1998
"Suspended
from a Meathook until Dead: the Role of Horror in Historical
Song," SCSS, 1995
Round table
on contemporary folklore scholarship in the NIS, SCSS,
1994
"Glasnost
and Perestroika: A View from the Republics (Ukraine)," SCSS,
1991
"Easter Egg
Symbolism," Foreign Language Association of Virginia,
1984
"Bettelheim's
Understanding of Folktales," Virginia Folklore Society,
1978.
TEACHING:
University of Virginia
Folklore
courses C graduate level
Slavic
Folktale: SLAV 511
Slavic Life
Cycle Ritual: SLAV 512
Slavic Epic:
SLAV 513
Calendary
Ritual and Material Culture: SLAV 514
Folklore
courses C undergraduate level
Tale and
Legend: SLFK 211
Ritual and
Family Life: SLFK 212
Epic and
Historical Narrative: SLFK 213
Ritual and
Demonology: SLFK 214
(The
undergraduate folklore courses were revised in 1991. They
are now cross-listed with Women's Studies and meet the
non-Western perspectives requirement. They are also
second/advanced writing requirement courses.)
Magic and
Meaning: SLFK 215 - new course (fall 2000) with a heavy
technology component
University
Topics special course on Russian popular culture: UTOPS
171
Russian
language courses C graduate level
Advanced
Russian Proficiency: RUSS 502
Methodology
of Teaching Russian: RUSS 507
Stylistics:
RUSS 565
Russian
language courses C undergraduate level
First Year
Russian: RUSS 101-102
I ran our
first year program for 12 years, from 1974-86. Under my
leadership the course grew from 30 students to 150. I also
ran and trained the teaching assistant staff for Russian
language, which grew progressively during my tenure.
Fourth Year
Russian: RUSS 401-402
Language
Through Literature: RUSS 451-452
Summer
Language Institute: intensive elementary Russian (1980,
81)
Other
language courses
Turkish:
TURK 521-522 (1985-86)
independent
studies in Turkish and Ukrainian
Harvard
University
Folklore and
Mythology: HUM 9
courses in
Russian language; folklore and mythology tutorials
Doctoral
Dissertations Supervised
Madhu
Malik
Jeannette
Lacoss
Philippa
Rappoport
Anne Marie
Ingram
currently
supervising Christopher Rahe
Masters
Theses Supervised
Rachel E.
Mann (Saury)
Melissa L.
Stone
Boris
Vainer
Melissa
Hawk
Samantha
Sturmer
Anne Marie
Ingram
Robert
Wade
various
undergraduate theses
Doctoral
Dissertation Committees
Rachel Mann
(Saury)
Dennis
Browne
Lauren
Bennett
Bruce
McClelland
Jill
Lasser
Mark
Havill
Rebecca
Bowman
Michael
White
Viktoria
Sevastianova
Thomas
Cushman (Sociology)
Yuri
Holowinsky (History)
Sara James
(French)
Inna
Golovakha (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev)
Daria Nebesh
(University of Maryland at Baltimore)
Masters
Thesis Committees
Matthew
Hammons
Undergraduate
Advising
Advisor to
Echols Scholars, students in the top 2% of their class who
receive special advising
and are
allowed to complete special, accelerated programs
(1980-)
Faculty
Associate, Page-Emmet Association (1992-94)
Head of
Departmental Advising for Undergraduate Majors
(1974-80)
Scholarship
Advisor, Alpha Phi Sorority (1983-85)
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