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CURRICULUM VITAE

NATALIE O. KONONENKO

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

2224 Greenbrier Drive

Cabell Hall 109

Charlottesville, VA 22901

University of Virginia

804-978-1942

Charlottesville, VA 22903

804-924-3554 or 924-3548; fax: 804-982-2744

E-mail: nkm@virginia.edu

 

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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