Lina Bernstein
Professional Biography
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Russian Language and Literature-Franklin & Marshall College 1991-
Instructor in Russian Language and Literature-Mount Holyoke College 1986-1991
Instructor in Russian-Amherst College 1988-1989
Teaching Associate-University of Massachusetts 1985-1989
Instructor in Russian-Middlebury College Summer Language School 1984-1989
Graduate Teaching Assistant-University of California, Berkeley 1983-1984
Instructor in Russian-The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies 1982-1983
Instructor in Russian-University of Maryland 1983
Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literature-University of Massachusetts 1991
Graduate School, Slavic Linguistics-University of California, Berkeley 1983-1984
Diploma in Foreign Language Pedagogy, Concentration in English and German-Moscow (U.S.S.R.) Institute of Foreign Languages 1972
Grants & Awards
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Woodrow Wilson Institute, Kennan Institute Research Grant |
2003 |
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Franklin & Marshall College Summer Faculty Grant |
2003 |
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The Harvard Davis Russian Center |
1999 |
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The Harriman Institute, Columbia University |
1997-1998 |
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National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: Gender and Identity in Russian Literature and Culture |
1996 |
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International Research & Exchange Board (IREX) Research Grant |
1995 |
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American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) Research Grant |
1994 |
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Franklin & Marshall College Summer Faculty Grant |
1993 |
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Mount Holyoke College Summer Faculty Grant |
1990 |
Publications
“ (German Romanticism, Ukrainian Style), to appear in the proceedings of the international conference Время Гоголя – Двести Лет Назад и Сегодня , dedicated to the bicentennial of Nikolai Gogol’s birth, Iagellonsky University, Cracow, Poland
“Russian Eighteenth-Century Popular Enlightenment Literature on Commerce,” to appear in Space of the Book, ed. Miranda Remnek, University of Toronto Press, 2010
“Russian Eighteenth-Century Merchant Portraits in Words and in Oil,” Slavic and East European Journal, vol.49, no. 3, 2005.
“Merchant ‘Correspondence’ and Russian Letter-Writing Manuals:
Petr Ivanovich Bogdanovich and His Pis’movnik for Merchants.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 46, no. 4, 2002
“The First Published Russian Letter-Writing Manual: Priklady kako pishutsia komplimenty raznye.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 46, no. 1, 2002
“Avdot’ia Petrovna Elagina and her Contribution to Russian Letters,” in Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 40, no. 2, summer 1996
“Women on the Verge of a New Language: Russian Literary Salons and their Hostesses in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century,” in Russia*Women*Culture, ed. Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren, Indiana University Press, 1996
Gogol’s Last Book, Birmingham Slavonic Monographs No. 24, 1994
BOOK REVIEWS
Lives in Letters: Princess Zinaida Volkonskaia and her Correspondence by Bayara Aroutunova, reviewed in Slavic and East European Journal, Fall 1995, vol. 39, no. 3
Kozma Prutkov. Fantasy, A Comedy in One Act. Translated from Russian and edited by Michael Green, Jerome Katsell, Stanislav Shvabrin. Mikastas Press. Del Mar--El Morro Village. 1999, reviewed in Slavic and East European Journal, Fall 2003, vol. 47, no. 3.
Richard Stites. Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power. Yale University Press, 2005. Reviewed in Slavic and East European Journal, Winter 2006, vol. 50, no. 4.
Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism by Edyta M. Bojanowska. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007, reviewed in Slavic Review. Summer 2009, vol. 68, no. 2.
David L. Ransel, A Russian Merchant's Tale: The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov, Based on his Diary. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2009. 320 pp., forthcoming in Biography.
Presentations
CONFERENCE PAPERS
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“Немецкий романтизм на малороссийский лад: ‘иностранный язык’ Гоголя”, Cracow, Poland |
April, 2009 |
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“Russian Eighteenth-Century Popular Enlightenment Literature on Commerce,” Conference on Print Culture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il |
June, 2006 |
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“Merchants in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Imagination,” AATSEEL Convention, Toronto, Ontario |
November 2003 |
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“Petr Ivanovich Bogdanovich and His Pis’movnik for Merchants,” AATSEEL Convention, Pittsburg, PA |
November, 2002 |
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“The First Published Russian Letter-Writing Manual: Priklady kako pishutsia komplimenty raznye,” AATSEEL Convention, New Orleans, LA |
December, 2001 |
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“Russian Letter-Writing Manuals of the Late Eighteenth Century,” AAASS Convention, Arlington, VA |
November, 2001 |
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“Private and Public Personas: Negotiating the Mommy Track in the Age of Nicholas I,”AAASS Convention, Seattle |
November, 1997 |
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“Letters of A. P. Elagina,” AAASS Convention, Philadelphia |
November, 1994 |
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“Russian Salon Culture in the 1820s and the Salon Hostess A. P. Elagina,” AAASS Convention, Honolulu |
November, 1993 |
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“The End of the Holy City: The Prose of Alexander Kabakov,” Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus |
May, 1992 |
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“Gogol’s Testament: A Key to Selected Passages,”AATSEEL Convention, San Francisco |
December, 1991 |
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“Evenings on the Farm Near Dikanka: The Architecture of Reflection,” AATSEEL Convention, Chicago (Panel on “The Fantastic and Supernatural in Russian Literature”) |
December, 1990 |
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“Tiutchev and the Poetry of German Romanticism,” Midwest Slavic Conference, Urbana |
March, 1990 |
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“Soviet Students and Soviet Education,” National Association of Foreign Student Administrators Regional Conference, Springfield, Massachusetts |
October, 1989 |
ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED PANELS
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“Claimants to Royalty and Traveling Royals, 1610—1800,” AAASS Convention, Boston, Chair |
December 2004 |
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Eighteenth century Russian culture, the AATSEEL Annual Convention, New York, N.Y. Chair |
December, 2002 |
| Sentiment and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia, the AAASS Annual Convention in Pittsburg, Organizer and presenter |
November, 2002 |
| Russian Jewish Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century, the AAASS Annual Convention in St.-Louis. Chair |
November, 1999 |
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Maternity Reconfigured:Russian Women Writers and their Literary Progeny, AAASS Convention, Seattle. Organizer and presenter |
November, 1997 |
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Poetics of Adaptation: Literary Icons in the Search for Self-Definition, AAASS Convention, Boston. Chair |
November, 1996 |
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Russian Catholics in the Nineteenth Century: Unpublished Sources, AAASS Convention, Washington, D.C. Organizer and Chair |
October, 1995 |
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Russian Contrarians Abroad, AAASS Convention, Philadelphia. Organizer and Chair |
November, 1994 |
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Women’s Texts, AAASS Convention, Philadelphia. Organizer and presenter |
November, 1994 |
INVITED TALKS
“Selected Passages from the Letters of Avdot’ia Petrovna Elagina,” Five College Slavic Seminar, Mount Holyoke College, March, 1995
“Instruction in Letter Writing as a Tool in Peter’s Linguistic and Social Reforms,” Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, October, 2001.
Course Information
COURSES TAUGHT
The Russian novel from Pushkin to Tolstoy (in English)
Russian literature in the Soviet period (in English)
Literature and politics in Soviet Russia (in English)
Russia: Twentieth Century in Print and Film
The Novel, The World: European Novel
The heroine in Russian literature (in English)
Foundations course: Narrative and the Creation of Self
The world of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (First Year Seminar)
Utopias and Revolutions (First Year Seminar)
Tragic, Fantastic and Hilarious Russian Short Stories (First Year Seminar)
Reading Dangerously: Women in Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Chekhov
Introduction to literary texts (in Russian)
Russian Short Story (in Russian)
Russian stylistics
Russian language (first through fourth years)
The language of politics (intermediate through advanced)
