Tatiana Osipovich - Associate Professor of Russian

Foreign Languages, Campus Box 30	Phone: (503) 768-7442
325 Miller Center	email: tatiana@lclark.edu

My office hours this semester are: Mon/Wed: 11:30-12:30 and Tue/Thu: 3:30-4:30 & by appointment

2010 SPRING COURSES

RUSSIAN 102

RUSSIAN 420

On-line language learning:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Only4Russian,

grammar, vocabulary, translation tool.

RUSSIAN 230: INTRO INTO RUSSIAN LITERATURE

RUSSIAN 290: RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES

RUSSIAN 290: LAUGHTER IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE & FILM

Some useful web sites I recommend for my students:

Best Russian websites

Russian-Speaking Communities in Portland

News from Russia:

http://www.russiatoday.com/en

http://www.gazeta.ru/

Some great sources of information about Russia and everything Russian are placed on the LC Russian Club web site: http://www.lclark.edu/~russkie/ (links).

I was born and grew up in Arkhangelsk, Russia. In 1979 I emigrated to the USA, and in 1989 I received a Ph.D. in Russian Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. Before coming to Lewis & Clark in 1990, I taught Russian at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and the Russian Summer School at Norwich University, Vermont. At Lewis & Clark I teach Russian language and literature, as well as some general education and gender studies courses. In 2003, I received a Fulbright teaching award to develop and teach a course on women in Russian literature and culture at the Nevsky Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. My earlier academic research topic focused on gender issues in Revolutionary Russia (you can read some of my publication at the Russian Virtual Library: http://ecsocman.edu.ru/db/msg/108917.html and at: http://www.a-z.ru/women_cd1/html/preobrazh_2_1994_b.htm

Today I continue to research gender issues in Russian literature and culture. Among my recent publications are the following articles:

"She Was Not a Woman": Zinaida Gippius and the Problem of Sexual Difference in Fin-de-Siecle Russian Culture," Adam and Eve: Gender Studies Almanac, Academy of Social Sciences, Moscow, 2006.

“Russian Mail Order Brides in US Public Discourse: Sex, Crime And Cultural Stereotypes,” Sexuality and Gender in Post-communist East Europe and Russia, Naworth Press, 2005. Read about the book here and about my contribution here.

“The ‘New Woman’ in Early Soviet Fiction: Bolshevik Ideology and Popular Mythology,” Between Wars: Nations, Nationalism, and Gender Relations in Central and Eastern Europe 1918-1939. Fibre-Verlag, Germany, 2004.

“In Search of ‘the Third Sex’: New Women and Homosexual Men in Fin-de-Siecle Russian Literary Culture,” Eros and Logos in Modern Culture, Moscow, 2003.