Congratulations Dr. Angela Brintlinger on this astounding achievement! Thank you for your years of service and your continued dedication to the students, faculty, and all friends and colleagues of the Department.

See the letter of announcement and congratulations from Dr. Dan Collins below!

Dear Colleagues:

I am writing with great joy to announce that our chair, Angela Brintlinger, has been awarded the title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor.  This high distinction honors professors who have excelled in teaching, service, and research and whose work has demonstrated significant impact on their fields, students, college, university, and public. 

Angela has earned an international reputation as an expert on Russian literature of the 18th–21st centuries.  The depth and range of her scholarship are awe-inspiring.  A prolific scholar, she has (at last count) three monographs (four, counting a Russian edition); two annotated translations; three coedited collections of articles; 44 journal articles; 49 book reviews, and numerous other publications and works in progress.  She has given public lectures in Moscow, Warsaw, Helsinki, Rome, Belgrade, and numerous U.S. institutions, as well as a whole host of conference presentations.  She has been honored with the A. S. Pushkin Medal “To the Advocate of Education” by the Academy of Russian Literature in Moscow and has served as Fulbright Distinguished Chair of East European Studies and scholar-in-residence of the Collegium Artes Liberales of Warsaw University.

Angela has been, for many years, a mainstay of the department’s curriculum at all levels. Her evaluations show her to be an excellent teacher, and our students place a high value on her rigorous and yet compassionate advising.

Angela has a long and substantial record of service to the Department, the University, the profession, and local communities.  Her leadership in the department began as a third-year assistant professor, when she became Chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee and Director of Undergraduate Studies.  Over the years, she has been USC Chair for four terms, GSC Chair for six terms, and has led search committees and a departmental self-study.  She continues to be Director of the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.  In the College, Graduate School, and University, she has served on numerous committees and task forces, including, the Ohio State Humanities Institute Working Group on the Future of the University, the Career Services Task Force, the ASC Curriculum Committee, the Fulbright Committee, and the Arts and Sciences Senate.

Angela has made significant contribution to the field at large.  She has organized conferences, panels, workshops, and roundtables, and has served as discussants for numerous panels at national and international conferences.  She has been an elected officer in the North American Pushkin Society (president); Association for Women in Slavic Studies (executive board); and American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (vice-president).  She received a U.S. Department of State Grant to establish the Serbian Educational Alliance (SEA) with University of Belgrade.

Angela has been generous and public in creating educational opportunities for local communities.  She designed and implemented a lecture series “Local Knowledge,” with grants from the Ohio Humanities Council and the Yellow Springs Community Foundation).  For many years, she has been deeply engaged with her local community—organizing educational opportunities, leading book groups, giving talks in high schools, and blogging.   Indeed, it was a talk in a local high school that planted the seed for her most recent book, Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature.

Angela is an extraordinary and magnanimous scholar, teacher, and public servant.  It is a privilege to have her as a colleague, and I congratulate her with all my heart on being named Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor.