Dr. Angela Brintlinger was appointed director of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies on January 1, 2019. Her work with the Center, its MA students, and its many outreach programs keeps her busy, but she continues to publish, lecture, and teach. This autumn she traveled to the Minneapolis Museum of Russian Art, Bryn Mawr College, and New York University for events related to her two recent books. In Minneapolis and at
Bryn Mawr, Dr. Brintlinger read from the book Russian Cuisine in Exile a set of essays by Pyotr Vail and Alexander Genis, which she translated into English along with Ohio State graduate Thomas Feerick. Her talk at NYU's Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia was entitled "Kvas Patriotism in Russia: Cultural Problems, Cultural Myths." That new research emerged from her Ohio State course "History of Russian Food and Cuisine" as well as her 2019 book Seasoned Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life (co-edited with Anastasia Lakhtikova and Irina Glushchenko). Seasoned Socialism focuses on the power of food during the Soviet period, examining the production and consumption of food from various disciplinary perspectives. Brintlinger was also appointed to the Advisory Council of the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs at John Cabot University and traveled to New York for its annual board meeting in November. In her last year as a Vice President of AATSEEL, Brintlinger has also begun a three-year term as the AATSEEL liaison to the ASEEES board.
Dr. Daniel E. Collins has been appointed Secretary-Treasurer of the American Committee of Slavists, the organization that organizes the U.S. delegation to the International Congress of Slavists. In the past year, he published “The Phonology of Slavic,” a 124-page chapter in the Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, just published by de Gruyter (Berlin). He is currently working on the chapter on “Old East Slavic” for the second edition of The Slavonic Languages, to be published by Routledge. He recently gave a public lecture on “The Prague Spring and its Aftermath” at the Bexley, Ohio Public Library.
Dr. Philip Gleissner was the winner of Princeton's Center for Digital Humanities' Dissertation Prize for his work "Through Thick and Thin: The Social Life of Journals Under Late Socialism." The prize recognizes exceptional doctoral work with a digital humanities component. He also received a Collaborative Faculty Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences Larger Grants Program for his symposium Red Migrations: Marxism and Transnational Mobility after 1917 (April 24-25, 2020).
Dr. Helena Goscilo edited and organized the cluster The Allure of Retro: Neoacademism after the Fall, Russian Review, Vol. 78, No. 2 (April 19, 2019): 183-271.
Dr. Goscilo recently published:
- “Problems of Taxonomy, Issues of Class, Citizenship, Consumption, and Avdot’ia Smirnova’s KoKoKo (2012),” Slavonica 2017. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13617427.2017.1376799?needAccess=true
- “Maslov and Kuznetsov: Camping and Revamping Classical Scenarios,” Russian Review, Vol. 78, No. 2 (April 19, 2019): 245-71
- “Yearning for a Soul: The Little Mermaid in Graphics” in Hans Christian Andersen and Russia, eds. Marina Balina et al. Odense: U of Southern Denmark P, 2019, 393-431
- “The Danish Little Mermaid vs. the Russian Rusalka: Screen Choices” in Hans Christian Andersen and Russia, eds. Marina Balina et al. Odense: U of Southern Denmark Press, 2019, 323-44
- “MERMAID/Rusalka,” The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader 2005-2016, ed. Rimgaila Salys (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019). 89-113
- “Stacking National Identity: The Lucrative Legacy of the Matreshka,” EXPERIMENT, 25.1 (2019): 227-43
- “Between the Gangster and the Country Gentleman: Male Fashion during the Volatile 1990s,” New Russian Masculinities issue of Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion (2019): 35-56
Dr. Yana Hashamova published the chapter “Mothers in Balkan Film” (Everyday Life in the Balkans. Ed. David Montgomery. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019) and has another one forthcoming “In Between and Beyond: Diaspora Writers and Readers” (Bulgarian Literature as World Literature. Eds. Mihaela Harper and Dimitar Kambourov. London: Bloomsbury). Serving on a 5-member leadership team of the Ohio State Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme’s focus area, Im/mobility, she advanced the research and teaching of faculty and graduate students across campus on the topic of migration, mobility, and immobility and co-organized The Moving Subjects Week at OSU, a public-facing week of events (research presentations, community collaborations, performances, blogs, podcasts, and video casts), which reached over 800 students, faculty, and community members. This summer, she gave five workshops based on her book, Screening Trafficking: Prudent and Perilous, at NGOs in Bulgaria, as well as several other talks. Currently, she is working (with Oana Popescu-Sandu and Sunnie Rucker-Chang) on a co-edited volume, Migrants and Refugees to, through, and from the Balkans: Identity, Alterity, and Culture (contracted with Liverpool University Press).
Dr. Ludmila Isurin was promoted to the rank of full professor at the end of the summer of 2018. In 2019, Dr. Isurin published “The savings effect: In search for memory traces of a forgotten language”. In J. Schwieter (Ed.). The handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism (pp.147-169). Wiley-Blackwell. Dr. Isurin was the recipient of a research grant from the Mershon Center for International Studies in 2018. Over the 2018-19 academic year, Dr. Isurin presented once at the 2018 Psychonomics Society Conference and twice at the 2019 SARMAC (Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition) conference.
Dr. Brian D. Joseph was a visiting professor at the University of Graz in May 2019, offering an intensive two-week course on Balkan linguistics. More recently, he spent three weeks in China in October and November giving ten lectures on a variety of topics in historical linguistics, including two on the history of Greek. He has spent 2019 serving as the President of the Linguistic Society of America.
In April 2019, Dr. Joseph was presented with a festschrift in his honor, And thus you are everywhere honored: Studies dedicated to Brian D. Joseph, edited by alumnus Josh Pennington (PhD 2011), and colleagues Victor Friedman and Lenore Grenoble. Drs. Andrea Sims and Dan Collins organized the surprise presentation of the volume, which preceded the annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture (given by Panos Pappas, one of Brian's former advisees) and was attended by Brian's colleagues and students from across the university.
Dr. Alisa Lin received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her book project Theatrical Consciousness: Actor and Self in Russian Modernism.
Dr. Lin’s translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s That Third Guy: A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) has been shortlisted for the 2019 AATSEEL Prize for Best Scholarly Translation.
One of Dr. Lin’s students, Matthew Walker, won the Ellen Pifer Prize for best undergraduate essay of 2018 from the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. Matthew wrote the paper, “‘Being Aware of Being Aware of Being’: Nabokov’s Invitation to the Beyond,” for Dr. Lin’s Russian 5250.04: Nabokov course.
Dr. Alisa Lin was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, supporting her work on the book Theatrical Consciousness: Actor and Self in Russian Modernism, 1898-1934.
Dr. Andrea Sims was invited to be a Visiting Scholar for a month at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7) & CNRS in June 2019, where she delivered a four-part seminar series "Systems-oriented morphology", developed new research collaborations, and consulted on graduate student research.
Earlier this spring, Andrea Sims published a paper, “When the default is exceptional: Word stress in Modern Greek nouns" in a festschrift in Brian Joseph's honor, And thus you are everywhere honored (2019, Slavica), and gave eight research presentations at conferences. These included presentations with SEELC alumna Michelle McKenzie (B.A. 2019) at the Midwest Slavic Conference and the American International Morphology Meeting, as well as a Midwest Slavic Conference presentation with several undergraduate co-authors, based on a course project for her Slavic 4597 (Politics of Language in Southeast Europe) class. She also joined forces with SEELC alumni Jeff Parker (PhD 2016) and Rob Reynolds (M.A. 2011) for a paper at the American International Morphology Meeting.
Dr. Sims has been awarded a subgrant as part of the CSEEES's Serbian Educational Alliance Grant, in order to pilot a project on the organization of Serbian inflectional morphological structure, in collaboration with Dušica Filipović Đurđević (University of Belgrade).
Dr. Larysa Stepanova was the recipient of a 2019 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award and was recognized by the Sphinx Senior Class Honorary and Mortar Board Senior Honor Society for her genuine interest in the educational development of students and for serving and inspiring students.
