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MALYNNE M. STERNSTEIN, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and The College

University of Chicago

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

University of Chicago

Foster Hall, 404

1130 East 59th Street

Chicago, Illinois 60637

Departmental phone: (773) 702-8033

Office phone: (773) 834-0894

Electronic mail:

MAJOR FIELDS

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Avant-Garde and “Retro or Neo-Avant-Garde” Studies;

Central European Studies; Czech Literature and Culture; Russian Literature and Culture;

Literary, Psychoanalytic and Cultural Theory; MediaStudies; Psychoanalytic and Marxist Theory;

Central European Film; Horror Film; Film Theory

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DEGREES AND EDUCATION

Professional Facets Summer Film Institute. June, 2014.

Development

Ph.D.University of Chicago. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spring 1996.

Dissertation: Purposing the Liberated Word: Czech Poetism and Russian Cubo-Futurism.

Defended with Distinction.

M.A.University of Chicago. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spring1991.

With Distinction.

B.A.University of Chicago. Russian Language and Literature. June 1987.

Thesis: The Lyrics of Velimir Xlebnikov. Includes original translations.

Graduated with Honors.

CertificateMasarykova univerzita , Brno, Czechoslovakia. Fifth course in Czech Language and

Literature, Summer 1991.

CertificateIndiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Intensive advanced Russian.

Certificate of fluency, Summer 1988.

CertificateLeningrad State University, Leningrad, U.S.S.R. Intensive course in Russian Language. C.I.E.E., Bryn Mawr University, Summer 1986.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS

Director, Master of the Arts Program in the Humanities, appointed for July, 2015;
Chair, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, New Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, appointed July 1, 2014;
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and The College, University of Chicago, 2004-present;
Associate Faculty, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, by departmental acclamation, November 2013-present;
Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2007-2010.
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and The College, University of Chicago, 1996 to 2004;
Interdisciplinary Studies on East and Central Europe, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, 2002-present;
Faculty, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, University of Chicago, 2008-present (by invitation);
Affiliate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago. 2000-present (by invitation);
Resource Faculty, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago. 2002-2013;
Resource Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2002-present;
Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1998-99;

Lecturer, Czech literature, 1996;
Lecturer, Czech language, first and second-year courses, 1993-96;
Lecturer, Russian language, 1990-93;
Teaching Assistant, Russian language, 1989;

Freelance Czech and Russian-language translation and tutoring, 1993-present.

COURSES

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The Modern Central European Novel

Slavoj Zizek and the Slovenian Lacanian

School of Critical Theory

Milan Kundera

Kitsch

Slavic Critical Theory: From Jakobson to

Zizek

Vladimir Nabokov

Czech Literature I: Origins to 18th century

Czech Literature II: 19th century

Czech Literature III: 20th Century

The East/Central European Avant-Garde Kafka in Prague

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor

The Czech Avant-Garde

The Slavic Vampire

Bohumil Hrabal

Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina

Antonin Artaud

Contemporary Czech Literature

Contemporary East-European Novel

Václav Havel

Jan Švankmajer

Surrealism

Czech Surrealism

Advanced Czech—Czech 303

The Philosophy of Architecture

Psychopathology in Russian Literature

Fin-de-siècle Czech Literature

Medieval Czech Literature

Lewis Carroll’s Alice

Russian Modernist & Post-Modernist

Prose

Nationalism and National Identity in East

and Central Europe

Theory of Circus and Performance

Elementary and Intermediate Czech

Elementary Russian

Human Being and Citizen I and III

Readings in World Literature, I, II and III

Interdisciplinary Studies in Slavic

Proseminar Survey: Words and Things

Karel Čapek and the Idea of Modernity

Dubravka Ugresic and the Sense of

Collecting

Hegel’s Others

Cult of Personality: Hitler, Stalin, Mao

Ostalgie: Longing for the Soviet Past

Kafka’s Diaries

Czech New Wave Cinema

Flaubert’s Major Novels (Reading Course)

Critical Methodologies: Adorno to Zizek

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Psychopathology in Russian LiteratureNabokov’s The Gift

Nabokov as Self-Translator

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Advanced Czech III

Žižek on Film

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The Erotic Surreal

Intermediate Czech

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Gogol’ Dada(s)

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LANGUAGES

Czech; Russian; German; French; Thai (Native); English (Native)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Independent Research, University of Chicago, Archive of the Czechs and Slovaks in America
Independent Research, Chicago History Museum, spring 2014
Independent Research, Newberry Library
Independent Research, University of Pennsylvania (Art Library), Philadelphia, March, 2010
Independent Research, Harvard University and Brandeis University, Boston. May, 2009
Independent Research, Chicago Public Library, Neighborhood History Research Collection, Lawndale-Crawford Community Collection; Toman Branch Library Collection, Masaryk Collection, West Chicago Collection, June-August, 2007
Independent Research, St. Procopius Church and Parish; Czech immigrants to Chicago, June 2007 Funded by Humanities Division Research Funds awarded, June, 2007
Independent Research, ACASA (Czech Émigré Holdings in the University of Chicago), June, 2007 Funded by Humanities Division Research Funds awarded, June, 2007
Independent Research, Muzeum výtvarýnch umni, Prague, December 2003
Independent Research, Municipal Museum of Prague. December, 2002
Independent Research, Museum of Modern Art. Russian Avant-Garde Book. New York, May 2002
Independent Research, Ubu Gallery. Sexuality and Surrealism. New York, May 2002 (honorarium)
Independent Research, Muzeum vtvarnych umění. Prague, May 2001;
Independent Research, British Library and British Museum. London. Funded by the Neubauer award. Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago. August 2000.
Independent Research, Eirieagal Arts festival, Republic of Ireland. Funded by the Neubauer award. Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago. July 2000
Independent Research, Ubu Gallery (Frantisek Vobecký in the context of Czech surrealism). New York, NY. January-August 2000
Independent Research, Prague and Paris. Funded by a Junior Faculty Research Fellowship. Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago. Summer 1999
Summer Research Laboratory, Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. June 1999
Independent Research, Prague, 1997
Karlova univerzita (Charles University), Prague, Czech Republic. ACCELS Advanced Dissertation Research, Philosophical faculty. March-August, 1993

AWARDS & HONORS

Franke Institute for the Humanities Fellowship for the event “The Czech New Wave: Proximity, Historicity, Automaticity,” April 2016;
France Chicago Center Co-sponsorship for the conference Contemporary Horrors, April, 2014;
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Co-Sponsorship for the conference Contemporary Horrors, April, 2014;
Humanities Visiting Committee Research Grant, awarded November 2013;
Center for Disciplinary Innovation Grant, awarded January 2013;
Franke Institute for the Humanities Fellowship for conference “Contemporary Horrors,” awarded winter 2012, for April 2014 conference;
Honored Faculty, Phi Beta Kappa induction, June 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014;
Invited Faculty, Senior Class Gift Award Ceremony, May 2012;
Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Humanities. June, 2009;
Honored Faculty, Sorority Scholarship Tea, May, 2007;
President’s Council on Teaching, University of Chicago. Appointed, May 2004.
Neubauer Award for Innovative Teaching and Research, University of Chicago, May 2000
Franke Institute for the Humanities. University of Chicago. In-Residence Research Fellowship, 1998-1999
Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago. Summer 1999
Associate-ship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Summer Research Laboratory. 1999
Nominee, Award for Faculty Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 1997-98
Nominee, Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1997-98; 2007-8
Chicago Humanities Institute Grant (awarded for Slavic Forum Conference) 1997
Honors. Purposing the Liberated Word: Czech Poetism and Russian Cubo-Futurism, 1996
Title IX Fellowship, 1992 and 1995
Dissertation Research Fellowship, American Council for Collaboration in Education and Language Study (ACCELS), Charles University, Prague, 1993
University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowships, 1987-1991
ACTR Program Grant. Masaryk University/Bryn Mawr University, Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1991
Social Sciences Research Council Grant, 1988

• George V. Bobrinskoj Award for Excellence in the study of Russian Literature, awarded June 1987

U.S. Government Educational Grant for Study Abroad, 1986
Dean’s List, University of Chicago. 1983-87

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Czechs of Chicagoland. Chicago: Arcadia Press, 2008.
The Will to Chance. Necessity and Arbitrariness in the Czech Avant-Garde from Poetism to Surrealism. Slavica Press, Indiana University, 2007.

Articles, reviews, and other:

“Why they painted themselves.” For The Object and the Avant-Garde, Rodopi Press, forthcoming.
"Sweet and Tender Hooligan,"ARTMargins, forthcoming
“Laughter, Gesture, and Flesh,” Short Story Criticism, Gale, 2014
Review forARTMarginsofFashion East, 28 May 2013 (
Bomb magazine: Interview with Industry of the Ordinary (Mat Wilson and Adam Brooks), forthcoming.
“Pussy Riot's hooliganism explained. Q&A: A historic look at hooliganism.” August 17, 2012

Czech Poetry. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Book Review, Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek, The Literary Review (UK), forthcoming.
Book Review. Kafka’s Office Writings. Modernism/Modernity. Forthcoming.
“Christ’s Trial of NATO. The Palimpsests of Prague’s Stations of the Cross.” In The Effect of Palimpsests, Munich: Peter Lang, 2011.
“This Impossible Toyen.” In The Popular Avant-Garde, ed. Renee Silverman, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2010.
‘Holes in the Brain’. Bohumil Hrabal and a Gnosis of the Real.” In Festschrift for Michael Henry Heim, December, 2008;
Book Review, A Hrabal Symposium. For Slavic and East European Journal. Spring volume, 2009;
Jaroslav Seifert. In Encyclopedia of Nobel Prize Recipients. Summer, 2007;
“Ecstatic Subjects.” In The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde, 1905-1940. Eds. Sascha Bru and Günther Martens. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006;

“Kafka’s Sympathetic Irony.” In Politics, Imagination and the Individual: Essays in Honor of Paul Friedrich.

Lincom Studies in Anthropology. Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2006, pp. 292-307;

“Morpheus Ascending: Vítězslav Nezval’s Decalcomania.” Russian Literature, May 2004;

“Laughter, Gesture and The Flesh: Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony’.” Modernism/Modernity. Vol. 8, no. 2. April 2001;
“Thailand/Siam Life Writing.” (With Nongpoth Sternstein.) In Encyclopedia of Life Writing. (London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001);
“Sensuous Iconicity: The Manifestoes and Tactics of Czech Poetism.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Special Interarts Issue, (Vol. 2. June, 1998);
“Poem-Objects and Poem-Events: Word as Thing in the Russian Avant-Garde.” Foreign Language Review, (Vol. 1, May 1997);
Introductory essay, Czech Literature in Transition. Brown Slavic Contributions Special Issue. (Providence: Brown UP, Vol. XIII, May 2000);
Book Review, Ukrainian Futurism. For Modernism/Modernity. September 1999;
“Milan Kundera.” Collier’s Encyclopedia, revised edition, 1998 on CD-Rom;
“Czech Literature.” Collier’s Encyclopedia, revised edition, 1998 on CD-Rom;
Index to Friedrich, Paul. Music in Russian Poetry (with J. Pontius). Peter Lang, 1998;
Translation of Reznícek, “Animals” (with J. Pontius). In Daylight in Nightclub Inferno: Czech Literature from the Post-Kundera Generation. New Haven: Catbird Press, 1997;
Translation of selected poetry of Velimir Xlebnikov, Mutatis Mutandis 1 (1995): 50-55. (Used in the course “Russian Literature III: 20th-century Russian Literature” at the University of Chicago, 1996-1999)

WORK IN PROGRESS

Sweet and Tender Hooligan. Czech Dissident Art and Kynical Laughter. (5 chapters of 6 complete)
Funny Games. Czech and French New Waves. (under preliminary contract with Northwestern University Press)
‘Wight the Wrong Ray’: The Scientific Method of Nabokov’s Lolita

LECTURES AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

“Getting UnLost: A Psychogeography of Anabases in Ulysses and Pale Fire,” Nabokov Society Panel, Annual Conference of the Modern Languages Association, Austin, January 2016;
Moderator, Chicago Society Short Story Conference (with Robert Coover, Dan Chaon, and Joe Meno), University of Chicago, November 22, 2014;
Speaker, Language and Death, “Never Say Die: Euphemism & the Language of Death.” Neubeuer Colloquium, November 11, 2014;
“There’s Something Wrong with Esther,” Pedophobia and Sexual Crisis in the Horror Film, Fun with Dick and Jane: Gender and Childhood, University of Notre Dame, December 2014;
“Broch and Friedländer on kitsch,” jU's Shavuot "jUbilee, May 30, 2014;
“Monstrosity,” University of Chicago College Housing Dinner, May 29, 2014;
“Hinging Shutter(s): The Western “re-Version” of Thai Horror Film,”Mass Culture Workshop, University of Chicago, May 16, 2014;
“A Spectre Still Haunts,” Contemporary Horrors conference, University of Chicago, April 25-26, 2014;
“Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and the Ethics of Deceit,” The Power of Books, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, University of Chicago, April 16, 2014;
“Fugitive Maps and Detritus Cultures. The Russian Diaspora in Prague, 1918-1938,” American Comparative Literature Association, New York, March 20-23, 2014;
“Lítost and Resentment, or, Who’s Afraid of the Czech New Wave?” University of Chicago, Central European Workshop, March 2014;
“Ethics of Deceit. On Looking into Nabokov’s Speak, Memory,” Readings in World Literature sequence wide lecture, February, 2014;
“The Legal Wages of 1968,”Chicago Czech Bar Association, January 23, 2013;
“Teaching Second Year Czech,” exhibition, AATSEEL, Chicago, January, 2014;
“New (Wave) Ressentiments,” Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, January, 2014 (accepted, unable to attend);
Discussant and Chair, “Post-Dissident Studies: Between Collaboration and Dissent in Central Europe.” September 20th-22nd, 2013, Harvard University;
“Vlna a Vague,” Czech Studies Workshop, Columbia University, April 2013;
“Positioning 'Socialism' in the Cinematic New Waves,” American Comparative Literature Association, Toronto, Canada, April 2013;
“Absolving the Other’s Hooligan: The Western Co-optation of the ‘East’s’ “Dissidents.” Alpha Delta Phi Literary Program, March 2013;
“Memory and Locution in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory,” Readings in World Literature sequence lecture, February, 2013;
“Spoliation and the Object Inscription of Power,” Object-Oriented Ontologies Roundtable, January, 2013
The Social Construction of Gender, or, How we learnt o be “Biological,” The Triple Helix, Quantrell Roundtable, November 29, 2012;
“Sweet and Tender Hooligan,” Humanities Open House, October 2012;
“The Hooligan and Ethical Violence” Divinity School Lecture, October 2012;
“Václav Havel.” Open House for Prospective Students and Parents. College Programming Office. March, 2012;
“Ci-Toyen.” Conference on the Legacy of the Avant-Garde. Columbia University, New York. February, 2012;
“Sweet and Tender Hooligan.” Winter Festival “fireside chat,” University of Chicago, Council for University Programming, January, 2012;
65th Annual Latke-Hamantash Debate (with Tobias Moskowitz and Richard Rosengarten), University of Chicago Hillel House, November 2011;
“Remembering the Gentle Barbarian. Czech Writer Bohumil Hrabal and his visit to Chicago in the spring of 1989”, Moderator and discussant. Consulate General of the Czech Republic, May, 2010;
On Hooliganism in Czech Art. Franke Institute for the Humanities. April, 2010;
Toyen’s Realism. New Histories of the Avant-Garde. International Conference, University of Chicago, January, 2010; presented for Slavic Colloquium and CEERES, April 5, 2010;
Christ’s Trial of NATO. Conference on the Palimpsest, University of Chicago, January, 2009;
The film art of Jan Svankmajer. Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame, November, 2008;
Real guts. Scotoma as Political Action. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), November, 2008;
The Future Aesthetic: Late Soviet Architecture and the Space Age. CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed, with photographer Frederic Chaubin, Paul Jaskot and Tim Wittman, Chicago Architecture Foundation, September 2008;
Moderator, “Politics of Women’s Health. Issues and Activism, with Shelby Knox, Nikki Skies and Kirsten Moore, University of Chicago, Third annual Gala. Keynote speaker Gloria Steinem, May 3, 2008;
What’s the Matter with Knižák?, or, the Death of Post-modernity in the Czech Republic, Ninth Annual Czech Workshop, Northwestern University, April 24-26, 2008;
The first Czech(s) in Chicago. Czech Genealogical Association Mini-Conference, March 29, 2008;
Panel Chair, Europa! Europa? Conference, Ghent, Belgium, May 2008;
Waking up from the Dream. December, 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AATSEEL), December, 2007;
Czechs in Chicago, Chicago Humanities Open House, University of Chicago, October, 2007;
Panel Member, Czechs in Chicago; “Czech Chicago Days,” sponsored by City of Chicago and Czech Consul of Chicago, et al., June, 2007;
On Toyen. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Puebla, Mexico, April, 2007;
Czech Dream. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference: Media in the Public Sphere, Chicago, March 2007;
On From Saturday to Sunday. Facets Cinematheque. Festival on Early Czech Cinema. February, 2007;
Toyen. Beyond Gender, After the War. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), December 2006.
Czech Culture Underground: Dissidence in Czech Culture (with Esther Peters), Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby, Illinois, May 2006;
Kafka in Prague, Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby, Illinois, May 2006;
Citizen Czech, or, the Dialectics of Genderlessness in Czech Surrealism. AATSEEL, December 2005;
‘One Can’t Survive without Holes in the Brain.’ AAASS, Boston, December, 2004;
Denuding the Naked: Toyen Politicizing Eros. Guest lecture. Indiana University. November 2004;
Gendercide and Hystery: An Examination of Female-Self Assassination and Hysteria in Travel Writing, with Anne Flannery. 1st Global Conference - Exploring Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality, Salzburg, Austria, October 2004;
“Hrabal and the Gnosis of the Real.” AATSEEL. San Diego, December, 2003
Toyen between Prague and Paris. Czech and Slovak National Council. Cedar Rapids Conference on Czech and Slovak Culture. June, 2003
The Marie Column Incident: Jaroslav Hašek, Anarchism and the Reformations of Czech National Identity. Czech and Slovak National Council. Cedar Rapids Conference on Czech and Slovak Culture. June, 2003
Jiri Menzel’s Closely Watched Trains. Franke Institute for the Humanities. Monthly Cinematheque Screening and Discussion. January, 2002
Ars Una: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde. Keynote Lecture. Exhibit on Karel Teige. Smart Museum of Art, Chicago. October, 2001
Environmental Theatre and The Piano. Symposium on Trevor Griffiths’ The Piano. Court Theatre. June 16, 2001. With Trevor Griffiths, Stan Garner, Charles Newell and Roger Smart.
Czech Modernism in Review. From Secession to Surrealism. Prague. May, 2001
Roundtable on “The Question of the Romani in Central Europe” Elbe. May 24, 2001
Kafka and the Kafkologists. Elbe. May 23, 2001
“Peripheral Megalopolis: Forgetting and the Monumental City” Berlin. University of Chicago Alumnae Lecture. May, 2001
“Where is Central Europe?” Krakow, Poland. May, 2001
“Erotislavikon or Avant-Sade. Erotic Discourse in Czech Surrealism” University of Chicago. Keynote lecture. Slavic Forum Conference. April, 2001
“Laughter, Gesture and The Flesh: Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony’’ Kafka Symposium. December 1-2, 2000
“The Shame of the Flesh: Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony.” University of Chicago Open House in conjunction with The Court Theatre’s production of Philip Glass’ adaptation of Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony.” October 2000
“The Rewards of Poetry.” Introduction to a panel featuring Mark Strand, Mikhail Epshtein, Andrej Voznesenskij, and Ales Debeljak. Three Lands, Three Generations, “A Conference of and on Slavic Poetry,” Northwestern University. October 1999
“The Future of Slavic Studies.” Presented to the Visiting Committee, University of Chicago. May 1999
“Czech Surrealism: The Fire of Life.” D’Arcy Museum of Art, Loyola University, Chicago. February 1999
“The Simultaneous Vision.” Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University. February 1999
“Stručné dejiny české avantgardy v obrazech” (“A Brief Pictorial History of the Czech Avant-garde”), University of Chicago, Spring 1998
“The Slavic Vampire.” Burton-Judson Faculty Lecture, University of Chicago. Spring 1998
“Icon and Abacus.” Chicago Humanities Institute, Winter 1997
“Erotikon: the Haptic Moment and Czech Avant-Garde Film.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures (AATSEEL), Washington, D.C. , December 2000
The Hidden Question Conference: Listening to the Subjective Experience of School Life. Roundtable Conference. Francis Parker School, Chicago, December 2000
“The Felt Body of Film: Gustav Machaty’s Erotikon (1929) and Extase (1933).” ISSEI-Bergen Conference on Film. Bergen, Norway, August 14-18, 2000
“The Bed in the Background.” Re-assessing the Avant-Garde, University of Notre-Dame, April 2000
International conference,La Langue Maternelle, Université de Paris, VII. Paris, March 1999
“Russian Avant-Garde Poetry and Intermedia: The Primitivist Project,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Seattle. November 1997
“The Primitivist Gesture in the Slavic Interwar Avant-Garde,” Conference on “The Space Between: 1920-1945,” University of Nevada, Spring 1997;
“An English Futurist in Moscow,” Russian Modernism in its European Context, Texas Tech University, Spring 1996
“Eating Their Words: The Russian Avant-Garde,” AATSEEL, Chicago, December 1995
“Russian & Czech Avant-Garde Adventures in the Senses,” Slavic Forum, University of Chicago, Spring 1995
“The First Futurist: Walt Whitman and Russian Modernism,” AATSEEL, San Diego. December 1994
“Killing Time: Russian Modernism and the Fourth Dimension,” AATSEEL, Toronto. December 1993
“How to Create and Theoretically Motivate a De-Centered Poem,” Workshop on Poetry and Poetics, University of Chicago, Spring 1992

PERFORMANCE AND SHORT FILM

• Consultant and translator, Gene Ma, fantasy comic book/graphic novel, Mae, January 2014-June 2014;