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Travel: Ethnomusicology in Clocusna (AFRF)

Deadline for Applications: October 25, 2018

Ethnomusicology – Folklore – Drama – Cultural Anthropology

Space is available on a research team headed to Clocusna, Moldova from January 4-16, 2019 to study and document the New Year’s rituals of “Malanca”. Malanca includes elaborate masquerading and an ancient folk drama performed door-to-door, accompanied by traditional songs, music, and dance.

The expedition will be led by Dr. Svetlana Sorokina (a specialist in East European folk drama) and Dr. Yelena Minyonok, both of Russia’s Gorky Institute of World Literature (National Academy of Sciences). Under their guidance, participants will interview local informants about the history and significance of Malanca, observe the performers’ preparations and rehearsals, and document the holiday performances. Research team languages will be Russian, English and Moldovan/ Romanian.

Participation is open to both academics and enthusiasts. Participants pay a fee, estimated $2300 which covers all food, lodging, local travel, translation, instruction and accompaniment by expedition staff for the duration of the expedition.

Date: January 4-16, 2019 For more information, see http://russianfolklorefriends.org/2019expeditions.html or email info@russianfolklorefriends.org

Sponsored by American Friends of Russian Folklore, a 501c3 American nonprofit registered the the state of California. AFRF has placed American volunteers with east European scholars for more than a decade.

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Grad Program: PhD in Slavic Studies (Brown Uni.)

Deadline for Applications: January 7, 2019

The Department of Slavic Studies at Brown University offers a comprehensive doctoral program in Slavic studies specializing in Russian literature and culture, in modern Czech culture, and in Polish literature and culture and is inviting applications.
The program has a strong interdisciplinary focus and students are expected to work with departmental faculty as well as with faculty in related fields, such as comparative literature, theater, history, art history, modern culture and media, and political science. The program will train flexible and innovative scholars able to address varying teaching and research needs in the future job market. The department particularly targets advanced students who would come to Brown with a strong background in at least one of the program’s key disciplines (literature, language, culture, theater, social sciences). Students receive close guidance and are mentored in the pedagogy of language and literature/culture teaching.

Application link: https://www.brown.edu/academics/gradschool/programs/slavic-studies

The deadline for application is January 7, 2019

Also check out Brown University’s Open Graduate Education (https://www.brown.edu/academics/gradschool/opengraduateeducation)
The Open Graduate Education Program allows select Brown doctoral students to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field. All doctoral students are invited to contemplate and propose their own combination of studies, free of any disciplinary barrier.

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CFP: Nabokov Seminar (ACLA)

Deadline for Submissions: September 20, 2018

The 2019 ACLA Conference will take place in Washington DC from March 7–10, 2019 and will be a seminar on the lectures of Vladimir Nabokov.

“The Center of This or That Masterpiece”: Nabokov’s Lectures

Vladimir Nabokov is a staple figure for comparatists interested in translation, self-translation, and polyglot authors—in short, a looming presence in discussions of world literature. But Nabokov himself, in his American years, was busy evaluating translations, reading practices, and the Western canon: assigning grades to various authors (Dostoevsky was a C-) and labeling Proust’s opus a “fairy tale.” This seminar seeks to approach Nabokov through the lectures he delivered to his students at Wellesley and Cornell, collected in Lectures on Literature, Lectures on Russian Literature, and Lectures on Don Quixote. Taking Nabokov-the-Critic as the starting point, attendants will see, first, whether coherent strategies and concerns emerge from his studies; second, whether Nabokov’s fiction resonates with his critical writings; and finally, what new insights he offers into the work of other writers. Mistaken or ingenious, Nabokov’s readings of other novels can—when taken together—offer a model of how expectations and standards can be handed down across time: first to a set of students, and then to readers at large. We welcome papers on any of the lectures—those that focus on literature, translation, or common sense—from scholars primarily interested in Nabokov, the authors he wrote so stridently about, or his pedagogy more generally. Ideally, contributions should think through, theoretically or practically, the ways that a critical piece of writing can become a primary text, a repository of cultural value, a type of adaptation, or a work of art.

Link: https://www.acla.org/center-or-masterpiece-nabokovs-lectures

Abstracts must be received by 9 am EST on Thursday, September 20, 2018. 

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Academic Job: Assistant Prof. of Russian (Uni. Rochester)

Deadline for Applications: October 15, 2018

Assistant Professor of Russian (Language, Literature and Culture) 

The University of Rochester Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (http://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/) invites applications for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor in Russian (language, literature and culture). They are seeking a candidate with a strong research program, dedication to the undergraduate teaching of Russian language, literature, and culture and the ability to lead our four-week summer language program in St. Petersburg. Teaching load is two courses per semester (4 courses/year) for undergraduates and graduate students in humanities disciplines across the college. Applicants must have a Ph. D., native or near-native command of Russian and English, and experience teaching language at all levels. While the area of specialization is open, candidates with expertise in post-Soviet and contemporary Russian literature, cinema and culture are particularly welcome.

Faculty in MLC also have the opportunity to contribute to the University’s strong interdisciplinary programs in Literary Translation Studies, Film and Media Studies, the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies and the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender & Women’s Studies. Appointment is effective July 1, 2019 with teaching duties beginning August 2019.

Application materials (statement, teaching philosophy, current CV, writing sample, 3 letters of recommendation) addressed to Professor John Givens, MLC Chair, should be submitted online by October 15, 2018 at https://www.rochester.edu/faculty-recruiting. Application review will begin November 1, 2018 and continue until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews will take place by Skype and/or at the ASEEES convention in Boston, December 7-9. Address questions to johngivens@rochester.edu.

The University of Rochester, an Equal Opportunity Employer, has a strong commitment to diversity and actively encourages applications from candidates from groups underrepresented in higher education. 

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Job: Program Director for Temerty Program (Harvard)

Deadline for Applications: Ongoing until Filled

On behalf of HURI, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University is currently accepting applications for the full-time position of Program Director for the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at Harvard University. This is a unique opportunity for a talented, ambitious social scientist to shape the future of academic research on contemporary Ukraine.

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Academic Job: Assistant Professor in Russ. Lit (Uni. Illinois at Chicago)

Deadline for Applications: November 5, 2018 (strongly suggested)

The Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures and the School of Literatures, Culture Studies and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago announce a search to fill a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in Russian literature and culture. The appointment is expected to begin on August 16, 2019.

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