Janneke van de Stadt

Chair of German and Russian and Professor of Russian

[email protected]
413-597-2268
Hollander Hall Rm 307
At Williams since 2001

Education

B.A. Amherst College (1988)
M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison (1994)
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Slavic Languages (2000)

Areas of Expertise

Isaac Babel
Leo Tolstoy
Isak Dinesen
Music and Literature
Fairy Tales
Comparative Children’s Literature
Translation Studies

Courses

Note: courses in gray are not offered this academic year.

RUSS 101(F)

Elementary Russian I

RLSP 102(S)

Elementary Spanish

RUSS 151(F)

Continuing Russian I

COMP 208

Through the Looking Glass: Comparative Children's Literature

RUSS 251(F)

Continuing Russian I

RUSS 343 / INST 343 / JWST 343

Spectacles on His Nose and Autumn on his Heart: The Oeuvre of Isaac Babel

COMP 345 / GBST 345 / ENGL 365(S)

Wonderland(s): Alice in Translation

Scholarship/Creative Work

“Lost and Found in Translation: Dinesen, Andersen, and the Rhetoric of Virginity.” Scandinavian Studies Journal, forthcoming.

“Isaac Babel.” Entry in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. 2015.

“For His Eyes Only: Performance and Spectatorship in Tolstoy’s Family Happiness.” Tolstoy Studies Journal, 2013.

“Two Tales of One City: Isaac Babel, Fellow Traveling and the End of NEP.” The NEP Era, Fall, 2012

“Writer, Heal Thyself: Trauma and Its Undoing in Two Tales by Isaac Babel.” The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, Spring, 2012.

“Sturm und Gesang: Kuprin’s Conversation with Chaikovsky and Tolstoy.” Muzyka: Russian Music Past and Present, Fall, 2012.

 

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

Nelson Bushnell ’20 Prize for teaching and writing, June 2018

The Whiting Foundation, grant for research at USC; awarded in April, 2018.

Fellow, The Oakley Center for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Spring, 2005, 2011-2012 academic year, and fall 2018.

 

Professional Affiliations

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS)

Lewis Carroll Society of North America (LCSNA)

Current Committees

  • Standing Grievance Panel

Thesis Advisor to Fi van Wingerden (COMP ’20): “Max Havelaar in Retelling and Translation.”

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