Janneke van de Stadt

Professor of Russian

413-597-2268

Hollander Hall Rm 307

At Williams since 2001

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

Isaac Babel
Biopoetics
Body Theory
Guy de Maupassant
Music in Literature

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

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

“A Question of Place: Situating Old Shloime in Isaac Babel’s Oeuvre,” The Russian Review, January 2007.

“The Poetics of Transit: Miss Harriet and Guy de Maupassant,” SEEJ, Winter 2007.

Editor of the English Translation of Luz Arce’s “El Infierno,” University of Wisconsin Press.

“Seeing ‘amiss’ or Misreading ‘a Miss’: Imperfect Vision in Maupassant’s Les Tombales,” Dalhousie French Studies, volume 51, 2000.

“Narrative, Music, and Performance: Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata and the Example of Beethoven,” Tolstoy Studies Journal, volume 12, 2000.

University WARF Fellowship, 1998

College of Letters and Science Teaching Prize, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995.

J. Thomas Shaw Prize for the best paper presented at AATSEEL-Wisconsin, 1995.

Dobro Slovo Honors Society, inducted 1993.

Mikhail Schweitzer Book Award for excellence in Russian, Amherst College, 1988.

Lincoln Lowell Russell Prize for excellence in music, Amherst College, 1988.

Taught Russian, Spanish and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conference, March 31, 2007

Comparative Literature Program

Activities