Janneke van de Stadt

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

RUSS 101(F) SEM

Elementary Russian I

RUSS 104(S) SEM

Intermediate Russian

RUSS 151 SEM

Continuing Russian I (not offered 2022/23)

RUSS 201(F) SEM

Advanced Russian I

COMP 208(S) SEM

Through the Looking Glass: Comparative Children's Literature

RUSS 306 / COMP 306 SEM

Rise and Shine with Tolstoy (not offered 2022/23)

RUSS 343 / GBST 343 / JWST 343 SEM

Spectacles on His Nose and Autumn on his Heart: The Oeuvre of Isaac Babel (not offered 2022/23)

COMP 345 / GBST 345 / ENGL 365 SEM

Wonderland(s): Alice in Translation (not offered 2022/23)

RUSS 345 SEM

Bagging the Monsters : Tolstoy's Other Prose (not offered 2022/23)

Scholarship/Creative Work

“Teaching Alice in Translation.” Approaches to Teaching Alice in Wonderland, edited by Kimberly Reed. MLA Books, forthcoming.

“Lost and Found in Translation: Dinesen, Andersen, and the Rhetoric of Virginity.” Scandinavian Studies Journal,  June 2020

“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

  • Faculty Interview Panel
  • Standing Grievance Panel

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

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