Angela Brintlinger
Associate Professor and Graduate Studies ChairDepartment of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
Mailing address
Telephone
Email
422 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1340
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1340
Telephone
(614) 292-6326 (office)
Curriculum vitae
Quick indexEducation
Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Dissertation
The Russian Biographical Novel of the 1920s and 1930s.
Advisor David M. Bethea
Advisor David M. Bethea
M.A.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1990
Russian Literature
Russian Literature
M.A.
Middlebury College, Vermont, 1989
Russian Language
Russian Language
B.A.
Rice University, Texas, 1987
Russian and English Literature, cum laude
Russian and English Literature, cum laude
Professional Experience
2000 -- present
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University
1994 - 2000
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
Publications
Books
Chapaev's & Children: The Russian Hero in the Twentieth Century. In progress.
Beyond Little Vera: Women's Bodies, Women's Welfare in Post-Socialist Russian, Central and Eastern Europe. Ed. Angela Brintlinger and Natasha Kolchevska. Ohio Slavic Papers, vol. 7, Columbus, OH, 2008.
Derzhavin by Vladislav Khodasevich (1931). Translated by Angela Brintlinger (Madison: U of Wisconsin P 2007).
Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture, ed. Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky (Toronto: U of Toronto P 2007).
Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture 1917-1937 (Evanston: Northwestern UP 2000). Paperback 2008.
Beyond Little Vera: Women's Bodies, Women's Welfare in Post-Socialist Russian, Central and Eastern Europe. Ed. Angela Brintlinger and Natasha Kolchevska. Ohio Slavic Papers, vol. 7, Columbus, OH, 2008.
Derzhavin by Vladislav Khodasevich (1931). Translated by Angela Brintlinger (Madison: U of Wisconsin P 2007).
Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture, ed. Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky (Toronto: U of Toronto P 2007).
Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture 1917-1937 (Evanston: Northwestern UP 2000). Paperback 2008.
Selected Articles
"How Bad is Bad? How Great is Great?: Translating Derzhavin in the Context of Khodasevich's Biography," Translating Russia: From Theory to Practice, Ohio Slavic Papers, vol. 8, ed. Brian J. Baer, 2006, 149-171.
"Approaching Russian Madness," introduction to Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture, 3-19.
"Writing about Madness: Russian Attitudes toward Psyche and Psychology, 1887-1907," in Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture, 173-191.
"Vladislav Khodasevich as Teacher of Pushkin: Lectures on Poetry to the Proletkult," Pushkin Review (6-7, 2003-04).
"The Hero in the Madhouse: The Post-Soviet Novel Confronts the Soviet Past." Slavic Review 63.1 (Spring 2004) 43-65.
"The Persian Frontier: Griboedov as Orientalist and Literary Hero." Canadian Slavonic Papers vol. 45, nos. 3-4 (Sept.- Dec. 2003) 371-393.
"Russian Women: Living in History's Shadow," with Steven Conn, in Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 2, no. 3 (June 2001), www.bridgew.edu/depts/artscnce/jiws/index.htm.
"Pushkinist or P.R. Man?: Sergei Lifar in 1930s Europe," Pushkin Review (December 1999) 45-66.
"Pushkin in the Paris Emigration, 1937" (in Russian). In A.S. Pushkin zarubezhom (Moscow, Russia: Pushkin Institute, 1999) 305-315.
"'Economy': Khodasevich's Pushkin" (in Russian). In Pushkin i drugie: sbornik statei, posviashchennyi 60-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia professora S. A. Fomicheva, ed. V.A. Koshelev (Novgorod, Russia: Novgorod UP, 1997) 142-147.
"Approaching Russian Madness," introduction to Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture, 3-19.
"Writing about Madness: Russian Attitudes toward Psyche and Psychology, 1887-1907," in Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture, 173-191.
"Vladislav Khodasevich as Teacher of Pushkin: Lectures on Poetry to the Proletkult," Pushkin Review (6-7, 2003-04).
"The Hero in the Madhouse: The Post-Soviet Novel Confronts the Soviet Past." Slavic Review 63.1 (Spring 2004) 43-65.
"The Persian Frontier: Griboedov as Orientalist and Literary Hero." Canadian Slavonic Papers vol. 45, nos. 3-4 (Sept.- Dec. 2003) 371-393.
"Russian Women: Living in History's Shadow," with Steven Conn, in Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 2, no. 3 (June 2001), www.bridgew.edu/depts/artscnce/jiws/index.htm.
"Pushkinist or P.R. Man?: Sergei Lifar in 1930s Europe," Pushkin Review (December 1999) 45-66.
"Pushkin in the Paris Emigration, 1937" (in Russian). In A.S. Pushkin zarubezhom (Moscow, Russia: Pushkin Institute, 1999) 305-315.
"'Economy': Khodasevich's Pushkin" (in Russian). In Pushkin i drugie: sbornik statei, posviashchennyi 60-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia professora S. A. Fomicheva, ed. V.A. Koshelev (Novgorod, Russia: Novgorod UP, 1997) 142-147.
Selected Papers and Presentations
"A New and Glorious Chekhov: The Americanization of Chekhov's Story 'Lady with a Pet Dog' by Michelle Herman" (in Russian). The World of Chekhov: Mode, Ritual, Myth, Yalta, Ukraine, (April 2008).
"Russian Literary Biographies and Writing a Usable Past" (in Russian). Invited talk at the Eikhenbaum Seminar, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia (April 2008).
"Labor and Technology: Soviet Writers on the Literary Trade." National Convention of AAASS, New Orleans, LA (November 2007).
"Women Navigating Academia." Roundtable at the National Convention of AAASS, New Orleans, LA (November 2007).
"Retreat: Viktor Nekrasov and the Soviet War Hero." Invited lecture, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio (March 2007).
"Retreat: The Soviet War Hero in the 1940s, 50s and 60s." The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-64. University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London (September 2006).
"No Sinners and No Saints: Searching for Heroes in a Post-Heroic Time." Invited lecture, Brown University, Providence (March 2006).
"A Writer Without Borders: Autobiographical Voice(s) in Sergei Dovlatov' The Zone." The National Convention of AATSEEL, Philadelphia (December 2004).
"The Mad and their Doctors: Russian Attitudes toward Psyche and Psychiatry." Invited talk, Middlebury College (March 2004); University of Pennsylvania (November 2003).
"Russian Literary Biographies and Writing a Usable Past" (in Russian). Invited talk at the Eikhenbaum Seminar, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia (April 2008).
"Labor and Technology: Soviet Writers on the Literary Trade." National Convention of AAASS, New Orleans, LA (November 2007).
"Women Navigating Academia." Roundtable at the National Convention of AAASS, New Orleans, LA (November 2007).
"Retreat: Viktor Nekrasov and the Soviet War Hero." Invited lecture, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio (March 2007).
"Retreat: The Soviet War Hero in the 1940s, 50s and 60s." The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-64. University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London (September 2006).
"No Sinners and No Saints: Searching for Heroes in a Post-Heroic Time." Invited lecture, Brown University, Providence (March 2006).
"A Writer Without Borders: Autobiographical Voice(s) in Sergei Dovlatov' The Zone." The National Convention of AATSEEL, Philadelphia (December 2004).
"The Mad and their Doctors: Russian Attitudes toward Psyche and Psychiatry." Invited talk, Middlebury College (March 2004); University of Pennsylvania (November 2003).
Varia
Translations of: Mikhail Epstein, "Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method" (263-282) and Margarita Odesskaya, "Let them be crazy, Madmen in Chekhov" (192-207) in Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture.
"The Twilight of Russian Literature: Vladislav Khodasevich and Gavriil Derzhavin," introduction to a translated excerpt from Derzhavin by Vladislav Khodasevich. The Antioch Review, Winter 2007, 149-172.
The Pushkin Collection, 1799-1999: a collection of essays in honor of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin on the 200th Anniversary of his Birth. Edited and with an introduction by Angela Brintlinger and Jennifer Marks Bown. Columbus, Ohio: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1999.
"The Twilight of Russian Literature: Vladislav Khodasevich and Gavriil Derzhavin," introduction to a translated excerpt from Derzhavin by Vladislav Khodasevich. The Antioch Review, Winter 2007, 149-172.
The Pushkin Collection, 1799-1999: a collection of essays in honor of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin on the 200th Anniversary of his Birth. Edited and with an introduction by Angela Brintlinger and Jennifer Marks Bown. Columbus, Ohio: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1999.
Editorial Work
Advisory Board Member and Co-Managing Editor, Pushkin Review, 2006 to present.
Assistant Prose Editor, Antioch Review, 2005 to present.
Assistant Prose Editor, Antioch Review, 2005 to present.
Peer Reviewing
Reader for Kritika, Literature and History, Pushkin Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Slavic Review, Text and Performance, ACTR/ACCELS Research Scholar Program, Columbia University Press, Ohio State University Press, McGill University P&T, University of Wisconsin Press.
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Recent Honors and Awards
2006-2008
Chosen for the President's and Provost's Leadership Institute, OSU
2006-2008
President, North American Pushkin Society
2003-2007
Association for Women in Slavic Studies, Executive Board Member
2006
Conference Grant
The Ohio State University Office of International Affairs
For "Beyond Little Vera: Women's Bodies, Women's Welfare in Post-Socialist Russian, Central and Eastern Europe"
The Ohio State University Office of International Affairs
For "Beyond Little Vera: Women's Bodies, Women's Welfare in Post-Socialist Russian, Central and Eastern Europe"
2004
Awarded Pushkin Medal "To the Advocate of Education"
Academy of Russian Literature, Moscow
Academy of Russian Literature, Moscow
2003
Resident Research Fellowship
Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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Courses Taught at The Ohio State University, 1994-2009
Arts and Sciences 137.05
Firebirds, Falcons and Dreadful Dragons: Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales
(Freshman Seminar, Winter 2007)
(Freshman Seminar, Winter 2007)
Russian 135
Introduction to Russian Culture
(Winter and Spring, 1995)
Russian 250
Masterpieces of Russian Literature in Translation
(Autumn 1994, Winter 1996, Spring 1997, Summer 1999, Winter 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005)
(Autumn 1994, Winter 1996, Spring 1997, Summer 1999, Winter 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005)
Russian 251
Masterpieces of 20th and 21st Century Russian Literature in Translation
(Autumn 2006)
(Autumn 2006)
Russian H250
Masterpieces of 19th Century Russian Literature in Translation (Honors)
(Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Winter 2008, Spring 2009)
(Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Winter 2008, Spring 2009)
Slavic 367
The Slavic and East European Emigre Experience in America Core course, General Education Writing Intensive Program
(Autumn 1997, Autumn 1998, Spring 2002, Summer 2002, Autumn 2002)
(Autumn 1997, Autumn 1998, Spring 2002, Summer 2002, Autumn 2002)
Russian 520
Russian Literature in English Translation: from Pushkin to Turgenev
(Autumn 1995)
(Autumn 1995)
Russian 521
Russian Literature in English Translation: from Dostoevsky to Chekhov
(Winter 1995, Winter 1996, Winter 1997, Winter 2000, Winter 2005)
(Winter 1995, Winter 1996, Winter 1997, Winter 2000, Winter 2005)
Russian 523
Russian Literature in English Translation (1928 to 1999)
(Winter 1999, Winter 2006)
(Winter 1999, Winter 2006)
Russian 560
Contemporary Russian in Cultural and Literary Contexts I
(Autumn 1997)
(Autumn 1997)
Russian 562
Contemporary Russian in Cultural and Literary Contexts III
(Spring 2001)
(Spring 2001)
Polish 630
Survey of Polish Literature from the beginnings to 1900
(Autumn 1998)
(Autumn 1998)
Russian 660
Proseminar in Literary Theory
(Autumn 2002)
(Autumn 2002)
Russian 662
The Poetics of Russian Prose
(Autumn 1996, Autumn 2007)
(Autumn 1996, Autumn 2007)
Russian 664
Topics in 20th Century Russian Literature: Literature of the 1970s through 1990s
(Spring 1997)
(Spring 1997)
Russian 675
Junior - Senior Writing Seminar
Core course, General Education Writing Intensive Program,
Capstone course for Russian major
(Spring 2000: Viktor Pelevin and Other Writers of Postmodern Russia; Spring 2005: Sergei Dovlatov; Spring 2009: Have You Achieved Cultural Competency?)
Capstone course for Russian major
(Spring 2000: Viktor Pelevin and Other Writers of Postmodern Russia; Spring 2005: Sergei Dovlatov; Spring 2009: Have You Achieved Cultural Competency?)
Russian 693
Eighteenth Century Russian Literature
(Autumn 1994, Autumn 2007)
(Autumn 1994, Autumn 2007)
Russian 694
Russian Grammar for Graduate Students
(Autumn 2000)
(Autumn 2000)
Russian 750
Pushkin and his Times
(Winter 1999, Winter 2007)
(Winter 1999, Winter 2007)
Russian 751
Gogol and Satire of the 19th Century
(Spring 1995, Spring 2001, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2008)
(Spring 1995, Spring 2001, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2008)
Russian 752
Turgenev and Chekhov
(Winter 2003, Winter 2009)
(Winter 2003, Winter 2009)
Russian 754
Russian Literature from the 1970s to the Present
(Spring 2002, Autumn 2006)
(Spring 2002, Autumn 2006)
Russian 852
Seminar in Russian Literature since 1917: Pushkin in the 20th Century
(Autumn 1996)
(Autumn 1996)
Russian 852
Seminar in Russian Literature since 1917: Socialist Realism: Historical Underpinnings and Further Ramifications
(Summer 2001)
(Summer 2001)
Russian 852
Seminar in Russian Literature since 1917: Auto/Biography: Author and Hero
(Winter 2008)
(Winter 2008)
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