Brian R. Johnson brjohnson@wisc.edu

ABD. Defense in October 2007.

Previous Education:

B.A. Macalester College
M.A. University of Wisconsin - Madison

Research Interests: 19th century Russian prose; Russian drama of all eras; realism and its relationship with the literary depiction of illness and medicine, science and industrialization; theories of gender, feminism and Orientalism.

Minor - Related Field: Serbo-Croatian

Courses taught/positions held:

TA for Russian 101, Russian 102, Survey of 19th Century Russian Literature
Lead Instructor at Middlebury College Russian Language School Summer 2006 and 2007.

Dissertation Topic: Morbus Sacer: Dostoevsky’s Literary Depiction of the Falling Sickness and Other Nervous Disorders

Languages:

Serbo-Croatian, German, Spanish, French

Conference presentations:

“Myshkin as a Castrated Figure.” (AAASS, 2006).

"Economic Gender in Crime and Punishment." (MSC 2005, AATSEEL 2005).

"The Traffic in Women in Dostoevsky's Poor Folk ." (AATSEEL 2003)

"Tsvetaeva's Magdalina: From Outcast to Beloved." (AATSEEL 2002)

"The Orientalism of Fonvizin's Travel Notes." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Univeristy of Kentucky at Lexington, 2002)

"Myshkin as a Castrated Figure." Slavic Graduate Forum (University of Chicago, 2002)

"The Wihelmine Representation of Homosexuality in Nabokov's The Gift ." (WI-AATSEEL 2002)

"The Orientalism of Fonvizin's Travel Notes." Midwest Slavic Conference (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 2000)

"A Backward Glance: Fonvizin's Travel Notes." (AATSEEL1999).

"Myshkin as a Castrated Figure." (WI-AATSEEL 1999)

Research - Study Abroad:

Herzen Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg (Semesters abroad 1992, 2003, 2004)

Moscow State University (ACTR Teacher Training Program, 2003)

Resident Director, American Councils of Teachers of Russian, Herzen Pedagogical

Institute Summer Program (Summer 2005)

Grants/Awards:

Departmental Nominee for Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Award (2005)

Thomas J. Shaw Prize: Best Paper, AATSEEL-WI (2002)

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for the Humanities, (1999-2004)

FLAS for study of Serbo-Croatian, (1999) (declined)

FLAS for study of Russian, (1999)