Erik McDonald
ABD (entered program in Fall, 2000)
Previous Education: B.A., Cornell University, 1996
Research Interests:
Nineteenth-century Russian poetry; twentieth-century Russian poetry; satire; Pushkin, Gogol, Nekrasov, Tsvetaeva, Maiakovskii, Kuzmin
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Related Field, Minor: Polish , Classics (Latin)
Courses taught/positions held:
First-Semester Russian
Fourth-Semester Russian
Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Fellowships and Awards
University Dissertator Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2006.
J. Thomas Shaw Prize for best graduate student paper at the AATSEEL-WI conference, 2004.
Edmund Zawacki Award for achievement in the study of Polish language and literature, 2003.
University Prize Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000-01 and 2002-03.
Dissertation Topic: Nekrasov and Russian Modernism
Languages: Russian, French, Polish, Latin, Spanish
Conference presentations:
"Nekrasov and Tsvetaeva's The Ratcatcher ." AATSEEL, Washington, D.C., 2005.
"Russia's Juvenal or Russia's Horace?: N. A. Nekrasov's Satirical Personae ." Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 2005.
Research - Study Abroad:
St. Petersburg State University, 1994 (CIEE) and 2004
Publications:
"Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Narrator-Heroine Interaction of The Fountain of Bakhchisarai." Slavic and East European Journal 47.3 (2003): 423-40.
Review of Mikhail Kuzmin, Selected Writings , ed. and trans. Michael A. Green and Stanislav A. Shvabrin (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2005). Slavic and East European Journal 50.2 (2006, forthcoming).
Review of Temira Pachmuss, ed., Thought and Vision: Zinaida Hippius's Letters to Greta Gerell (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004). Slavic and East European Journal 49.3 (2005): 503-04.
Review of Maria Wirtemberska, Malvina or the Heart's Intuition , trans. Ursula Phillips (London: Polish Cultural Foundation, 2001). Slavic and East European Journal 47.3 (2003): 500-02.