Molly Thomasy
thomasy@wisc.edu

 



Entered program, Fall, 2004; MA 2006

Previous Education:

Harvard University, B.A. in Slavic, 2002

International Language Institute CELTA Certificate (EFL teaching) Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2002

Middlebury Russian School graduate program, summer 2004, 2005

Research Interests: 19 th and 20 th century Russian poetry, classical mythology in Russian and Polish literature, theories of intertextuality, visual arts in literature, Chekhov, Second Language Acquisition

Hometown:  Brockton, MA

Minor: Second Language Acquisition

Courses taught/positions held:

TA for first and second year Russian courses 2005-6 (102, 203, 204)

Instructor, Middlebury Russian School, summer 2006

Curator, Pushkin Library, 2004

English Teacher/Communications Specialist, Tver InterContact Group, Tver, Russia.

Undergrad Thesis: In the Shadow of Akhmatova: Identity and Influence in the Poetry of Inna Lisnianskaia and Mariia Petrovykh

Languages : Russian, Polish, Spanish, French

Conference presentations:

"Otrazhenie sotsial'nykh aspektov v sovremmenykh amerikanskykh rasskazakh dlya detey" ( The Protrayal of Social Issues in Contemporary American Children's Stories ), Children's Literature and Education Conference, Tver State University, Russia, 28-29 May, 2004.

"Bezzvuchnost' i pesni v povesti V. Pelevina 'Zholtaya strela'" Graduate student symposium, Middlebury Russian School, August, 2004.

"Pushkin i Chekhov: Sluchay 'Ionycha' oneginskaya strofa kak obrazets glavy"  Graduate student symposium, Middlebury Russian School, August, 2005.

"Pushkin and Chekhov: Exploring the Onegin Myth in Chekhov's Ionych. "   AATSEEL Wisconsin Conference, October 15, 2005 and National AATSEEL Conference, Washington, DC, December 30, 2005.

“Muzei v slovakh: Ekfrasis v poezii A. A. Feta” Faculty and Graduate Student Symposium, Middlebury Russian School, August, 2006.

“Writing the Plastic Arts: Ekphrasis in the Poetry of A. A. Fet.”  AATSEEL-WI Conference, October 2006 and National AATSEEL Conference, Philadelphia, PA, December, 2006.

“Re-writing Pushkin’s Death: Tat’iana Tolstaia’s ‘Siuzhet’ in Literary and Cultural Context,” AAASS Conference, New Orleans, November 2007.

Study Abroad: ACTR Summer in St. Petersburg (Herzen Institute), 2001

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