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Molly Thomasy
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Entered program, Fall, 2004; MA 2006; ABD
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: 19th and 20th 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 19th century Russian literature survey course, 2008-09
Language program project assistant, 2007-08
TA for first and second year Russian courses 2005-6 (102, 203, 204)
Instructor, Middlebury Russian School, Level 1 2006, Level 2 2008
Curator, Pushkin Library, 2004
English Teacher/Communications Specialist, Tver InterContact Group, Tver, Russia.
Dissertation: Poetry in the Age of Photography
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.
"Joseph Brodsky and the Poetics of Photography" NeMLA Conference in Boston, MA, February 27-March 1, 2009.
"What Lies Beyond the Frame: Painting and Photography in the Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska" AATSEEL-Wisconsin-Conference. October, 2008.
Study Abroad: ACTR Summer in St. Petersburg (Herzen Institute), 2001
Publications:
"Second Language in Second Life: A study of foreign language learner identity and interaction in a virtual word." Article under review
English translations of Russian poetry by Marina Batasova and Viacheslav Mikhnia in Buffalo-based poetry and arts journal Yellow Edenwald Field, Vol 3, 2007
Review of Water, Manon van de, Moscow Theaters of Young People, SEEJ 51.4 (Winter 2007).
Awards and Fellowships:
UW-Madison Early Excellence in Teaching award, 2006-07
Edmund I. Zawacki Award (Polish studies) UW-Madison, 2007
Janet Dziadulewicz Branden Memorial (Polish studies), 2007
J. Thomas Shaw Prize for paper at AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference, Oct. 2006
Academic Year FLAS for Polish 2006-07
Summer FLAS, 2005 for summer study at Middlebury Russian School, 2005
Middlebury College Scholarship and Anastasia Feodorova Pressman Memorial Scholarship for summer study at Middlebury College Russian school, 2005
Middlebury Russian School Award for outstanding work in Russian, summer 2005
Xenia Z. Gasiorowska Fellowship in slavic Languages, 2007-08