Matthew Walker mpwalker@wisc.edu

Previous Education:

M.A. Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

B.A. Russian & English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996

Research Interests: 19th & 20th century Russian literature, Russian Romanticism and Russian Modernism, Aesthetics & Politics in the Soviet Period, 20 th century Czech literature, concepts of literariness, history of Russian literary criticism, Critical Theory

Hometown :  Chicago, IL

Minor : Critical Theory

Courses taught/positions held:

First and Second Year Russian

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian Literature

Dissertation Title: "Gogol's Ghosts: Nikolai Gogol and Russian Literary Criticism"

Languages:

Russian, Czech, Dutch, German, French, OCS

Conference presentations:

"Prophecy in Translation: Reading Pushkin's 'Prorok'" AAASS Mid-Atlantic Conference, New York 2006

"Identity and Nonidentity in Belyi's Peterburg " AATSEEL-Wisconsin 2003

"Nabokov and Pelevin: Epiphany and Rubbish" AAASS, Washington, D.C. 2001

"Blurred Wor(l)ds: James Joyce and Leonid Dobychin" AATSEEL-Wisconsin 2001

Research - Study Abroad - Relevant Professional Experience:

Letni skola, Charles University, Prague (2002)

Editor/Assistant Producer, NBC News Moscow (1998-1999)

Program Representative, ACTR Moscow (1998)

Assistant Editor, St. Martin's Press, New York (1997-98)

Awards and Fellowships:

Fulbright Scholar, Moscow, Russia 2006-2007

Best Paper Prize, Runner Up, AAASS Mid-Atlantic Conference, New York 2006

University Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2006

FLAS Summer Fellowship in Czech, 2002

FLAS Fellowship in Czech, 2001-2002