Registration begins on May 24, 2023 for Newberry Class “Understanding Ukraine through Contemporary Literature”.

The Annotated Story: Narine Abgaryan’s “Manyunya Performs at an End-of-Year Recital, or an Original Cure for Fear of Heights”.

2016 Amelia Parkes wins award at the XIV International Olympiada of Russian Language in Moscow.

2016 Illinois ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian.

2015 Illinois ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian.

2014 ACTR Illinois/Indiana Olympiada of Spoken Russian – Reeification Newsletter.

2013 ACTR Illinois/Indiana Regional Olympiada of Spoken Russian.

Russian Language Lab – Student Projects.

Class Responses to 19th Century Russian Short Fiction.

Fall 2013 – 19th Century Russian Short Fiction for teens.

Winter/Spring 2014 – Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

2014: Summer Workshop: Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground.

Fall 2014: Russian and Soviet History of the First Half of the 20th Century through Literature and Film (1900 – 1920).

Winter/Spring 2015: Russian and Soviet History of the First Half of the 20th Century through Literature and Film (1920 – 1940).

2015 Summer Workshop: Gogol’s The Government Inspector.

2015 Summer Workshop: 19th Century Russian Supernatural Stories.

19th Century Russian Short Fiction – Two Semesters in 2015 – 2016.

Russian Literature for Teens Fall 2016 through Spring 2017: War and Peace, Oblomov, and Crime and Punishment.

Russian Literature for Teens Fall 2017: Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Chekhov’s Annas, and Anna Karenina in Film.

The Russian Revolution (1900 – 1940) through Literature and Film (Fall 2018-Spring 2019).

Winter/Spring 2020: Tolstoy’s War and Peace.19th Century Russian Short Fiction 2020-2021.19th Century Russian Literature and Film Adaptations – Fall 2021 and Winter/Spring 2021 to 2022.Petersburg’s Culture, Myth, and Everyday Life – Fall 2021 and Winter/Spring 2021 to 2022

Russian History from Peter the Great to the 1910s: St.Focus on Ukraine: Understanding Ukraine through Contemporary Literature (Summer 2023).

Dostoevsky tales from the underground