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Janneke van de Stadt

Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature

At Williams since 2001
Janneke.vandeStadt@williams.edu
35 Weston, x2268

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

  • Isaac Babel
  • Biopoetics
  • Body Theory
  • Guy de Maupassant
  • Music in Literature

    • [Courses Taught]:  (RUSS/COMP)

  • Russian language (RUSS 101-102, 103-104, 201-202)
  • Images of Childhood in Russian Literature
  • The World of Isaac Babel
  • 19th century Russian Literature in Translation (RUSS 203/COMP 203)
  • Music and 19th Century Literature (RUSS 307)
  • European Modernism (COMP 232)
  • Literature and the Body (COMP 253)
  • Teaching Assistant Workshop

    • [Education]:

  • B.A. Amherst College
  • M.A and Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    • [Previous Posts]:

  • Taught Russian, Spanish and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    • [Recent Publications]

  • "A Question of Place: Situating Old Shloime in Isaac Babel's Oeuvre,"  The Russian Review, January 2007.
  • "The Poetics of Transit: Miss Harriet and Guy de Maupassant," SEEJ, Winter 2007.
  • Editor of the English Translation of Luz Arce's "El Infierno," University of Wisconsin Press.
  • "Seeing 'amiss' or Misreading 'a Miss': Imperfect Vision in Maupassant's Les Tombales," Dalhousie French Studies, volume 51, 2000.
  • "Narrative, Music, and Performance: Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata and the Example of Beethoven," Tolstoy Studies Journal, volume 12, 2000.

    • [Awards]:

  • University WARF Fellowship, 1998
  • College of Letters and Science Teaching Prize, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995.
  • J. Thomas Shaw Prize for the best paper presented at AATSEEL-Wisconsin, 1995.
  • Dobro Slovo Honors Society, inducted 1993.
  • Mikhail Schweitzer Book Award for excellence in Russian, Amherst College, 1988.
  • Lincoln Lowell Russell Prize for excellence in music, Amherst College, 1988.