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Julie Cassiday

Professor of Russian
Gaudino Scholar, 2006 - 2008

At Williams since 1994
Julie.A.Cassiday@williams.edu
36 Weston, x2046

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

  • Russian literature
  • Russian theater
  • Performance Studies

  • [Courses Taught]:  (RUSS/COMP)

  • Elementary Russian (RUSS 101-102)
  • Intermediate Russian (RUSS 103-104)
  • Advanced Russian (RUSS 201-202)
  • Dostoevsky and His Age (RUSS 305/COMP 305)
  • Tolstoy and His Age (RUSS 306/COMP 306)

  • [Education]:

  • B.A., Grinnell College
  • M.A. and Ph.D., Stanford University

  • [Recent Publications]:

  • “Of Dandies, Flirts, and Cockatoos:  Shakhovskoi’s Antitheatrical  Lesson to Coquettes.”  The Russian Review 65, no. 3 (July 2006):  393-416.

  • Kirov and Death in The Great Citizen:  The Fatal Consequences of Linguistic Mediation.”  Slavic Review 64, no. 4 (Winter 2005):  799-822.
  • “Alcohol is Our Enemy!  Soviet Temperance Melodramas of the 1920s.”  In Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, eds., Imitations of Life:  Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia (Durham:  Duke University Press, 2002), 152-177.

  • The Enemy on Trial:  Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen.  DeKalb, IL:  Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.

  • [Awards]:

  • Gaudino Scholar, 2006-2008.
  • Williams College Faculty World Fellowship for travel to and research in Russia, 2004.