At Williams since 1994
E-mail: Julie.A.Cassiday@williams.edu
Areas of Expertise and Interest:
-Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature
-Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
-Russian Theater and Drama
-Revolutionary Cultural Studies
Courses Taught:
-1000 Years of Russian Culture (RUSS 209)
-Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in Translation (RUSS 203)
-Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (RUSS 204)
-Tolstoy and His Age (RUSS 306)
-Senior Seminar: The Golden Age of Russian Literature (RUSS 402)
-Winter Study on Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
Education:
-M.A. Stanford University, 1990
-Ph.D. Stanford University, 1995, "The Theater of the World and the Theater of State: Drama and the Show Trial in Early Soviet Russia."
Recent Publications:
-"Marble Columns and Jupiter Lights: Theatrical and Cinematic Modeling of the Soviet Show Trial in the 1920s." Slavic and East European Journal 42,4 (1998): 640-60.
-"Flash Floods, Bedbugs and Saunas: Social Hygiene in Maiakovskii's Theatrical Satires of the 1920s." Slavonic and East European Review 76, 4 (1998): 643-57.
-"From Nevsky Prospect to 'Zoia's Apartment': Trials of the Russian Procuress." (Co-authored with Leyla Rouhi) Russian Review 58, 3 (1999): 413-31.
-"Northern Poetry for a Northern People: Text and Context in Ozerov's 'Fingal'." Forthcoming in Slavonic and East European Review.
-"The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen." Forthcoming book from Northern Illinois University Press.
Awards:
-ACTR/ACCELS Travel Grant to Moscow, Russia, on U.S. Information Agency, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs, Regional Scholar Exchange Fellowship, Summer 1996.