Russian Language & Literature
Русский язык и русская литература в Рид–колледже

Themes of Recent Theses

2007

  • Jesse Hadden. A Foreign Affair: The Romance Tour in Post-Soviet Russia (Anthropology / Russian)
  • Hunter O'Folan. We All Think Differently?: A Translation and Analysis of Vasilii Shukshin's "Point of View"
  • Marlene Kelly. Semiotics of etiquette in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina": shifting forms of address and diglossia as markers of transgression in nineteenth century Russian aristocratic society

2006

  • Alea Adigweme. "See What a Husband You Have? You Can Make Us Some Jam": A Discussion of Marriage, Social Policy, and Culture in Abram Room's "Bed and Sofa"
  • Benjamin Boyce. Narrating Selfhood in Andrei Platonov's "Happy Moscow"
  • Hillary Brevig. Vladimir Sorokin's "Dostoevsky-Trip": Translation and Analysis
  • Lauren Pope. Where Do We Go From Here? Siberian Village Life After the Thaw

2005

  • Margaret Anderson. The Decline of Liberal Democracy in Putin's Russia (Russian / Political Science)
  • Sara Lafleur-Vetter. Russia At The "Post": Reading the Changing Role of Literature in Russia through the Prism of Post-Soviet Publishing Houses (Russian / Anthropology)
  • Daniel Lichterman. "The Headless Man": A Lifelong Literary Ambition Composed for the Desk: an Exploration of "Bricolage" and Storytelling within Isaac Babel's "Childhood Cycle" (English)
  • Jessica Sanders. "How Unfairly Writers Complain that We Don't Live in Romantic Times": Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky's "The Cuirassier"
  • Rebecca Sullivan. Iurii Olesha's "Strogii Iunosha" and the Stalinist Aesthetic

2004

  • Alison Beth Annunziata. Corporal Suffering and the Corporate Whole: An Examination of the Suffering Body-in-Text in Soviet and Post-Perestroika Narratives.
  • Rachael Horst. Cincinnatus' Criminal Intuition: The Contexts of Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading".
  • Michael Jack Rencewicz. The Children Re-Forged: "Pedagogicheskaia Poema" in its Stalinist Context.
  • Christopher Cabot Wood. Selected Poems of Dmitrii Prigov: Introduced, Translated into English and Annotated.
2003
  • Katherine Carr Chapman. In Kharms' Way.
  • Jacob Konick. The Figure of the Jew in Five Works by Anton Chekhov.
  • Jacob Alexander Ross. Aleksei Balabanov's Homme Fatal: Formulations of the Russian Hero in Response to Western Influence.
  • Angela Ann Wilson. Refashioning the Revolutionary: Conceiving "the Look" and Life of the Utopian Body.
2002
  • Catherine Eskra. The Fiery Angel[s] of Valerii Briusov and Sergei Prokofiev: Context, Technique, and Ambiguity.
  • Anastasia Kayiatos. Out of the Closet and into the Drawer: Anatomizing Evgenii Kharitonov's Queer Corpus.
  • Erin Pappas: Ideology and Metapragmatics: Speech as Trope and Representation in Two Texts by Turgenev.
  • Mara Zepeda. The Children's Curse: The Influence and Reinterpretation of Rousseau's "Emile" in the Childhood and Education of the Russian Superfluous Man.
2001
  • Sabrina Canfield. Death in the Poetry of Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin.
  • Darlene Pasieczny. Mayakovsky, Rodchenko and Deinka Walk into a Worker's Club... Vladimir Mayakovsky as Pictorial Device and the Institutional Identity of the Russian Avant-Garde. (2001 - Art History)
  • Victoria Pustynsky. Selecting a Language: The Use of "New" Vocabulary in Soviet and Post-Soviet Power Discourse.
  • Alyssa Reed. The Absurd Performance of Franz Kafka and Daniil Kharms: Experience in a Moving Universe. (2001 - General Literature: German and Russian)
  • Todd Ruhlen. A Translation of Three Stories by Victor Pelevin.
  • Ryan Stuewe. Off the Earthly Line: Death Defeats Kharms Defeats Death.
2000
  • Alexis Ruby Krock. The Urban Sublime. (2000 - General literature: English, French, Russian)
  • Meredith Catherine Safer. Edward Limonov's Eta ia, Edichka: The Poetics of Contrast.
  • Marcus Emmett Smith. Red Machine 4.0: Dziga Vertov and the Kino Eye. (2000- Master of Arts and Liberal Studies)
  • Margo Stern. Telling the Truth: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgenia Ginzburg and the Representation of the Gulag.
1999
  • Michael Kunichika. The Sanction of Epic
  • Grant Mainland. Dances of Death: Irony and Self-(de)formation in Lermontov and Blok