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Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics | Florida State University |
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Slavic Coordinator
e-mail: rromanch@mailer.fsu.edu PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999 I mostly work in the literatures of medieval Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, and Byzantium, and I have a strong research interest in modern Ukraine as well. As an Early Slavist, I specialize in the history of reading and textual interpretation (hermeneutics) and the related histories of pedagogy and bibliography in medieval eastern Europe. In 2002-03, I was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the Penn Humanities Forum (University of Pennsylvania) and participated in its year-long Research Seminar on "The Book." At FSU I teach graduate and advanced undergraduate seminars on Hermeneutics and Rhetoric of Old Rus' Literature, History of the Russian Language, and Gogol and Psychoanalytic Theory, as well as undergraduate courses in Slavic Civilization and in Russian Cinema, Literature, and Language; I am involved in Medieval Studies here, and direct the Medieval Studies Minor. My recent scholarship has focused on the recovery of monastic and other institutions of learning in Orthodox Slavic space. In my first monograph, Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North: Monks and Masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery, 1397-1501 (University of Toronto Press, 2007), I reconstruct the educational activities of the spiritual fathers and heretofore unknown schoolmasters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii (Kirillov) Monastery, which hosted perhaps the only secondary school in all of medieval Russia. In this area I have also published (inter alia): "Knizhnik Aleksandr-Oleshka Palkin i obshchezhitel'no-pedagogicheskie reformy v Kirillo-Belozerskom monastyre pri igumene Trifone (1430-e - 40-e gg.)," Knizhnye tsentry Drevnei Rusi: Kirillo-Belozerskii monastyr' (forthcoming); "The Reception of the Judaizer Corpus in Ruthenia and Muscovy: A Case Study of the Logic of Al-Ghazzali, the 'Cipher in Squares,' and the Laodicean Epistle," UCLA Slavic Studies IV (2005); and "Once Again on the Greek Workbook of Timofei Veniaminov, Fifteenth-Century Novgorod Monk," Monastic Traditions (2003). My current project is called Women's Education at the End of Byzantium: Schooling and Spirituality in the Elite Convents of Serbia-Montenegro and Constantinople, 1300-1450. Based on the records of two fourteenth- and fifteenth-century noblewomen who took the veil, Eirene-Eulogia Choumnaina Palaiologina and Jelena Balsic — including their archival and published correspondence with their spiritual advisors, and the secondary-school texts and other books that they studied — this monograph will trace the complex roles of the Orthodox princess at the convent, at once a pious nun striving for the "vision of God" and an educated aristocrat whose model was a source of inspiration and activity "in the world." I am also active in the study of post-eighteenth-century Ukrainian language and literature. My colleague Roman Koropeckyj (UCLA) and I have lately been reading the works of the great Ukrainian/Russian romantic, Nikolai Gogol, against a Lacanian psychoanalytic framework. Together we have published "Ukraine in Blackface: Performance and Representation in Gogol's Dikan'ka Tales, Book I," in Slavic Review 62 (2003), and my solo article, "Back to 'Gogol's Retreat From Love': Mirgorod as a Locus of Gogolian Perversion," will appear in the American Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists (2008). I am a co-author (with Prof. Koropeckyj and Robert De Lossa) of the first communicative textbook of Ukrainian and the first to use the contemporary linguistic standard: Rozmovljajmo! A Basic Ukrainian Course with Polylogs, Grammar, and Conversation Lessons (Slavica Publishers at Indiana University, 2005). With my colleagues M.A. Johnson (HRL/RCMSS, OSU) and Cristiano Diddi (UdiSalerno) I am co-editor of Polata Knigopisnaja: An Informational Bulletin Devoted to the Study of Early Slavic Books, Texts, and Literatures (hosted by the Knowledge Bank, The Ohio State University).
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