LINDHOLM

Igor Markovich Yefimov
named 2001 MARJORIE LINDHOLM PROFESSOR
OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE

Igor Yefimov is a writer widely read in Russia and abroad. Before he immigrated to the United States in 1978 he published four novels (two of them science fiction), two collections of short stories, a documentary novel about the Protestant Revolution in England, and a book on airplanes and aerodynamics. Since immigration, he has published several more novels, more works of philosophy and history, and a study of the Soviet economic system. He has had his work published again in Russia. On three occasions his work has been translated from English to Russian. He is a writer, publisher, historian, philosopher, and teacher, all in one.

Characteristic titles (with accent on the more recent):

	*Prakticheskaia metafizika* [Practical Metaphysics]. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1980
	"Intelligentsia and the Soviet State: A Pattern of Confrontation and Cooperation", in The Soviet Union and the Challenge of the Future (NYC:1989)
	*The Seventh Wife* [novel]. Dallas: Baskerville Publ., 1994
	*Pelagii Britanets* [a historical novel about the decline of the Roman Empire in the first half of the 5th century]. Moscow: Terra, 1999
	*Stydnaia taina neravenstva* [Shameful secret of inequality, a historical philosophical study]. Tenafly NJ: Hermitage, 1999
	"A Duel with the Tsar", Russian Review 1999 Fall [an analysis of the great poet Alexander Pushkin's duel]

CATHERINE V. CHVANY NAMED
1999 MARJORIE LINDHOLM PROFESSOR
OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE

Catherine V. Chvany, Professor Emerita, M.I.T., and an internationally recognized linguist, was born in France of Russian parents, arrived in the US during World War II and graduated from Boston's Girls' Latin School. After two years at Radcliffe College (Harvard's women's annex), she left college to learn about life in America. When her third child reached school age, she returned to Harvard, graduating with high honors in 1963 and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After finishing course work in the Harvard University doctoral program in Slavic Languages and Literatures, she taught for a year at Wellesley College and then moved to MIT, where she taught while completing her graduate work. She received the Ph.D. from Harvard in 1970. In 25 years at MIT she pursued research in Slavic syntax and poetics, retiring as Professor of Russian Studies, emerita, in 1994. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard (1982, 1995) and at the University of Paris 7 (1991), and received the first Distinguished Scholarly Career Award at the 50th anniversary meeting of AATSEEL in 1991.

Her publications include

	On the Syntax of BE-Sentences in Russian(1975), four co-edited collections, and about 100 articles and reviews
	Selected Essays of Catherine V. Chvany, edited by Professors Olga T. Yokoyama and Emily Klenin of UCLA, was awarded the prize for best book in Slavic Linguistics at the 1997 AATSEEL conference, where Professor Chvany was also honored for distinguished contributions to the profession.

She taught two courses in the UO Department of Russian in Spring Term 1999 (for example).

Helena Goscilo
Marjorie Lindholm Professor
1998 Spring Term

Helena Goscilo, Professor of Russian at the University of Pittsburgh, taught courses on "Russian Fairy Tales" and "Women in Russian Literature" and made several presentations on campus and in the Eurgene community. Professor Goscilo is a specialist on Russian and Polish women’s literature, contemporary Russian literature and culture, early nineteenth century narrative fiction, gender studies, the nineteenth century novel, and the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. She is author of

TNT: The Explosive World of Tatyana Tolstaya’s Fiction (1996). (Tatyana Tolstaya was Lindholm Professor at UO in 1995.)

She has edited and translated ten volumes of Russian literature, most recently:

	Mark Kharitonov’s Lines of Fate: A Novel (1996)
	Russia—Women--Culture (1996)
	Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood Before and After Glasnost (1996), and
	Lives in Transit: A Collection of Recent Russian Women’s Fiction (1995).