Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions
"Dostoevsky in English Translation and Other Related Matters"
- Conference: "Dostoevsky in Translation"
· May 28, 2021
Keynote/Named Lecture
RGGU/IMLI,
Moscow
"Ascetism and Incontinence: Dostoevsky's Gift of Tears"
- F. M. Dostoevsky: Humor, Paradoxality, Deconstructoin
· May 27, 2021
Keynote/Named Lecture
University of Verona; University of Genoa,
Genoa, Italy (online)
"O Dostoevskom v Amerike"
- Aktual'nyi Dostoevskii
· April 27, 2021
Keynote/Named Lecture
Bashkir State University,
Ufa, Russia (online)
Russian literature during hard times
- Russian LIterature Week
· December 2020
- January 2021
Broadcast Appearance
Read Russia,
https:online
"Translations of Crime and Punishment in a Russian Literature Classroom"
- VI International Congress of Translators of Russian Literature
· November 13, 2020
International Meeting or Conference
Russian Institute of Translatoin,
Moscow (online)
“On Dostoevsky and Lermontov”
· November 22, 2015
Other
ASEEES,
San Antonio, Texas
NADS Panel.
“Chekhov and Religion"
· March 9, 2015
Invited Talk
UC Berkeley
Invited lecture
“”Братья Карамазовы” Достоевского в английском переводе”
· September 6, 2014
Invited Talk
III Международный конгресс переводчиков художественной литературы, Москва, года. By invitation (presentation in Russian).
Тайные религиозные темы в прозе Чехова (Hidden Religious Themes in Chekhov’s Prose)
· June 3, 2014
- June 7, 2014
Lecture
Melikhovo, Russia,
Conference: “A Chekhovian Map of the World” (presentation in Russian).
«Метафоры одиночного заключения в «Записках из подполья»»
· March 22, 2014
Lecture
Staraya, Russa
Старорусские чтения (presentation in Russian).
“Serving Time: Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground"
· March 2014
Lecture
Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island
“Teaching Chekhov"
· 2014
Other
AATSEEL,
Chicago, Illinois
Roundable.
“Translation of the Russian Classics”
· 2014
Other
ASEEES,
San Antonio, Texas
Roundtable (organizer and chair).
Dostoevsky's Demonic Narrator
· November 2013
Invited Talk
ASEEES,
Boston, MA
Also, discussant: “New Views of Dostoevsky Classics.”
On Translation of New Russian Prose, SCSS
· March 2013
Lecture
SCSS,
Greensboro, NC
Invited Lecture
“Constance Garnett’s Brothers Karamazov”
· November 1, 2012
Lecture
University of Virginia
“Translatability of Language and Culture in Very New Russian Prose”
· October 3, 2012
- October 7, 2012
Lecture
ALTA,
Rochester, NY
Invited Lecture
“Толстой в переводе Констанс Гарнетт»
· August 1, 2012
Lecture
Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
“Prophecy in Dostoevsky’s ‘Peasant Marei’”
· March 2012
Lecture
SCSS,
Savannah, GA
Invited Lecture
«О пророчестве в «Дневнике писаетля» и «Сне смешного человека» (On Prophecy in the Diary of a Writer and The Dream of the Ridiculous Man)
· November 12, 2011
Lecture
Dostoevsky Museum, St.Petersburg
«О пророчестве в «Дневнике писаетля» и «Сне смешного человека» (On Prophecy in the Diary of a Writer and The Dream of the Ridiculous Man) XXXVI International Readings: “Dostoevsky and World Culture,” Dostoevsky Museum, St. Petersburg,,12 November 2011 (presented in Russian).
“Translating Tolstoy: The State of the Art”
· March 2011
Lecture
SCSS,
Alexandria, VA
Also served as a discussant on a panel about contemporary Russian literature.
Gained in Translation: Chekhov's 'Lady'
· December 3, 2010
Lecture
Ohio State University: Chekhov on Stage and Page
Does the Translation Matter?
· October 29, 2010
Lecture
Columbia University
I Gotta be Мы: The Plot of the Egotistical Pronoun in Dostoevsky's 'Notes from Underground'
- International Dostoevsky Symposium
· July 21, 2010
Lecture
Naples, Italy
Lecture
“Teaching Russian Literature in the Twenty-First Century”
· March 2009
Other
SCSS,
Charlottesville, VA
Roundtable (organizer and chair),
Chekhov’s Non-Prosaics: Creation and Apocalypse
· 2009
Lecture
AATSEEL,
Philadelphia
Lecture
The Girls
· November 2008
Lecture
AAASS,
Philadelphia
Invited Lecture
“Veiled Sacrament in The Idiot: The Holbein Christ and Ippolit’s Confession”
- “F.M. Dostoevsky in the Context of Cultural Dialogues”
· July 4, 2007
Lecture
The XIIIth Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society,
Budapest
“Twentieth-Century Russian Literature at the Crossroads of History”
· March 23, 2007
Other
SCSS,
Montgomery, AL
Discussant.
“Responses to Rousseau: Dostoevsky and Pomialovsky”
· November 17, 2006
Lecture
AAASS,
Washington, D.C.
“Russian Literature in Translation”
· June 1, 2006
Invited Talk
Russian State Humanities University
Seminar.
“Russian Literature in Translation”
· May 30, 2006
Invited Talk
Moscow State University
Seminar.
“Новые переводы классики” (New Translations of Classics)
- “Russian Language in Translation"
· May 15, 2006
Invited Talk
Russian State Humanities University, Moscow
Presented in Russian.
“How Chekhov’s ‘Grasshopper’ Became a Butterfly, and Vice Versa,”
· March 24, 2006
Lecture
SCSS,
Columbia, SC
“Chekhov in the Afterworld: The Life of Translations” and “Chekhov the Immigrant Translating a Cultural Icon.”
- NEH Symposium
· October 8, 2004
- October 9, 2004
Invited Talk
Colby College,
Waterville, ME
Translation roundtable with Peter Constantine, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky.
“Demons of Translation: The Strange Path of Dostoevsky’s Novels into the English Tradition”
- The XII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society
· September 1, 2004
- September 6, 2004
Lecture
Geneva
“Смерть автора и продолжающаяся жизнь текста” (The Death of the Author and the Ongoing Life of the Text)
- International conference commemorating the Chekhov centennial
· June 25, 2004
- June 29, 2004
Lecture
Melikhovo, Russia
Presented in Russian.
“The Legacy of Chekhov”
- Blackburn Literary Festival
· February 21, 2004
Lecture
Duke University
A panel with writers Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Morgan (I co-organized this
event).
event).
“The Uses of Imprisonment: Ironies and Paradoxes in Notes from the Dead House”
· November 2003
Lecture
AAASS,
Toronto
“Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg: Grammar, Spirit, and the Enigma of Character”
- "St. Petersburg: Three Centuries of Music, Art, Literature, and Culture”
· September 2003
Lecture
Duke Unbiversity,
Durham, NC
“Anna Karenina: Translation, Literalism and the Life of Art”
· March 2003
Lecture
SCSS,
Savannah
Also at this conference I chaired a panel and served as discussant on another.
"The Dangers of Idolatry: Dostoevsky’s Demons”
· December 30, 2002
Lecture
AATSEEL,
New York, NY
"Asceticism, Incontinence, and the Gift of Tears"
· November 16, 2001
Lecture
AAASS,
Arlington, VA
Slavic Panel
- National Conference
· October 25, 2001
Other
American Literary Translators' Association,
Raleigh, NC
Organizer and Chair.
"The Leap into Action: Idleness, Reticence and True Love"
- The XI Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society
· October 5, 2001
Lecture
Baden-Baden, Germany
"Purging Bad Money: Dostoevsky's The Gambler" (the Cambridge paper)
· March 22, 2001
Invited Talk
University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA
"On Fantasy and Evil: Martin Buber and Dostoevsky"
· March 2, 2001
Lecture
SCSS,
Alexandria, VA
"The Mothers Karamazov"
· December 2000
Lecture
AATSEEL,
Washington, D.C.
"The Spirit of St. Petersburg: White Nights"
· November 2000
Lecture
AAASS,
Denver, CO
"Purging Bad Money: Dostoevsky's The Gambler"
· April 2000
Lecture
BASEES,
Cambridge
"Revenge of the Neglected Son: The Origin of Evil in Dostoevsky's Demons"
· March 2000
Lecture
SCSS,
Wilmington
Also commented on a panel on literature and exile and chaired a panel on modern Russian literature and culture.
"The Seagull: The Missing Father and the Meaning of Art"
· March 1999
Lecture
SCSS,
Richmond
Also chaired and commented on a panel on women's writing.
"Long Project Translation"
· September 15, 1998
Invited Talk
CATI
Triangle meeting.
"Poor Folk: An Allegory of Body and Mind"
- X International Dostoevsky Symposium
· July 1998
Lecture
Columbia University,
New York, NY
Also chaired two bilingual panels.
"Chekhov's Underground Man: 'An Attack of Nerves'"
· March 1998
Lecture
SCSS,
Durham, NC
"Fin de Siecle Russian Literature"
· 1998
Other
SCSS
Chair and Discussant.
"Narration as an Instrument of Martyrdom in The Brothers Karamazov"
- North American Dostoevskij Society D: The Brothers Karamazov
· December 28, 1997
Lecture
AATSEEL,
Toronto
"North American Dostoevskij Society B: Dialogue, Desire, Ethics"
· December 28, 1997
Other
AATSEEL,
Toronto
Chair.
"Creation out of Nothing: Framing the Absent Incident"
· November 22, 1997
Lecture
AAASS,
Seattle
"Art and Len"
· December 30, 1996
Lecture
AATSEEL,
Washington, D.C.
"Images of Nature in Russian Culture"
· November 16, 1996
Other
AAASS,
Boston
Chair.
“Tatiana Tolstaia’s ‘Night'"
· April 1996
Lecture
SCSS,
Asheville, NC
"Chiehofu no ‘Onna no Okoku’ ni tsuite,” Nihon Rosia Bungaku Kai Kansai Shibu Taikai (“On Chekhov’s‘A Woman’s Kingdom’”)
- Western Japan Section Conference of the Japanese Russian Literature Association
· December 16, 1995
Lecture
Kobe University,
Kobe, Japan
Presented in Japanese.
"The Limits to the Flesh: Searching for the Soul of Chekhov’s ‘A Boring Story"
· October 29, 1995
Lecture
AAASS,
Washington, D.C.
CATI Interpreter Training Workshop
· September 17, 1994
Lecture
Chapel Hill, NC
Speaker and Instructor.
“For Want of a Man: The Emptiness at the Heart of Chekhov’s ‘A Woman’s Kingdom"
· March 1994
Lecture
\Norfolk, VaA
“The Christ Hidden in Notes from Underground"
· December 1992
Lecture
AATSEEL,
New York, NY
“On translating Satoko Kizaki"
· December 1992
Lecture
North Carolina Japan Center,
Raleigh, NC
A talk presented at a panel discussion.
“The Child in Russian Literature"
· December 1991
Other
AATSEEL,
San Francisco, CA
Panel chair.
Conference on the Teaching of Russian
· May 1990
Other
Carolina Chapter of AATSEEL,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Initiator and chair.
"The Myth of the 'Golden Age:' Childhood and the Pastoral in Nineteenth - Century Russian Literature"
· October 13, 1989
Lecture
SCSS,
Charlottesville, VA
"Public and Private Childhood"
· January 30, 1989
Lecture
AATSEEL,
Washington, D.C.
Panel Discussion on Modern Japanese Literature
· 1989
Other
North Carolina Japan Center
Spring.
"Справляясь с учебником Русский язык. Этап первый"
- US-USSR Summer Exchange of Language Teachers
· August 1988
Lecture
Moscow State University
Presented in Russian.
"Popular Songs and Elementary Japanese Conversation"
· February 12, 1988
Lecture
SEATJ,
Durham, NC
"Romanticism and Seminary Heroes in Mid-Nineteenth Century Russian Literature"
- The 1987 Convention of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
· October 23, 1987
Lecture
"Активное использование русского языка в аудитории"
- US-USSR Summer Exchange of Language Teachers
· August 1981
Lecture
Moscow State University
Presented in Russian.
Service to the Profession
Administrator, North American Dostoevsky Society Facebook page
·
2015
Community Outreach
www.facebook.com/North.American.Dostoevsky.Society
Editorial Board
·
2014
Editorial Activities
Неизвестный Достоевский
External reviewer for promotion
·
2014
Consulting
XX, spring
Graduate Advising
·
May 2013
Committee Service
SUNY Binghamton
Outside Examiner, PhD: Natallia Beliakova, “Reading Dostoevsky’s Madmen from the Translator’s Point of View.”
Editorial Board, Slavic and East European Journal
·
2013
Editorial Activities
International member
·
2013
Other
Expert Council for Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, Law and Scholarship, Russian Fund for the Humanities
External reviewer for tenure
·
2013
Other
XX, fall
External reviewer for promotion
·
2013
- 2014
Other
XX, fall - winter
President
·
2013
Administration
North American Dostoevsky Society
External reviewer for promotion
·
2013
Other
XX, spring
Interview, NPR program "On Point with Tom Ashbrook"
·
November 20, 2012
Community Outreach
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/11/20/anna-karenina
Debate contributor , "Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? 8 Experts on WHo's Greater"
·
April 2012
Community Outreach
http://www.themillions.com/2012/04/tolstoy-or-dostoevsky-8-experts-on-whos-greater.html
Consulting reviewer , Russian for Dummies, 2nd Edition
·
2012
Consulting
Editorial Board, Dostoevsky Studies
·
2011
- 2015
Other
Program Committee: Chekhov on Stage and Page
·
December 2, 2010
- December 4, 2010
Administration
Columbus, Ohio
Book Club
·
2010
- 2015
Other
Kendal Retirement Community
Discussions of Russian literary classics with the book club of Kendal Retirement Community, Granville, Ohio, January 2010-present (sessions on Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, Chekhov stories, and Fathers and Children).
Member : SCSS Board
·
September 18, 2009
Editorial Activities
Tutor, English as a Second Language
·
2008
Community Outreach
Weekly English as a second language tutoring for the Durham: team-taught the intermediate Class, every Wednesday evening, 6:30-8:30 p.m. through the fall semester, 2008.
Executive Council
·
2006
- 2011
Administration
SCSS
External reviewer for tenure
·
2006
Consulting
XX, Fall
Invited outside reviewer , Russian and East European Studies program
·
March 2005
Consulting
Wake Forest University
Program Committee
·
2005
- 2006
Committee Service
SCSS
Editorial Board
·
2004
- 2015
Administration
North American Chekhov Society
Publications Committee
·
2002
- 2004
Committee Service
AATSEEL
Awards Committee
·
2002
- 2015
Committee Service
SCSS
Reader for ALTA Tranlation Prize
·
2002
Editorial Activities
ALTA
Heldt Translation Prize Committee
·
2001
- 2004
Committee Service
AWSS
Reader
·
1999
- 2015
Editorial Activities
Northwestern University Press
Reader [ongoing] for Northwestern University Press, Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Review, Slavic Review, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, D.ostoevsky Studies,
and Focus Publishing; MLA’s Teaching World Literature series. Reviewer of abstracts
for the AATSEEL Annual Meetings, 1999; 2000, 2004-present. An average of 3-4 peer
reviews annually.
and Focus Publishing; MLA’s Teaching World Literature series. Reviewer of abstracts
for the AATSEEL Annual Meetings, 1999; 2000, 2004-present. An average of 3-4 peer
reviews annually.
Presenter , “Amerika no seikatsu” (Life in America)
·
December 20, 1995
Community Outreach
“Amerika no seikatsu” (Life in America), presented to the fourth grade of Nishinomiya Koroen Elementary School, Nishinomiya, Japan, December 20, 1995 (presented in Japanese);
Volunteer Interpreter , Community organizations
·
1994
Community Outreach
Volunteer interpreting for various community organizations (e.g.: Sister Cities, Writers, Hospitals and the Duke Community). date is approximate
Lecturer and Interpretor , Community programs
·
1993
Community Outreach
Lecturing and Interpreting for the community, including the program “Building a Soul,” connected with the Durham-Kostroma Writers’ Exchange; the date here is approximate.
Speaker, “Russian Advertising and Current Russian Culture”
·
1992
Community Outreach
“Russian Advertising and Current Russian Culture” A talk presented with television advertisements on videotape at Salem College, spring 1992;
Speaker, "Nihon to Amerika no kyoiku no kurabe” (Comparing American and Japanese Education)
·
May 18, 1991
Community Outreach
Nihon to Amerika no kyoiku no kurabe,” (Comparing American and Japanese Education): a lecture (1 1/2 hours) at Seirei Kindergarten, Nagoya, Japan, May 18, 1991 (presented in Japanese).
President
·
1989
- 1990
Administration
Carolinas Chapter of AATSEEL
Service to Duke
President, North American Dostoevsky Society (Other)
·
December 13, 2012
Committee Service
Committee on Early Undergraduate Engagement (University)
·
2012
- 2015
Committee Service
Duke University
2012 - present
Writer & co-writer , Duke Chronicle
·
2010
- 2014
Community Outreach
Biweekly column in the Duke Chronicle (the student newspaper), “Speaking of Humanities,” co-written with other humanities faculty members, spring 2014; individual column, fall
2013; academic year 2010-11 (title: “WWDD: What Would Dostoevsky Do?”); Spearheaded an expansion of the column to include other faculty in residence (“The Professor Next Door”), spring 2011; other op-ed contributions to the Chronicle in previous years (on faculty-student interaction; summer reading selection): http://www.dukechronicle.com/staff/Carol%20Apollonio.
2013; academic year 2010-11 (title: “WWDD: What Would Dostoevsky Do?”); Spearheaded an expansion of the column to include other faculty in residence (“The Professor Next Door”), spring 2011; other op-ed contributions to the Chronicle in previous years (on faculty-student interaction; summer reading selection): http://www.dukechronicle.com/staff/Carol%20Apollonio.
Duke Chapel build, Habitat for Humanity
·
2009
Community Outreach
Duke University
Community Service; volunteering on the Duke Chapel Carroll St. project site, fall 2009.