Molly Blasing

Molly Blasing holds an A.B. cum laude in Russian Literature and Culture from Harvard University and an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is completing her PhD in Slavic with a minor in Second Language Acquisition.   Her research interests include 19^th and 20^th century Russian poetry, the intersection of literature and the visual arts, contemporary Russian theater and political performance, and foreign language pedagogy.  Her dissertation research examines the influence of photography on the poetic writing of three major twentieth-century Russian poets: Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak and Joseph Brodsky.  She has spent nearly three years living, studying and working in cities throughout western Russia, most recently as a Fulbright Fellow in Moscow in 2009-2010.  Her teaching experience includes courses in Russian language, literature and culture at UW-Madison, the Davis School of Russian at Middlebury College, and Florida State University.  

Fall Courses:

• WRIT 109: Great Short Stories from Russia
• RUSS 260: Russian Folklore and Fairy Tales
• RUSS 334: Songs of Love and Loss: Russian Poetry and the Elegiac Tradition

Spring Courses:

• RUSS 102: Second Semester Russian Language
• RUSS 257: Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture 
• RUSS 343: Staging Life: Contemporary Russian Culture on Stage and Screen