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ADFL Executive Committee Elections
EACH of the nine members of the Executive Committee serves for three years; three members are elected each fall. Retiring from the committee this year are Michael Katz (Middlebury Coll.), Phyllis Larson (Saint Olaf Coll.), and Geraldine Nichols (Univ. of Florida). The committee has nominated two candidates for contests in each of the categories in which there is a vacancy; contests this year have been designed to ensure continued representation in specific languages as well as department types. The newly elected members will serve for terms extending from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2005. ADFL members whose dues have been received by Monday, 18 November 2002, will be eligible to vote in the election; the deadline for the receipt of ballots is Monday, 2 December. Voting this year will be online at www.adfl.org, except in cases where a paper ballot is specifically requested (adfl@mla.org). Instructions for voting will be distributed by mail and followed by a reminder on the ADFL e-mail discussion list. Election results will be announced on the Web site and in the Winter issue of the ADFL Bulletin. Brief biographical summaries of the candidates follow.
Contest 1: PhD-Granting Departments in Russian
Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, assoc. prof. of Russian and comparative literature and chair, Dept. of Russian, Bryn Mawr Coll. BA, Harvard Univ.; MA, PhD, Yale Univ. Affiliated with Bryn Mawr since 1991. Previously assist. prof. of Slavic languages and literatures, Yale Univ., 1984–91. Served as undergraduate and graduate adviser, chair of five faculty search committees, chair of ad hoc committee on teaching assistants, cochair of task force on graduate education. Member of comparative literature steering committee, undergraduate awards committee, faculty grants and awards committee, and graduate council. Member of Executive Council of Member Institutions, American Assn. for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and of editorial board, Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature. Member AAASS, AATSEEL, ACTR. Research interests: 18th- and 19th-century Russian and European literature, cultural periodization, literary theory, and relation of narrative and ethics. Books: Beyond Realism: Turgenev’s Poetics of Secular Salvation (1992) and “A Fallen Idol Is Still a God: Mikhail Lermontov and the Twilight of Romanticism” (in progress); articles include “Unmasking Lermontov’s Masquerade: Romanticism as Ideology,” “Lermontov’s ‘Not-Byronism’: A Reconsideration,” “Turgenev’s Last Will and Testament: Poems in Prose,” and “Turgenev’s Narrative Voices”; editor of The Essential Turgenev (1994); coeditor of Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert Louis Jackson (1995); contributor to The Columbia World of Quotations (1996) and The Encyclopedia of the Novel (1998).
Galya Diment, prof. of Russian and chair, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Univ. of Washington, Seattle. BA, Leningrad Hertzen Pedagogical Inst.; MA, Claremont Graduate School; PhD, UC Berkeley. Affiliated with Univ. of Washington since 1989; assoc. prof. 1994, prof. since 1999. Acting chair, 2000–02, graduate adviser, 1994–2000. Previously affiliated with Univ. of California, Berkeley and Davis. President, Univ. of Washington Chapter of American Association of Univ. Professors (AAUP), 1997–99; member, National AAUP Committee on Government Relations, 2000–03. President, International Vladimir Nabokov Society, 2000–02. Prescreener, ACLS, 1989–94. Editorial boards: Studies in Russian and European Literature, Nabokov Studies. Recipient of several university research and scholarship awards; teaching fellow at the Univ. of Washington Center for the Humanities, 1997–98; recipient of a Council on Educational Development Instructional Improvement grant. Past and current membership: AAASS, AATSEEL, MLA, International Vladimir Nabokov Soc., Leo Tolstoy Soc. Fields: Russian and comparative literature (English, American), modernism, Nabokov, early Russian and Soviet film, Jewish studies. Books: Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, ed. (1993); The Autobiographical Novel of Co-consciousness: Goncharov, Woolf, and Joyce (1994); Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel (1997); Goncharov’s Oblomov: A Critical Companion, ed. (1998). Thirty articles on Russian 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture and comparative literature.
Contest II: PhD-Granting Departments in Spanish
Malcolm Alan Compitello, prof. of Spanish and head, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona since 1995. BA, MA, Saint Johns Univ.; PhD, Indiana Univ. Michigan State Univ. 1977–95; assoc. prof., prof., graduate adviser, assoc. chair, romance and classical languages. Served at Michigan State Univ. and serves at Univ. of Arizona on numerous university committees. Executive editor, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. Editorial positions on the American Hispanist and An Annual Bibliography of Post-Civil War Spanish Fiction. Grants include Fulbright Grant to Spain 1971–72; Principal Investigator NEH Focus Grant to Study K–16 Articulation of Foreign Language Study, 1997–98; MLA High School to College Articulation Project, 1998–99. Served on US-Spain Joint Committee for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1983–84. Manuscript reviewer for several publishing houses. External evaluator and reviewer of credentials for promotion procedures for many universities. ACTFL Proficiency Workshop, 1998; consultant, Arizona Teaching Proficiency Assessment, 1998– ; and Arizona Foreign Language Articulation Taskforce, 1998– . Fields: Hispanic cultural studies, modern and contemporary Hispanic literature, Spanish language, modern Spanish history, Spanish dramatic production, and Hispanic film. Books: Ordering the Evidence: Volverás a Región and Civil War Fiction (1983); Critical Approaches to the Writings of Juan Benet (1984); Rewriting the “Good Fight”: Critical Essays on the Literature of the Spanish Civil War (1989); “Madrid: De Fortunata a la M:40: Cien años de cultura urbana” (forthcoming). Numerous articles, reviews, lectures, and conference papers.
John Lipski, prof. of Spanish and linguistics and head, Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Pennsylvania State Univ. BA, Rice Univ.; MA, PhD, Univ. of Alberta. Affiliated with Penn State since 2000. Previously chair, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Univ. of New Mexico. Also taught at Univ. of Florida, Univ. of Houston, and Michigan State Univ. Served as undergraduate and graduate advisor, chair of college tenure and promotion committee, basic Spanish coordinator, chair of college task force on training and placement of teaching assistants, reviewer for many tenure and promotion cases and external program reviews. Member of provost’s Academic Leadership Forum planning committee to organize seminars for department heads. Editor, Hispanic Linguistics; assoc. editor, Hispania, for theoretical linguistics, 1996–2002; editorial board, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Papia, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, and Torre de Papel. Research on linguistics in Central America, Canary Islands, Philippines, and the Caribbean supported by the Fullbright Foundation, NEH, the US Dept. of Education, and the Spanish government. Conducted field research on every continent and taught seminars in Honduras, Spain, Uruguay, Korea, Philippines, Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, El Salvador. Member of AATSP, MLA, ADFL. Research interests include dialectology, bilingualism and language contact, creole languages, Afro-Hispanic linguistics, phonological theory. Author of more than 150 articles on subjects including Spanish and general phonological theory, Creoles and Afro-Hispanic language behavior, bilingualism, applied linguistics, Hispanic syntax, and literary theory. Author of ten books, including Latin American Spanish (also translated into Spanish and Japanese); The Language of the Isleños of Louisiana; The Speech of the Negros Congos of Panama (1989); The Spanish of Equatorial Guinea; Fonética y fonología del español de Honduras; Linguistic Aspects of Spanish-English Language Switching; “Varieties of Spanish in the United States” (forthcoming).
Contest III: BA-Granting Departments
Janet Ikeda, assoc. prof. of Japanese and chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Washington and Lee Univ. BA, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa; MA, Princeton Univ.; PhD, Princeton Univ. Affiliated with Washington and Lee Univ. since 1999; chair since 2002. Previously affiliated with Univ. of Virginia, Rutgers Univ., Georgetown Univ., and Princeton Univ. Served on Teaching Learning Resource Group; Committee on International Educ.; Academic Computing Advisory Committee. Univ. Scholars and Honor Scholar interviewer. Cohosted the Fifth Virginia Japanese Pedagogy Workshop and participated in several other Japanese pedagogy workshops. Honors and awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Japan Foundation Research Grant, Glenn Grant, Univ. of Virginia Sesquicentennial Fellowship. Member: Assn. of Asian Studies, Assn. of Teachers of Japanese, Phi Beta Kappa. Fields: Premodern and modern Japanese literature, modern and classical Japanese language, Japanese cultural history, Japanese tea ceremony. Numerous conference papers, presentations, and demonstrations. Many book reviews and scholarly works published in Chanoyu Quarterly, Choice, and other publications.
Edith Krause, prof. of Modern Languages and chair, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Angelo State Univ. Staatsexamen, Univ. of Heidelberg; MA, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada; PhD, New York Univ. (NYU). Affiliated with Angelo State Univ. since 1999. Previously affiliated with Moorhead State Univ. as chair, Dept. of Languages; Columbia Univ.; Hunter College; and NYU. Served as chair of East Asian Studies Major Program Development Committee; search committee, Dept. of Languages; and Grade Appeals Committee, at Moorhead. Has served as consultant reader for the German Quarterly, Publications of the Modern Language Association. Founded and coordinated Colloquium on Feminist Literary Theory, Moorhead State Univ., 1993–96. Recipient of various grants, including King Juan Carlos Fellowship of Univ. of Minnesota and a Dissertation Fellowship from NYU. Participation in Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, and other conferences. Member: MLA, ACTFL, AATG, Texas Foreign Lang. Assn. Fields: German language; scientific German; German culture and civilization; 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century German literature; German drama; poetic realism. Teaching experience in German, French, and Spanish. Books: Theodor Fontaine: Eine rezeptionsgeschichtliche und übersetzungskritische Untersuchung (1989). Articles in Germanic Review, German Quarterly, Germanic Notes, and other publications.
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