Masha Belyavski-Frank


Department of Modern Languages
315 East College
DePauw University
Greencastle, Indiana 46135
office: (765)-658-4749
e-mail: belyavsk@depauw.edu

EDUCATION

1976-83 Ph.D., Slavic languages and literatures, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Major field of concentration: South Slavic and Russian linguistics. Minor field of concentration: Russian literature.
1980-81 University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (Fulbright Grant for dissertation research)
1973-76 M.A., Russian, Middlebury College Russian Summer School, (summers) Middlebury, Vermont
1969-73 B.A., cum laude, Russian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
1972 University of Leningrad (semester, CIEE Exchange Program)

TEACHING TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor of Russian (all levels, reading, literature, and culture). DePauw University, 1996 Assistant Professor of Russian, DePauw University 1992-96
Assistant Professor of Russian (first, third- and fourth-year, Russian reading, stylistics, culture). Macalester College, 1989-1992
Assistant Professor of Russian (all levels), T.A. Coordinator, The Ohio State University, 1985-89
Lecturer in First- and Second-Year Russian, Advanced Russian Conversation, Southern Illinois University, 1984-85
Lecturer in First-Year Russian, University of Chicago, 1983-84
Lecturer in First-Year Serbo-Croatian, University of Chicago, 1982-83
Tutor in Slovenian and Second-Year Serbo-Croatian, 1983

TEACHING AT DEPAUW

RUS 121, 122 (Elementary Russian I, II)
RUS 221, 222 (Intermediate Russian I, II)
RUS 324 (Topics) (Advanced Russian)
RUS 324 (Topics) (Russian Fairy-tales and Folklore)
RUS 324 (Topics) (The Art of Translation)
RUS 324 (Topics) (Independent Readings with individual students)
RUS 224 (Selected Readings)
RUS 263 (Spoken Russian)
ML 300 (Russian Culture: From Icons to Fabergé)
ML 301 (Twentieth-Century Russian Culture)
ML 325 (Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature)
ML 326 (Twentieth-Century Russian Literature)

TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Russian: Language, history and structure of language, 19th- and 20th-century literature, culture, folklore
  • Serbo-Croation, Bulgarian, and Macedonian: Language, history and structure of language, South Slavic literature, culture, and folklore
  • Old Church Slavonic, Comparative Slavic linguistics, General linguistics
  • Women's Studies, European Studies
  • Jewish Studies, Film Studies

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

DISSERTATION

"The 'Balkan Conditional' in Dialectal Serbo-Croatian: A Semantic and Syntactic Study." The dissertation analyses the semantics and development of modal expressions with the imperfect of htjeti ("to want") in dialectal Serbo Croatian, with respect to the development of similar constructions in other South Slavic and non-Slavic Balkan languages. Dissertation advisor: Zbigniew Golab

ACADEMIC HONORS

  • Summer Research Grant to develop a course on Russian and East European Cinema (2003
  • Faculty Fellowship (2003-2005) on linguistic developments in the Balkans
  • Summer Research Grant to develop the First-Year SEminar on Europoean Literature of the Absurd (2001)
  • Fisher Time-Out to develop Women's Studies course (Fall 2000)
  • Faculty Development Sabbatical GRant for research in Boxnia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Russia (1999-2000)
  • Grant from the Faculty Development Committe for research and seminar in Eastern Europe, summer 1997
  • Grant from the Faculty Development Committee for work on ms., 1995
  • Fisher Time-Out Grant to complete and revise ms. in Slavic linguistics granted fall 1994 (for fall 1995)
  • Summer Research Associate, The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, July, 1984, June, 1985, June 1987, and June, 1989
  • Research Associate, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, The Ohio State University, August, 1985
  • Fulbright Grant, 1980-81 (Dissertation research in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia)
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Middlebury College, 1973
    CIEE Semester Exchange Program, Leningrad, 1972

TRAVEL GRANTS

Grants from DePauw University to present papers in Toronto, Pittsburgh, and Thessaloniki, Greece, 1993-1994
Wallace Grant for research in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria and research grant from the Center for Bulgarian Studies (Sofia, Bulgaria) (May-July, 1992)
American Council of Learned Societies Travel grant to present a paper at the Sixth International Congress on Southeast European Studies in Sofia (September, 1989)
Research grant from the Center for Bulgarian Studies (Sofia, Bulgaria) for month of September, 1988
Grant-in-aid from the College of Humanities, including a grant from the Research and Graduate Administration, OSU, to present a paper at the Tenth International Congress of Slavists and to conduct research in Bulgaria (Fall 1988)
Grant from IREX to attend the Bulgarian Summer Seminar for Slavists in Sofia (1986)
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant to present a paper at the Fifth International Congress on Southeast European Studies in Belgrade (1984)
Grants from the Yugoslav Government to attend summer seminars in Serbo-Croatian (1980) and Macedonian (1978, 1980, 1983)
Grant from the Macedonian Government to attend summer seminar in Macedonian (1997)

PUBLICATIONS

  • "Inovacioni sintaksic^ki procesi vo dva makedonski govora," (Innovative syntactic processes in two Macedonian dialects), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Academic Discussion (Ohrid, Yugoslavia, 1983) 12 pp.
  • "The Pattern of Some (Mainly) Morphological Features in South Serbian Dialects,"Makedonski jazik XXXIV, 1983, pp. 213-230
  • "The Status of Three Modal Auxiliaries in Balkan Slavic and Romance," American Contributions to the Fifth International Congress on Southeast European Studies, Slavica Publishers, 1984, pp.39-52
  • "Constructions with da plus the imperfect, aorist, or -1 participle," Folia Slavica, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1986, pp. 347-361
  • "The Semantics of the 'Balkan Conditional, in Dialectal Serbo-Croatian," Folia Slavica, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 7-28
  • Book review of Kramer's Analytic Modality in Macedonian, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Dec. 1987, pp. 464-465
  • "Changes in Markedness of Verbal Categories in Two South Slavic Languages," American Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists, (Sofia, 1988) Slavica Publishers, pp. 35-44.
  • "Narrative Use of Tense in Serbo-Croatian and Russian," Slavic and East European Journal,Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 115-132
  • "Narrative Forms in Past-Tense Contexts for Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian," (submitted to SEEJ), 23 pp.
  • "On the Use of the Aorist in Serbo-Croatian Translations," (to be submitted to Juznoslovenski filolog)
  • "Russian Modal Constructions," (to be submitted to Die Welte Slaven)
  • The South Slavic Balkan Conditional (sample chapters submitted to Slavistische Beitrage; book offer made 1994)
  • "On the Use of the Aorist in Regional Serbo-Croatian," to Festschrift in honor of Zbignew Golab, 22 pp., May 1997 (also editor and translator of Festschrift)
  • "On the Use of Turkisms in Twentieth-Century Macedonian Literature,"Slavica Publishers (forthcoming, 15 pp.)
  • "On the Use of Turkisms in Bosnian Literature After 1992," Of All The Slavs My Favorites: In Honor of Howard Arsonson. Indiana Slavic STudies, Vol. 12: 43-56, 2001.
  • "The Use of Turkisms in Contemporary Macedonian," IV Makedonsko-Severnoamerikanska Slavistička konferencija za Makedonistika, Studies in Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture, Skopje, Macedonia, 271-290, 2002.
  • On the Use of Verbal Tense for Narration in Bosnian Questionnaires" (to be submitted)
  • "Turkisms in the Rcent Bosnian Media" (to be submitted)
  • Review of A Dictionary of Turkisms in Bulgarian (Grannes, Hauge, Suleymanoglu), Novus Forlag: Oslog, 2002 583 pp. (forthcoming in Balkanistica)
  • Book: The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic: A Semantic and Syntactic Study. Slavsticsche Beitrage 421. Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2003. 310 pp.

PEDAGOGY AND FOLKLORE

  • "Some Aspects of Moslem Culture in Bosnia-Hercegovina,": Viltis (journal on folklore), Jan. 1983, p. 5-12
  • Russian for Everybody: A Supplement to the Baker Edition, Parts 1 and 11 (1986), Part I (1987), by Gerard L. Ervin, revised and expanded by Masha Belyavski-Frank, Kinko's Publishing
  • Russian for Everybody: A Supplement to the Baker Edition, Part IV, Kinko's Publishing (1987)
  • Supplement to Davis & Oiorendek's Making Progress in Russian, Parts I and II, Kinko's Publishing (1988)
  • Russian Speller, Kinko's Publishing, (1988)
  • "Translation of 'Mari Marijko' (Bulgarian folk song)," Tapestry Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 1990
  • "Macedonian Wedding Customs," Tapestry Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, August, 1990, pp. 3-5
  • "Translation of 'Ajde, Lepa Maro' (Serbian folk song)," The Tapestry Spinner, Vol. 2, No. 2, July, 1991, p. 5
    "On Some Themes in Lazarke Songs from Serbia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria," (to be submitted)
  • "Women's Roles in Lazarke Songs' (to be submitted) Russian Speller, Kinko's Publishing,(1988)
  • Integrare (multi-language and arts journal by DePauw students, editor (with T. Jiménez-Vergara, F. Coulont-Henderson), May 1999

LITERARY TRANSLATIONS

  • "A Woman and A Secret," by Safeta Obhođaš. (short story translated from Bosnian) (to be submitted as part of proposed anthology of recent Bosnian literature.)
  • "Roses On the Road", by Damir Uzunović (short story translated from Bosnian) (to be submitted as part of proosed anthology of recent Bosnian literature.)
  • "Wedding of the Dead," by Asja Todorović. (play translated from Croatian) (to be submitted as part of proposed anthology of recent Balkan literature.)

PAPERS READ

  • "The Semantics of Some Modal Expressions in Serbo-Croatian Moslem Oral Poetry," AATSEEL Annual meeting,Chicago, December 28, 1982
  • "Inovacioni sintaksic^ki procesi vo dva makedonski govora," Tenth Annual Academic Discussion, 0hrid, Yugoslavia, August 15, 1983
  • "An Instance of Semantic/Syntactic Markedness in South Slavic: The Dative as a Possessive Marker,"AAASS National Conference, Kansas City, October 24, 1983
  • "The South Slavic Imperfect in Non-Past Semantic Contexts , AATSEEL Annual Meeting, New York, December 27, 1983
  • "Da Plus the Imperfect, Aorist and -1 Participle in South Slavic," Balkan Conference, Chicago, March 24, 1984
  • "The Status of Three Modal Auxiliaries in Balkan Slavic and Romance," Fifth International Congress of Southeast European Studies, Belgrade, September 13, 1984
  • "The Past Passive Participle in the Balkans," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 27, 1984
  • "Some Functions of the Aorist in Balkan Languages," Western Social Science Association/Rocky Mt. Slavic Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, April 27, 1985
  • "The Truncated Perfect and Aorist in the Balkans," Balkan conference, Bloomington, Indiana, March 6-8, 1986
  • "The Use in Narration of the Imperfect, Truncated Perfect, and Aorist," Midwest Slavic Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April, 1986
  • Chair, Balkan Panel, AATSEEL Annual Meeting, New York, December 28, 1986
  • "Modal Uses of the Past Tense in Non-Past Contexts in East and South Slavic," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, New York, December 29, 1986
  • "The Iterative in the Balkans," AAASS National Conference, Boston, November, 1987
  • "On the Modal Use of Past Tense Forms in South Slavic," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 28, 1987
  • "On the Use of the Aorist in Two Serbo-Croatian Translations, Balkan Conference, Chicago, March 24, 1988
  • "Changes in Markedness of Verbal Categories in Two South Slavic Languages," Tenth International Congress of Slavists, Sofia, September 18, 1988.
  • "On Some Problems in Serbo-Croatian Syntax," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December, 1988
  • "Alternation of Narrative Forms in Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian," Sixth international Congress of Southeast European Studies, Sofia, August 31, 1989
  • "Some Modal Constructions in Russian," Mid-West Slavic Conference, Champaign, IL, March 29, 1990
  • "Narrative Constructions in Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian, "AATSEEL Annual Conference, Chicago, Dec. 28, 1990
  • "On Some Themes in Lazarke Songs from Serbia, Bulgaria, and Macedonian" Conference on Peasant Society and Culture in Eastern Europe, Harvard University, April 2-4, 1992
  • "On Narrative Forms in Contemporary Colloquial Speech of Macedonian and Bulgarian," Balkan conference, Chicago, IL, April 9-11, 1992
  • "Doing Research in a War-Zone: Notes from the Summer of 1992," Faculty Series, September 24, 1992
  • "Women's Roles in Lazarke Songs," Women's Studies Conference, Western Kentucky University, September 25, 1993
  • "East/West Narrative Choices in Serbo-Croatian," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Toronto, December 30, 1993
  • "Choice of Tense in Bulgarian Questionnaires," Bulgarian Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, May 26, 1994
    "Turkisms in the Works of Slavko Janevski and Meto Jovanovski, Seventh AIESEE Congress (Association of South-Eastern European Studies), Thessaloniki, Greece, August 31, 1994
  • "Turkisms in the Works of Milorad Pavic´ and Vidosav Stevanovic´" (contemporary Serbian writers), Balkan Conference, Chicago, May 2-4, 1996
  • "Turkisms in Modern Macedonian Literature," Third Macedonian North American Conference on Macedonian Studies, June 12- 14, 1997, Toronto
  • "Sarajevo: Its Unique Literature and Language," Seminar on Sarajevo: A City Torn Between Tears and Laughter, March 14, 1998, Chicago
  • "Turkisms in Contemporary Macedonian," Fourth Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian, Ohrid, Macedonia, August 6, 2000
  • "On the Use of Turkisms in Bosnian Literature after 1992," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 30, 2000
  • "Sociolinguistics: The Latest from the Balkans," Faculty Research Forum, DePauw University, September 6, 2001
  • "Turkisms in the Recent Bosnian Media," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, December 30, 2001
  • "Restructuring the Language: Turkisms and Westernisms in the Bosnian Media," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, San Diego, December28, 2003 (to be read)
  • "On the Bosnian Usage of Turkism," Ninth AIESEE Conference (Association of Southeastern European Studies), Tirana, Albania, August-September 2004 (to be read)

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

As co-editor of Festschrift in Slavic and Balkan linguistics in honor of Zbigniew Golab with submissions from U.S. and foreign colleagues submitted article, edited some 14 articles and translated 3 articles (Macedonian to English, Polish-English to English) (1992-1995)
Did translations from Slovenian, Serbian, and Ukrainian into English for the Admissions Dept. (1993-1997)
Did informal consulting/translating for several colleagues, a variety of organizations on Slavic affairs (language, literature, and culture) (1992-1995)
Gave a Faculty Forum talk on research in (war-torn) Yugoslavia (September, 1992)
Gave a guest lecture for Agnes Beaudry's advanced French civilization course on cultural contacts between France and Russia in the 18th century (April, 1995)
Gave a guest lecture for DePauw trustees' wives on aspects of Russian folklore and folk material culture (April, 1995)
Gave a guest lecture for Tulia Jiménez-Vergara's Spanish Civilization Course on the culture of the Sephardic Jews, Oct. 8th, 1998
Co-editor of Integrare, (multi-language and arts journal) May, 1999
Gave guest lectures for Julia Bruggemann's Russian history course on Russian Orthodoxy and culture influences, 2000, 2002

LANGUAGES

English: native speaker
Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, French: excellent speaking, Writing, and reading ability
Bulgarian, Polish,Ladino, Slovenian, Spanish: good reading ability, knowledge of structure, fair oral understanding and speaking skills
German, Rumanian, Hebrew, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian: reading knowledge, fair oral understanding
Yiddish: fair oral understanding

MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
American Association -for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
American Association for Southeast European Studies
Bulgarian Studies Association
Slavic Folklore Society
Association for Women in Slavic Studies/Translation Registry

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

Supervision of work-study students, 1992-1999
Russian Language Coordinator, 1998-99
Supervision, mentoring of colleagues in Russian (1997-2004)
Organization, participation in searches for part-time Instructors (1995-2004)
Participation in Department searches (1999-2004)

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Proposed revisions in curriculum to expand the Russian language program, including the addition of RUS 222 (Intermediate Russian II), and ML 326 (Twentieth Century Russian Literature), Business Russian,Conversational Russian, and ML 301: Twentieth-Century Russian Culture), RUS 321 (Third-Year Russian)
Created new courses (see above)
Expanded role of reading, video, t.v. and newspapers, and journal-writing in regular language classes (l994-1998)
As a sub-committee member with Darryl Gibson, and with rest of department, planned and worked on assessment for department (1994-1996)
Served as departmental representative to the Assessment Committee (1994-1996)
Discussed long-term goals, assessment, and curriculum development with rest of Russian Studies Committee
Developed new Russian language/literature minor, 1999
Worked on Russian curriculum with Film Studies Committee, European Studies Committee, Jewish Studies Committee (2000-2004)
Added new courses from other departments to Russian Studies (Art History, Economics), Fall 2003

CAMPUS EVENTS

Russian Table, 1992-2004
Russian and East European film-showings, 1992-2004
Organizing Russian cultural and cooking sessions, 1994, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2004
Setting up and promoting Winter Term internships at Hebrew Academy in Indianapolis (computer scinece, science, ESL, art), 1994-2004
Russian-French Poetry Evening, 2003
Organized trip to Gifts to the Tsars exhibition in Indianapolis, 2001
Organized trip to Russian restaurant (Russia House), 2001
Organized trip to Russian ballet in Indianapolis, 2002
Did campus showing of Vanya on 42nd Street, followed by talk with actors from London Stage, Fall 2002
Co-sponsored talk on Russian economics by Dr. Spechler, spring 2003
Organized trip to Russian opera (first performance in the original) of Eugene Onegin, 2002
Organized visit from REEI (Russian and East European Institute at IU) to promote Russian studies, fall 2003
Film showing (co-sponsored with Film Studies of Burnt by the Sun), 2003
Film showing (co-sponsored with Film Studies of Before the Rain), spring 2004

 

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