Amy Singleton Adams Associate Professor of Russian 454 Stein (508)793-2543 aadams@holycross.edu

• Education

  Ph.D., 1994 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

  M.A., 1989 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

  B.A., 1986 Dartmouth College. Department of Russian

  The Russian School at Norwich University, 1987 & 1988

  Alexander Hertzen Pedagogical Institute, 1985

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• Professional Experience

  Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, 1998-present

  Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, 1994-1998

  Instructor, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, 1993-1994

  Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1988-1989, 1990-1991

  Graduate Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1987-1988, 1989-1990

  Teaching Associate, Associated Academic Programs in Leningrad, University of New Hampshire, summer 1986

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• Courses
  Intermediate Russian Language
  Russian Composition & Conversation
  Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: The Pursuit of Family Happiness
  Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: The Age of Revolution
  Masterpieces of Russian Literature: A Question of Identity
  Russian Short Story I: Karamzin to Chekhov
  Short Works: Mikhail Bulgakov
  Short Works: Maksim Gorky
  Anna Akhmatova
  The Madness of Gogol
  Parody and Satire in Russian Literature: The Crisis of Home and Self
  Christianity and Russian Literature
  Fire and Ice: Siberia in Fiction
  At Home in Russian Literature
  Russian Epic and Folktale
  

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• Selected Publications

  No Place Like Home: The Literary Artist and Russia’s Search for Cultural Identity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

  “The Russian Homer: Goncharov’s Oblomov and the Mock Epic.” Against the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian Literature. Ed. Janet G. Tucker. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, Indiana University, 2002. 19-36.

  “’Turned to Stone’: Statues and the Dynamics of Protest in Akhmatova’s Poetry.” Russian Language Journal, Volume LII, Nos. 171-173 (1998): 81-98.

  “Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov.” Russian Prose Writers Between the Wars. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Christine A. Rydel, ed. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003. 23-45.

  “Nikolai Gogol.” Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Christine A. Rydel, ed. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998. 137-166.

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Last updated June 20, 2005