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Abdelwahed, Said
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Department of English, Al-Azhar University of Gaza, Gaza City, Gaza
Research: Aphra Behn: Early Fighter and Banner Holder of Women's Rights and Democracy
Duke University, Department of African and Asian Languages and Literature, Durham, NC, 27708
c/o Dr. Miriam Cooke
August 2001 - March 2002


Al-Musawi, Mushin Jassim Ali
Professor, Department of Comparative Studies, Tunis University, Tunis, Tunisia
Research: The Anxieties of Harold Bloom: Repression as a Critical Strategy
Duke University, Department of Asian and African Languages, Durham, NC, c/o Dr. Miriam Cooke
June 2001 - August 2002


Bharvani, Shakuntala
Head, Department of English, Government Law College, Churchgate, Mumbai, India
Lecturing: Indian American Literature: Women's Voices
CUNY--Graduate School and University Center, Women's Studies Certificate Program, Center for the Study of Women and Society, New York, NY, 10016
c/o Dr. Patricia T. Clough
September 2001 - December 2001


Boukharkine, Petr
Professor, Department of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lecturing: Russian Literature
University of Kansas, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Lawrence, KS, c/o Dr. Marc L. Greenberg
October 2001 - June 2002


Bruni, Francesco
Professor, Department of Italian and Romance Languages, University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Lecturing: Italian as a Literary Language: Alessandro Manzori
University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Chicago, IL, 60637
c/o Dr. Rebecca West
March 2001 - June 2001


Calogero, Elena
Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar, Roma, Italy
Research: Musical Imagery and Ideas in Italian and European Renaissance Culture
Northwestern University, School of Music, Evanston, IL, 60208
c/o Ms. Linda Phyllis Austern
January 2002 - July 2002


Cap Bun, Marina
Lecturer, Department of Romanian Language and Literature, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania
Lecturing: Romanian Language and Civilization
University of Washington, Slavic Department, Seattle, WA, c/o Dr. James Augerot
September 2001 - May 2002


Chen, Yaping
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
Lecturing: Chinese Cultural Studies: An East Asian Perspective
North Central College, International Programs, Naperville, IL, 60566
c/o Mr. John Shindler
August 2001 - June 2002

Scholar-in-Residence Program

Choi, Byong Hyon
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Honam University, Kwangju, Korea
Lecturing and Research: Korean Literature in Translation
University of California--Irvine, East Asian Languages and Literature, Irvine, CA, 92697
c/o Dr. Steven Carter
September 2001 - June 2002


Discacciati, Ornella
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Slavic and Central Eastern European Studies, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Research: From the Avant-Garde to the Traditional: Language and Style in the Soviet Literature of the Thirties
Stanford University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford, CA, 94309
c/o Dr. Lazar Fleishman
September 2001 - December 2001


Gasparov, Mikhail
Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Russian Language, Stylistics and Poetics Section, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Research: New Standard Commentary to the Complete Poems of O. Mandelstam
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Dr. Omry Ronen
September 2001 - December 2001


Gbikpi BenissanMidio, Thecla
Lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences, Department of Modern Letters, National University of Benin, Cotonou, Benin
Research: Transformation of Motives in Oral Literature
University of Arizona, Modern Languages Building, Room 549, Department of French and Italian, Tucson, AZ, 85741
c/o Dr. Irene Assiba D'Almeida
January 2002 - July 2002


Kabanova, Irina
Associate Professor, Department of World Literature, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
Research: Contemporary Literary Theory
University of California--Irvine, Critical Theory Institute, Irvine, CA, 92697
c/o Dr. Gabriele M. Schwab
January 2002 - September 2002


Kim, Myung-hwan
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sungkonghoe University, Seoul, Korea
Lecturing and Research: Modern Korean Literature and Its Potential to Address the Mutual Challenges Between Korea and the United States
University of Chicago, Center for East Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, c/o Dr. Jim Ketelaar
September 2001 - August 2002


Kobrinski, Alexandre
Associate Professor, Philological Department, Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Research: Problems of Russian Literary Avant-Garde in the United States, 1917-1950s
University of Wisconsin--Madison, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Madison, WI, 53706
c/o Dr. Judith Kornblatt
September 2001 - June 2002


Koranova, Ilona
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Czech Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Lecturing: Strengthening the Bridge Between American and Czech Cultures
University of California--Los Angeles, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
c/o Dr. Michael Heim
September 2001 - July 2002


Larsson, Lisbeth
Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Lecturing and Research: Biographism, Text Theory and Gender
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Scandinavian Literature, Berkeley, CA, 94720
c/o Dr. Carol Glover
January 2002 - May 2002


Liu, Xiangyu
Professor, Chinese Department, Beijing Normal University, Bejing, China
Lecturing: Comparative Literature and Art History
University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, Department of Sociology, Whitewater, WI, 53190
c/o Dr. W. Lawrence Neuman
August 2001 - May 2002

Scholar-in-Residence Program

Merilai, Arne
Associate Professor, Department of Literature and Folklore, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Research: A Philosophy of Poetic Language Usage: An Interdisciplinary Approach
University of California--Berkeley, Department of Philosophy, Berkeley, CA, 94720
c/o Mr. John Searle
September 2001 - June 2002


Mindra, Mihail
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of English, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Lecturing and Research: Ethnic Communication Patterns in Jewish-American and Jewish-Romanian Narratives
Brandeis University, Department of American Studies, Waltham, MA, c/o Dr. Stephen Whitfield
October 2001 - June 2002


Nixon, Nicola
Associate Professor, Department of English, Corcordia University, Montreal, Canada
Research: Geographic Dissonance: Melville and the Politics of Union
Harvard University, Department of English and American Literature and Language, Cambridge, MA, 02138
c/o Dr. Sacvan Bercovitch
September 2001 - June 2002


Pappu, Rekha
Coordinator, Anveshi Research Center for Women's Studies, Hyderabad A.P., India
Lecturing and Research: Issues for Indian Feminism
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Dr. Abigail Stewart
July 2001 - January 2002


Piskunova, Svetlana
Associate Professor, Philological Faculty, Department of World Literature, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Lecturing: Russian and Spanish Literature
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Ames, IA, 50011
c/o Dr. Tatiana Spektor
August 2001 - December 2001


Rabelo, Adriano
University of Sao Paulo, Department of Classical and Vernacular Letters, College of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences, Brazil
Research: Forms of the Modern Tragedy in Eugene O'Neill's and Nelson Rodrigues' Dramas
University of Wisconsin--Madison, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Madison, WI, 53706
c/o Dr. Severino J. Albuquerque
October 2001 - October 2002


Reinhold, Natalia
Professor and Head, School of Philology and History, Department of Translation Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Lecturing: Questioning the Uniformity of Post-Modernist Discourse
Princeton University, Department of English, Princeton, NJ, 08544
c/o Dr. Michael Wood
September 2001 - December 2001


Versiani, Daniela
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Letters, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil
Research: Theoretical Foundations of the Concept of "Autoethnography" as a Contribution to the Theme of Subjectivity in Multicultural Contexts
Rice University, Department of Anthropology - MS20, Houston, TX, 77005
c/o Dr. George Marcus
Dates to be determined.


Wa-Gachanja, Muigai
Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
Research: Investigating Recent Theoretical Trends in Folklore Scholarship: Beyond Structuralism and Psychoanalysis
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife, Center for Folklore and Ethnography, Philadelphia, PA, c/o Dr. Dan Ben-Amos
September 2001 - February 2002


Wells, Keiko
Associate Professor, Faculty of Literature, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Research: Japanese-American Folksong Literature from Pre-war Hawaii and California
University of California--Los Angeles, Department of History, Folklore and Mythology Interdepartmental Program, Los Angeles, CA, c/o Dr. Michael Owens Jones
September 2001 - March 2002



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