March 8, 2018 Michael Marsh-Soloway

Work Experience, Research, Honors, and Awards

Selected Publications

  • Review of Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion, Philosophy, Ed. Svetlana Evdokimova and Vladimir Golstein, Ars Rossica, 2016. Russian Review, Vol. 76, No. 3, July 2017, 546-547.
  • Dissertation companion website: The Development and Legacy of the Mathematical Imagination of F.M. Dostoevsky: Reconstructing the Education of the Novelist at the Main Engineering School, 1838-1843. 15 May 2016.
  • “Study Abroad Experiences after SWSEEL.” Personal feature in Polyglot: SWSEEL Alumni Newsletter. March 2016.
  • Review of Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox, and Pain in Computing. Ed. Olga Goriunova, Bloomsbury, 2014. Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media, No.13 (2015): 187-189.
  • “Drown Me, or Be Damned!” A translation of a short Russian story by Valentin Pikul with consent from Veche Publishing in Moscow. Ed. Yuri Urbanovich. Inkstone, Issue 24 (2015): 16-22.
  • “Unseen Beauty, Shadows of Liminal Space, and the Caustic Passions of Exile: The Life and Writings of M. Yu. Lermontov.” Critical Insights: Russia’s Golden Age. Ed. Rachel Stauffer. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2014, 87-109.
  • «Что возмутило американских студентов?» (“What outraged American students?”) Letter to Editor Pavel Nikolayevich Gusev of Московский комсомолец. Ed. Anna Sharogradskaya. Журналист, No. 2, February 2011, 74.
  • “When Country Poets Transition to City: Bucolic Nostalgia of Twentieth-Century Urban Movements in the Writings of Sergei Esenin and Langston Hughes.” Ed. Mikhail Sergeev, Symposion: A Journal of Russian Thought, 15 (2010), 65-79.
  • Synopsis: “Interactions along the Fault Lines of Civilizations: Investigating Literary Transitions and Legacies in Russian Accounts of the Caucasian Conquest.” Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal, Vol. 5, (2009), 18-25.
  • Editor and contributing author of Obrazovanshchina, newsletter for the Society of Slavic Graduate Students [SSGS] (spring 2010- spring 2013). o “Asymmetrical Federalism and the Republic of Tatarstan: Models of Ethnic Relations in the Russian Federation, and the City of Kazan as a Microcosm of Successful Integration Policy,” (May 2011).
  • Contributor to Contemporary Russian Literature at UVa:
    • https://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/russian/
    • “Poetry and Poetics” («Поэзия и поэтика»), translation of the speech by Viktor Sosnora at the 2011 poet laureate ceremony. 24 April 2014.
    • “The Early Poetry of Vladimir Nabokov Remembered Today.” 21 March 2012.
    • “The Latest Novel by Dmitrii Bykov.” Co-translated with Kristina Uvarova. 16 April 2010.

Work Experience

  • Director of the Global Studio, University of Richmond (2017-Present) o Lead approximately 30 students in the Self-Directed Language Acquisition Program, coordinate L2 assessment initiatives, manage language lab, support eTandem collaborations to connect students around the globe, and provide instructional design and technology consultations to L2 faculty to promote the fulfillment of teaching and research goals.
  • Lecturer of Russian, University of Richmond o RUSN 315: Verbs for Life (spring 2018)
  • Arts & Sciences Language Lab Coordinator, UVa Learning Design & Technology (2016-2017)
  • UVa Graduate Teaching Assistant (2010-2016) o RUSS 3030 Intermediate Russian Conversation (2015-2016, 2010-2011)
  • Teaching and Technology Support Partner [TTSP] for the UVa Slavic Department (2014-2015)
    • LNGS 3250 Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics and Analysis (fall 2012, fall 2013)
    • RUSS 2020 Second-Year Russian (spring 2013)
    • ESL 907 Oral Academic Communication I (spring 2013)
    • Summer Language Institute (SLI) Russian Program (2012, 2013)
    • LNGS 2240 Southern American English (spring 2012)
    • RUSS 1010 First-Year Russian (fall 2011)
  • Graduate Manager and Media Specialist, UVa Arts & Sciences Center for Instructional Technology (2015-2016)
  • Digital Media Lab Technology Consultant (2012- 2015)
  • UVa VISAS ESL Classroom Consultant and Moderator (2010-2014)
  • UVa Summer Enrollment Specialist (2014)
  • Instructor of English at the Native Speakers Club in Moscow (spring 2014)
  • UVa Writing Center ESL Consultant (fall 2013)
  • Graduate Assistant to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), website and social media manager (2012-2013)
  • UVa Slavic Department Graduate Student Web Manager (2011- 2013)
  • Research Assistant, “The Means and Ends of Russian Influence Abroad” by Jim Greene, former NATO liaison to Kiev, Chatham House Project (November 2010-April 2011)
  • UVa Clemons Library Graduate Assistant (2011-2015)
  • UVa Russian House Language Advisor (2010-present)

Honors and Awards

  • All-University Graduate Teaching Award in the Humanities (April 2016) o Selected from hundreds of graduate students in the humanities disciplines.
  • Participant in the Mellon Graduate Teaching Seminar for Excellence in the Humanities, Pluralism in Society and the Academy, University of Virginia, (2015-2016)
  • Participant in the Translation Workshop of the University of Illinois Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia (2014)
  • UVa GSAS Foreign Study Fellowship (2014) to conduct archival dissertation research in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
  • Clay Fellow in the UVa Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures (2014)
  • UVa Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship (2014)
  • UVa Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation [CGI2] Graduate Research Grant (2014)
  • U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to attend Bashkir State Pedagogical University in Ufa (summer 2011)
  • Title VIII Award to enroll in the Summer Workshop in Slavic and Eastern European Languages [SWSEEL] at Indiana University (summer 2010)
  • Presidential Fellow, UVa Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2009-2013)
  • Xenia Youhn Memorial Award, Northwestern University, Slavic Department (2009)
  • Interdisciplinary Honors in History and Slavic Studies, Northwestern University (2009)
  • Weinberg College Undergraduate Research Grant (2008)

Selected Presentations

  • “Language Learning via Peer Assessment Modules.” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Nashville, TN (November 2017).
  • “A Bug’s Life in the Novels of F.M. Dostoevsky: Insects, Arachnids, and Zoomorphism as Indicators of Debasement.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Chicago, IL (November 2017).
  • Participant in the Vista Higher Learning Fall Forum in Boston, MA (November 2017).
  • “(Re)thinking Language Learning Spaces: Building Synergy Between Physical and Digital Space.” The Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) in Williamsburg, VA (October 2017).
  • Discussant on the panel, “Linguistics and Second-Language Acquisition,” UVa Slavic Forum (April 2017).
  • Discussant and Moderator for the Dostoevsky Games organized by Carol Apollonio at Duke University in Durham, NC (March 2017).
  • “Consumption as Marker of Social Status and Spiritual Crisis: Dostoevsky’s Novels and the Motif of Incurable Fatal Illness.” Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Washington, DC (November 2016).
  • “Increasing Active Participation with Language Lab Technology.” Co-presentation with JungHee Kim. Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) in Williamsburg, VA (October 2016).
  • “Dostoevsky and the Natural Philosophy of Classical Antiquity.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) in Austin, TX (January 2016).
  • “The Certainty of Uncertainty: 2+2=5, the Underground Man, Raskolnikov and Dostoevsky’s Reconciliation of the Real and the Imaginary.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Philadelphia (November 2015).
  • “Early Legacies of Correspondence between African-American and Russian Artists and Intellectuals.” Black History Month Lecture Series at Norfolk State University (February 2015).
  • “Interactive Green Screen Video Modules in Slavic Language Instruction.” How to Support and Strengthen Student Motivation in Russian Language Classes: A Round Table Presentation. University of Virginia Institute of World Languages [IWL] (February 2015).
  • “When the Work in Progress Becomes Life: Nabokov’s Use of Allusion and Typographical Imagery as Metanarrative.” UVA Slavic Forum (April 2013).
  • “Expressing Have in Russian: A Sociological Survey and Analysis of Responses by Native Speakers to Formulate a More Accurate Pedagogical Model.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 2012).
  • “Foreign-Language Instruction and Kaltura Media Gallery.” UVA ASCIT Tech Forward Fridays Lecture Series (March 2012).
  • “Impressions of Bashkortostan and the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship Program.” UVa International Residential College (September 2011).
  • “A Multidimensional and Metaphysical Approach to Cinema: A Gogolian Critique of Tarkovsky’s View of the Image as the Indivisible Building Block of Film.” Southern Slavic Conference in Alexandria, VA (April 2011).
  • “Poetry Praising the Ascension of Elizaveta I and Ekaterina II: A Comparison of the Odic Verses of Lomonosov and Derzhavin.” Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference in New York, NY (March 2011).
  • “Contextualizing the Transition from Romanticism to Realism in Works Describing the Caucasian Conquest.” Quests, Travels and Journeys Conference, UVa Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian (April 2010).
  • “When Country Poets Transition to City: Bucolic Nostalgia of Twentieth-Century Urban Movements in the Writings of Sergei Esenin and Langston Hughes.” AAASS Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference at Swarthmore College (March 2010).