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Charlene Castellano
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Teaching Professor of Russian |
| Ph.D. |
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Cornell University |
| Department Member Since: 1990 |
Personal
Statement
In my published research, I explore a range of issues that arise in the
interstices of visual and verbal arts and in the production of language
by the senses. My work on the leading Russian Symbolist novelist and theoretician,
Andrey Bely, locates the source of his stylistic inventiveness in synesthesia,
considered as both a psychological phenomenon and literary device. I have
also examined Bely's use of autobiographical and dramatic genres as critical
means for elaborating the Symbolist platform in Russia. At present, I
am working on a book-length study of the Russian emigrant; poet, Joseph
Brodsky. My focus is on the relationship of Brodsky's art to painting
, and my particular interest is in the fictive and allegorical means by
which Brodsky's poetry upholds a dynamic of seeing.
I came to Carnegie Mellon with six years' experience in research and teaching
on both graduate and undergraduate levels at Yale University, Cornell
University, Ohio State University and the University of Pittsburgh and
brought to an end a long hiatus in Russian study at Carnegie Mellon. I
single-handedly teach a full program of language and culture courses that
includes Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Russian as well as nineteenth-century
Russian literature and twentieth-century literature and film in Russia
and Eastern Europe.
Recent Publications
- "Enframing the Woman in Joseph Brodsky's 'Nature Morte',"
forthcoming in Issues of Gender in Slavic Literatures, ed. Sibelan
Forrester and Pamela Chester, Indiana University Press, 1995.
- "Making Sense of Synesthesia" and "The Synesthetics
of Apocalypse in Andrey Bely's Petersburg," double article forthcoming
in Novy Zhurnal (The New Review), December 1993.
- "Andrey Bely's Memories of Fiction," in Autobiographical
Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature, ed. Jane Gary
Harris. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. 66-98.
- "The Mystery Play in Andrey Bely's Dramaturgy and Prose,"
Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 10, No. 4 (Winter 1985),
339-41.
Courses taught
- 82-191 Elementary Russian I
- 82-192 Elementary Russian II
- 82-291 Intermediate Russian I
- 82-292 Intermediate Russian II
- 82-391 Advanced Russian I
- 82-392 Advanced Russian II
- 82-392 Advanced Russian II
- 82-396 The Faust Legend at Home and Abroad
- 82-491 Literature, Politics and Film in Russia and East Europe Today
- 82-492 The Historical Imagingation in Nineteenth-Century Russian
Literature
- 82-493 Joseph Brodsky in Context
- 82-599 Russian Studies Thesis
For
More Information
Charlene Castellano
Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University
Baker Hall 160
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Office: BH 180
Phone: (412) 268-7859
Fax: (412) 268-1328
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