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SFSU RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
& LITERATURE PROGRAM
Dept. of Foreign Languages
and Literatures
HUM 475
(415) 338-1421
Fax: (415) 405-0588
Email: russian@sfsu.edu.
FACULTY
Ludmila Ershov
Krista Hanson
Svetlana Kristal
Catherine Siskron
Norair Taschian
Natasha Tkachov
OTHER
RELEVENT AREAS OF STUDY THAT INCORPORATE RUSSIAN CULTURE,
LANGUAGE, AND LITERATURE:
Comparative
and World Literature
European Area Studies
Geography
History
Humanities
International Business
Jewish Studies
Liberal Studies
Political Science/ International Relations
MA and BA Special Major
Ludmila
Ershov, B.A. and M.A. SFSU; Ph.D. Stanford University.
Professor Emerita
HUM 458
(415) 338-7452
Email: lershov@earthlink.net
Research Interests: Russian America; Twentieth Century Russian Literature; Linguistics.
Krista Hanson, B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. University
of California, Berkeley.
Languages: English, Russian, German, Reading knowledge of French, Italian, Spanish,
Serbo-Croatian, and Church Slavic.
HUM 461
(415) 338-2228 (during office hours)
(415) 239-3542 (messages)
Email: klhanson@sfsu.edu, khanson@ccsf.edu
Web: http://www.ccsf.edu/khanson
Courses Taught:
Russian
306 (Advanced Conversation and Composition)
Russian 401 (Russian Culture and Civilization)
Russian 510, 511 (Russian Literature I and II)
Russian 615/815 (The Russian Avant-Garde: 1910-1930)
Russian 830 (Russian Prose and Poetry of the Twentieth Century)
Research Interests: Autobiography; Literature and Psychology; 19th and 20th Century Russian Literature; Socialist Realism.
Svetlana Kristal, M.A. and Ph.D. State University
of St.
Petersburg, Russia.
Languages: English, Russian. Reading knowledge of German and Ukrainian
HUM 461
(415) 338-7452 (during
office hours)
(415) 338-2228 (messages)
Email: skristal@sfsu.edu
Courses Taught:
Russian
103 (First
through Fourth Semester Russian)
Russian 301 (Reading and Grammar)
Russian 305 (Advanced Grammar and Composition)
Russian 306 (Advanced Conversation and Composition)
Russian
307 (Stylistics and Composition)
Russian 308 (Advances Conversation and Composition)
Russian 325 (Practical Linguistics of Russian)
Research Interests: Text analysis, poetic text theory, Russian poetry, Acmeism, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Russian Silver Age.
Catherine
Siskron, B.A. University of California, Berkeley; M.A. SFSU.; Ph.D.
candidate (ABD) in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley.
Languages: English,
Russian, Reading knowledge of Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, French.
HUM 458
(415) 338-7452
Email: siskron@sfsu.edu
Website: userwww.sfsu.edu/~siskron
Courses Taught:
Russian
101-104 (First through Fourth Semester Russian)
Russian 206 (Russian Conversation I)
Russian
305 (Advanced Grammar and Composition)
Russian
306 (Advanced Conversation and Composition)
Russian
340 (Readings in Russian Press)
Russian 390 (Russian Business Communication)
Russian/World
and Comparative Literature 612 (Gothic Elements in the Russian Novel)
Russian 820 (The Russian Novel: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol)
Russian
685/ World and Comparative Literature 585 (20th Century Theorists: Bakhtin)
Foreign
Languages 700 (Seminar in Research Methods)
Russian 690/890 – (20th Century Russian Literary Theory)
Research Interests: Bakhtin, Gothic and Idyllic chronotopes; genre theory; gender politics; historical novel.
Norair B. Taschian, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley.
Natasha Tkachov, B.A. and M.A, San Francisco State
University.
Languages: Russian, Spanish.
HUM 461
(415) 338-2228(during office hours)
(415) 338-7452
Email: knatasha@pacbell.net
Courses Taught:
Russian
101 (First Semester Russian)
Russian
102 (Second Semester Russian)
COMPARATIVE AND WORLD LITERATURE
HUM 377
(415) 338-2068
Email: wclit@sfsu.edu
Website: www.sfsu.edu/~wclit
Undergraduate major and minor requires a diverse course curriculum including non-English, national/linguistic literary traditions. Master of Arts requires proficiency in a foreign language taught at SFSU sufficient for enrollment in graduate seminars taught in languages other than English.
EUROPEAN AREA STUDIES
HSS 381
Website: www.sfsu.edu/~bulletin/current/programs/europea.htm
Elective course applicable to Minor in European Area Studies:
Russian 401 (Russian Culture and Civilization)
GEOGRAPHY
HSS 279
(415) 338-2049
Website: bss.sfsu.edu/geog
Elective Courses applicable to GE units and/or Major in Geography:
Geography 107 (World Regions and Interrelations)
Geography 570 (Regional Studies - Selective)
HISTORY
Sci 276
(415) 338-1604
Anthony D'Agostino, B.A., M.A., University of California, Berkeley,
Graduate study, University of Warsaw, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
(415) 338-7535
Email: dagostin@sfsu.edu
Website: bss.sfsu.edu/history/faculty/dagostin.htm
Courses Taught (Relating to Russian Studies):
History 385 (The Russian Revolution)
History 388 (Soviet Russia in World Affairs)
History 318 (The Cold War)
International Relations 730 (Russian-American Relations)
HUMANITIES
HUM 410
(415) 338-1830
Website: www.sfsu.edu/~bulletin/current/programs/humanit.htm
Elective course applicable to Major or Minor in Humanities:
Humanities 375.4 (Biography of a City - Leningrad/ St. Petersburg)
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
BUS 352
(415) 338-2201
Email: ib@sfsu.edu
Website: www.sfsu.edu/~ib
Bachelor of Science or Master of Business Administration, with concentration
in International Business.
JEWISH STUDIES
HUM 416
(415) 338-6075
Website: www.sfsu.edu/~bulletin/current/programs/jewish.htm
Elective course applicable to Minor in Jewish Studies:
JS 435 (Jews, Literature, and the State: The Crucible of Russia and Eastern
Europe)
LIBERAL STUDIES
BH 255
(415) 338-6927
Website: www.sfsu.edu/~ls
Foreign Language units applicable to Major in Liberal Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
HSS 263 / HSS 336
(415) 338-1178 / (415) 338-2055
Andrei P. Tsygankov, Highest Education, Moscow State University, Department
of Philosophy (Summa Cum Laude), Ph.D. (Kandidat nauk) in Philosophy, Moscow
State University, Ph.D. in International Relations, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles.
(415) 338-7493
Email: andrei@sfsu.edu
Website: bss.sfsu.edu/tsygankov
Courses Taught (Relating to Russian Studies):
Political Science/ International Relations 328 (Post-Communist
Region: Domestic and Foreign Policies)
Political Science 407 (Russia:
Domestic and Foreign Policy)
MA and BA SPECIAL MAJOR
SFUS offers a Special Major option for students who have unique academic
goals which cannot be satisfactorily attained through one of the regularly offered
programs. Information is available through the following links:
Bachelor of Arts Special Major: www.sfsu.edu/~advising/specmaj.htm
Master of Arts or Science: www.sfsu.edu/~gradstdy/gradAdm/specialmajor.html
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