CURRICULUM VITAE (1/27/2022)

1. Biographical Data

GARY ROBERT JAHN

Contact Information

Program in Slavic Languages and Literatures

320H Folwell Hall

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis MN 55455

(612) 625-6557 or [home] (763) 543-1023

e-mail: gjahn@umn.edu

Born

29 September 1943

Minneapolis MN

US citizen

Education

B.A. (cum laude), University of Minnesota, 1965

Major: Russian Minor: History

M.A. University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1968

Major: Russian Language and Literature

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1972

Major: Russian Literature

Departmental Minor: Serbo-Croatian Language and Literature

University Minor: Philosophy

Dissertation: The Theme of Brotherly Love in L. N. Tolstoj's "Stories for the People"

Academic Appointments

2011-- Morse—Alumni Distinguished University Teaching Professor of Russian Language and Literature

1998-2011 Professor of Russian Language and Literature, University of Minnesota

1982-1998 Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature, University of Minnesota

1977-1982 Assistant Professor, Department of Russian and East European Studies, University of

Minnesota

1972-1977 Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic, State University of New York at Buffalo

1971-1972 Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College (Northfield MN)

Graduate Faculty

1983-2008       Associate Member (Russian Area Studies)

1979-2008       Associate Member (Russian and Slavic)

2019-                Associate Member (GNSD)

Memberships

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages; Honorary Editorial Board Slavic and East European Journal

Tolstoy Society; Editorial Board Tolstoy Studies Journal

2. Professional Honors and Awards

2020  One semester sabbatical leave for Fall, 2020

2011 Named Horace G. Morse – Minnesota Alumni Association Distinguished University Teaching Professor of Russian Language and Literature (conferred 25 April 2011)

2011 Inducted into the University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers (inducted 25 April 2011)

2010 Recipient of AATSEEL Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Post-Secondary Level for 2010 (conferred 8 January 2011)

2010 Nominated for Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award

2008 Nominated for Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award

2008 Institute of Linguistics, ESL, and Slavic and Central Asian Languages departmental course-release for research (Fall, 2008)

2003 University of Minnesota “Thanks for Being a Great Teacher” Award (for Russ 1304W, Fall 2003)

1998 University of Minnesota Award for Innovation in Technology Enhanced Learning

1998 Selected as University of Minnesota Faculty Ambassador

1997 McKnight Summer fellowship for support of research during the summer of 1997 ($10,000.00)

1996 Selected as one of four participants from the University of Minnesota in 1996-97 Academic Leadership Program sponsored by the Council on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)

1994 Quarter Research Leave (for literary scholarship)

1989 Named Editor in Chief of The Slavic and East European Journal (served July 1, 1989 -- June 30, 1994)

1987 Quarter Research Leave (for literary scholarship)

1982 Research Associate (University of Illinois)

1979 Research Associate (University of Illinois)

1978 IREX Exchange of Language Teachers with USSR (Moscow State University)

1977 Student Association Award for Excellence in Teaching (SUNY/Buffalo)

1976 Research Associate (University of Illinois)

1970 Election to Phi Kappa Phi honorary society

1968 Candidate of Philosophy with Distinction (University of Wisconsin)

3. Grants

2011—Annual award of $1,500.00 for research and assistance (to continue for five years).

2002  Award of $2,700.00 "Summer Research Grant" from the Institute of Linguisitics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Languages and Literatures. The grant was awarded in support of the conversion of Electronic Russian for use with the textbook Nachalo.

2000  Award of $10,000.00 from University of Minnesota Technology Enhanced Learning Small Grants by the office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and the Office of Information Technology.  The grant was awarded in support of "A Web-compliant, platform independent electronic supplement to instruction in Beginning Russian"

2000  Award of $20,000.00 from College of Liberal Arts Infotech Fees Committee Grants.  The grant was awarded in support of "A Web-compliant, platform independent electronic supplement to instruction in Beginning Russian"

1999 Award of $10,000.00 from University of Minnesota Technology-Enhanced-Learning Small Grants for preparation of CD-ROM version of supplementary interactive instructional materials for learning beginning Russian.

1997 Participating investigator in grant from FIPSE (Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education) to develop computer-assisted modules for the improvement of reading skills in various languages using Gemini (beta version of Libra) [award of $9000.00 to Prof. Jahn].

1997 Award of $4,625.00 from University of Minnesota division of distance education for development of interactive on-line Russian language exercises deliverable via the World Wide Web.

1996-97 One of four faculty participants in Internet-Learning Alternatives project funded by the office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the University of Minnesota; this project will develop three University of Minnesota courses (including Beginning Russian) into exemplifications of the use of technology in course delivery. The project features development of various electronic supplements, including WorldWideWeb pages (interactive instructional materials delivered from Web page), use of e-mail and list serve, electronic office hours, class video served asynchrously using streaming video from a video server, instructional applelets delivered direct from the web page and other enhancements.

1996 Award of Dynatext Software development suite (179,000.00)from Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. of Providence RI and right of participation in that company's institutional grant program. Grant awarded for the production of a fully parsed and annotated electronic text edition of Tolstoj's "Death of Ivan Ilich" accompanied by supplemental library of annotations and secondary materials.

1994 Principal Investigator, Summer Session course Improvement Grant, 2,000.00 [complete revision of Sentences program for Intermediate Russian (Davis and Oprendek textbook)]

1993- Project Co-Director: Technology and L2 Acquisition 96 (150,000.00) distance learning of Russian via interactive video broadcast and supplementary computer and multi-media instructional package]

1991 Principal Invesitgator, Summer Session Course Improvement Grant, 2,000.00 [preparation of documentation for IBM computer instructional programs]

1990 Awarded quarter-time research assistant to help with the testing of computer-instructional programs (Summer Session)

1989 Principal investigator, Dept. of Independent Study, 30,000.00 [development of text-based, computer-assisted 1st- and 2nd-year correspondence Russian courses]

1988 Principal investigator, Project Woksape, 10,000.00 [development of grammar drills CAI program]

1987 Principal investigator, Small Grants Program, 1000.00 [to do validation testing of CAI

materials]

1986 Co-author and principal investigator, Project Minnemac, equipment grant from Apple Computer Company to a value of about 8000.00 [to develop CAI materials for the Macintosh computer]

1986- 1989 Co-author and Principal investigator, Minnesota Project for the Improvement of Instruction in the Russian Language, US Office of Education, 225,000.00 [CAI materials development, listening comprehension materials, proficiency tests for various levels and skills as parts of a program for reorienting the curriculum toward proficiency based instruction]

1986-1987 Author and principal investigator, Summer Session Innovation Fund, University of Minnesota, 9,000.00 [development of CAI material for Russian--morphology driller]

1986 Author and principal investigator, Educational Development Grant, University of Minnesota, 6,000.00 [development of CAI material for Russian--vocabulary driller]

1985-1986 Co-author and principal investigator, Project Woksape, IBM Corporation, 55,000.00 [equipment grant to facilitate development of CAI materials]

1985 Author and principal investigator, Educational Development Grant, University of Minnesota, 3,750.00 [use of Soviet broadcast TV programming for instructional purposes]

1985-1986 Co-author, Minnesota Project for Critical Foreign Languages, US Office of Education, 54,000.00 [High school Russian teachers language competency summer course; introduction of advanced Polish into curriculum]

1985-1988 Co-author, Minnesota Project for Improvement of Russian Area Studies, US Office of Education, 195,000.00 [coordination and improvement of curricula of six cooperating institutions; enhancement of Russian Area Studies programs at both graduate and undergraduate levels; development of Russian language/Russian area resource center]

1985 Contributing author, Consultancy on the Use and Development of Computer-Assisted Instructional Materials, Northwest Area Foundation (2000.00) [feasibility of CAI materials for Russian]

1984 Principal investigator, Faculty Research Grant, University of Minnesota, 3,500.00 [literary scholarship]

1983 Principal investigator, Educational Development Grant, University of Minnesota, 2,500.00 [improvement of second-year Russian materials]

1979 Principal investigator, Faculty Research Grant, University of Minnesota, 3,500.00 [literary scholarship]


Pending Applications:

 

4. Publications and Scholarship

PRINTED BOOKS AND BOOK-LENGTH ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

2020

"The Death of Ivan Ilich": An Electronic Study Edition of the Russian Text, edited and annotated by Gary R. Jahn. An Open Access Textbook (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2020). <https://open.lib.umn.edu/ivanilich/>

Mainly oriented toward those studying the text in the original, the novel is presented in various formats to accommodate readers possessing various degrees of proficiency in Russian, from little to none all the way up to fluent speakers of the language. The text is offered in four sections:

 

-the canonical Russian text

-the English translation as prepared by Louise and Aylmer Maude

-the annotated Russian text and English translation presented side by side

-the Russian text fully stressed and glossed, with explanatory and interpretive annotations

 

The four presentations of the text are supplemented by a contextualizing introduction, "Leo Tolstoy and 'The Death of Ivan Ilich,'" and an extensive bibliography of primary sources and secondary scholarship on the novel.

2018

Electronic Russian Reader: Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilich, revised and corrected to permit its use on all common electronic platforms and in conformity with the latest internet standards.  The program was at first available only for Windows-platform computers.  It’s conversion to updated web-conforming standards several years ago made the program broadly available (windows, linux, macos, ios) but also resulted in numerous errors and omissions which have now, finally, all been corrected. The program may be viewed here as most recently revised (2020):

    ./S/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich/_w_tut.htm

 

“Annotated Texts of an English Translation and the Russian original of "The Death of Ivan Il'ich" presented side by side” this is an on-line presentation of the complete and annotated text of Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilich” offered in a side-by-side presentation of an English translation and the Russian original.

 

“Russian Conjugation and Declension,” DOS-based instructional and drill program revised for use with the textbook “Beginner’s Russian,” Lessons 1-8 (Russ 1101, Beginning Russian I) and packaged to run on both Windows and Mac OS platforms. The purpose of “Russian Conjugation and Declension” is to assist students of Russian in learning and mastering required vocabulary and the various patterns of inflection which characterize nouns, verbs, and adjectives in Russian. Like many such programs, RCD is actually a whole group of programs. This group includes: student-delivery programs for each of the four main instructional modules (Vocabulary, Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives); data-base editors for each module (required for the production of the drill sets which form the heart of each of the modules); and configuration utilities for each module (required to permit the user or the instructor to specify the manner in which the drill material will be presented to the student in each module [e.g., with/without helps, with/without second chances on particular items, with/without a choice of keyboard mappings, with/without possibility of repeating tests/drills]). The program and directions for its installation and use may be obtained at page.htm#anchor10379544

2013

Electronic Russian for "Nachalo" (Minneapolis MN: Program in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota, 2013

Electronic Russian for "Nachalo"  is a fully-implemented set of electronic explanatory and drill materials to accompany the Nachalo textbook for beginning Russian. It was created with "WebTutor" (University of Minnesota, 2002, 2013), a development and delivery shell program which allows the creation and presentation of many web-compliant modes of language tutorial and practice. While designed for the purpose of creating computer-assisted language learning programs, WebTutor may be used effectively for the creation of instructional materials relevant to any subject matter and any language which can be displayed over the internet. The Nachalo program can be seen here:

2008

Electronic Russian Reader: Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilich (Beta version published December, 2008, and testing commenced.

"Electronic Russian Reader: Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilich" contains the full text of the novel in both the original Russian and English translation; a third version of the novel presents the Russian and English texts side by side, aligned by paragraphs.  The Russian text is fully glossed with the needs of readers whose Russian language skills may not be quite adequate to dealing with the text without assistance and fully annotated for the benefit of all readers, with commentary of various kinds: historical, explanatory, interpretive, grammatical, and textological.  The texts are supplemented by descriptions of the compositional history and structure of the novel and on its place in Tolstoy's oeuvre in general.  When complete, I intend the "Electronic Russian Reader: Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilich" and the site which houses it to serve also as a repository of the scholarly literature devoted to the work.  The goal is to include as many full-text commentaries on the novel as I can obtain permission to include, all of these to be cross-referenced against what will be the most complete bibliography of The Death of Ivan Ilich available anywhere, as well as being directly linked to the relevant portions of the Russian text.

Electronic Russian (Minneapolis MN: ILES, University of Minnesota, 2002)

"Electronic Russian" is a fully implemented set of materials to accompany Robert Baker et al. "Russian for Everybody." It was created using the beta version of WebTutor. A second version of Electronic Russian, containing demonstration materials for to accompany S. Lubensky et al., "Nachalo" was created using ver. 1.0 (with many improvements) of WebTutor. The "Nachalo" version is currently in use in Beginning Russian classes at the University of Minnesota. 

Beginning Russian: An Electronic Supplement, ver. 1.0 (Minneapolis MN: Digital Media Center, University of Minnesota, 1999).

This CD-ROM publication provides a complete Web-Browser-based package of computer-aided instructional and drill materials for teaching and learning beginning Russian.  The disk contains a complete syllabus and study-guide for Beginning Russian at the University o f Minnesota (using the textbook Russian for Everybody) supplemented by an extensive collection of video clips containing explanation and modelling of the basic features of Russian grammar as these are presented lesson by lesson in the course.  In addition the disc contains an array of DOS/Windows-based interactive instructional programs which aid students in obtaining mastery of the vocabulary, morphology, and grammar required for successful completion of the course.  The CD-ROM is a self-standing instructional package which does not require an active internet connection for its use.  However, the package does contain numerous links to internet sites (general information, instruction, practice) for those with such connections. This program may also be seen at ./webruss/index.htm.


Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych: A Critical Companion [Northwestern/AATSEEL Critical Companions to Russian Literature] (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1999).

 

Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilich: An Interpretation [Twayne's Masterwork Studies] (New York: Macmillan and Company, 1993).

Published Reviews:

·       Day, Frank in Studies in Short Fiction, v32, n2(1995):276.

·       Silbajoris, Rimvydas in Russian Review, v53, n4(1994):565.

·       Shepherd, David in Slavonic and East-European Review, v72, n4(1994):680.

·       Zweers, A. F. in Germano-Slavica, v8, n2(1994):67-70.

·       Parthe, Kathleen in Slavic Review, v53, n1(1994):305.

·       Tomei, Christine in Choice, v31, n3(1993):462.

Russian Conjugation and Declension: Vocabulary, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, rev. ed. with manuals. (Ithaca NY: Exceller Software, 1992).

[Note: This revised version contains extensive corrections to the data of the first version and provides, for the first time, detailed manuals describing the operation of the program. The six-disk program comes in a three-ring, loose-leaf binder with instructions for program installation. The binder contains the complete instructional program and the "Comptroller," a program for installing the instructional programs onto student disks. The manual for the "Comptroller" program is in the three-ring binder. The manuals for the Russian Conjugation and Declension: Vocabulary program (10 pp) and the Russian Conjugation and Declension: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives programs (110 pp) are bound separately.

Sentences. [with T. Zahavy and T. Goldenberg] (Ithaca NY: Exceller Software, 1989)

REPRINTS

(article, invited) "Was the Master Well Served? Further Comment on God Sees the Truth, But Waits, originally published in Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. XVI(2004):81-86, was republished in Hugh McLean, In Quest of Tolstoy (Boston, 2008):95-102.

(article, invited) "Image of the Railroad in "Anna Karenina," originally published in The Slavic and East European Journal in 1981, was republished in volume 184 (special topics volume) of the encyclopedic series "Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism," Darrow, K. and R. Whitaker, eds. (New York: Thomson/Gale Publishers, 2007):318-23.

(book) Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilich: An Interpretation [Twayne's Masterwork Studies] reprinted in Twaynes' Masterwork Studies on CD-ROM (New York: Macmillan and Company, 1996)

(article, invited) "A Note on Miracle Motifs in the Later Works of Lev Tolstoj" in Tolstoy's Short Fiction: A Norton Critical Edition, Michael R. Katz, ed., 481-87 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991).

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

(invited) "The Crisis in Tolstoy and in Anna Karenina," in Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, ed. Liza Knapp and Amy Mandelker (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003):67-73.

Published Review of above:

(invited) "Tolstoy as a Writer of Popular Literature," Chapter 4 in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy, ed. Donna Tussing Orwin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002):113-26.

Published Review of above:

ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS AND INVITED AND/OR REFEREED COLLECTIONS

(article; refereed)  “Tolstoy, Orthodoxy, and Brotherhood” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, vol. 20/21 (2004/2005):17-31.

(article; refereed)  “Was the Master Well Served?: Further Comment on Tolstoy’s God Sees the Truth, but Waits,” Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. XVI(2004):81-86.

(invited, electronic publication) "Tolstoy's Life and Legacy" presented at the conference on The Over-Examined Life: New Perspectives on Tolstoy, Harvard University, 19-20 April 2002.  Published electronically in 2003 by Harvard University at http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/seminars_conferences/tolstoy_conf_04_02.pdf  pp. 13-15.

(invited) "Opyt obuchenija russkomu jazyku pri pomoshchi interaktivnogo televidenija" ["Teaching Russian via Interactive Television"], in Russkij jazyk kak inostrannyj: Teorija, Issledovanija, Praktika, vypusk VI, ed. I. P. Lysakova et al. (St. Petersburg: Rossijskoe obshchestvo prepodavatelej russkogo jazyka i literatury et al., 2003):422-27.

(article; refereed) "On the Style of a Story for the People," Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. X(1998):42-49.

(article; invited) "Brother or Other: Tolstoy's Equivocal Surrender to the Concept of Brotherhood" in Lev Tolstoy and the Concept of Brotherhood, Andrew Donskov and John Woodsworth, eds. (New York: Legas, 1996):71-87.

(review article; invited) "Donna Tussing Orwin, Tolstoy's Art and Thought" in the "Roundtable Discussion," Tolstoy Studies Journal 6(1993):161-67.

(article; refereed)"Tolstoj and Folklore: The Case of 'Chem ljudi zhivy,'" Russian Language Journal, vol. 44, nos. 147-49(1990):135-50.

(article; refereed) [co-authored with James E. Brown] "The Role of CALL in a Proficiency-Based Russian Language Curriculum," Computers in the Humanities, 24(1990):93-103.

(article; refereed) [co-authored with Paul B. Wieser] "Computerized Presentation and Drill of the Nominal Declensions in Beginning Russian-Language Classes," Slavic and East European Journal, 33(Spring, 1989):20-30.

(article; invited/refereed) "A Note on Miracle Motifs in the Later Works of Lev Tolstoj" in The Supernatural in Slavic and Baltic Literatures (Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1988):191-199.

(article; invited, refereed) "Patriotism and the Military in Tolstoy's Philosophy" in Literature and War: Reflections and Refractions, ed. Elizabeth W. Trahan (Monterey, CA: Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1985):109-21.

(article; invited, refereed) "The Death of Ivan Il'ich--Chapter I" in Studies in 19th and 20th Century Polish and Russian Literature in Honor of Xenia Gasiorowska (Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1983):37-43.

(article; refereed) "A Note on the Organization of Part I of Anna Karenina," Canadian-American Slavic Studies, vol. 16, no. 1 (1982):82-86.

(article; refereed) "The Unity of Anna Karenina," Russian Review, XLI, 2 (April, 1982):144-58.

(article; refereed) "The Role of the Ending in Lev Tolstoj's The Death of Ivan Il'ich," Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 24, no. 3 (1982):229-38.

(article; invited, refereed) "Tolstoj and Kant," in New Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Russian Literature, L. Leighton and G. Gutsche, eds. (Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1982):60-70.

(article; refereed) "The Image of the Railroad in Anna Karenina," Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 25, no. 2(1981):1-10.

(article; refereed) "L. N. Tolstoj's Vision of the Power of Death and `How Much Land Does a Man Need?,'" Slavic and East European Journal, 22(1978):442-53.

(article; refereed) "A Note on the Concept of the Artist in Thomas Mann and Dmitry Merezhkovsky," Germano-Slavica, 2(1978):451-54.

(article; refereed) "L. N. Tolstoj's Narodnye rasskazy," Russian Language Journal, vol. 31, no. 109(1977):67-78.

(article; refereed) "Thematic Development in Fathers and Sons," College Literature, 4(1977):80-91.

(article; refereed) "The Aesthetic Theory of Leo Tolstoy's What Is Art?," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 34(1975):59-65.

(article; refereed) "A Structual Analysis of Leo Tolstoy's `God Sees the Truth, But Waits,'" Studies in Short Fiction, 12(1975): 261-70.

EDITED PUBLICATIONS

Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 34, no. 3(Fall, 1989)--vol. 38, no. 2 (Summer, 1994), Tucson AZ: AATSEEL of the US, Inc., 1989-1994.

[Note: The Slavic and East European Journal is the scholarly journal of the American Association of the Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. It is the leading journal in the United States for the publication of scholarship in the areas of Slavic literature and Slavic linguistics, and of pedagogy as this pertains to the teaching of Slavic languages. I served as the editor-in-chief of this journal from mid-1989 until mid-1994.]

ESSAYS IN REFERENCE SOURCES

(encycl. entry; invited) "P. P. Ershov" in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 205 Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Poetry and Drama, ed. Christine Rydel (Detroit: The Gale Group, 1999):67-71.

(encycl. entry; invited) "Herzen, Aleksandr" in Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature, G. Gutsche, ed., vol. 9, (Gulf Breeze FL: Academic International Press, 1989):219-27.

(encycl. entry; invited) "L. N. Tolstoi" in The Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. Victor Terras (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1985):476-80.

(encycl. entry; invited) "V. G. Chertkov," in The Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. Victor Terras (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1985):82.

(encycl. entry; invited)"Posrednik" in The Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. Victor Terras (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1985):351-52.

(encycl. entry; invited)"Yasnaia Poliana Journal" in The Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. Victor Terras (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1985):523.

REVIEWS

(review)  Jeff Love, Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed.  In Russian Review Vol. 68, no. 4 (2009):690-91.

(review) Andrei Zorin, Kormia dvuglavogo orla: Literatura i gosudarstvennaia ideologiia v Rossii v poslednei treti XVIII-pervoi treti XIX veka. In Modern Greek Studies Yearbook. Vol. 16/17(2000/2001)[publ. 2003]:622-23.

(review) A. D. Donskov, ed., and Z. N. Ivanova and L. D. Gromova, compilers.  Iz arkhiva N. N. Guseva:  Novye materialy on L. N. Tolstom. In Tolstoy Studies Journal. Vol. XIV(2002):147-48.

(review) Galina Jakovlevna Galagan, ed.  Ispoved’; V chem moja vera L’va Tolstogo. In Tolstoy Studies Journal (1999).

(review) Kathryn B. Feuer. Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace. In The Slavic and East European Journal (1998).

(review) Andrew Donskov and L. D. Gromova-Opulskaia. Leo Tolstoi and Petr Verigin: Correspondence. In Russian Language Journal (1996).

(review) Edward Wasiolek. Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. In Russian Language Journal (1996).

(review) Turner, C. J. G., A Karenina Companion in Russian Review (Summer, 1994):119-20.

(review) Jane T. Costlow, Worlds within Worlds: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev; Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley Rabinowitz, Novel Epics: Gogol, Dostoevsky, and National Narrative; Robert L. Belknap, The Genesis of The Brothers Karamazov in Modern Fiction Studies, 37(1991):322-24.

(review) Robert L. Belknap, The Structure of The Brothers Karamazov; Jacques Catteau, Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation; David Lowe, ed. and trans., Dostoevsky's Letters in Modern Fiction Studies, 36(1990):294-95.

(review) L. I. Kuz'mina. Lev Tolstoj v Peterburge, SEEJ, 32(Winter, 1988):653.

(review) Robert L. Jackson, The Art of Dostoevsky; Charles Passage, Character Names in Dostoevsky's Fiction; Richard Peace, The Enigma of Gogol, in Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 28, no. 4 (Winter, 1982-83), 703-06.

(review) Edgar Lehrman. A Guide to the Russian Texts of War and Peace, Slavic Review (Fall, 1982), 578.

(review) Tom Stableford. The Literary Appreciation of Russian Writers, Modern Language Journal, no. 66 (Autumn, 1982), 347-48.

(review) T. G. S. Cain. Tolstoy, Slavic and East European Journal, 22(1978), 383-84.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

(bibliography) "Articles on Tolstoj: 1988," Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. 2(1989):97-100.

(bibliography) "Articles on Tolstoj: 1987," Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. 1(1988):53-58.

LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS

Russian Conjugation and Declension (Minneapolis, 2009)

Russian Conjugation and Declension: Vocabulary, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives  is a set of computer-based instructional modules which help students learn the inflected forms of Russian adjectives, nouns, and verbs, and the basic forms of Russian vocabulary.  It was first implemented in the late 1980's and early 1990's for use with the textbook Russian for Everybody by Robert L. Baker et al.  The program was operated on PC equipment running DOS.  After many years of disuse because of incompatibility between the programs as developed and the capability of modern MS Windows operating systems to accommodate DOS-based programs, a new version of the program, implemented for use with the textbook Nachalo by Sofia Lubensky et al. and running in the emulated DOS environment of the freeware "DOSBox" was developed and made available to students of Beginning Russian.  Details of the purpose and capabilities of the program are given below.

WebTutor, ver. 1.0 (jointly developed by Gary R. Jahn and Earl A. Schleske) (Minneapolis: ILES, University of Minnesota, 2002)

WebTutor is a development and delivery shell program which allows the creation and presentation of many web-compliant modes of tutorial and practice. While designed for the purpose of creating computer-assisted language learning programs, WebTutor may be used effectively for the creation of instructional materials relevant to any subject matter and any language which can be displayed over the internet.

All drill and practice modes are scored, and the results saved in a form submissible to the instructor. All modes can be delivered either over the internet (from a server) or locally (from the drive of a user's machine). Interactivity, record keeping, and the submissibility of results is preserved, even when the program is being run from a read-only local drive (for example, from a CD-ROM drive). Helps are available in various forms: video and audio clips, text presentations, and various types of annotation. All drills can be written so as to anticipate particular examples of incorrect response and to provide instant feedback directly relevant to the particular incorrect response; feedback appropriate to any and all incorrect responses can also be designated. The following modules are available within the WebTutor program:

· Explanation mode [for tutorials, help screens, reference pages, any ordinary text material the teacher may wish to display to the student]

· Multiple Choice mode [creates drill items with any number of suggested responses but only one correct response; True-False (or other binary exercse) is simply a variant of this mode]

· Multiple Multiple Choice mode [creates drill items with any number of suggested responses and any number of correct responses]

· Response mode [ creates drills which require the student to input a particular response from the keyboard; this mode permits variant drill types: question-answer, fill in the blank, substitution; the different types are achieved by using standard html tags to alter the appearance of the question line, but the basis of all these drill variants is string recognition]

·Gisting mode [creates drills which require the student to summarize the content of an audio or video clip; the student responses are evaluated and then saved in a form submissible to the instructor; student responses can be invited in any language (typically either the student's native language or the target language); the gisting mode is especially useful in the creation of reading exercises, since the student summaries can be saved as recall protocols obtained at various stages within the reading exercise]

· Cloze mode [creates drills in which students must, using the keyboard, supply missing bits and pieces from a consecutive text of any length; the missing pieces can be of any length, from a single character ( or even no character at all) up to the entire text; in combination with audio or video input to guide the student resonse the cloze mode provides a dictation drill]

· Matching mode [creates drills in which students, using the mouse, connect matching objects to one another; the objects for matching can be of any type: words, pictures, audio, video]

· Authoring mode [a set of templates which permit the relatively transparent and straitforward creation of materials in any of the modes listed above]

Note: The several items listed below were all developed in connection with two major grant projects, supported by funding from university, industrial, and government agencies, which I directed between 1986 and 1989.

The general product of the first project was a computer instructional program called "Russian Conjugation and Declension"(RCD). The purpose of this program is to assist students of Russian in learning and mastering required vocabulary and the various patterns of inflection which characterize nouns, verbs, and adjectives in Russian. Like many such programs, RCD is actually a whole group of programs. This group includes: student-delivery programs for each of the four main instructional modules (Vocabulary, Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives); data-base editors for each module, required for the production of the drill sets which form the heart of each of the modules; configuration utilities for each module, required to permit the user or the instructor to specify the manner in which the drill material will be presented to the student in each module (e.g., with/without helps, with/without second chances on particular items, with/without a choice of keyboard mappings, with/without possibility of repeating tests/drills); a comptroller program which permits and simplifies the creation of individually designed student disks from which records of student performance may be extracted; and a data-extractor program which can read and analyze data pertaining to student performance which has been collected on properly created student disks.

The general product of the second project was a computer instructional program called "Sentences." This program was jointly produced by me, Prof. Tzvee Zahavy, and Mr. Tzvika Goldenberg. The purpose of this program was to devise an MSWindows conformant shell program for the delivery of instructional material pertaining to the construction of grammatically correct sentences in any alphabetic language. "Sentences" consists of a keyboard editor/mapper program, a combined drill editor/comptroller/data extractor program, and a student delivery program. These programs permit the incorporation of drill and instructional material in any alphabetic target language (whether written right to left (as Hebrew) or left to right (as Russian). Upon successful completion of the shell program I implemented a complete set of lessons for use with two textbooks of Russian language, Robert Baker et al., "Russian for Everybody" and Patricia Davis and Donald Oprendek, "Making Progress in Russian." Like the RCD program, "Sentences" may be configured for delivery under a variety of instructional parameters and data pertaining to student performance may be extracted from properly created student disks.

The programs involved in the development of these two projects are listed separately below. RCD and the Sentences shell program were commercially available from Exceller Software in Ithaca NY until 1993, when the steady advance of hardward capability and variety rendered continued support of the programs no longer viable financially. A selection of the student delivery programs from both "Russian Conjugation and Declension" and "Sentences" are available electronically from http://jahn.cla.umn.edu/gary.html.

(computer program) Conversion utility for automatic rendering of "Sentences" drill files into interactive Web drills (1998).

(computer program) "Sentences" [Assists students in the assimilation of basic grammatical structures by providing facilities for tutorial, reference, and several varieties of question, including multiple choice, question-answer, cue-response, fill-in, and cloze. The program as a whole consists of a drill-editor and lesson maker, a student delivery module, and a keyboard editor; publ. by Exceller Software, Ithaca NY].

(computer program)"Sentences" for beginning Russian language learners; instruction and drill to supplement the study of beginning Russian using the textbook by R. Baker et al., "Russian for Everybody."

(computer program)"Sentences" for intermediate Russian language learners [co-authored with James E. Brown]; instruction and drill to supplement the study of intermediate Russian using the textbook by P. Davis and D. Oprendek, "Making Progress in Russian."

(computer program) "Russian Conjugation and Declension: Vocabulary" [Assists students in the memorization of base forms of vocabulary; publ. by Exceller Software, Ithaca NY].

(computer program) "Russian Conjugation and Declension: Nouns" [Teaches students the processes involved in declining nouns; publ. by Exceller Software, Ithaca NY].

(computer program) "Russian Conjugation and Declension: Adjectives" [Teaches students the processes involved in declining adjectives; publ. by Exceller Software, Ithaca NY]

(computer program) "Russian Conjugation and Declension: Vocabulary in Context" [presentation and drill of active vocabulary from one chapter of a textbook as used in the grammatical environments presented in that chapter; publ. by Exceller Software, Ithaca NY]

(computer program) "Russian Conjugation and Declension: Verbs" [Teaches students the processes involved in conjugating verbs; publ. by Exceller Software, Ithaca NY]

(computer program) "Russian Tutorial Series: Nouns" [Teaches students the processes involved in declining nouns in Russian; publ. by Exceller Software, Ithaca NY (an implementation of Russian Conjugation and Declension: Nouns for Macintosh platform)].

(computer program) "Russian Conjugation and Declension: Data-Base Editors" [A set of four programs which allow the teacher or user of Russian Conjugation and Declension to modify or add to the lexical data used by the programs for example and drill; published by Exceller Software, Ithaca NY].

(computer program) "Russian Conjugation and Declension: Configuration File Utilities" [A set of four programs which allow the teacher or user of Russian Conjugation and Declension to modify the operating parameters of the various programs; published by Exceller Software, Ithaca NY].

(computer program) "Russian Conjugation and Declension: Comptroller" [A program which allows the teacher to prepare individualized student instructional disks from which data pertaining to student performance of program material can later be extracted.]

(computer program) "Russian Conjugation and Declension: Lesson Reader" [A program which allows the teacher to extract and analyze data pertaining to the performance of individual students or specified groups of students from properly created student instructional disks.]

MISCELLANEOUS

(catalogue with commentary) Leo Tolstoy: 1828-1978. An Exhibit of His Life and Works. Catalogue of an exhibit displayed at the University of Minnesota Gallery (February 12-March 16, 1979) to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth (Minneapolis, MN: Dept. of Slavic Languages, 1979), 14 pp.

IN PRESS

ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

CONTRACTED FOR PUBLICATION

BEING CONSIDERED FOR PUBLICATION

WORK IN PROGRESS

5. Papers Read

(paper, invited) “Tolstoy, Orthodoxy, and Brotherhood,” The Tenth Annual James W. Cunningham Memorial Lecture on Eastern Orthodox History and Culture on 5 November 2004 at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN.

(paper) "Tolstoy's Life and Legacy" at the conference on The Over-Examined Life: New Perspectives on Tolstoy, Harvard University, 19-20 April 2002.

(paper) “The Development and Purposes of the CD-ROM Project for Beginning Russian” for Teaching and Learning Services Orientation Seminar, University of Minnesota on 29 August 2001.

(paper) “E-Versions of Literary Texts: Annotation and Analysis” for Wilson Library E-Text Extravaganza, University of Minnesota, 5 October 2001.

(paper) “An Interactive Electronic Supplement for the Language Learner” for CARLA Noontime Presentations, University of Minnesota, 7 November 2001.

(paper) “Technology Supplement to Beginning Russian” in TEL Seminar Series (Spring 2000), University of Minnesota on 23 March 2000.

(paper) “Tolstoi and Popular Literature” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Denver CO on 10 November 2000.

(paper) "Prototip elektronnogo izdanija proizvedenija L. N. Tolstogo dlja studentov I uchenyx" at the international conference Tolstoj I mirovaja literatura (Tolstoy and World Literature) held at Yasnaya polyana 29 September -- 3 October 1998.

(paper) "The Encoding of Electronic Text," at the Conference/Workshop on Creating Encoding and Delivering Electronic Texts and Finding Aids for Scholarly Use at University of Minnesota, 16-17 March 1998.

(paper) "Teaching Russian Language at a Distance: Lessons Learned" at the video-conference Technology in the Service of Pedagogy: A Foreign Language Distance Education Symposium via ITV connecting sites at University of Hawaii, Michigan State University, and the University of Minnesota on 18 July 1997.

(paper) "Foreign Language Instruction via Distance Education: Can It, Should It Be Done?" at the conference on Technology Assisted Language Learning sposored by University of Wisconsin System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council and held at Eau Claire WI, 5-6 December 1996 [paper delivered by interactive television link between Minneapolis MN and Eau Claire WI].

(paper) "Computer Support for Teaching Russian Language by Internet" at the conference Building an Educational Experience through Applications of Computer-based Technologies, sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Stout and UW-Extension and held in St. Paul MN, 21-22 November 1996 [paper was prepared but not delivered due to scheduling error on the part of the conference organizers].

(paper) "Beginning Russian via Interactive Television" at the Symposium on Technology and Foreign Language Learning, sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Co-operation and held at Ohio State University, 8-10 March 1996.

(paper) "Tolstoy on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century" at the international conference on "Leo Tolstoy and the Concept of Brotherhood" held at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON Canada, 22-24 February 1996

(paper) "Brother or Other: Tolstoy's Equivocal Surrender to the Concept of Brotherhood" at the international conference on "Leo Tolstoy and the Concept of Brotherhood" held at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON Canada, 22-24 February 1996

(paper) "Methods and Support for an Interactive Television Course in Russian Language" at the annual conference of American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages, Anaheim CA (November, 1995)

(paper) "Teaching Russian at a Distance" at the Minnesota Higher Education Technology Conference, St. Paul MN (October, 1995)

(paper) "The Death of Prince Andrej" at the annual meeting of the AATSEEL, San Diego CA (December, 1994)

(paper) "On the Style of a Story for the People" at the annual meeting of the AATSEEL, Toronto, Ontario (December 30, 1993)

(paper) "On the Style of a Story for the People: 'Where Love Is, There Is God Also'" at the University of Wisconsin-- Madison (November 5, 1993)

(paper) "CALL and Russian-Language Instruction," at the conference "The USSR and the Third World" (Augsburg College, Minneapolis MN, February, 1989).

(paper) "The Role of CALL in a Proficiency-Based Course in Elementary Russian" presented at the Conference on Computers and Writing, Duluth MN, August 1-2, 1988.

(paper) "Computerized Presentation and Drill of Active Vocabulary" presented at the meeting of Midwest Slavic Association, Bloomington IN, April, 1988.

(paper) "Patriotism and the Military in the Later Works of Tolstoj," November, 1984, Symposium on Comparative Literature and International Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey CA.

(paper) "Christian Miracle and Mystery in the Later Tolstoj," at Midwest MLA meeting, Minneapolis, MN, November, 1983.

(paper; prepared and submitted but not delivered because of snowstorm) "Patriotism and the Military in the Works of Leo Tolstoj," for annual meeting of AATSEEL; Chicago, IL; December, 1982.

(paper) "Tension and Resolution in the Structure of Lev Tolstoj's The Death of Ivan Il'ich," delivered at the "Conference on 19th and 20th Century Polish and Russian Literature in Honor of Prof. Xenia Gasiorowska" (Madison, WI; April, 1981).

(paper) "L. N. Tolstoj's What Is Art?," delivered at annual meeting of the Midwest Slavic Conference (Cincinatti, OH; May, 1980).

(paper) "The Thematic Unity of War and Peace and Anna Karenina," delivered at annual meeting of the Wisconsin chapter of The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (Madison, WI; April, 1980).

(paper) "Tolstoj and Kant," delivered at the annual national meeting of The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (San Francisco, CA; December, 1979).

(paper) "Part I of Anna Karenina: Remarks and Conclusions," delivered at the annual meeting of The Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis, MN; 3 November 1978).

(paper) "The Image of the Railroad in Anna Karenina," delivered a) at the "Symposium on the 150th Anniversary of Tolstoy's Birth" (Macalaster College, St. Paul, MN; 5 October 1978) and b) at the annual national meeting of The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (New York, NY; December, 1978).

6. Lectures

Records not kept of this category prior to 1991. Numerous lectures given over the period 1972-1990.

(lecture, discussion) "Leo Tolstoy" Death of Ivan Ilich" at University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business (Prof. Michaelson's class on Business Ethics), May, 2010.

(lecture, discussion) "Leo Tolstoy" Death of Ivan Ilich" at University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business (Prof. Michaelson's class on Business Ethics), 10 December 2009.

(lecture, discussion) "Nikolai Gogol and The Overcoat" at The Museum of Russian Art, 20 August 2009.

(lecture, discussion) "Nikolai Gogol and The Nose" at Hardcover Theater, 27 April 2003.

(lecture) "Electronic Encoding of Literary Text" at Wilson Library Seminar, 11 May 1998.

(lecture and demonstration) "Russian 1103: Beginning Russian" at Internet Learning Alternatives: Designing and Managing New Learning Opportunities, May 14, 1997 at the University of Minnesota.

(demonstration) "Supplementary Electronic Materials for Beginning Russian" at the Technology Fair, Univesity of Minnesota, Morris on 5/7/97.

(lecture) "Literary Study and the Social Sciences" in the "Scope and Methods" class for area studies majors, October, 1996.

(demonstration) "Teaching Russian on Interactive Television" at the Technology Fair, Univesity of Minnesota, Morris on 5/8/96

(lecture) "Tolstoy's Equivocal Enthusiasm for the Concept of Brotherly Love" at Reed College, Portland OR, on 18 April 1996

(lecture) "Multi-Media Approach to Teaching Russian" at the Workshop for Language Teachers at University of Minnesota, Morris, in April 1996

(lecture) "Multi-Media Approach to Teaching Russian" at the Distance Eduacation Council Forum at the Department of English, 207A Lind Hall, on 1/18/96

(lecture) "Computer-Assisted Instructional Materials and Their Role in the Language Curriculum" in the Workshop for Chinese Teachers, Language Center, August, 1995 [CARLA project]

(lecture) "The Computer-Assisted Classroom" in Grand Opening Ceremony of Eddy Hall Annex computer classroom, May 1995 [sponsored by CLA]

(lecture) "Computer-Assisted Instructional Materials for Russian Language" in the Workshop for Russian Teachers, Language Center, January 27-28, 1995 [CARLA project]

(lecture) "Quantitative Aspects of Literary Study" in the Scope and Methods of Area Studies undergraduate course (February, 1994).

(lecture) "Computers and Literary Research" at the Area Studies Programs Noon Series (Feb. 11, 1993; University of Minnesota)