Karen Evans-Romaine

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Originally from the Washington, DC area, I am now Associate Professor of Russian at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. I have a Bachelor of Arts in Russian and Soviet studies and a Bachelor of Music in piano performance (both 1986) from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music. I completed my M.A. (1989) and Ph.D. (1996) in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. My scholarship focuses on early twentieth-century Russian poetry, particularly the work of Boris Pasternak, German-Russian literary relations, and literature and music. I am the author of Boris Pasternak and the Tradition of German Romanticism (Munich, 1997) and have since published several articles on these topics. I am also interested in foreign language teaching methodology and am co-author of the third edition of the two-volume Russian textbook Golosa (Book One, 2002; Book Two, 2003), together with Richard Robin, Galina Shatalina, and Joanna Robin. I came to Athens, Ohio, from Moscow, where I was Fulbright Representative for the Russian Federation from 1993-96; for Fulbright I was lucky enough to travel all over Russia, from Petrozavodsk to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Since 1998 I have taken students to Moscow for ten weeks every other year on the Ohio University Spring Quarter in Moscow Program. In Athens and Moscow, I have taught first- to third-year Russian, nineteenth-century Russian literature (in English), twentieth-century Russian literature (in English and Russian), and the history of modern Russian culture (in Russian). I have also co-taught a course on European literature and music in the Modernist era with Fred Toner, Associate Professor of French at Ohio University. My hobbies include playing the piano, singing, swimming, and folkdancing, especially Balkan dance. I love animals, and my partner and I have three cats; two of them were born in Moscow, but only one seems to know Russian.