About the Department
The Middlebury Russian Department is recognized around the world for excellence in language instruction. All members of the department are dedicated to teaching language at every level. But they are also specialists in literature, film, culture, and literary translation. Courses are taught both in English and in Russian.
For example, a recent Winter Term course on "Performing Chekhov" included two one-act plays, "The Proposal" in the original Russian
Middlebury's rich combination of resources for Russian study has made ours one of the best-known Russian programs in the world.
Frequently Asked Questions
Tom Beyer
Russian Language and Literature, Dan Brown, New Technologies for Teaching
Professor of Russian
beyer@middlebury.edu
work802.443.5536
Russian language students apply new media to literary classics
Students in Tom Beyer's 19th Century Russian Literature class recently completed projects using new media. These included a Google Earth Tour of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, a series of podcasts on iTunes called Turgenev Talk, a blog for Anna Karenina to pour her heart out, a Facebook page for the Russian writer Lermontov, and a MySpace page devoted to the Underground Man, from Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground.