Office Hours: by appointment
Email: vzubarev@sas.upenn.edu

Education

Ph.D., Russian Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
M.A., Russian Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
M.A., Russian Literature, Odessa University (Ukraine), 1981

Teaching History

1994-currently, Lecturer, Russian Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

1991-1994, TA, Russian Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

1983-1988, Lecturer, Russian Language and Literature, Department of Foreign Languages (Russian for Foreigners), Odessa University, Ukraine.

Courses Taught

Elementary Russian, Intermediate Russian, Business Russian, Russian Culture: That Enigmatic Russian Soul, Chekhov on Stage and Screen, Art of Decision Making: Literature and Film, Fate and Chance in Literature and Film.

Publications

A Concept of Dramatic Genre and. the Comedy of a New Type. Chess, Literature, and Film. Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

About Angels, About God, About Poetry: A Treatise. Livingston Press, 2002.

A Systems Approach to Literature: Mythopoetics of Chekhov's Four Major Plays. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press,1997.

About Angels: A Treatise (A bilingual book of poetry. Translated into English by Frances Laird). Odessa, Ukraine: Russian Book Publishing, Inc., 1995. Translated into German by Kirstin Breitenfellner. Switzerland: Pano Verlog, 2000.

Prince Igor' In Search Of Glory: A Poem About Poem. Tenafly, N.J.: Hermitage Publishers, 1996.

Dom i ego obitately (a Russian book of prose). Philadelphia Friends of Art, 1996.

Life of Stars (a collection of Russian poems). Philadelphia: Friends of Arts, 1999.

Menuety s ten'u (Russian language poetry collection). New-York: Slovo-Word Publishing House, 1995.

Ledyanaya igla (Russian language poetry collection). New York: Effect Publishing, Inc., 1993.

Aura (Russian language poetry collection). Philadelphia: Black Sea, 1991.

Articles

"Geroy v 'Slove o Polku Igoreve" in Vechernaya Odessa, Ukraine, 1995.

"Dobry talant. Nina Fedorova" in The New Russian Word, New York, 1994.

"Na puti k Chekhovu" in The New Russian Word, New York, 1993.

"Poeziya Inny Bogachinskoy" in Mir, Philadelphia, 1992.

"Pushkin" in Grani, #2,1991.

"Kompozicia Chaiki" in Voprosi russkoi literaturi, Lvov, Ukraine, #2(42), 1983.

Poetry

English poetry in translation published in The Literary Review, v.41, #4, 1998
English poetry published in The Princeton Arts Review, 1997
English poetry published in The Neovictorian/Cochlea, 1997-1996
Russian language poems published in Stalker (USA), 1991-1993.
Russian language poems published in The New Russian Word (Russian
magazine in New York), 1991.
Russian language poems published in Vestnik (USA), Baltimore, 1991.
Russian language poems published in Gorizont (Russian poetry journal),Odessa, Ukraine, 1987.
Russian language poems published in Smena (Russian magazine), Moscow,1987, 88
Over two dozen Russian language poems published abroad in Russian news-papers and magazines.

Awards

Poet of the Year - Moscow, 1987. Awarded by Russian magazine Smena.
Poet of 1991 - New York, 1991. Awarded by Pushkin's Society in New York, 1991.

Last updated on January 18, 2012