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Joanne Van Tuyl, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Slavic Languages and Literature

Office Location: | 307 Language Bldg |
Office Phone: | (919) 660-3145, (919) 660-3140 |
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Teaching (Spring 2021):
- RUSSIAN 102.01, ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN II
Synopsis
- Languages 211, Tu 10:15 AM-11:05 AM; Online ON, MWF 10:15 AM-11:05 AM
- (also cross-listed as RUSSIAN 702.01)
- Languages 211, Tu 10:15 AM-11:05 AM; Online ON, MWF 10:15 AM-11:05 AM
- RUSSIAN 102.02, ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN II
Synopsis
- Languages 211, Tu 12:00 PM-01:15 PM; Online ON, MWF 12:00 PM-12:50 PM
- (also cross-listed as RUSSIAN 702.02)
- Languages 211, Tu 12:00 PM-01:15 PM; Online ON, MWF 12:00 PM-12:50 PM
- RUSSIAN 204.01, INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN II
Synopsis
- Online ON, MWF 01:45 PM-02:35 PM
- (also cross-listed as RUSSIAN 704.01)
- Online ON, MWF 01:45 PM-02:35 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 1986 MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1980 BA Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 1975
- Specialties:
- Russian
- Research Interests: 19th Century Literature, Language, African American & Russian Studies, and Comparative Literature
- Keywords:
- African-American • Russian • Literature • 19th Century
- Recent Publications
- Dale Peterson, Up from Bondage: the Literatures of Russian and African American Soul, Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 44 no. 3-4 (September, 2002), pp. 315-16, Canadian Slavonic Papers
- S mesta v kar'er: Leaping Into Russian. Supplementary Taped Exercises (1995), Newburyport, Mass: Focus Press
- S mesta v kar'er: Leaping Into Russian. Handbook to Supplementary Taped Exercises (1995), Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Press
- with Andrews, Edna, Dolgova, Irina, Flath, Carol & Maksimova, Elena, S mesta v kar'er: Leaping Into Russian. A Systematic Introduction to Contemporary Russian Grammar (1994), Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Press