AATSEEL mentors/member home pages

[Sibelan Forrester]

Dear friends and colleagues,

To celebrate spring break I'd like to add two new rubrices to the AATSEEL
web site:

1)  a list of home pages of AATSEEL members,

2)  a list of AATSEEL members who would be willing to mentor others in the
field, and/or to provide information to curious visitors to the AATSEEL
page, including their research interests and specializations.

The first list will supplement information already available on the AATSEEL
page, a list of e-mail addresses of members.  This list is handy but
limited in usefulness in obvious ways -- largely by design, since its
sketchiness prevents poaching and spamming by unscrupulous mass
e-marketers.  A list of members' pages will provide an easy and centralized
locale to see what a variety of other Slavists have done with this
electronic resource, as well as providing more satisfying contact
information for those members who have a web page.

The second list will be modeled after the one now maintained by the
graduate student representatives on the Board of the Association for Women
in Slavic Studies (AWSS), which the curious may view at
<http://ash.swarthmore.edu/slavic/mentors.html>.

If you would like to be added to either of these lists, please send me your
name and URL (in the first case) and/or (in the second case) your name; any
contact information you would wish to make available to seekers of
mentoring; the categories of individuals you would be willing to mentor or
supply with information (including but not limited to:  high-school
students; undergraduate students; graduate students; foreign students;
junior colleagues); and finally, your areas of research interest and
specialization.

If you are not interested in mentoring outside your own institution and
professional contacts, but would be willing serve as a source of
information for specialized questions, you may choose either to be included
in this list or to be on the webmaster's private list of experts.  The
kinds of questions that arrive from the page's non-professional visitors
can include:  advice on programs for less-commonly-taught Slavic and East
European languages; information on certification and finding work as a
translator; where foreign students can find electronic bibliographic
resources on certain writers.

As always, comments and suggestions on the AATSEEL are most welcome, as are
offers of collaboration from our esteemed colleagues.

All the best,

Sibelan Forrester
Modern L & L
Swarthmore College
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/