Course materials for "America Through Russian Eyes"

[Margarita Nafpaktitis]

To my SEELANGS colleagues,

Some of you may faintly remember my plea for help and suggestions last
November as I was working on the syllabus for a 4-week course on "America
Through Russian Eyes."  I received many invaluable replies, and -- at long
last -- I have come up with a summary of suggestions from members of the
list, since they may prove useful to others as well.

Since it is a *long* summary (it includes SEELANGS member suggestions,
additional, potentially useful sources I came across while researching
the topic, and a discussion of materials I ended up using in class, along
with some brief commentary on how they worked out), I hesitate to post the
whole thing to the list.  If you would like to receive it via e-mail,
please respond to me directly (and not to the whole list) at
mnafpakt at umich.edu and I will be glad to send it to you.

However, I would like to use this forum to gratefully acknowledge the
following people for their help and encouragement:  KSANA BLANK, DANIEL
COLLINS, KAREN EVANS-ROMAINE, SIBELAN FORRESTER, DAVID FREEDEL, ALINA
ISRAELI, ULADZIMIR KATKOUSKI, ELENA KATSAROS, KAREN ROBBLEE, JENNIFER
RYAN, EMILY TALL, IRENE THOMPSON, JULIA TRUBIKHINA, RUSSELL VALENTINO, and
MARIKA WHALEY.  If I have inadvertently left someone out, please let me
know!

Again, if you are interested in receiving a copy of this summary by
e-mail, please send me a message.  I welcome any further coments or
feedback on this topic and will be glad to answer any questions on what
I compiled as best I can.

Margarita Nafpaktitis
Ph.D. Candidate / Graduate Student Instructor
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

mnafpakt at umich.edu