Availability for Guest Lectures by Petr Yevgenevich Boukharkine

[Greenberg, Marc L]

November 26, 2001
MEMO TO: North American Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and
Russian Language and Literature Programs
FROM:   Gerald Mikkelson, Professor, Russian Literature, University of
Kansas; Marc L. Greenberg, Professor and Chairman, Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures
SUBJECT: Availability for Guest Lectures by Petr Yevgenevich Boukharkine

        The University of Kansas Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures is pleased to announce that, thanks to the Fulbright exchange
program between the United States and Russia, we have as our guest for the
current academic year of Dr. Petr Yevgenevich Boukharkine, Professor of
Russian Literature at St. Petersburg State University and one of Russia's
most outstanding younger scholars specializing in Russian literature of the
eighteenth century. He is also one of the most popular lecturers in the
School of Philology.
        Professor Boukharkine's numerous publications include the following
recent studies: (1) ?. ?. ????????--??????? ? ????????--? ??????? ???????
?????????? (1999), (2) ???????????? ??????? ? ??????? ?????????? ? XVIII-XIX
????? (1996), and (3) ???????? ? ?????: ?????? (2001). He is also the chief
editor of a two-volume Encyclopedia of St. Petersburg in the 18th Century
that is scheduled for publication before the end of this year.
        Petr Yevgenevich is available to be invited to your university for a
short lecturing stint. The list of topics on which he is prepared to speak
(in Russian) is as follows:
        (1) Life in St. Petersburg in the 18th Century,
        (2) Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature and the Formation of the
"Petersburg text" in Russian culture,
        (3) The St. Petersburg Writer in the Eighteenth Century,
        (4) Nikolai Karamzin and the Development of Modern Russian Prose
Fiction,
        (5) Patriarch Nikon's Church Reforms and the Europeanization of
Russian Culture,
        (6) The Role of Ukrainian Rhetoricians of the 17th and Early 18th
Century in the Development of Russian Culture,
        (7) Empire and Freedom--Two Polar Opposites in Russian Culture,
        (8) Imitations of Horace and the Country Estate Theme in Russian
Literature,
        (9) Literary Scholarship (?????????????????) as An Alternative
Literature in the Soviet Period,
        (10) The Poetry of Ivan Ignatov (Dmitrii Evgenevich Maksimov):
Transition from Modernism to Postmodernism in Times of Literary Isolation,
        (11) Russian Orthodoxy and Avant-garde Art,
        (12) The Rhetorical Tradition in Russian Literature.
        Professor Boukharkine's lecturing schedule at the University of
Kansas will allow him to travel from the middle to the latter part of each
work-week from mid-January until mid-May. Appropriate compensation, in our
opinion, would be reimbursement for the cost of coach air travel from Kansas
City International airport to your location, and back, plus local food and
lodging and an honorarium.
        Please address your invitation directly to Professor Boukharkine at
the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas,
Wescoe Hall, Room 2134, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045-7590. His fax
number is (715) 864-4298, telephone (715) 864-3313, and e-mail (pyb at ku.edu).
        I hope that you will take advantage of the extraordinary opportunity
of meeting, hearing, and associating with this remarkable visitor from
Russia.
        Yours sincerely,
        Gerald Mikkelson and Marc L. Greenberg
--------------------------------------------------------
Marc L. Greenberg
Chair and Professor
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Kansas - Wescoe Hall
1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2134
Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA
Tel. and voice-mail: (785) 864-2349
Fax: (785) 864-4298; E-mail: mlg at ku.edu

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