Conclusion of Full Professor/Chair Search, Ohio State University

[Daniel Collins]

   We are delighted to announce that Helena Goscilo has accepted the position of Professor of Russian and Slavic Literature and Chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University.
    Dr. Goscilo is one of the most gifted, active, and prolific scholars working today in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century Russian and Polish literature, folklore, and cultural studies, and gender studies.  She is the author of 18 books, including the three monographs Lives in Transit: Recent Russian Women's Writing (1995), Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood during and after Glasnost (1996), and TNT: The Explosive World of Tat'iana Tolstaya's Fiction (1996; published in Russian, 2000), and 15 scholarly translations and anthologies.  She has also published more than 75 articles and book chapters, 63 encyclopedia entires, some 30 book reviews, and 11 short translations (apart from those in books published under her editorship).  She has been the editor or co-editor of five special issues of journals, including "Resent, Reassess, and Reinvent: The Three R's of Post-Soviet Cinema" in Slavic and East European Journal, Summer 2007, as well as an article cluster "New Russians" in Russian Review in 2003.  Dr. Goscilo has received numerous awards and honors, including six IREX grants, a two-year National Council for Soviet and East European Research Fellowship, a two-year National Humanities Center Fellowship, a Kennan Institute Research Fellowship, and three National Endowment for the Humanities grants.  In 1997, she was honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award in Slavic Studies by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies.  In 1999, she was recognized with an award as Distinguished Alumna of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University. In 2000, she was identified by University of Pittsburgh undergraduates as one of the professors to have significantly affected students' academic life.
    Dr. Goscilo has truly distinguished herself in every aspect of academic life-in scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and service.  We are very excited and proud that she will be joining our faculty, and we look forward to having her as our colleague and leader in the future.

Daniel E. Collins
Chair, Search Committee
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures

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