INGRID ANNE KLEESPIES Dept. of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures Pugh Hall 301 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611

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1 INGRID ANNE KLEESPIES Dept. of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures Pugh Hall 301 University of Florida Gainesville, FL EDUCATION University of California at Berkeley: M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures,1999. PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University: B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, ACADEMIC POSITIONS Acting/Interim Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Florida, August 2015-December Associate Professor, Russian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Florida, Assistant Professor, Russian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Florida, PUBLICATIONS Book A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature. DeKalb: Northern Illinois UP, Articles Traveling Domestics: The Penates and the Poet in Pushkin s Lyric Verse. Pushkin Review 15 (2012): Russia s Wild East? Domesticating the Siberian Frontier in Fregat Pallada. Slavic and East European Journal, 56.1 (2012): "Superfluous Journeys: A Reading of "Onegin s Journey" and "A Journey Around the World by I. Oblomov." Russian Review 70.1 (2011): Article included in a cluster of peer-reviewed articles and commentary that I organized devoted to the theme of travel and Russian literature. Caught at the Border: Travel, Nomadism, and Russian Identity in Karamzin s Pis ma russkogo puteshestvennika and Dostoevskii s Zimnie zametki o letnikh vpechatleniiakh. Slavic and East European Journal 50.2 (2006):

2 East West Home is Best: The Grand Tour in D. I. Fonvizin s Pis ma iz Frantsii and N. M. Karamzin s Pis ma russkogo puteshestvennika. Russian Literature (2002): Book Reviews Review of Vasily Zhukovsky s Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia (Northwestern UP, 2015), by Ilya Vinitsky. Forthcoming in Slavic Review. Review of Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream (Cornell UP, 2013), by Diane P. Koenker. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 16.2 (2015), Review of Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, (Oxford UP, 2011), by Ilya Vinkovetsky. Slavic and East European Journal 57:1 (2013). Review of Writing at Russia's Border (U of Toronto, 2008), by Katya Hokanson. Slavic and East European Journal 53:3 (2009). Review of Breaking Ground: Travel and National Culture in Russia from Peter I to the Era of Pushkin, by Sara Dickinson. Slavic and East European Journal 51:1 (2007). A Nation on a Journey: Adam Mickiewicz and the Paradigm of the Polish Pilgrim. UC Berkeley Center for Slavic and East European Studies Newsletter, v.20:2, Summer WORK IN PROGRESS Books Bounding the Russian Frontier: Mythologies of Space and Identity in Narratives of Russian National Expansion. The Necessary Man: Tracing the Long Shadow of Chaadaev in Russian Literature. Articles Riding the Soviet Iron Horse: A Reading of Viktor Turin s Turksib through the Lens of John Ford. My grandfather felt cramped living in Simbirsk gubernia : Reading Sergei Aksakov s A Family Chronicle as Frontier Narrative. The Sky is the Limit: The Soviet Frontier Machine in Alexander Dovzhenko s Aerograd. "Superfluity Revisited: The Case of Chatskii's Superfluous Travels and the Paradigm of the Extratextual Journey."

3 CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Woe on the Road: Chaadaev, Chatskii, and the 'Off-Stage' Journey. To be delivered on the panel On the Road: Models, Identities, and Encounters in Russian and Ukrainian Travel at the Annual Conference of ASEEES, Washington D.C., November 17-20, A Flash in the Pan? The Remarkable Persistence of the Chaadaevets in 19thC Russian Literature. Delivered on the panel Irrational, Ineffectual, Counterfactual: The Problem of Action in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature at the Annual Conference of ASEEES, Philadelphia, November 19-22, A New America? The Russian Frontier Mythos and its American Roots. Delivered on the panel Space, Place, Territory: Exploring Russian and Soviet Symbolic Geographies at the World Congress of ICCEES, Makuhari, Japan, August 3-8, Flying the Friendly Skies: Transcending History s Stages in Alexander Dovzhenko s Aerograd (1935). Delivered on the panel Literary and Visual Ethnographies: Leskov, Korolenko, and Dovzhenko at the Annual Conference of ASEEES, San Antonio, November 20-23, "Stériles éblouissements: Chaadaev and the Paradox of Action and Stagnation." Delivered at the workshop: Muße Faulheit Nichts-Tun: Fehlende und fehlschlagende Handlungen in der russischen und europäischen Literatur seit der Aufklärung, June 5-7, 2014, University of Innsbruck, Austria. My Grandfather Felt Cramped Living in Simbirsk Gubernia: Memorializing the Russian Frontier in Sergai Aksakov s A Family Chronicle. Delivered on the panel Circulation of Knowledge, Concepts, and Commodities in the Russian Empire at the Annual Conference of ASEEES, Boston, November 21-24, Romancing the Outlands, or Envisioning the Soviet Frontier in Turksib. Delivered on the panel Spectacles of Empire at the Annual Conference of AATSEEL, Boston, January 3-6, Job Interviewing Workshop, Panelist. Annual Conference of AATSEEL, Boston, January 3-6, Romancing the Russian Outlands, or from Fregat Pallada to Turksib: A Frontier Story. Delivered on the panel Imperial and Frontier Spaces in Soviet Literature at the Annual Conference of ASEEES, New Orleans, November 15-18, "Capturing the Trace of an Errant History: Chaadaev and the Image of the Russian Nomad." Talk delivered at the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida, January 26, "Creating the Topos of the Eternal Russian Traveler: Paradigms of Departure and Return in Karamzin's Letters of a Russian Traveler." Delivered at the panel Reconsidering Karamzin's Life, Writings and Reception at the Annual Conference of ASEEES, Washington D.C., November 17-20, 2011.

4 Etched on Glass with a Diamond: Biography as Cultural Myth in the Legend of Chaadaev and the First Philosophical Letter. Delivered at the workshop Creating Lives: The Role of Biography Institutions in Modern Russia and Poland: Cultural and Historical Perspectives, University of Florida, March 25-26, A Nation Astray Nomadism and National Identity in the Russian Context. Delivered on the roundtable Cultural Mobility in the Russian Imperial, Soviet, and post-soviet Contexts at the Annual Conference of ASEEES, Los Angeles, November 18-21, Domestic Frontiers: Provincialism in Goncharov s Frigate Pallada. Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Gainesville, March 26-28, "Traveling Domestics: Locating the Penates in Pushkin s Poetry." Paper delivered on the panel Testing Boundaries: Writing, Motion, and Identity in Russian Literature at the Annual Conference of AAASS, Boston, November 12-15, Superfluous Journeys? A Reading of Puteshestvie Onegina and Puteshestvie vokrug sveta I. Oblomova. Invited talk presented at the Center for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at SÖdertÖrns University, Stockholm, Sweden, June 15, Lost Journeys: The Missing Travels of Onegin and Oblomov. Paper delivered on the panel Writing Russian Travel in Nineteenth Century Russian Literature at the annual conference of AAASS, New Orleans, November 15-18, Russia s Wild East? Images of the Russian Frontier in Goncharov s Fregat Pallada. Paper delivered on the panel East and West: Literary Explorations of Imperial Russia s Boundaries at the annual conference of AAASS, Salt Lake City, November 3-6, Dispossessed by History: Eighteenth Century People in Herzen s Byloe i dumy. Paper delivered on the panel Recollecting the Eighteenth Century at the annual conference of AAASS, Boston, December 4-7, A Poet Astray: Pushkin and the Image of a Nomadic Wanderer in Puteshestvie v Arzrum. Paper delivered on the panel Readings of Pushkin at the annual conference of MLA/AATSEEL, San Diego, December 27-30, A Nation on a Journey: Adam Mickiewicz and the Paradigm of the Polish Pilgrim. Paper delivered on the panel Questions of Genre at East Looks West: Workshop on East European Travel Writing, at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College of London, February 1-2, Border Crossing: Constructions of Russian National Identity in Karamzin s Pis ma russkogo puteshestvennika and Dostoevskii s Zimnie zametki o letnikh vpechatleniiakh. Paper delivered on the panel Travel, Difference, and Identity at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Pittsburgh, November 21-24, East West Home is Best: The Grand Tour in D. I. Fonvizin s Pis ma iz Frantsii and N. M.Karamzin s Pis ma russkogo puteshestvennika. Paper delivererd on the panel

5 Eighteenth Century Russian Literature and Culture at the annual conference of MLA/AATSEEL, New Orleans, December 28-30, East West Home is Best: The Grand Tour in D. I. Fonvizin s Pis ma iz Frantsii and N. M.Karamzin s Pis ma russkogo puteshestvennika. Paper delivered on the panel Russian Between East and West at the annual California Slavic Graduate Students Colloquium, UCLA, April 7-8, ACADEMIC HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Senior Fellowship, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Humanities Enhancement Grant, University of Florida, Summer 2006; Summer 2013 Rothman Fellowship, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida, Summer Teacher of the Year Award , CLAS, University of Florida. Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for study of Polish, ; ; Summer 2000 Fulbright-Hayes Summer Grant for participation in the American Councils (ACTR/ACCELS) Summer Russian Language Teachers Program at Moscow State University, 2003 Regents Intern Multi-Year Ph.D. Fellowship, UC Berkeley, TEACHING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate Courses RUS 4501: Russian Majors Seminar. Upper level course designed to introduce Russian majors to the most significant trends and ideas in Russian historical, literary, cultural, and critical thought. Course includes reading and discussion (in Russian and English) on selected topics in Russian history, literature, and criticism. Course also addresses Russian-oriented career opportunities. RUT3442: Russian Urban Culture. Upper level General Education course devoted to an examination of the theme of the city in Russian literature, and specifically the myth of St. Petersburg. RUT4440: Pushkin and Gogol: Writing the Phantasmagoric City. Upper level General Education course devoted to close readings of work by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Bely with an emphasis on the Petersburg myth. RUT 3442: War and Peace. Upper level General Education course devoted to a close reading of Tolstoy s epic novel War and Peace. Special emphasis on the novel s historical contexts, problems of genre and representation, stylistics, aspects of Tolstoyan thought, and philosophies of history.

6 RUT 3442: The Literary Journey. Upper level General Education course devoted to a consideration of the importance of the journey theme in literature, with special emphasis on its relevance to Russian literature and conceptions of Russian identity. RUT 3442: The Endless Steppe. Upper level General Education course devoted to a consideration of landscape and space in Russian art and literature. RUS 3400: Intermediate Russian II; Spring 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 RUS 1130: Introduction to Russian I; Fall 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 Undergraduate Honors Theses Director, Luke Jeske, Russian Salons in the Early Nineteenth Century (2016) Director, Jenni Saperstein, A Novel Calculus: the New Math in Tolstoy s War and Peace (2015) [independent research project] Director, David Pruden, The Bear Engages the Dragon in the Twenty-First Century (2014) Director, Craig Moschouris, The Origins of Nineteenth-Century Ukrainian National Identity (2012) [independent research project] Director, Tiffany Richards, Russia s First Social Movement? Gay and Lesbian Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Russia (2010) Member, Natalie Hernandez, Subversive Cancer Ward (2012) Graduate Education Member, PhD Committee, Ruchan Kaya, A New Type of Resource Curse? The Effect of Natural Resource Pipelines on the Level of Democracy, Regime Stability, and Development (2014). Member, PhD Committee, Scott Feinstein, The Political Foundations of Secession, Stability, and Chaos: Russia, Moldova, Ukraine (2016). PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Acting/Interim Chair, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, August 2015 December, Associate Chair, Dept. of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures, Co-Director, UF Summer Study in Prague, Summer 2005, Summer 2015 Undergraduate Coordinator for Russian Studies, Selection Committee, American Councils of Teachers for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS), Fall 2012 and AY Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program, Russian and Eurasian Outbound Programs (Spring 2012) Reviewer for Russian language textbook Troika, 2 nd edition, 2012 (Spring 2009) President, North American Pushkin Society (NAPS),