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Charles Byrd's areas of interest: Russian Language Teaching, Russian Cultural Studies, Russian Cinema, French-Russian Literary Relations, Mikhail Bulgakov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Nabokov.

Courses:

  • RUSS 1001/1002 Elementary Russian I and II
  • RUSS 3300 Introduction to Russian Cinema
  • RUSS 4050 19th-Century Russian Prose in English Translation
  • RUSS 4060 20th-Century Russian Prose in English Translation
  • RUSS 4080 Nabokov
  • RUSS 4090 Russia through the Eyes of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Publications:

  • "Prophetic Stammering in V.V. Kapnist's Iabeda (1798)," Slavic and East European Journal , Winter 1997, 541-553.
  • "Thunder Imagery and the Turn Against Horace in Derzhavin's Evgeniiu. Zhizn' Zvanskaia," in Russian Literature and the Classics , ed. Barta, Peter I., David Larmour and Paul Allen Miller, 1996, 13-34.
  • "Vasily Vasilevich Kapnist" in Early Modern Russian Writers: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Dictionary of Literary Biography , ed. Levitt, Marcus, 1995, 129-134.
  • "Freud's Influence on Bakhtin," Germano-Slavica V (5-6), 1987, 223-230.

Recent Awards:

University of Georgia Writing Fellow, spring 2011

U.S. Department of Education Award for advanced pedagogical training at Moscow State University, summer 2008

A Little Bit about Me

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Charles Byrd
Lecturer in Russian
(Ph.D., Indiana University)
119 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 583-8169
Email: byrdc@uga.edu
Photo © 2007 Danielle Hutlas
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