Professor of Russian

Department Chair
Critical and Classical Languages Co-Major Advisor

Irvin Hall 172
ziolkom@MiamiOH.edu
513-529-2526 Dept. Office
513-529-1853 Direct

Office Hours

Monday: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Tuesday: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Thursday: 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Education

1978 Ph.D. Yale University, Slavic Languages and Literatures

1973 A.B. Princeton University, Russian

Teaching and Research Interests

• Russian Language
• Nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature
• Russian Folklore

Professional Recognitions

• 2006: University Distinguished Scholar Award, Miami University

Selected Publications

Books

• Hagiography and Modern Russian Literature (1988)
• Literary Exorcisms of Stalinism: Russian Writers and the Soviet Past (1998)
• Tale of Boiarynia Morozova: A Seventeenth-Century Religious Life (2000)
• Alien Visions: The Chechens and the Navajos in Russian and American Literature (2005).
• Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore, University of Delaware, 2013

Articles

• Articles on medieval and modern Russian literature.

Membership in Professional Journals

• American Association for the Teaching of Slavic and East European Languages
• American for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies