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Joe Peschio, Assistant Professor

Office: Curtin Hall, Room 816
Phone: 414-229-4949
e-mail: peschio@uwm.edu

Mailing Address:
Joe Peschio
Slavic Languages Program
Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413

Degrees/Education:
Ph.D., Russian Literature, University of Michigan
M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
B.A., Russian, University of Wyoming

Research Interests:
My research focuses primarily on the literary and cultural history of the Russian Golden Age (roughly, 1800-40). My current and past projects are concerned with underground literary societies, the Russian libertine tradition, literary censorship, and, more broadly, the sociology and pragmatics of Russian literature. I have worked as a Fulbright Fellow, State Department Title VIII Research Fellow, and University of Michigan Predoctoral Fellow at various institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Teaching Interests:
Russian language, literature, film, and cultural history.

Other Relevant Activities:
I am the Coordinator for the UWM Slavic Languages Program, which offers a Major and a Minor in Russian, and Faculty Coordinator for the Russian and East European Studies Certificate Program. Please don't hesitate to contact me directly with questions about these programs.

Since 2003, I have been the English-language editor for The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (Russian Academy of Sciences), and I also serve on the editorial staff of the Moscow-based journal Philologica: A Bilingual Journal of Russian and Theoretical Philology.

I am happy to certify translations of transcripts, birth certificates, and other official documents written in Russian, Ukrainian, and Serbian/Croatian pro bono for members of the UWM community and, when time permits, for other residents of the Milwaukee metro area. I also administer proficiency exams in Russian and Serbian/Croatian for UWM students (by appointment).

Recent Publications:
"Once More about Arkadii Rodzianko and Pushkin," Pushkin Review, in press.

[with I. Pil'shchikov] "The Structure of Audience and Circle Poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s-1830s." In: M. Remnek (ed.), The Space of the Book in Russia's Social Imagination, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.

"Pushkin, The Green Lamp, and Stalinist Philology." In: Katya Hokanson and Alyssa Gilespie (ed.), The Other Pushkiniana: Taboo Texts, Topics, Interpretations, forthcoming.

[with I. Pil'shchikov and K. Vigurskii] "Academic Digital Libraries Russian Style: An Introduction to The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore." In: M. Neubert (ed.), Virtual Slavica: Digital Archives, Digital Libraries. Binghamton: Haworth Press, 2006. Also published as a special issue of Slavic and East European Information Resources, 6:2/3 (2005): 45-63.

"Социологическое воображение в современном англоязычном литературоведении" ["The Sociological Imagination in Contemporary English-language Literary Scholarship,"] Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 58 (2002): 334-40.

My Russian and English translations have appeared in the journal Philologica and in books published by Northwestern University Press, T-ough Press, and Ultrakultura.

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