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Jenny Kaminer

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University

Email: jekaminer@ucdavis.edu
Office: 403 Sproul Hall
Office Hours

Research Interests

  • Gender and Russian culture, especially the representation of maternity
  • Russian theater and drama, particularly of the first decades of the twentieth century
  • Humor and comedy in Russian culture

Education

  • B.A. in Russian and Theater, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University

Publications

Books

  • The Bad Mother in Russian Culture (In Progress - Northwestern University Press)

Articles

  • "A Mother's Land: Arina Petrovna Golovleva and the Economic Restructuring of the Golovlev Family," Slavic and East European Journal (forthcoming, Winter 2009).
  • "The Angelic Little Image Falls from Grace: Adams Rib and the Reimagining of Maternity," Beyond Little Vera: Women's Bodies, Women's Welfare in Russia and
    Central/Eastern Europe    , Ohio Slavic Papers, vol. 7, eds. Angela Brintlinger and Natasha Kolchevska, Columbus, Ohio (2008).
  • "Theatrical Motifs and the Drama of Everyday Life in the 1920s Stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko," The Russian Review (July 2006).

Courses Taught

  • Russian 101B: Advanced Russian
  • Russian 105: Advanced Russian Conversation
  • Russian 127: Nineteenth-century Russian Poetry
  • Russian 142: Women in Contemporary Russian Culture