• Foreignization and Domestication in Translation on the Example of Alice in Wonderland 

  Kostiuchenko, Mariia (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

  In this thesis I would like to compare the principles of domestication and foreignization in translation using the examples of the Russian translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (commonly just ...
• Maximilian Voloshin between Spirit and Matter 

  LEONENKO, ELENA (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)

  This thesis considers in tandem the verbal and visual production of the Russian modernist poet and artist Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932), whose work, I argue, was polarized between the spiritual and the material realms. ...
• From Aral-Sea to Salt-Soil in Abdizhamil Nurpeisov's "Final Respects". Gender, Kazakh Ecocriticism and the Soviet Modernisation Mirage in the Steppe. 

  Zabel, Verena (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)

  In my thesis, I am analysing Soviet Kazakh writer Abdizhamil Nurpeisov's novel Final Respects. I argue that Nurpeisov's novel presents both environmentalist criticism and a multivocal description of Soviet Kazakh identity. ...
• The Networked Public Sphere in Moscow: How Young Adults Navigate Social Media and the Online Space 

  Smith, Kyle (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  In this thesis I examine how social media and the internet function as an alternative to Habermas’ public sphere and their potential to facilitate public discourse in the Russian Federation. Using in-depth interviews ...
• Arcadian Ruins: Remains of the Past in Contemporary Russian Art 

  Vikulina, Nadezhda (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)

  This thesis considers the subversive ways contemporary Russian art offers of looking at the ruins left by the recent Soviet past. It focuses on works of poetry and photography that capture the transformation of the landscape ...
• From Prophecy to Parody: Shamakha in the Russian Romantic Imagination 

  Jalilov, Murad (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)

  This thesis seeks to explore the role of the Azerbaijani city of Shamakha and the image of its ruler, the Shamakhan Queen in Pavel Katenin’s "Kniazna Milusha" and Alexander Pushkin’s "Skazka o Zolotom Petushke". In order ...
• Akram Aylisli, Village Prose, World Literature 

  Orte, Peter (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)

  This thesis takes Akram Aylisli’s Farewell, Aylis as an occasion to dwell on World Literature. Tracing Aylisli’s development as a Soviet writer of Azerbaijani “village prose,” I follow the displacements of the village ...
• Aspectual Prefix Variation in the Novel Russian Verbs 

  Gordeeva, Ksenia (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)

  The study compared prefix variation in novel verbs to prefix variation in standard Russian. Thirty-seven native speakers of Russian participated in the designed experiment. The experiment elicited the perfective verbs ...
• The Physiology of Literature: A.A. Ukhtomskii and the Principle of the Dominant 

  Osadchuk, Svetlana (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

  THESIS ABSTRACT Svetlana R. Osadchuk Master of Arts
 Russian, and East European, and Eurasian Studies Program
 June 2018
 Title: The Physiology of Literature: A.A. Ukhtomskii and The Principle of The Dominant Russian ...
• Russia's Hybrid Warfare: The Prowess and Limitations of Putin's (In)Visible Hand in Estonia and Latvia 

  Casselman, Rachel (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Russia’s recent increase in acts of aggression against bordering nations is concerning. After Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, many wondered if the world should anticipate a Baltic intervention. This ...
• Can the United States and Russia Cooperate? Analyzing the results of bilateral and multilateral cooperation on the Syrian conflict 

  Ward, Peter (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  The discourse regarding US/Russia relations focuses intensely on the competitive nature between these two powers. Policy makers echo strategies of the past by making recommendations which embrace competitiveness and mutual ...
• Perception of pragmatic appropriateness of Russian Imperatives: The Case of L2 Learners and Heritage Learners of Russian 

  Tsylina, Marina (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)

  The study compared 10 fluent second language learners (L2Ls) and 10 heritage learners of Russian (HLs) to monolingual controls (n=20) in their judgments of the subtle nuances of aspectual usage in direct positive and ...
• The Paradoxical Interrelationship of Church and State in Post-Communist Russia: The Rise and Manifestation of Power via the Prism of LGBTQIA Rights 

  Zhdanov, Alekcander (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)

  The Russian Orthodox Church is seeking to reestablish a leadership role in the spiritual health of the citizenry in post-Communist Russia via a concerted effort to forge an alliance with the Russian government, regardless ...
• The Eye in Lermontov’s "A Hero of Our Time": Perception, Visuality, and Gender Relations 

  Zagoruyko, Iryna (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)

  This thesis views Lermontov’s novel "A Hero of Our Time" as centered on images, glances and vision. In his text Lermontov conveys a persistent fascination with visual perception. The attentive reader can read this language ...
• Orphic Mythologemes in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Oeuvre 

  Savenko-Moore, Anastasia (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

  This thesis explores Orphic mythologemes and tropes in Marina Tsvetaeva’s works in order to identify whether they create a personalized semantic system in her oeuvre. I review such themes as the “supernatural powers” of ...
• "To Rasshcheplennoe Iadro": From Lucretian Swerve to Sundered Core in Shalamov’s Atomnaia poema 

  Larson, Kirstin (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)

  Varlam Shalamov's Atomnaia poema addresses a primordial "wish to split" at the core of nature and within the human heart. This wish to split is informed by Shalamov's Gulag experience as well as his reflections on Auschwitz ...
• Beyond the Feminine in Pushkin's Tatiana 

  Spreat, Eric (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)

  Pushkin's Tatiana tends to be pigeonholed by criticism that acknowledges her dynamism and openness to creative possibilities but restricts her intertextual significance to the heroines of the European novelists she herself ...
• Poetics of Lev Tolstoy's Kholstomer 

  Forehand, Paul (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

  This thesis contains an analysis of the ways in which form and content are combined to create significance within a text, as well as an exploration of the ways in which the mechanics of didactic fiction convey this ...
• Gender Assignment of Russian Indeclinable Nouns 

  Wang, Qiang (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

  This thesis analyzes the grammatical gender assignment of Russian indeclinable nouns. Chapter I focuses on gender and agreement in Russian nouns. Previous assignment models failed to account for the non-neuter gender of a ...
• Representations of Revolution and Revolutionaries in Early Twentieth Century Russian Literature 

  Moore, Rick (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

  The representation of Revolution and revolutionaries develops as one of the main themes in Russian literary texts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It would not be an overstatement to say that most active ...

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