David in the other CR – Costa Rica.
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
2001 Summer Linguistics Institute (LSA), UC at Santa Barbara.
2000 Summer School of Czech Studies, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)
1999 Summer School of Czech Studies, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)
1997 ACTR Summer Exchange of Language Teachers, Moscow State University
1995 Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Brown University
1992 IREX Summer Exchange of Language Teachers, Moscow State University
1991 Summer School of Czech Studies, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)
1990 Summer School of Czech Studies, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic)
1990 A.M., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Brown University
1989 Intensive Summer Russian Program, Leningrad State University
1989 B.A., Russian Area Studies/French Studies, American University
1986 Summer Russian School, Norwich University (Northfield, VT)
DISSERTATION
The Expression of Habituality in Czech, 1995
Supervisor: Professor Michael Shapiro, Slavic Languages, Brown University
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2004-present Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
1998-04 Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
1996-98 Lecturer, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Denver
1995-96 Visiting Assistant Professor, Russian Studies, Emory University
1994-95 Visiting Instructor, Department of Slavic Languages, Brown University
HONORS AND AWARDS
2006-07 Vilas Associate Award, UW-Madison
2006 Fulbright Lectureship Grant, Charles University, Prague (spring semester)
2005 Sabbatical leave (fall semester)
2004 Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award, UW-Madison
2002 Summer Funding Research Grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison
2000 Lilly Teaching Fellowship, UW-Madison
2000 Summer Funding Research Grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison
1995 Doctoral Dissertation of Outstanding Merit in Slavic, Brown University
1995 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation on Czech Studies, Brown University
1991 ACTR/ACCELS Grant for Summer Study in the Czech Republic
1990 ACTR/ACCELS Grant for Summer Study in the Czech Republic
PUBLICATIONS [Click on the link to download as .pdf]
Books
Kris van Heuckelom and -- (eds). Forthcoming (2006). Perspectives on Slavistics: Literature. Amsterdam: Pegasus.
--. 2003. The Semantics and Discourse Function of Habitual-Iterative Verbs in Contemporary Czech. Munich: Lincom. [Review of this book]
Articles
--. Forthcoming (2006). 'Cognitive Poetics and Literariness: Metaphorical Analogy in Anna Karenina,' in Perspectives on Slavistics, eds. K. van Heuckelom and D. Danaher. Amsterdam: Pegasus.
--. 2003. 'The Relevance of Václav Havel for American Undergraduates,' Czech Language News 21, 4-7. [A version of this publication is also available in the proceedings of the 2003 SVU North American Conference, June 2003, Cedar Rapids, Iowa]
--. 2003. 'Using the film Lásky jedné plavovlásky [Loves of a Blonde] in Intermediate Czech,' Czech Language News 20, 6-7.
--. 2003. ‘Conceptual Metaphors for the Domains TRUTH and FALSEHOOD in Russian,’ American Contributions to the 13th International Congress of Slavists, Volume 2: Literature, eds. R. Maguire and A. Timberlake, 61-75. Bloomington: Slavica.
--. 2003. ‘A Cognitive Approach to Metaphor in Prose: Truth and Falsehood in Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Il’ich”,’ Poetics Today 24:3, 439-69.
--. 2002. Entry on ‘The Death of Ivan Il’ich’ for The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, NY: Macmillan.
--. 2001. ‘Czech Habitual Verbs and Conceptual Distancing,’ The Journal of Slavic Linguistics 9:1, 3-24.
--. 2002. ‘The Semantics of Pity and Zhalost’ in a Literary Context,’ Glossos 3, <http://seelrc.org/glossos/issues/3/>.
-- and C. Ott. 2000. ‘A Pedagogical Approach to the Design and Use of Multimedia in Russian Instruction,’ in The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures, eds. O. Kagan and B. Rifkin, 327-40. Bloomington: Slavica.
--. 1999. ‘Iteration and the Peircean Habit,’ in The Peirce Seminar Papers: Essays in Semiotic Analysis (Volume Four), ed. M. Shapiro, 563-87. NY: Berghahn Books.
--. 1998. ‘The Function of Pain in Tolstoy’s "The Death of Ivan Il’ich",’ Tolstoy Studies Journal 10, 20-8.
--. 1998. ‘Peirce’s Semiotic and Conceptual Metaphor Theory,’ Semiotica 119: 1/2, 171-207.
--. 1996. ‘A Semiotic Approach to the Semantics of Czech Verbs of the Type rikavat,’ The Slavic and East European Journal 40:1, 118-33.
--. 1995. ‘Light and Dark Imagery in Tolstoy’s "The Death of Ivan Il’ich",’ The Slavic and East European Journal 39:2, 227-40.
--, S. Tempest, and C. Ott. 1995. ‘Chukovsky’s Limpopo and Lenin’s What Is Soviet Power?,’ in Virtual Connections: On-Line Activities and Projects for Networking Language Learners, ed. M. Warschauer, 339-43. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center.
--. 1992. ‘Effacement of the Author and the Function of Sadism in Flaubert’s Salammbô,’ Symposium 46:1, 3-22.
Translations from Czech into English
--. 2002. ‘Time’, ‘Remembrance’, ‘To the Memory of Pavel Eisner’, ‘Greetings to My Homeland’ , ‘To Stand under the Most Beautiful Star’, ‘Separated from Your Children’, ‘What Once Held No Longer Holds’, ‘The Sower’s Song’, and ‘Growing in and Taking Root’, in The Taste of a Lost Homeland/Chut' ztraceného domova, ed. V. Borkovec, Prague: Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences.
Computer Software [unpublished]
--. 1998. The Czech Alphabet and Czech Sounds.
--. 1998. Vocabulary and Contexts for the Textbook Czech for Fun [7 programs].
--. 1997. Foreign Borrowings: Russian Phonetics and Graphics.
--. 1996. Exercises in Russian Phonetic Transcription.
-- and C. Ott. 1995. Difficulties in Russian Pronunciation.
--. 1995. Czech Songs [2 programs].
--, S. Tempest, and C. Ott. 1994. V. I. Lenin’s ‘What Is Soviet Power?’.
--, S. Tempest, and C. Ott. 1993. K. I. Chukovsky’s ‘Limpopo’.
TEACHING
Fall 2006
• SL217/451: Third Semester Czech/Third Semester Intensive Czech (4 cr.)
• LT208: The Writings of Václav Havel: Critique of Modern Society (3 cr.)
• SL699: Directed Study: Readings in Russian Linguistics (3 cr.)