Byron Lindsey
Professor of Russian

Contact Information
Ortega Hall 351B
University of New Mexico
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146
Phone: (505) 277-2538
Fax: (505) 277-3599
Email: bliny@unm.edu

Educational History

B.A., University of Texas, Austin. Majors: Journalism, English.

M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Major: Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithica, New York. Field: Russian Literature.
Dissertation : Early Chekhov: Development of Character and Meaning in the short Stories, 1880-1887. Minors: Latin American Literature, American Literature, Italian literature.

Projects and Interests

Fulbright-Hayes Faculty Research Abroad Grant, Department of Education, 2005.
Research project: History of Literature of Dagestan with translations of selected texts. Institute of World Literature, Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation, Moscow, February-August 2005.

Short Biographical Paragraph

Dr. Lindsey teaches Russian and Comparative Literature in English as well as Russian language courses, e.g. Spring 2006, "Russian Romanticism" and in Spring 2007, a seminar "Lev Tolstoy: Representation, Deconstruction, Resistance." (Russian 490/CompL580). The course will include readings from some of the sources for Tolstoy’s methods as a writer and philosopher, including Rousseau and Stendahl. BL’s research interests include contemporary Russian literature, Russian literature in the Caucasus, and the folk literature and lyric poetry of Dagestan and the Northern Caucasus. He is the author of critical studies on contemporary Russian literature and has translated the prose fiction of Vladimir Makanin, Viktor Pelevin and others. His new book (co-edited) Routes of Passage: Essays on the Fiction of Vladimir Makanin is in press at Slavica Publishers (Indiana University) and will be published in early winter. His current project is a history of the classical lyric poetry of Dagestan with the first English translations from the major poets. Favorite writer: Dostoevsky. Favorite lyric poets: Lermontov, William Carlos Williams. Favorite composer: Shostokovich.

Most Recent Publications

"Vladimir Makanin." Russian Writers since 1980. Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky, editors. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003: 172-183. Biographical and critical overview of Makanin's opus with bibliography.

"The Arts of Listening and Digging: Myth, Memory and Retrieval of Meaning in Vladimir Makanin's 'Voices' and 'The Loss'." Buletin stiintific Fascicula Limbi Moderne (Baia Mare, Romania), XV (2002):137-156.

Translation: Yevgeny Shklovsky. "A cup of Coffe at the cafe on Ostozhenko." AGNI. Boston: Boston University Press. 58 (2003): 105-111. Scheduled publication: October, 2003. Co-translated with John Alan Mason.