FLL Faculty
Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan - Assistant Professor of Russian/Russian Studies
Contact Information
Ortega Hall 353B University of New Mexico Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Fax: (505) 277-3599 Email:
Educational History
2005, Ph.D., in Slavic Linguistics, the Ohio State University
Dissertation:
Lexical Variation in the Slavonic Thekara Texts:
Semantic and Pragmatic Factors in Medieval Translation Praxis,
Directed by Professor Daniel Collins.
1999, M.A,, in Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
1997, M.A., in Bulgarian Philology, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
1996, B.A., in Bulgarian Philology, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
Research Interests
- Slavic Linguistics: Morphosyntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
- The Language of Russian Heritage Speakers in the USA
- Balkan Languages and Cultures
- Medieval Translation (Greek-Church Slavonic)
Selected Publications
Articles & Book Chapters
- Bulgarian Crime Fiction: From Artistry to Arbitrariness" (with Y. Hashamova), Balkanistica 25 (2012): 75-100
- A Project for Digital Corpus of Slavic Lexical Variants in Translated Texts of the 14th Century" (with L. Taseva). In: Bulgarian-American Dialogues. Proceedings of the Eight Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars, Varna, Bulgaria, June 13-15, 2008, and of the Seven Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars, Columbus, Ohio, USA, October 9-12, 2003. Ed. A. Miltenova and C. Vakarelijska, 408-420. Sofia: Academic Publishing House "Prof. Marin Drinov", 2010.
- Lost in Between: The Case of Russian Heritage Speakers (with L. Isurin)
In Heritage Language Journal 6.1. (2008). Please see: http://www.heritagelanguages.org/ - Discourses on Reading in the Tradition of Slavia Orthodoxa: Distribution and Function.
In Studia palaeoslavica 2. ed. M. Dimitrova, P. Petkov, and I. Hristova. (Sofia 2005). - Interpreting Medieval Literacy: Learning and Education in Slavia Orthodoxa and Byzantium in the 9th-12th centuries.
In Medieval Education. ed. R. Begley and J. Koterski. (Fordham University Press 2005). - Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in two 14th-century translations: the concepts of Good, Beautiful and Love in the Slavic translation of Isaj of Ser and Thekara.
In Übersetzungen des 14. Jahrhunderts im Balkanraum.
ed. L. Taseva, M. Jovcheva, C. Voss, and T. Pentkovskaja. (Sofia 2004). - The Metamorphoses of the Affix – OV in Bulgarian.
In Balkan and Slavic Linguistics. Ohio State Working Papers in Slavic Studies 2.
ed. D. Collins and A. Sims. (OSU 2003). - Paleographical and orthographical comments on a manuscript fragment No 33 from the Manuscript Collection of the National Library in Sofia.
In Annuaire de L’Universite de Sofia. Centre De Recherches Slavo-Byzantines ‘Ivan Dujchev’
90.9. (2000). - Advanced Searching: a PC-compatible Software for Collation of Digitalized Slavic Manuscripts (with I. Bolcheva, N. Shojleva and P. Dimitrov).
In Computer Processing of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts. ed. D. Birnbaum. (Sofia 1995).
Awards
- Summer Research Institute for Heritage Speakers,
University of Illinois (2009) - Fulbright-Hays Fellowship of the Department of Education,
Summer Russian Language Teachers Program in Moscow State University (2006) - The Chancellor’s List,
(America’s Outstanding Graduate Students), 2004-2005 edition - Distinguished Graduate Leadership Award,
Slavic Department, Ohio State University (2005)
Teaching Interests
- General Linguistics
- Slavic Linguistics
- Translation Theory and Practice
- Cultural Studies
Representative Courses
- COMP 330 – Balkan Culture: Construction of Identities
- MLNG 101 – Approaches to Languages and Cultures
- MLNG 457/HONORS 401 - Understanding Others: The Multifaceted World of Human Communication
- RUSS 201-202 - Intermediate Russian
- RUSS 338 – Modern Russian Culture
- RUSS 339 – 19th-century Russian Culture and History Through Film
- RUSS 401 – Russia Today (contemporary Russian nonfiction in Russian)
