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Jane Costlow is Professor of Russian Language and Literature. During graduate work at Yale she spent a year in Leningrad, supported by Fulbright and the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX). Her scholarly and teaching interests focus on 19 th century Russian literature and representations of the natural world; she regularly teaches courses in Bates’ Environmental Studies Program. She has published on Ivan Turgenev and on numerous women writers (including Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, Evgeniia Tur and Irina Polyanskaya), and is a co-author of Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture (Stanford, 1993). She is currently involved in several projects that have to do with questions of environment and culture in Russia: a book-length study of images of the forest in Russia, and an edited volume of essays on the history of animals in Russia. Professor Costlow has led numerous Bates trips to Russia, both during Short Term and as part of the college’s FSA programs. Destinations regularly include St. Petersburg and Moscow, and such lesser-traveled locations as Orel Ekaterinburg and Yasnaya Polyana (the estate-museum of Leo Tolstoy, located outside of Tula, southwest of Moscow). A recent highlight of travels to Russia was the Short Term 2006 visit to Optyna pustyn’, one of the centers of Russian Orthodox monastic life in the 19th century – now experiencing a post-Soviet revival.
Professor Costlow's complete curriculum vitae
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