Faculty and Staff
Faculty
A.B.D. Lunacharsky State Institute of Theatrical Art (GITIS). One of the first things Carleton Russian students learn is that "Anna Mikhailovna doesn't speak English." This means that from the very first week of Russian 101 they need to use Russian to communicate with her. In addition to helping team-teach beginning and intermediate language classes, she teaches a variety of interdiscplinary seminars, runs the Language Skill Maintenance program and directed the 1997 Carleton Moscow Seminar. You might also find her singing Russian songs at Carnival Night, drinking tea with students or setting new records in Tetris. Her specialties include theater, recent Russian literature and Russian youth culture.
Ph.D. Cornell University, teaches courses on Dostoevsky, Pushkin, children's literature and Modernist poetry, in addition to beginning and intermediate language courses. Her research interests include Russian Symbolism, philosophy of language and culture of the Modernist era. She is currently working on a book on nervous disease and culture in turn-of-the-century Russia. When she's not in class, you will probably find her on the frisbee field.
Ph.D. University of Chicago, teaches courses on a wide range of topics, from the culture of old Russia to "Bestsellers of Perestroika," from Russian Cinema to gender. Nemec-Ignashev has directed the Carleton Moscow Seminar in 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, helped develop the ACM program in Krasnodar, co-directed the 2001 ACM Global Partners Faculty Seminar in Krasnador with Prof. Michael Hemesath (Economics) and co-directed the 2005 Carleton Alumni Tour to Moscow, Siberia, and St. Petersburg with Anna Dotlibova. At present Nemec-Ignashev continues her work on the memoirs of Ariadna Efron (the daughter of poet Marina Tsvetaeva) and Ada Federol'f. Her other current research projects include an analysis of Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark" and a study of Russian film subtitling.