Michael S. Flier

Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology
On leave 2007-2008

Barker Center 368 - 495-2178 - flier[at]fas.harvard.edu

Education: B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968 University of California, Berkeley.

Interests: Slavic linguistics, semiotics of medieval East Slavic culture

Current Courses:

Fall:
• Ukrainian 200 (*Ukrainian Studies: Seminar)
• Linguistics 250 (Old Church Slavonic)

Spring:
• Ukrainian 200 (Ukrainian Studies: Seminar)
• Linguistics 252 (Comparative Slavic Linguistics)

Selected Works:
• “Church of the Intercession / Saint Basil’s Cathedral” in Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, ed. Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger, 42–46 + pl. 8.1. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2008.
• “The Fourth Velar Palatalization in Ukrainian: The Southwestern Dialects,” Verba Docenti. Studies in Historical and Indo-European Linguistics Presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by Students, Colleagues, and Friends, ed. Alan J. Nussbaum, 73–82. Ann Arbor-New York: Beech Stave Press. 2007.
• “Political Ideas and Ritual,” chapter 17 in the Cambridge History of Russia, 3 vols., v. 1: From Early Rus’ to 1689, ed. Maureen Perrie, 387–408. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. 2006.
• “Court Ceremony in Russia (fifteenth–seventeenth centuries)” in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History, ed. Bruce F. Adams, 105–111. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press. 2006.
• “Seeing is Believing: The Semiotics of Dynasty and Destiny in Muscovite Rus’,” Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe. Ed. Nicholas Howe, 63–88. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press. 2006.
• Innovation in the East Slavic Non-Past: The Case of Belarusian First-Person Plural idom, American Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists, Ljubljana, 2003. Vol. 1: Linguistics. Ed. Alan Timberlake, 6577. Bloomington, Indiana: Slavic Publishers, Inc. 2003.
• Coeditor [with Henning Andersen] and annotator of Francis J. Whitfield, Old Church Slavic Reader, Oakland: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 2004
• K semioticheskomu analizu Zolotoi palaty Moskovskogo Kremlia [Towards a semiotic analysis of the Moscow Kremlin's Golden Hall], Drevnerusskoe iskusstvo. Russkoe iskusstvo pozdnego Srednevekov'ia.. Shestnadtsatyi vek. Ed. Andrei Batalov et al., 178-87, (2003);
• The Monomakh Throne: Ivan the Terrible and the Architectonics of Destiny, Architecture and the Expression of Group Identity-The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1500- Present. Ed. James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland, 21-33, 216-18, (2003);
• Till the End of Time : The Apocalypse in Russian Historical Experience before 1500, Orthodox Russia : Studies in Belief and Practice, 1492-1936. Ed. Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene, 127-58, (2003);
• K voprosu o kriteriiax foneticheskogo varirovaniia i grammatikalizatsii v russkom iazyke [On criteria for phonetic variation and grammaticalization in Russian] in Avanesovskii sbornik: K 100-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia R. I. Avanesova . Ed. N. N. Pshenichnova, 246-51, (2002).
• Surzhyk: The Rules of Engagement (1999).
• Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Ukrainian Phoneme j in Context (1998).
• The Jer Shift and Consequent Mechanisms of Sharping (Palatalization) in East Slavic. (1998).
• Pokrovskii sobor i arkhitektonika moskovskikh srednevekovykh ritualov [The Church of the Intercession and the Architechtonics of Medieval Muscovite Rituals] (1998).
• ed. Ukrainian Philology and Linguistics (1996).
• co-ed. Medieval Russian Culture, II (1994); co-ed. Medieval Russian Culture (1984); Aspects of Nominal Determination in Old Church Slavic (1974).

Work in Progress:
• A book on the semiotics of the Apocalypse in Medieval Rus'
• Articles on Ukrainian case government, Ukrainian-Russian code-mixing.