Vladimir Gitin

Senior Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures

Barker Center 325 - 496-0624 - vgitin[at]fas.harvard.edu

Education: B.A. 1967 Herzen Pedagogical Institute, Russia; M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1989 Harvard University.

Interests: Advanced Russian language instruction, specializing in stylistics and Russian poetry.

Current Courses:

Fall:
• Slavic Bb (Intermediate Russian - Second Semester)
• Slavic 101 (Advanced Intermediate Russian: Reading, Grammar Review, and Conversation)
• Slavic 103 (Advanced Intermediate Russian: Reading, Grammar Review, and Conversation)

Spring:
• Slavic B (Intermediate Russian)<
• Slavic Bab (Intermediate Russian - Intensive)

Selected Works:
• 'Intensive method' in Annensky's poetry (1997)
• 'Magdalene' by Innokentij Annensky (1997)
• Point of View As An Aesthetic Reality: Lexical Negation in Annensky (1966)
• "Text as a 'a Point of View': Lexical Negation in Baratynsky" (1996)
• Innokentij Annenskij (1986)
• Towards a Poetics of the Gogolian Anecdote (1986).

Work in Progress:
• Unpublished 'Theater of Euripides' by I. Annensky
• Russian-English Learner's Dictionary of Usage
• Workbook for Intermediate Russian (with Patricia R. Chaput).