Curt Woolhiser

Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures

Barker Center 341 - 495-3528 - cwoolhis[at]fas.harvard.edu

Education: A.B. 1983 University of Michigan; M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1995, Indiana University.

Interests: Russian and Belarusian language and culture, Slavic linguistics, sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language variation and change, language/dialect contact, language attitudes and language ideology, language policy and language conflict in Eurasia and Eastern/East Central Europe, sociolinguistics and foreign language pedagogy, content-based language instruction.

Current Courses:

Fall:
• Slavic 101 (conversation) (Advanced Intermediate Russian: Reading, Grammar Review, and Conversation)
• Slavic 102 (Advanced Russian: Introduction to the Language of History and the Media)
• Slavic 111 (Advanced Russian: Readings in Russian/Post-Soviet Studies)

Spring:
• Slavic 103 (Advanced Russian: Reading, Composition, and Conversation)
• Slavic 119 (Contemporary Issues: Nationalities of the Former Soviet Union)

Selected Works:
• Cognates in Contact: The Dialects of the Polish-Belarusian Borderlands and the Typology of Contact-Induced Innovation (forthcoming)
• Political Borders and Dialect Convergence/Divergence in Europe (2005)
• Metalinguistic Discourse, Ideology and 'Language Construction' in the BSSR, 1920-1939 (2003)
• Constructing National Identities in the Polish-Belarusian Borderlands (2003)
• Language Ideology and Language Conflict in Post-Soviet Belarus (2001)

Works in Progress
• The Russian Language in Social Context: Issues in Russian Sociolinguistics
• The Meaning of Linguistic Variation in Post-Soviet Belarus: Ideological Dimensions of Metalinguistic Discourse and Language Use
• Communities of Practice and the Linguistic Construction of Difference
• Structural and Socio-Pragmatic Aspects of Belarusian-Polish and Belarusian-Russian Codeswitching.