Ona Renner-Fahey
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Liberal Arts 316
University of Montana
(406) 218-8446
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2002
Mythologies of Poetic Creation in Twentieth-Century Russian Verse
(Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Olga Sedakova)
M.A., Middlebury College, 1994
B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1991
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
University of Montana
Associate Professor 2009-present
Assistant Professor, 2003-2009
The Ohio State University
Senior Lecturer, Spring Quarter 2002
Ohio Wesleyan University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Spring Semester 2002
Instructor, Autumn Semester 2000 through Autumn Semester 2001
PUBLICATIONS:
“Our only hope was in these plants': Irina Ratushinskaya and the Manipulation of Foodways in a Late Soviet Camp.” Chapter in Seasoned Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life (93- 131). Bloomington: Indiana University Press (forthcoming)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. (Entry on Anna Akhmatova). New York: Routledge, 2014. (forthcoming)
“Diary of a Devoted Child: Nadezhda Durova’s Self-Presentation in The Cavalry Maiden.” The Slavic and East European Journal. 53.2 (2009).
Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (Entries on Anna Akhmatova, Olga Sedakova, Elena Shvarts, and the Russian Nobel Prize winners.) 2006.
Dryzhakova, Elena. “Madness as a Humanitarian Problem in Dostoevsky’s The Double.” (Translation.) Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
“In Praise of Aphrodite: Translation of and Interpretive Essay on Marina Tsvetaeva’s Poetic Cycle. The Silver Age Journal, 5 (2002).
BOOK REVIEWS:
Efron, Ariadna No Love without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva’s Daughter. Ed. and trans. Diane Nemec Ignashev. Evanston, ILL: Northwestern UP, 2009. In Slavic and East European Journal. 53.4 (2010.)
Stock, Ute. The Ethics of the Poet: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Art in the Light of Conscience. Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Dissertations, Vol. 62. Leeds, England: Maney Publishing, 2005. In Slavic and East European Journal. 50.2 (2006.)
Tsvetaeva, Marina. Milestones: A Bilingual Edition. Trans. Robin Kemball. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2003. In Slavic and East European Journal 48.3 (2005).
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS:
“The Modernist Wood Sprite and its Diminishing World.” National Convention of ASEEES. Washington D.C. (November 2016).
“The Asthma of Poetic Creation.” National Convention of AATSEEL. Seattle (January 2012).
“Pasternak and the Creative Process: Hearing, Witnessing, and Capturing a Poem.” National Convention of AAASS. Los Angeles (November 2010).
“Tsvetaeva’s Epistolary Constructions of the Self.” National Convention of AAASS. Boston (November 2009).
“Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Tsvetaeva: Comparative Poetics.” National Convention of AAASS. (Philadelphia 2008).
“Constructions of the Self in Nadezhda Durova’s Kavalerist-Devitsa.” National Convention of AATSEEL. Chicago (December 2007).
"Fear Personified in DeLillo's The Body Artist and Krall's The Dybbuk."Definitions of the Real in Prose and Poetry (Comparative Literature). Wroclaw, Poland (May 2007)
“Mourning the Wood-Sprite: Modernist Nostalgia for a Lost Spirit World.” National Convention of AAASS. Washington, D.C. (November 2006).
“Personifications of Fear in Tolstaya’s The Slynx and Delillo’s The Body Artist.” National Convention of AAASS , Salt Lake City (November 2005).
“Olga Sedakova’s Poetic Inspiration.” National Convention of AATSEEL, New York (December 2002).
HONORS / AWARDS:
Recipient of the 2016 AATSEEL Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Postsecondary Level. San Francisco. February 2017.
Selected to participate in the fully funded Curt C. And Else Silberman Seminar for University Faculty on Teaching the Legacy of the Holocaust: Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), Washington D.C. June 2008.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
LANGUAGES:
Russian (Near-Native Fluency); Polish, French, Spanish (Working Knowledge)
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