Courses I'm teaching in Spring 2024:

• Russian 002, Intensive First-Year Russian Language, co-taught with Tsvetelina Yordanova
• Russian 026 - Literature 026R, Russian and East European Science Fiction in translation (last taught in spring of 2021) - to be updated soon!

More or less recent courses:

• Russian 001 First-Year Russian Language (Intensive First-Year Language, Fall 2023, co-taught with Tsvetelina Yordanova)
• Russian 003, Second-year Russian Language (Last taught Fall 2017)
• Russian 004, Advanced Intermediate Russian (Spring 2019)
• Russian 015 - Literature 015R, East European Literature in Translation - First-Year Seminar, Writing-Intensive (Fall 2023)
• Russian 017 - Literature 017R, Love and Sex in Russian Literature and Culture, First-Year Seminar, Writing-Intensive (Fall 2019)
• Russian 023 - Literature 023R, The Muslim in Russia (Fall 2012)
• Russian 047/Literature 047R, Russian Fairytales (spring 2020)
• Russian 070 - Literature 070R - Linguistics 070R - English 070T, Translation Workshop (Fall 2022)
• Russian 086/Literature 086R, Nature and Industry in Russia - contributing to Environmental Studies (Fall 2018)
• INTP 091, Interpretation Theory Capstone (team-taught with Steven Hopkins, Spring 2019), On Translation
• Russian 108: Seminar on Humor and Satire in Russian Literature and Culture (Spring 2015)
• Russian 118: Seminar on Russina and Russophone Jewish Writers (Spring 2023)
• Russian 120: Seminar on Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fall 2019)

Programs for Reading Groups:

• Humor and Dissidence in East European Literature, at http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/sforres1/alum-readings/2008/ (for the Swarthmore Alumni Book Club in Washington, DC)
• The Great Russian Novel of Consience, at http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/sforres1/alum-readings/2003/ (for the Swarthmore Alumni Book Club, New York City

Resources for Slavists and others:

• The Association for Women in Slavic Studies
• The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
• The Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
• The American Literary Translators Association
• The Teach Russian site
• Interesting resources on Russian culture and other Slavistic topics, at www.ruthenia.ru

A virtual tour of the monastery on Solovki Islands in the White Sea, with pictures (taken in 1995)

A gallery of photographs from the village of Kuzaranda, taken in July 1998

Other goodies:

• Translations online
• My own Poetry Page
• A few examples of: Micro-Essays

About moi, though at this point extremely outdated:

• Professional self-promotion
• Personal self-indulgence

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Bouquets and expensive chocolates should be directed to:

Sibelan Forrester
Modern Languages
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390

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