Course taught in Spring 2012:

• Russian 017/Literature 017R, Love and Sex in Russian Literature and Culture, First-Year Seminar, Writing-Intensive

Other recent courses:

• Russian 015/Literature 015R, East European Literature in Translation - First-Year Seminar, Writing-Intensive
• Russian 026/Literature 026R, Russian and East European Science Fiction (Spring 2011)
• Russian 070/Literature 070R/Linguistics 070R, Translation Workshop (Fall 2010)
• Russian 047/Literature 047R, Russian Fairytales (spring 2008)

New Book! - Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Lives and Culture from Open Books Publishers

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
• On studying Russian or studying in Russia, the American Council of Teachers of Russian's RussNet
• The Teach Russian site
• Interesting resources on Russian culture and other SLavistic topics, at www.ruthenia.ru
• "Projekat Rastko" - if it doesn't yet cover the connections of Serbian culture to your area of interest, it will soon. There is also an English version.
• The American Literary Translators Association
• Fabulous and interesting rock and popular music from Eastern Europe at Tamizdat

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
• Examples of a new (for me) generic experiment: Micro-Essays

About moi:

• Professional self-advertisement
• 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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