Faculty

Michael_Long@baylor.edu

Professor of Russian
Director, Slavic and East European Studies
Interim Director, Asian & African Languages

Education
Graduated with a BA in German and Foreign Service from Baylor in 1979. MA in Slavic Language and Area Studies from Indiana University (1984), PhD in Slavic Linguistics, also from Indiana University (1994) in Bloomington, Indiana. PhD Minor in Germanic Linguistics.

Studied at Helsinki University in Helsinki, Finland (1979-80 academic year). Studied Russian one semester with CIEE in St. Petersburg (at that time, 1981, Leningrad). While a graduate student, received a fellowship to spend a semester at the Freie Universität in (West) Berlin. Also studied Czech one summer (1984) in Prague.

Has been teaching at Baylor since the fall semester of 1988.

Research
His research in linguistics is centered on the semantics of Russian and Czech word-formational suffixes (you say "What?"). Dr. Long is also very much interested in cultural topics, including extensive research on the life and work of the playwright, human rights activist, and former President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel; and the restoration of cultural monuments in Russia and the Republic of Georgia.

Dr. Adrienne Harris

Baylor University

One Bear Place #97390

Waco, TX 76798-7390

Draper Academic Bldg., Room 413

254-710-3898

Adrienne_Harris@baylor.edu

Assistant Professor of Russian

Education
Dr. Harris graduated from Purdue University in 1999, with majors in Russian, French, English, and Comparative Literature. In 2001, she earned an MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. She completed her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures (major: Russian literature; minors: Czech literature, 19th and 20th century French prose) in 2008, also at the University of Kansas.

She studied abroad in St. Petersburg (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007), Prague (2001, 2002), and Quebec (1998). As an American Councils Title VIII research fellow, she spent the academic year 2005-06 in Moscow, researching her dissertation "The Myth of the Woman Warrior and World War II in Soviet Culture."

Research
She specializes in 19th and 20th century Russian literature and in Slavic folklore. Her research interests include Stalinist myth creation, Russian cultural memory, and women soldiers' memoirs. In her spare time, she watches Czech films and follows Russian and Czech pop culture.