Tatiana Osipovich

Associate Professor of Russian

department: Foreign Languages
office: 325 Miller Center
phone: 503-768-7442
e-mail: tatiana@lclark.edu

Tatiana Osipovich has been teaching at Lewis and Clark since 1990. A Russian native, she studied Russian literature at the Pedagogical Institute in Arkhangelsk, Russia, in 1969-1974, and after emigrating to the United States, she continued her education at the University of Pittsburgh, where she received her MA in Russian and Soviet Studies in 1983 and her PhD in Russian Literature and Language in 1989. Before coming to Lewis and Clark, Prof. Osipovich taught Russian at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and the Russian Summer School at Norwich University, Vermont. At Lewis and Clark she has taught all levels of Russian language and literature courses, both in Russian and in translation, as well as some general education courses, such as the “Inventing America” freshman seminar and a gender studies core course titled “Gender and Aesthetic Expression.” In 2003, Prof. Osipovich received the Fulbright lecturing award, and she taught gender studies courses at the Nevsky Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the fall of the same year. Prof. Osipovich’s earlier research topic was Russian revolutionary culture and the author Andrei Platonov (her dissertation topic was “Sex, Love and Family in the Works of Andrei Platonov”). She has published several articles on gender issues in revolutionary Russia that you can read at the Russian Virtual Library: http://ecsocman. edu.ru/db/msg/108917. html

Today she continues to research gender issues in Russian culture and society. Among her recent publications are the following articles:

“Russian Mail Order Brides in US Public Discourse: Sex, Crime And Cultural Stereotypes,” Sexuality and Gender in Post-communist East Europe and Russia, Naworth Press, 2005.

“The ‘New Woman’ in Early Soviet Fiction: Bolshevik Ideology and Popular Mythology,” Between Wars: Nations, Nationalism, and Gender Relations in Central and Eastern Europe 1918-1939. Fibre-Verlag, Germany, 2004.

“In Search of ‘the Third Sex’: New Women and Homosexual Men in Fin-de-Siecle Russian Literary Culture,” Eros and Logos in Modern Culture, Moscow, 2003.

Prof. Osipovich’s latest research interest is Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945), one of the most important authors in the Russian Symbolist movement. While primarily known as a poet and prose writer, Gippius was also a playwright and literary critic. Currently, Prof. Osipovich is focusing on Gippius’ contribution to drama and criticism, subjects that have received very little attention in literary scholarship.