Kathleen Scollins
Program Director and Associate Professor of Russian
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
BIO
Kathleen Scollins is a native of Burlington, Vermont. She began teaching Russian at ̽̽ in 2010, having received her undergraduate degree in Russian at Haverford College, followed by a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures (with a minor in Secondary Language Acquisition) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2009. She previously taught elementary Russian at the Middlebury College Summer Language Program. At ̽̽, she teaches at all levels of Russian language, as well as numerous courses in Russian and Soviet literature and culture. Recent literature courses include “,” an experience-based exploration of the cultural artifacts of the Soviet Union and “,” a communal engagement with the textual and physical spaces of Russia’s cultural capital city.
Publications
Area(s) of expertise
19th-century Russian literature; the St. Petersburg literary tradition; late Soviet popular culture; performative language in literature; the creation of iconic spaces in narrative texts.
Bio
Kathleen Scollins is a native of Burlington, Vermont. She began teaching Russian at ̽̽ in 2010, having received her undergraduate degree in Russian at Haverford College, followed by a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures (with a minor in Secondary Language Acquisition) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2009. She previously taught elementary Russian at the Middlebury College Summer Language Program. At ̽̽, she teaches at all levels of Russian language, as well as numerous courses in Russian and Soviet literature and culture. Recent literature courses include “,” an experience-based exploration of the cultural artifacts of the Soviet Union and “,” a communal engagement with the textual and physical spaces of Russia’s cultural capital city.
Publications
Areas of Expertise
19th-century Russian literature; the St. Petersburg literary tradition; late Soviet popular culture; performative language in literature; the creation of iconic spaces in narrative texts.
Awards and Recognition
Prof. Scollins has received numerous awards for teaching, including ̽̽’s Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016, as well as both the College of Letters and Science Teaching Fellow Award (2005) and the Early Excellence in Teaching Award (2002) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.