Erika Haber
Erika Haber
Professor, Russian Language, Literature, and Culture; Russian Program Coordinator; and Undergraduate Advisor
CONTACT
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
324 HB Crouse Hall
Email: ehaber@syr.edu
PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS
Russian Language Literature and Culture
Degrees
- Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, 1993
- C.A.S. (Certificate of Advanced Study), Russian Translation, University at Albany, 1988
- M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University at Albany, 1987
- Graduate study at Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1986-1987
Environmental Humanities
Russian Children’s Literature and Cultural History
A.M Volkov
Non-Russian Russian writers, including Aitmatov and Iskander
Sinyavsky-Tertz
Stylistics, Translation, Idioms
Fairy Tales and Folklore
Short Stories and Translation
Dystopian Fiction
Food Culture and History
Revolution and the Avant Garde
Siberian Indigenous & Environment
Literary Film Adaptations
Russia Today
Culture through Fiction and Film
“Teaching Russian Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Feminine Agency in a Combined Literature and Russian Culture Course” to appear in Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom, edited by Sara Austin and Tanja Nathanael, and published by Lexington Books, late 2023.
Critical Review article on the current state of Russian children’s literature scholarship, focusing on three recent publications. Published in March 2022.Slavic Review , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , Winter 2021, pp. 883 – 891. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2022.16
«Яркие образы и прекрасный язык: наследие футуризма в детских стихах В. Маяковского». (“Bright Images and Beautiful Language: The Legacy of Futurism in Maiakovskii’s Children’s Verse.”) Детские чтения (Children’s Readings). 12.2 (2017): 20-38. Peer-reviewed journal of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, published in St. Petersburg, Russia. http://www.detskie-chtenia.ru/index.php/journal/article/view/272http://www.detskie-chtenia.ru/index.php/journal/article/view/272
“Surrogate Fathers and Sons: Aleksandr Volkov’s Historical Novels for Children.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. 42.2 (Summer 2017): 169-184. Peer-reviewed.
«Детская литература: обмен мнениями» (Children’s literature: an exchange of opinions) a joint project with Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Observer), published in Сноб 25.10.2016. https://snob.ru/selected/entry/115456/page/1 (11,661 views). Solicited interview.