Senior Lector
2976 Ezra Stiles College, 432-0573
rita.lipson@yale.edu

Education
Ph.D. 1980, New York University

Current Interests
Post-Soviet Russian literature and culture.

Current Courses
Chekhov; Gogol' and Dostoevsky; Early 20th-Century
Poetry; Pushkin's Poetry; Russian 20th-Century Prose: The 20's and 30's; Emerging Trends in Russian Culture: The Icon and the FAX; Advanced Russian Conversation and Composition: Topics in Contemporary Press and Media; Russian Cinema of the 90's; Post-Soviet Russia Through Cinema.

Recent Projects
International Conference "Culture in Transition: A Search for Identity through the Arts in Post Soviet Russia" April 11-13, 2004. Conference proceedings forthcoming (in Russian and English), Moscow, 2005.

Web site for course "Emerging Trends in Russian Culture: The Icon and the FAX"

Lecture on St. Petersburg, 92nd Street Y in New York, 2003

The growing problem of AIDS in Russia for the Yale Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, presentation at the Whitney Humanities Center, 2003.

Work in Progress
Changes in culture in the Russian provinces.