MATTHEW MANGOLD – CURRICULUM VITAE
George Mason University 1415 Girard Street NW Modern and Classical Languages Washington, DC 20009
4400 University Drive (724) 422-1160
Fairfax, Virginia 22030 [email protected]
EDUCATION
2017 Ph.D., Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
Dissertation: “Chekhov’s Medical Aesthetics: Environments, Psychology, and Literature”
Advisor: Edyta Bojanowska
Committee: Cathy Popkin, Emily Van Buskirk, Andrew Parker, Elin Diamond
2006 B.A., St John’s College, Annapolis, MD
History of Science and Mathematics, Philosophy, Comparative Literature APPOINTMENTS
2020-present Research and Teaching Postdoctoral Scholar of Russian, George Mason University, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
2018-20 Global Languages, Technologies, and Cultures Postdoctoral Fellow of Russian, School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology
2017-8 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow RESEARCH FIELDS
Nineteenth-, twentieth-century, and contemporary Russian literature; environmental humanities; medical humanities; theories of space and place; cinema and media studies PUBLICATIONS
“Chekhov and Medicine: The Mind-Body Problem” in Chekhov in Context, edited by Yuri Corrigan. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
“Chekhov’s Environmental Psychology: Medicine and the Early Prose,” Slavic Review, 79.4 (2020): 709-30.
“Letters, Dreams, and Their Environments” in Chekhov’s Letters, edited by Carol Apollonio and Radislav Lapushin, 247-52. New York: Lexington Books, 2018.
“Space and Storytelling in Late Imperial Russia: Chekhov, Tolstoy, and the Question of Property,” The Russian Review 76.1 (2017): 72-94.
“Chekhovskoe nabliudenie: sub”ektivnost’ i ob”ektivnost’ v rannikh proizvedeniiakh Chekhova” in Ckekhovskaia karta mira, edited by A. A. Zhuravleva and V. B. Kataev, 496-504. Moscow: Melikhovo, 2015.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Chekhov’s Environmental Psychology: Medicine and Literature (book manuscript)
“The Production of Space in Crime and Punishment” (under revision for submission to Slavic and East European Journal)
SPECIAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
2019-present Affiliate Faculty Member, Atlanta Global Studies Center
2017-present co-Founder, Medical Humanities Working Group, School of Philology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2020 Serve-Learn-Sustain Grant for Service-Learning Project with Russian Immigrants in Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology
2018 International Travel Research Grant, Higher School of Economics, Moscow 2016 Dodge-Lawrence Fellowship, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University 2015 Council for European Studies Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers University (declined)
2014 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Kathryn W. Davis Graduate Student Travel Grant
Jan and Paula Ilavsky Dissertation Research Scholarship, Rutgers University 2013 Transliteratures Fellowship, Transliteratures Project, Rutgers University
Pre-dissertation Research Travel Award, Rutgers University, Graduate School—New Brunswick, Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow, Russia
2012 Critical Language Scholarship, U.S. Department of State, American Councils
2011 Mellon Summer Research Grant, Rutgers University, Dostoevsky Museum, St.
Petersburg, Russia
Critical Language Scholarship, U.S. Department of State, American Councils (declined) 2010 Transliteratures Fellowship, Transliteratures Project, Rutgers University
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Indiana University, Summer Language Workshop (formerly SWSEEL), Advanced Russian, Bloomington, Indiana
2002-6 Hodson Trust Scholarship, St. John’s College
2006 Greek Translation Prize, St. John’s College
2004 Independent Colleges of Maryland Urban Teaching Scholarship ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2016 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop, Certification of Completion
2013 Fellow, STARTALK Institute for Teachers of Russian (ACTFL guidelines oriented) Davis School of Russian, Middlebury Language Schools, Middlebury, Vermont Associate, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center for University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign’s Workshop in Scholarly and Literary Translation from Slavic Languages, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
2012 Certificate of Studies in Advanced Russian, KORA Institute, Vladimir, Russia
2008–9 Certificate of Russian Studies, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia Focuses: Russian language and literature
TEACHING
2020-present Research and Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow of Russian, George Mason University Courses designed and teaching:
War and Peace
Crime and Psychology in 19th Century Russian Literature 20th Century Russian Literature and Human Life
Russian Civilization: Media, Technologies, Ideas Soviet and Russian Film: Innovation and Ideology 19th Century Russian Literature and Social Change
2018-20 Postdoctoral Fellow of Russian, School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology
Courses designed and taught:
Storytelling and Social Change in Russian Literature (included graduate section) Mediating Modern Russia: Social and Spatial Geographies (Advanced Russian I and II) Spatial Studies in Russian Media (in English)
Introductory Russian
Intermediate Russian: Exploring Russian Culture in Russian Russian for Heritage Speakers
Instructor, Language for Business and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Riga, Latvia, St. Petersburg Russia, summers
Courses designed and taught:
Contemporary Russia (in Russian) Advanced Russian
Intermediate Russian
2016 Instructor, Summer Language Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington Courses designed and taught:
Intermediate Russian (Russian Level 3)
2015 Instructor, Rutgers in Russia: St. Petersburg, Rutgers University Summer Study Abroad Courses designed and taught:
Love and Family in Russian Cinema: Third-Year Russian
2014-5 Instructor, Writing Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Courses: Expository Writing (two sections)
Summer 2013 Guest instructor, Davis School of Russian, Middlebury College, in participation with STARTALK Institute for Teachers of Russian, Middlebury, Vermont
Course: Introductory Russian (Level 1)
2010-13 Teaching Fellow, Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Courses designed and taught as independent instructor:
Introduction to Literary Theory: Space and The Story Western Masterworks: Crimes of Western Literature Introduction to Short Fiction
Courses taught as teaching assistant (included lectures and recitations):
Introduction to World Literature Literature Across Borders: Sex
2008-9 English language instructor, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia 2006–8 English instructor, St. Ignatius Loyola Academy, Baltimore, MD
Summer, 2006 Teaching intern, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH 2004-6 Language tutor, Ancient Greek, St. John’s College, Annapolis
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISION
2018 Elizaveta Orlova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Undergraduate Honors Thesis
“Fictional Space in E. M. Forester’s Room with a View”
Anna Basiukova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Undergraduate Honors Thesis
“American Gothic: Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms”
ADMINISTRATION
2021 Director, Language for Business and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Riga, Latvia, St. Petersburg, Russia (online)
2018-20 co-Director, Language for Business and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Riga, Latvia
2017 Resident Director, Critical Language Scholarship, State Department, American Councils, Nizhny Novgorod
2015 Director, Rutgers in Russia: St. Petersburg, Rutgers University Summer Study Abroad
INVITED LECTURES
Mar. 11, 2021 “Chekhov’s Suggestive Prose” Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich
Mar. 29, 2019 “Chekhov’s Environmental Psychology: Space and the Mind in ‘The Steppe’” New York University
Mar. 24, 2018 “Chekhov’s Medical Aesthetics” School of Philology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Jan. 15, 2018 “Surveillance in Film and Film Theory” School of Philology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Nov. 14, 2016 “Medicine and Storytelling: From Case History to Short Story” Medical Humanities Interest Group, Cooper Medical School, Rowan University
July 18, 2016 “Medicine and Literature: the Environment in Chekhov’s Writings” Summer Language Workshop, Indiana University (delivered in Russian)
Oct. 28, 2014 “Writing as a Doctor: Chekhov, Environments, and Humans” Swarthmore College CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2021 “Environments and Social Change Through Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Convention, Virtual
Discussant on the panel “A Sixth of the Earth: Russian and Eurasian Geopoetics”
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Convention, Virtual
2019 “Environmental Subjectivity in Chekhov’s ‘The Steppe’” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, San Francisco
2019 “Intercultural Competence and the Ethnographic Interview” Atlanta Global Studies Symposium
2018 “Chekhov, Psychiatry, and Activist Prose” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Boston
2017 “The Environments of Chekhov’s Drama” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Chicago
“The Dreaming Mind in Realist Fiction: Chekhov and Grigorovich” American
Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Convention, San Francisco
Discussant on the panel “The Alchemy of Allusion: Intertextuality as Philosophy and Prophecy in Russian Realism” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Convention, San Francisco
2016 “Environmental Humanism in Chekhov’s Ethnographic Writing” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Washington D. C.
2015 “A Spatial Aesthetics: Space and the Mind in Chekhov” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Philadelphia
2014 “Medical Insight and Comic Form in Chekhov’s Early Writings” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, San Antonio
“Chekhovian Observation: Subjectivity and Objectivity in Chekhov’s Early Writings” at the conference The Chekhovian Map of the World, sponsored by The State Literary- Memorial Museum-Preserve of A. P. Chekhov at Melikhovo, Melikhovo, Russia
“Environmental Humanism: People and Place in Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Convention, Chicago
2013 “Private Property and Literary Form in the Stories of Tolstoy and Chekhov” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Boston
“Space, Place, and Subjectivity in Chekhov’s ‘The Steppe’” at the conference
“Movement Across Space and Time” The Slavic Forum, University of Chicago
“Chekhov’s Spatial Subject: Fragmented Psyches in ‘The Steppe’” at the conference
“The Fragment in Russian Culture” sponsored by Slavics Without Borders and the Program in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania
2012 “The Duality of Space in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment” Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans
“Surveillance Realism in The Wire” at the conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Brown University
2011 “Crime and Punishment in Home to Harlem: Home, Survival, and Thinking Crime” at the conference “Survival Logics” sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
2011 “Death and Movement: Refiguring Bakhtin’s Critique of Tolstoy” at the conference
“Carnival” sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania
2010 “Hadji Murat’s Other Language” at the Columbia-Princeton Graduate Student
Conference sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2015-present Modern Language Association
2012-present Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
2013-present American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages
2012-present American Comparative Literature Association 2013-present National Slavic Honors Society
SERVICE AND TEACHING AWARDS
Reviewer for The Slavic Review, Comparative Literature Studies, The Wenshan Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers
2018-present Website and Social Media Manager, Russian Program, Georgia Institute of Technology Spring 2019 Thank a Teacher Award, Center for Teaching and Learning, Georgia Institute of
Technology
2014-present Association for Diversity in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, member 2013-17 Organizing Member, Slavics Without Borders, Intercollegiate Graduate Consortium 2013-17 Rutgers University Graduate Student Representative, American Association for Teachers
of Slavic and East European Languages
2010-11 Organizing Committee Chair, Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference,
“Survival Logics: Narrative and the Margins,” invited speaker: Michael Rothberg 2009-10 Organizing Committee Member, Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference,
“The Politics of the Common,” invited speaker: Michael Hardt
2009-12 Founding Member, Space—Literature Cooperative, Rutgers University 2006-8 Faculty Editor, SILA Writes, the literary journal of St. Ignatius Loyola Academy 2005-6 Co-Editor, Energia, the literary journal of St. John’s College
2004-7 Volunteer, Refugee Youth Project, Baltimore, MD 2004, 2005 Americore Educational Award
2004, 2005 Mayor’s Citation for Service in Baltimore Schools LANGUAGES
English (native), Russian (near-native), French (advanced), German (reading), Ancient Greek (reading)
