Monika Greenleaf
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Emerita
Academic Appointments
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Emeritus (Active) Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Emeritus (Active) Professor, Comparative Literature
Administrative Appointments
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Associate Professor, Slavic and Comparative Literature, Stanford University (1996 - 2010)
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Assistant Professor, Slavic Department, Stanford University (1994 - 1996)
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Visiting and Assistant Professor, Slavic Department, Yale University (1988 - 1993)
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Assistant Professor in Slavic Department, Stanford University (1984 - 1988)
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Acting Assistant Professor, Slavic Department, Stanford University (1982 - 1984)
Honors & Awards
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Scholarship, California State (1969-1973)
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Stanford Honors Essay Prize, Stanford University (1972)
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Fellowship, National Defense Foreign Language (NDFL) (1975-1979)
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Yale Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University (1980-1981)
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Honorable Mention: Aldo and Jean Scaglione Prize for best Slavic book, Modern Languages Association (1995)
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Honorable Mention: Wayne C. Vucinich Prize for best Slavic book, Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (1995)
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Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center (1996-1997)
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Martha Sutton Weeks Faculty Scholar in the Humanities, Stanford University (1996-1999)
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Junior, Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Natalia P. Semler Prize for outstanding dissertation, Yale University
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Member, Social Science Research Council Committee (1995 - 1999)
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Chair, Scaglione Prize Committee (1999 - 2004)
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Judge, Vucinich Prize Committee (2004 - 2004)
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Judge, Vucinich Prize Committee (2005 - 2005)
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Slavic Dept, Yale University (1990 - 1991)
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Member, Soviet/East European Studies Committee, Yale University (1990 - 1992)
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Soviet and East European Studies, Yale University (1991 - 1992)
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Chair of Slavic Department, Stanford University (2001 - 2005)
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Freshman Advisor, Stanford University (1984 - 1985)
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Freshman Advisor, Stanford University (1986 - 1987)
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature, Stanford University (1984 - 1985)
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature, Stanford University (1986 - 1987)
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature, Stanford University (2002 - 2005)
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Director of Undergraduate Studies for Slavic, Stanford University (2004 - 2005)
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Director of Slavic Literature Colloquium, Stanford University (1986 - 1987)
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Comp. Lit. Graduate Admissions Committee Member, Stanford University (1997 - 2004)
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Member, Slavic Graduate Admissions Committee, Stanford University (1997 - 2004)
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Member, Humanities Honors Program Committee, Stanford University (1997 - 1998)
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Member, Humanities Honors Program Committee, Stanford University (2001 - 2002)
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Member, Humanities Honors Program Committee, Stanford University (2003 - 2004)
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Member, Steering Committee, CREES (Center for Russian and East European Studies), Stanford University (1994 - 1995)
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Member, Steering Committee, CREES (Center for Russian and East European Studies), Stanford University (2001 - 2004)
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Chair of Slavic Search Committee, Stanford University (1997 - 1998)
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Member, Executive Committee for the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University (2001 - 2002)
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Member, Steering Committee for the Center for Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University (2001 - 2004)
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Member, Planning and Promotions Committee for Division of Languages, Cultures and Literatures, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
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Member, Admissions Committees, Humanities Center, Slavic Department, Comparative Literature, Stanford University
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Chair, Reappointment Committee for Gabriella Safran, Stanford University (2001 - 2002)
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Member, Selection Committee for doctoral and post-doctoral grants in Slavic area studies, Social Sciences Research Council (1988 - 1988)
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Member, Selection Committee for doctoral and post-doctoral grants in Slavic area studies, Social Sciences Research Council (1989 - 1989)
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Member, Selection Committee for doctoral and post-doctoral grants in Slavic area studies, Social Sciences Research Council (1996 - 1996)
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Member, Selection Committee, Woodrow Wilson Foundation (1990 - 1990)
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Member, Editorial Board for Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies (1994 - Present)
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Member, Wayne Vucinich Prize Committee, American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (2004 - 2006)
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Chair of Scaglione Slavic Prize Committee, Modern Languages Association (MLA) (1999 - 2004)
Program Affiliations
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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professional Education
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Ph.D., Yale University, Slavic Languages & Literatures (1984)
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M.A., Oxford University, Modern Languages (1975)
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B.A, Oxford University, Modern Languages (1975)
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B.A, Stanford University, Comparative Literatures (1973)
2024-25 Courses
- Poetess (Obsolete): Women Poets Take Back Time
COMPLIT 270, SLAVIC 270 (Win) - Vladimir Nabokov: Displacement and the Liberated Eye
COMPLIT 173, COMPLIT 273, SLAVIC 156, SLAVIC 356 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (5)
- Honors Thesis Oral Presentation
DLCL 199 (Spr) - Honors Thesis Seminar
DLCL 189C (Spr) - INDIVIDUAL WORK
SLAVIC 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Research
COMPLIT 194 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Work for Undergraduates
SLAVIC 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Honors Thesis Oral Presentation
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
SLAVIC 152, SLAVIC 252 (Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Literature as Performance:
COMPLIT 122, DLCL 142 (Win) - Poetess (Obsolete): Women Poets Take Back Time
COMPLIT 270 (Spr) - Russian and East European Theater
SLAVIC 195, SLAVIC 395 (Aut) - The Great Russian Novel: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Anna Karenina/ The Brothers Karamazov
SLAVIC 146, SLAVIC 346 (Win)
2021-22 Courses
- Dostoevsky: Narrative Performance and Literary Theory
COMPLIT 219, SLAVIC 251 (Aut) - Literature as Performance:
COMPLIT 122 (Win) - The Great Russian Novel: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Anna Karenina/ The Brothers Karamazov
SLAVIC 146, SLAVIC 346 (Win) - Vladimir Nabokov: Displacement and the Liberated Eye
COMPLIT 115, COMPLIT 315, SLAVIC 156, SLAVIC 356 (Spr)
- Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Mariia Gorshkova, Olga Ovcharskaia -
Orals Evaluator
Eric Kim -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Eric Kim
All Publications
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Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence (Book Review)
SLAVIC REVIEW
2010; 69 (1): 191-193
View details for Web of Science ID 000275689900011
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In medias res: A diary of the Moscow theater season, 2007-2008
SLAVIC REVIEW
2008; 67 (2): 422-?
View details for Web of Science ID 000256115300010
- Pushkin: A Biography by Timothy Binyon Los Angeles Times Book Review 2005
- Russian translation of Pushkin and Romantic Fashion St. Petersburg: Academic Project. 2005
- Performing Autobiography: Catherine the Great’s Multiple Memoirs (1756-1796) Russian Review 2005
- Pushkin’s Button by Serena Vitale Los Angeles Times Book Review 1999
- Pushkin’s Historical Imagionation by Svetlana Evdokimova Slavic Review, Special Pushkin Edition 1999
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THE SONG OF THE MOCKING-BIRD - PUSHKIN IN THE WORK OF TSVETAEVA,MARINA - SMITH,A (Book Review)
SLAVIC REVIEW
1996; 55 (1): 231-233
View details for Web of Science ID A1996UV25100061
- Russian Subjects: Nation, Empire, and the Culture of Russia's Golden Age edited by Greenleaf, M., Moeller-Sally, S. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. 1996
- Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and Russian Byronism by Lewis Bagby Russian Review 1995; 55: 503-504
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PUSHKIN BYRONIC APPRENTICESHIP, A PROBLEM OF CULTURAL SYNCRETISM
RUSSIAN REVIEW
1994; 53 (3): 382-398
View details for Web of Science ID A1994NV62700005
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FATHERS, SONS AND IMPOSTORS + NABOKOV,V - PUSHKIN TRACE IN THE 'GIFT'
SLAVIC REVIEW
1994; 53 (1): 140-158
View details for Web of Science ID A1994NM01700008
- Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1994
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AERIAL VIEW - ESSAYS ON NABOKOV ART AND METAPHYSICS - BARABTARLO,G (Book Review)
SLAVIC REVIEW
1994; 53 (4): 1112-1113
View details for Web of Science ID A1994QJ66900010
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ISSUES IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1917 - SELECTED PAPERS OF THE 3RD-WORLD CONGRESS FOR SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES - CLAYTON,JD (Book Review)
SLAVIC REVIEW
1992; 51 (2): 371-373
View details for Web of Science ID A1992JG71600051
- Through the Lens of Montage: Tynianov, Pushkin and the Fragment Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: From the Golden Age to the Silver Age edited by Gasparov, B., Hughes, R., Papeno, I. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1992: 264–292
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PUSHKIN 'JOURNEY TO AZRUM', THE POET AT THE BORDER
SLAVIC REVIEW
1991; 50 (4): 940-953
View details for Web of Science ID A1991HB44200016
- Pushkin , Mickiewicz, and the Overcoming of Romanticism Stanford Honors Series Humanities Honors Program, Stanford University. 1976; XXVII
- Pushkin on Literature by Tatyana Wolff Slavic Review 1972: 241-243