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Carolyn Ayers, Ph.D.
Office location:
Saint Mary's Hall #231
Mailing Address:
Saint Mary's University
of Minnesota
700 Terrace Heights #1432
Winona, MN 55987-1399
507-457-1523
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Carolyn Ayers is a tenured Associate Professor and Chair of English at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
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Scholarly and Creative Interests
Comparative Literature
Russian Literature
Literary Theory
Autobiography
Courses Taught Recently at SMU
Russian Literature Seminar
Autobiography Seminar
World Literature
Critical Approaches to Literature
Introduction to Literature
Argumentative and Research Writing
English Composition
Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association
American Comparative Literature Association
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Education
Ph.D.,University of Chicago, IL, 1994
M.A.,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, 1984
B.A.,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, 1981
Teaching Experience
2000 to Present: Assistant Professor, English Department, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, MN
1999-2000: Instructor (Docente),University of Groningen
1995-1999: Postdoctoral Fellow in Literary Studies, Rudolf Agricola Institute for Research, University of Groningen
1995: Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC
1987-1991: Instructor, University of Chicago, IL
1988: Instructor, Loyola University of Chicago, IL
1984: Instructor, Duke University, Durham, NC
1982-1984: Teaching Assistant,University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC
Honors
Phi Beta Kappa |
Selected Presentations
"The Mobile Self: Language, Movement, and Identity in Contemporary Autobiographical Writing," 27 April 2002, %th Annual Red River Conference on World Literature, Fargo, ND
"Powerful Conversations: Dialogic Relationships in the Memoirs of Princess Dashkova," 5 November 2000, Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830, Denver CO
"The Mentor-Student Relationship in 20th-Century Russian Autobiography," 30 Dec. 1999, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Chicago, IL
"The Other Once Removed: Russia's Refraction of English Romantic Fiction," 19 November 1999, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
"Varieties of Guilt in Russian Childhood Autobiographies, 19 March 1999, Rudolf Agricola Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
"Vospominaniia zhenskogo obrazovaniia," 16 September 1998, Nevskii Institute of Language and Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia
Publications
Guest Editor, *Diologism: An International Journal of Bakhtin Studies* 3 (1999), "Bakhtin and Narrative Representation."
Articles and Chapters:
"Varieties of Guilt in Russian Childhood Autobiographies," *Schuld en Cultuur* (2002), Rudolf Agricola, Groningen School for the Humanities, 59-69
"Talk of the Town: Gossip in the Russian Society Tale," *Russian Literature XLVII (January 2000), 1-14
"Looking Back through the Loophole: The Discourse of Contemporary Intellectual Autobiography in Joseph Brodsky and Paul Auster," in *Dialogism* 3 (1999), 78-103
"V.F. Odoevskii and a Poetics of Education," *Essays in Poetics* 24 (Autumn 1999), 13-30
"Elena Gan and the Female Gothic in Russia," in *The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Neil Cornwell, ed., Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999, 171-187
"An Interpretive Dialogue: Samuel Beckett's 'First Love' and Bakhtin's Categories of Meaning," in *Beckett versus Beckett, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui* 7, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998, 391-405
"Analytical Mimesis in the Russian Tale and Gogol's 'The Overcoat'," in *Mimesis. Studien zur literarischen Repraesentation/Studies on Literaryy Representation, Bernhard F. Scholz, ed., Tuebingen and Basel, A. Francke Verlag, 1998, 259-271
"L'Education Sentimentale or the School of Hard Knocks? The Heroine's Education in the Society Tale," in *The Society Tale in Russian Literature*, Neil Cornwell, ed. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998, 153-167
Essays:
Biographical essays on Nikolai Pavlov and Ivan Panaev, in the *Dictionary of Literary Biography* vol. 198, *Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Prose*, Christine A. Rydel, ed., Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 1999
Biographical essays on Nadezhda Durova and Karolina Pavlova, as well as Pavlova's *A Double Life*, in the *Reference Guide to Russian Literature*, Neil Cornwell, ed., London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997
Reviews:
In *The Slavic and East European Journal*, *Russian Review*, *Journal of Modern History* and *Journal of Gender Studies* |
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