Position

Bibliographer and subject specialist for Classics, Linguistics, Middle Eastern/South Asian Studies, Native American Studies, Russian and Eastern European Studies; bibliographer and subject specialist for Agricultural and Resource Economics, Business and Management, and Economics.

Research Interests

Central and Eastern European intellectual history, language contact, translation, contemporary German literature, Balkan linguistics

Education

2003 M.L.I.S., San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

1998 M.A. in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1992 B.A. in Linguistics, University of Minnesota (summa cum laude)

1985 Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA (honors)

Employment

Bibliographer, Shields Library, UC Davis (6/2004 - present)

Cataloging Librarian (1/2004 - 12/2004)

Abstractor, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, ABC-Clio (5/1995 - 12/2004)

Information Management Consultant/Reference Librarian (jobs included The Industry Standard, The Learning Network, and John F. Kennedy University) (1/2000 - 5/2001)

Marketing Writer, Innovative Interfaces, Inc., Emeryville, CA (6/1998 - 10/1999)

Graduate Student Instructor/Assistant, UC Berkeley (9/1995 - 5/1997)

Library Assistant, Oakland Public Library (11/1993 - 5/1998)

Cryptologic Linguist, US Air Force (9/1984 - 3/1990)

Grants, Honors, and Awards

ACRL Frankfurt Buchmesse Stipend

Foreign Language Area Studies Scholarship, UC Berkeley, Advanced Turkish

Foreign Language Area Studies Scholarship, UC Berkeley, Advanced Arabic

Foreign Language Area Studies Scholarship, UC Berkeley, Basic Arabic

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Minnesota

Waller Scholarship, University of Minnesota

Foreign Language Scholarship, Arizona State University, Macedonian

Publications

To appear. "Review Article: So eine Art lyrisches Kaffeehaus : Briefwechsel Anastasius Grün mit dem Weidmann Verlag 1832-1876 Wien.  Hrsg. Von Dietmar Scharmitzer (Wien, 2009)."  New German Review, 25.

To appear. "Resolving an Anomaly in Balkan Lexical Borrowing: Turkish Loanwords in Serbian/Croatian," Osmanlı Araştırmaları, 31, 2011.

To appear. "Review Article: Bilder von Eigenen und Fremden aus dem Donau-Balkan-Raum. Analyzen literarischer und anderer Texte. Hrsg. von Gabriella Schubert und Wolfgang Dahmen (München, 2003)." Balkanistica, 24, 2011.

2009. "Early Works on Chocolate: A Check-List," Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage, ed. Louis Grivetti and Howard Yana-Shapiro. (Wiley, 2009) (co-authored with Axel Borg)

2007. "Review Article: Auditorium (www.auditorium.ru)," Slavic and Eastern European Information Review.  2007, 7, 4.

2006. "Essential Titles in Native American Languages and Linguistics," Books for College Libraries (3rd edition) (Chicago, 2006).

2006. "Some Notes on Der Platz der Gehenkten," Streetnotes, Winter 2006, (http://www.xcp.bfn.org/winter2006.html)

2006. "Xenography." XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 2006, 15/16.

2005. Review, Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History (The Linguist List) (http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-774.html)

1999. "Roman Jakobson," bio-bibliography in the Guide to the History of the Phonetic Sciences in the United States, John Ohala, Arthur Bronstein, Grazia Busà, Julia Lewis and William F. Weigel, eds., Berkeley: University of California.

1995 - 2005. Approximately 5000 abstracts from journal articles, monographs, reviews, and dissertations in the social sciences and humanities (linguistics, sociology, political science, philosophy, history, economics, history of science, etc.) from 25 European and Near Eastern languages.

Translations

To appear. Shklovskii, Viktor.  "How I Write" (Как я пишу).  Upcoming issue of Context.

To appear. Three translations (approximately 35,000 words) for an upcoming contribution to the University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt Studies in Russian and Eastern European Studies (eds. Evgenii Dobrenko and Galin Tihanov): Lipovetskii, Mark & Kukulin, Il'ia.  "Post-Soviet Criticism" [Постсоветская критика]. Menzel, Birgit & Dubin, Boris.  "Literary Criticism And The End Of the Soviet System (1985 - 1991)" [Литературная критика и конец советской системы (1985-1991)] Garzonio, Stefano & Zalambani, Maria.  "Literary Criticism and Social Differentiation During the Revolutionary and Civil War Periods, 1917-1921" [Литературная критика и социальная дифференциация эпохи Революции и Гражданской войны: 1917-1921].

2010. “André Müller In Conversation With Thomas Bernhard” (André Müller im Gespräch mit Thomas Bernhard), Conjunctions, 2010, No. 55, Fall.

2009. Probst, Ursula, Maria.  "Urbanplay - Vienna and Art in the Public Space." (“Urbanplay – Wien und Kunst im öffentlichen Raum”), Umĕlec, 2009, 2.

2009.  "Writing Central European Art History" (“Das Seminar Writing Central European Art History),Umĕlec, 2009, 2.

2008. Shklovskii, Viktor.  "Five Feuilletons On Sergei Eisenstein" (Пять феиетонов о  Сергее Эйзенштейне), Context, 2008, No. 21, Spring, p. 19.

2006. Shklovskii, Viktor.  "A Film About Sacco and Vanzetti" (Фильм о Сакко и Ванцетти), Context., 19, 2006.

1999. Jakobson, Roman.  "What Are The Most Appropriates Methods for a Complete and Practical Account of the Grammar of a Given Language?" (Quelles sont les méthodes les mieux appropriées à un exposé complet et pratique de la grammaire d'une langue quelconque?) Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.  Berkeley.

Presentations

Accepted. "Kaukasische Kreise: The Shota Rustaveli Theater and Its Contributions to Early Soviet Dramaturgy." American Society for Theater Research Conference (November 2010), Seattle, WA.

Accepted. "’Meine Freundschaften’: Publishing the Collaborateur in the BRD." German Studies Association Conference (October 2010), Oakland, CA.

2010. "Resolving an Anomaly in Balkan Lexical Borrowing: Turkish Loanwords In Serbian/Croatian." Western Association for Slavic Studies (April 2010), Reno, NV.

2010. "Incorporating European-Language Open-Access Bibliographic Tools into the American Academic Library: A Panoramic View." (American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference (January 2010), Boston, MA.  (Unable to attend).

2007. "Imprimaturs: Scholarly Publishing and Its Cultures." Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference (May 2007), Portland, OR.

Languages

Fluent: German, Czech, Russian, Serbian/Croatian.  Reading: Arabic, Turkish, Polish, Slovak, Macedonian, Spanish, Hungarian, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Yiddish, Latin, Modern Greek, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian, Uzbek, and Azeri.  Expertise in romanization.

Professional Memberships

American Library Association/Association of College and Research Libraries

Middle Eastern Librarians Association

German Studies Association

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (past)

American Literary Translators’ Association (past)

Courses Taught

Linguistics 5    Language and Linguistics

Linguistics 55    American Languages

Professional Activities

LAUC-D Program Committee (Vice-Chair), Library OPAG Committee (Past Chair), Copyright and Intellectual Property Committee, CDL Resource Liaison (Verde, Sage), Slavic Librarians Group, California Middle Eastern Librarians Group