Contact Information:
Schefski@csulb.edu
562-985-8525
562-985-2406 (FAX)

Research and Teaching Interests:
19th and 20th Century Russian Literature
Tolstoy Studies
Russian Language and Teaching Methodology
Russian Cinema

Selected Publications:
"Gone with the Wind and War and Peace "in Gone with the Wind as Book and Film (1992) University of South Carolina Press. On Display at the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum in Atlanta, GA.

"The Parable of the Prodigal Sons' and Turgenev's Fathers and Sons" in Blooms Modern Critical Views (Ivan Turgenev), 2003.

More than twenty articles on Leo Tolstoy-- many on view at the Tolstoy Museum in Moscow, Russia
Various Articles on Russian Language (lexicology, word formation, grammar etc,)

Awards and Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Dobro Slovo (Russian National Honor Society), Phi Kappa Phi, Woodrow Wilson Designate.

Conference Presentations:
Recent Presentations at Regional and National Meetings have focused on Russian Cinema-Eisenstein, Soviet Silent Cinema, Stalinism etc. Also have presented on Fund Raising Strategies for an Endowment in Russian Studies.

Courses Taught:
Elementary Russian (101A-B)
Intermediate Russian (201A-B)
Advanced Russian 312 and 314
Russian Film 428
Russian Literature in English 310
Russian Civilization 410