STEPHANY GOULD PLECKER

Dept. of Foreign Languages Keezell 301 James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22807

(540) 568-3578 • Fax (540) 568-6904 • pleckesg@jmu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Major: Slavic Languages and Literature. Minor: Women's Studies. University of

Wisconsin-Madison. December 1997. Dissertation Title: "Romantic Literary Narrative into Opera: Towards a Poetics of Transposition." Defended September 4, 1997.

M.A. Slavic Languages and Literature. University of Wisconsin-Madison. May 1991.

Summer Workshop in Soviet and East European Languages. Indiana University. Completed highest level in Russian. Summer 1990.

B.A. with distinctions. Russian Literature and Language. University of Wisconsin-Madison. December 1989.

STUDY ABROAD

Developing JMU Program with Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University. 2004

Petrozavodsk State University; IREX Summer Language Program. 1995.

Moscow State University, Graduate Study; UW-Madison Exchange Program. Spring 1994.

Moscow State University, Undergraduate Study; UW-Madison Exchange Program. Fall 1989.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

1996-Present Director, Language Resource Center. James Madison University.

Administration: Administer the LLC budget, perform daily administrative duties, purchase hardware, software, and other materials for the labs.

Management: Hire, train, and supervise 20 student assistants and lab assistants, oversee daily operations for a language lab with PowerMacs and two other computer labs with Pentium machines. Maintain a Web server for use in the Foreign Language curriculum

Faculty Development: Work with faculty members from the English and Foreign Language Departments and the Institute of Technical and Scientific Communication, providing them with technical support for applications in Windows. Assist faculty in creating class home pages and in implementing technology in their curricula.

Education: Visit English and Foreign Language classes to demonstrate technology or to lecture on Russian literature.

Academic year Lab Intern. Letters and Sciences Learning Support Services,

1995-1996 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Managed student workers, solved faculty's technical problems, and assisted in daily operations. Received training in language lab technology and administration.

Summer 1993 Project Assistant. Professor Benjamin Rifkin. UW-Madison.

Summer 1992 Digitized sounds for Professor Rifkin's "START," a Russian Tutorial for the Macintosh using SoundEdit Pro.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 1998-Present Instructor of Russian, James Madison University. Teach firsh and second-year Russian language and Russian literature in translation.

Spring 1995 Substitute in Third-Year Russian for Professor Claire Canavagh, UW-Madison. Periodically taught grammar and lead discussions of stories by Pushkin and Lermontov.

Summer 1993 First-Semester Intensive Russian, UW-Madison. Taught six-week course in beginning Russian.

Spring 1990 - First- and Second-Year Russian UW-Madison. Taught classes ranging in size

from 5 to 25 students. Developed curriculum and classroom activities independently as well as with other teaching assistants.

Fall 1986 First-Semester High School Russian, Tuscaloosa Academy. Tuscaloosa, AL. Developed and implemented a high school curriculum for beginning Russian.

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Fall 2004 Author of textbook/coursepack for first-year Russian

Summer 1997 Interpreter for "Operation Detection," a program offering breast cancer

information and mammograms to low-income women in Rockingham County, Virginia. Interpreted at information sessions, translated brochures, and accompanied Russian-speaking women to examinations.

May 10-18, Interim Group Leader, Moscow State University Exchange Program

1994 Assumed the duties of the group leader when she was away and coordinated cultural field trips to theaters and to other cities.

Fall 1993 Interpreter, Jewish Social Services, Madison, WI. Intrepreted for Russian

immigrants at doctors' appointments and assisted them with filling out paperwork.

PUBLICATIONS

Book review of Social Functions of Literature: Alexander Pushkin and Russian Culture. Paul Debreczeny. Slavic and Eastern European Journal. Summer 1998.

“The Manifestation of Piotr in Modest Tchaikovsky’s Play The Symphony.” Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries: A Centennial Symposium. Edited by Alexandar Mihailovic. Greenwood Press. Westport, Conn. 1999

“The Bronze Verseman.” AATSEEL Newsletter, February 1994.

CONFERENCES

"A Win-Win Web Situation: Partnership and Web Page Production at the Language Learning Center"

MWALL '97 Conference; Wabash College, Wabash, IN. April 1997.

"Modernist Structure and the Transposition of 'Nos'." Wisconsin AATSEEL Conference; Madison, WI. April 1996. Winner of the J. Thomas Shaw AATSEEL Prize for best paper by a UW graduate student.

Chair, Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature Panel, Wisconsin AATSEEL Conference; Madison, WI.

April 1996.

Chair, "Russian Literature and Other Arts," AATSEEL Conference; Chicago, IL. December 1995.

"Tchaikovsky's Reinterpretation of Eugene Onegin." Wisconsin AATSEEL Conference; Madison, WI. April 1995.

"The Manifestation of Piotr in Modest Tchaikovsky's Play The Symphony." Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries; Hofstra University , NY. October 1993.

"Akhmatova's 'Requiem' as Revised Epic." Wisconsin AATSEEL Conference; Madison, WI. April 1993.

LANGUAGES

Russian: Superior speaking, writing, and reading ability.

Reading knowledge of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Platforms: Windows; MS-DOS; Macintosh; some Unix

Applications: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, and others

Languages: HTML, Javascript

ACADEMIC HONORS

J. Thomas Shaw AATSEEL Prize. UW-Madison, 1996.

GAANN Department of Education Fellowship. UW-Madison, 1993.

Alternate for Distinguished Teaching Award. UW-Madison, 1993.

Gamma Beta Phi Society. University of Alabama, 1986.

Golden Key Honor Society. University of Alabama, 1986.

Dobro Slovo Slavic Honor Society. University of Alabama, 1985.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

International Association of Learning Laboratories, Midwest ALL (served as co-editor of the newsletter), Mid-Atlantic ALL, AATSEEL, Dobro Slovo

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Technology and pedagogy with focus on Web-based instruction, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian poetry and prose, the history of Russian opera, the duel in Russian history and literature, women’s issues in the Russian context, the historical reception of Pushkin.