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Svetlana Nikitina

Publications

Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journal Articles

• Nikitina, S. (2009). “Innovation and Multimedia in the Poetry of cummings and Mayakovsky.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 11 (4): Article 3.

• Nikitina, Svetlana. (2009). “Applied Humanities: Bridging the Gap between Building Theory and Fostering Citizenship.” Liberal Education 95 (1): 36-43.

• Nikitina, S. (2007). “Dammed Dreams: Dams in a Cross-section of Literary Perspectives,” Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection, vol. 11, no. 2, 139-156.

• "Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching: Contextualizing, Conceptualizing, and Problem-Centering." Journal of Curriculum Studies. Publication scheduled for 2005.

• "Mind Ahead of the Tone: Integration of Technique and Imagination in Vocal Training of Students at Tanglewood Summer Institute." The Journal of Aesthetic Education 38.1 (2004): 23-34.

• Stories that Stayed "Under the Skin." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 16.2 (2003): 251-265.

• "Navigating the Disciplinary ‘Fault Lines’ in Science and in the Classroom: Undergraduate Neuroscience Classroom in Mind, Brain, and Behavior at Harvard." Issues in Integrative Studies 20 (2002): 27-45.

• "Time of Transition: Evolution of Russian Symbolist Poetry in the Context European Literary History." INION USSR Academy of Sciences (1987).

• "French Symbolism and English Imagism." Moscow University Herald (Vestnik MGU), Moscow University Press (Philology) 4 (1986).

Publications Under Review

• Nikitina, S. Bildungsroman: Forsyte Story as a Saga of Place. (Interdisciplinary Literary Studies)

• Nikitina, S. Hackers as Tricksters of the Digital Age: Creativity in Hacker Culture (Journal of Popular Culture)

Conference Publications/Proceedings, Reviewed

• Nikitina, S. (2010). “Depth through Breadth: Addressing the Grand Challenges of Teaching Sustainability.” Proceedings of Sessions and Symposia Sponsored by the Extraction & Processing Division (EPD) of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS): 853-860.

Book Reviews

• Nikitina, Svetlana. "Family and Community Values." Review of Wendell Berry: Life and Work Ed. by Jason Peters. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 19-2(2008): 119-120

Presentations

Conference Presentations

• "Literary Narrative in the Age of New Media: Challenges and Opportunities” paper presented at the 8th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles, June 29- July 2, 2010.

• Invited leader of an annual Applied Humanities Summer Institute workshop for the college faculty, sponsored by the Nakatani Teaching and Learning Center of University of Wisconsin-Stout – June 10, 2010 in Menomonie, WI

• “Depth Through Breadth: Addressing the Grand Challenges of Teaching Sustainability” paper presented at the 139^th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) – February 14-18, 2010 in Seattle, WA

• “Forsytes’ Bildungsroman: A Saga of a Place” paper presented at the biannual conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE): Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World - June 3-6, 2009 University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.


• “Poets as Makers: Constructive Effects of Multimedia in Modernist Poetry of e.e. cummings and Vladimir Mayakovsky” – American Comparative Literature Association: Global Languages, Local Cultures – March 26-29, 2009 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• "Unapplied Humanities: Interdisciplinary Strategies for Bridging the Gap between Theory and Citizenship Building in Literary Studies," paper presented at the 6th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Istanbul, Turkey, July 15-18, 2008.

• “Dammed Dreams: Symbolism of Rising Waters in Cross-Cultural Literary Perspective” 7^th Biannual Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, June 12-16, 2007

• "Hackers as Tricksters: Literary Perspective on the Changing Nature of Creativity in the Digital Age" 37th Annual Conference of American Culture and Popular Culture Association, Boston, MA, April 4-7, 2007

Works

Original creative Works (including plays, musical compositions, novels)

• Nikitina, S. (Summer 2009). “World Making," poetry.  Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, vol. XII, no. 3, 4.

• Nikitina, S. (Spring 2009). “Birds Unruly," poetry.  Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, vol. XII, no. 3, 2.

• Nikitina, S. (2006). Embeddedness. (Nature poetry). In: Poetry Anthology “In Other Words.” Western Reading Service: Denver: Colorado.

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