Linda J. Ivanits
Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
311 Burrowes Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802 lji1@psu.edu
1) Books
Ivanits, Linda J. Materials for the Study of Russian Folklore , University Park: The
Pennsylvania State University, 1978, 86 pp. plus appendix (for Russian 110; compiled with help of PSU Course Improvement Grant).
Ivanits, Linda J., Introduction, Translation and Introduction, Russian Folk Narratives about the Supernatural , published as a complete issue of Soviet Anthropology and
Archeology , vol. 26, no. 2 (Fall 1987), 84 pp
Ivanits, Linda J. Russian Folk Belief , Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1989, 257 pp
(paperback edition, 1992).
Ivanits, Linda. Dostoevsky and the Russian People : The Russian Folk in his Art and
Thought (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
2) Articles Published in refereed journals
Ivanits, Linda J. “Dostoevskij’s Mar’ja Lebjadkina,” Slavic and East European Journal ,
Vol. 22, no. 2 (Summer 1978), 127-140.
Ivanits, Linda J. “Hagioraphy in Brat’ja Karamazovy
: Zosima, Ferapont, and the Russian
Monastic Saint,”
Russian Language Journal , Vol. 34 no. 117(1980), 109-126.
Ivanits, Linda J. “Sologub’s Fantasy Creatures: Folk Superstition in ‘Elkic,’ ‘Belaja sobaka,’ and ‘Cervjak’,”
Russian Language Journal , Vol. 40, no. 135 (1986), 81-91.
Ivanits, Linda J. “As the Year 1900 Drew Near...,” SEEFA Journal ( Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Association ) Vol. IV, no. 2 (Fall 1999), 6-9. (Russian folk belief about the end of the world)

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Ivanits, Linda J. “Biblical Imagery in Sologub’s Short Stories: ‘Barancik’, ‘Zalo smerti’, and ‘Pretvorivsaja vodu v vino’,”
Russian Literature L (2001), 125-140.
Ivanits, Linda, “The Other Lazarus in
Crime and Punishment
,”
The Russian Review, vol.
61, no. 3 (Summer 2002), 341-57.
3) Parts of Books
Ivanits, Linda J. “The Grotesque in Fedor Sologub’s Novel
The Petty Demon
,” in R.
Freeborn, R.R. Milner-Gulland, and C.A. Ward, eds., Russian and Slavic Literature ,
Cambridge, Mass: Slavica, 1976, 137-174.
Ivanits, Linda J. “Folk Beliefs about the Unclean Force in
The Brothers Karamazov
,” in
L.G. Leighton and G.J. Gutsche, eds., New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Russian
Literature , Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1982, 135-146.
Ivanits, Linda J. “Fairy tale Motifs in Sologub’s ‘Dream on the Rocks’,” in L.G. Leighton ed., Studies in Honor of Xenia Gasiorowska , Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1983, 81-87.
Ivanits, Linda J. “The Grotesque in Sologub’s Novel
The Petty Demon
,” in Fyodor
Sologub, The Petty Demon , tr. by S.D. Cioran, ed., by Murl Baker, Ann Arbor, MI:
Ardis, 1983, 312-323 (substantially revised version of earlier article).
Ivanits, Linda J. “Suicide and Folk Beliefs in Dostoevsky’s
Crime and Punishment
,” in
Derek Offord, ed., The Golden Age of Russian Literature and Thought , London and New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992, 138-148.
Ivanits, Linda J. “Yarilo,” in Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History
(MERSH), Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1993, Vol. 55, 120-122.
Ivanits, Linda J. “Three Instances of the Peasant Occult in Russian Literature,” in
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, ed., The Occult in Russian and Soviet Literature , Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell UP, 1997, 59-74.
Ivanits, Linda J. “Ancestor Worship,” in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of
Russian and Soviet History (SMERSH), Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press,
1997, Vol. 2, 19-21.
Ivanits, Linda J. “Introduction” to reprint of Jeremiah Curtin,
Myths and Folk Tales of the
Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars , Mineola, NY: Dover, 1999, ix-xiii.
Linda J. Ivanits, “Russia” in
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and
Folklife , ed. By William M. Clements, Westport, Conn. and London: The Greenwood
Press, 2006, Volume 3, 408-425.
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4) Book Reviews
Ivanits, Linda J. Review of Sologub’s Literary Children: Keys to a Symbolist’s Prose by
Stanley Rabinowitz, in Canadian Slavonic Papers , 23, no. 4 (1981), 486.
Ivanits, Linda J. Review of Russian for Expository Prose , by Ruth R. Pearce, in
Canadian Slavonic Papers , 27, no. 2 (1985), 234-35.
Ivanits, Linda J. Review of Essays on Russian Folklore and Mythology by Felix J. Oinas, in Canadian Slavonic Papers , 28, no. 4 (1986), 448-49.
Ivanits, Linda J. Review of On The Dark Side of Russian Literature , 1709-1910 , by
Constantin V. Ponomareff, in Canadian Slavonic Papers , Vol. 30, no. 3 (1988), 391-92.
Ivanits, Linda J. Review of Lances Sing: A Study of the Igor Tale by Robert Mann in The
Russian Review , Vol. 51, no. 3 (July 1992), 431-432.
Ivanits, Linda J. Review of Russian Devils and Diabolic Conditionality in Nikolai
Gogol’s
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, by Christopher Putney in Slavic Review ,
Winter 2000, 934.
Ivanits, Linda J. Review of Faith Wigzell, Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture,
Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 , in The Russian Review , January 2000, 115.
Ivanits, Linda J. Review of
The Perverted Ideal in Dostoevskky’s
The Devils, for
Russian Language Journal , vol. 54, no. 177-79(Winter-Spring-Fall 2000), 271-72.
Ivanits, Linda. Review of Pamela Davidson, ed., Russian Literature and Its Demons , for
The Russian Review , vol. 61, no. 3 (Summer 2002), 439.
Ivanits, Linda. Review of Robert Louis Jackson, ed. A New Word on The Brothers
Karamazov, for The Russian Review , vol. 64 (April 2005), 324-325.
Ivanits, Linda. Review of Andreas Johns, Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale , for Slavic Review , Vol. 65, no. 1 (Spring 2006), 220.
5) Manuscripts in progress
“The Folklore of Dostoevsky’s
Landlady
” (article)
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6) Editorial work:
Series editor for M.E. Sharpe’s Folklores and Folk Cultures of Eastern Europe in which the following books have appeared:
Kononenko, Natalie, Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing , 1998
Bailey, James and Tatyana Ivanovna, Russian Folk Epics , 1998
Cooper, David, Traditional Slovak Folktales , 2001
Associate Editor for Literature and Folklore for The Slavic and East European Journal ,
( SEEJ ), 1994-1999
Member of the editorial board for Soviet Anthropology and Archeology (later:
Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia ), 1987-1994
7) Various papers presented at national and international conferences, including AAASS and AATSEEL
1) Courses taught in resident instruction from Fall 1989-present
Russian 2, Russian 3 (Beginning and Intermediate Russian Language)
Russian 204 and Russian 214 (Intermediate Russian Language)
Russian 304 (Advanced Readings in Russian)
Russian 110 (Russian Folklore)
Russian 130/Women’s Studies 130 (Women in Russian Literature; taught as a Freshman
Seminar, under a 187 number)
Russian 141W (Russian Literature in English Translation, 1800-1870, writing intensive)
Russian 142W (Russian Literature in English Translation, 1870-present, writing
intensive)
Russian 426 (Dostoevsky)
Russian 427 (Tolstoy)
Russian 440W/ Religious Studies 440W (Eastern Orthodoxy with particular reference to
Russia, writing intensive)
Russian 497 (Pushkin)
Russian 296, Russian 496, Russian 496H (Independent Studies)
Comparative Literature 108 (Myths and Mythologies; required lecturing and supervising
GTAs)
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Comparative Literature 108 H (Myths and Mythologies, Honors)
Comparative Literature 108 M (Myths and Mythologies, Honors and writing intensive)
Comparative Literature 408 (Heroic Literature)
Comparative Literature 480 (The International Folktale)
Comparative Literature 296H (Independent Studies, Honors)
Comparative Literature 596 (Independent Studies, Graduate)
Comparative Literature 600 (GTA workshop and supervision)
Supervision of Numerous Honors and MA Theses
Supervision and Committee Membership for Numerous Ph.D. Dissertations
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