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Herman Ermolaev
position:  Professor Emeritus, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
location:  247 East Pyne
telephone:  Home: 609-921-1008; Office: 609-248-4726
e-mail:  ermolaev@princeton.edu
education:  AB in Russian (Stanford University, 1951); MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of California, Berkeley, 1953); PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of California, Berkeley 1959)
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After receiving my Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1959 I came to Princeton University as Instructor in the Russian Program. In 1960 I was promoted to Assistant Professor, in 1966 to Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and to Full Professor in 1970. In 1970-72 I served as president of AATSEEL. I retired in July 2007 but will continue to teach one graduate course per year for two years.

current project:

I continue my research on political and fictional works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Mikhail Sholokhov.

courses:

Courses taught:
   Soviet literature (all periods)
   Russian 19th century Literature
   Russian Novel
   Russian Short Story
   Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Sholokhov 
   Solzhenitsyn
   First-, second-, third-, and fourth- year Russian.

authored books:

  «Тихий Дон» и политическая цензура, 1928-1991. [Quiet Flows the Don and Political Censorship, 1928-1991.]
Moscow: The Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2005.
  Михаил Шолохов и его творчество. [Mikhail Sholokhov and His Art.]
Eds. and trans. Nadezhda Kuznetsova and Vadim Kondratenko. St. Petersburg: "Akademicheskii proekt", 2000.
  Censorship in Soviet Literature, 1917-1991.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.
  Sholokhov's Tikhii Don: A Commentary.
Birmingham: University of Birmingham Central Printing Services, 1997. (with A.B. Murphy and V.P. Butt)
  Mikhail Sholokhov and His Art.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
  Soviet Literary Theories, 1917-1934: The Genesis of Socialist Realism.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

edited volumes:

  Gorky, Maxim. Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918.
Trans. Herman Ermolaev. New York: Paul S. Eriksson, 1968.
  Максим Горький. Несвоевременные мысли.
Ed. Herman Ermolaev. Paris: Editions de la Seine, 1971.
  Pensées intempestives, 1917-1918. Par Maxime Gorki.
Ed. Herman Ermolaev. Trans. Sylvaine Drablier and Lucile Nivat. Lausanne: Editions L'Age d'Homme, 1975.

selected articles:

"Neizvestnye istoricheskie istochniki Tikhogo Dona". ["Unknown Historical Sources of Quiet Flows the Don".]
in Russkaia literatura. No. 4 (2006): 184-188.
"The Theme of Terror in Starik."
in Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature: Selected Papers of the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies. Ed. Arnold McMillin. Columbus: Slavica, 1989. 96-109.
"Portrayal of Nationalities in Soviet Russian Literature."
in The Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature. Ed. Ewa M. Thompson. Houston: Rice University Press, 1991. 21-32.
"Solzenicyn's Self-Censorship: Two Versions of The First Circle."
in Russian Language Journal. Vol. 37, Nos. 129-130 (Winter-Spring 1984): 177-185.
"Who Wrote The Quiet Don?"
in Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 20, No. 3 (Fall 1976): 293-307.
"Riddles of The Quiet Don."
in Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 18, No. 3 (Fall 1974): 299-310.
"Academy Histories of Soviet Russian Literature."
in Slavic Review. Vol. 31, No. 1 (March 1972): 142-148.
"The Role of Nature in The Quiet Don."
in California Slavic Studies. Vol. 6 (1971): 97-111.
"The Emergence and Early Evolution of Socialist Realism (1932-1934)."
in California Slavic Studies. Vol. 2 (1963): 141-168.
"Sholokhov Thirty Years After: Virgin Soil Upturned, II."
in Survey. No. 36 (April-June 1961): 20-26.



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