Francis R. McLellan

 

 

                                                                                   

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures                                    

249 East Pyne                                                                                      

Princeton University                                                                             

Princeton, NJ  08544                                                                            

(609) 258-2190                                                                                     

mclellanf@missouri.edu

 

Education and Degrees

 

1996                 Doctor of Philosophy in Slavic Languages, Brown University

Dissertation:  The Hilandar Gospel and its Place in the Textual History of the Church Slavonic Tetraevangelion

1991                 Advanced Language Training, Vysoká Skola Zemledelská, Prague

                        Czechoslovak Foreign Institute Program

1990                 Advanced Language Training, Moscow State University

                        IREX Summer Exchange of Language Teachers

1989                 Advanced Language Training, Leningrad State University

                        ASPIRE Program for College-level Teachers of Russian

1987                 Master of Arts in Slavic Languages, Brown University

1985                 Bachelor of Theology, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

 

Employment

 

2004 - date        Senior Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

2002 – date       Assistant Director, Summer School of Liturgical Music, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

2000 – 2004      Resident Instruction Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Missouri

1992 – date       Instructor of Liturgics and Church Slavonic, Summer School of Liturgical Music, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

1999 – 2000      Lecturer in Russian, University of Missouri

1998 – 1999      Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Missouri

1998                 Teaching Associate, Department of Slavic Languages, Brown University

1996                 Visiting Asssistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, Brown University

1995 – 1996      Graduate Fellow, Center for the Advancement of College Teaching, Brown University

 

Fellowships and Grants

 

2001                 Fellow, Wakonse Conference on College Teaching, University of Missouri system

1997                 Summer Research Stipend, Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, The Ohio State University

1995 - 1996       Fellowship, Center for the Advancement of College Teaching, Brown University

 

 

Pedagogical Activity

 

2004 - date        Coordinator of Russian Language Instruction, Princeton University

2001 – 2004      Director of Undergraduate Studies  in Russian, University  of Missouri

2000 – 2004      Assistant Faculty Advisor to the Russian Club, University  of Missouri

1999 – 2004      Coordinator, Elementary and Intermediate Russian language, University of Missouri.  This involved reworking the elementary Russian sequence and introducing new textbooks and course materials for first- and second-year Russian.  On an ongoing basis I coordinate instruction among 3-4 teaching asistants and instructors. 

 

In addition, I added the following courses to the Russian curriculum at the University of Missouri:

 

·      Martyrs, Monks and Holy Fools:  The Image of the Saint in the Russian

Tradition (undergraduate seminar)

 

Works in Progress

 

Church Slavonic Grammar:  Synopsis and Exercises, a textbook of the Church Slavonic     language based on  Cerkovnoslavqnskaq grammatika%  konspekt= s= upra'nen`qmi by Hieromonk Andrei (Erastov), translated into English and adapted for English-speaking language learners.  Part one (Morphology) was complete and in use in the summer of 1999 and in revised form in the summer of 2000; part two (Syntax) is expected to be ready for the summer of 2005.

 

"Towards an Edition of the Raska Redaction of the Tetraevangelion," a study of the redaction of the tetraevangelion at the basis of at least seven manuscripts of Serbian provenance dating from the 13th and 14th centuries.  The presence of four highly unusualtextual features as well as a high degree of orthographic, morphological, syntactic and lexical   conformity among these manuscripts suggests that they all descend at no great remove from a single text or text type, which could under the right circumstances be   reconstructed, shedding light on a previously unexamined chapter in the history of the Church Slavonic tetraevangelion.

 

 

Conferences

 

2002                 Panel Chair, Russian Literature in the Soviet Period, Central Slavic Conference, Columbia, Missouri

1995                 Panel Chair, Medieval Texts, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL), Chicago, Illinois

1994                 "Third Hour or Sixth?  John 19:14 in the Church Slavonic Gospel," AATSEEL, San Diego, California

1993                 "A New Addition to the Stemma of the Church Slavonic Tetraevangelion," delivered at the Medieval Texts panel at the AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada

1989                 "Pietas  in War and Peace", delivered at the Eighty-second Annual meeting of the Classical Association of New England at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, April 16, 1988.  Published in the New England Classical Newsletter, Volume XVI, Number 3, February, 1989, pp. 19-24

 

 

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