California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
Phone: 562 985-8525 I Fax: 562 985-4259
E-mail: Harold.Schefski@csulb.edu | Office: AS-334
Research Interests
My research focuses on nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Tolstoy and Turgenev. I have published on Russian language with special attention to vocabulary development and exceptional grammar issues. Literary critics such as the Formalists have played a significant role in my scholarly work. In the future, I will direct my energies to Anton Chekhov, Yuri Nagibin, and the genre of the Russian short story.Education
1976 Stanford University PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures
1970 Stanford University M.A., Russian Literature
1968 University of California Davis B.A. RussianArticles
“Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind and War and Peace.” Gone with the Wind as Book and Film. Ed. Richard Harwell. University of South Carolina Press: 1993. 229-243.
“The Parable of the Prodigal Son and Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons.” Moder
n Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House: 2003. 85-96. Republished in Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev. Norton Critical Edition Second Edition: 2009. 366-376
“Tolstoy’s Progeny: Toltoys Taking Sides.” Russian Life Magazine (Jan-Feb. 2010): 46-53.
Select Awards and Services
Phi Beta Kappa, UC Davis, 1968
Central Association of Russian Teachers of America: Meritorious Service to the Profession Award 2005
Russian Cultural Center Award for Promoting Russian Language in U.S.A. 2010
Short-Term Study Abroad in Soviet Union and Russia (1983-89, 2005, 2008)Endowment of Russian Studies Student Scholarship (Corpus Account $60,000)
Co-Chair Russian Literature Festivals at CSULB: Pushkin (2006), Dostoyevsky (2009), Tolstoy (2010)