Colleen M Lucey

Interests

Teaching

Russian language (all levels); Russian literature, art, and culture; women and gender studies; theatre and drama

Research

Gender in nineteenth-century Russian literature and visual culture, F.M. Dostoevskii, foreign language pedagogy, Russian theatre, performance studies, public humanities

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Lucey, C. M. (2021). Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia.
• Lucey, C. M. (2021). Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia. Cornell University Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758881
• Lucey, C. M., & Merrill, J. (2015). Russian Folktales: A Reader (Second Edition). Hackett Publishing.
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  Russian Folktales: A Reader is intended for students who have studied Russian for at least one academic year (120-150 contact hours) and would like to read Russian folktales (скáзки) in the original Russian. It can be used as a supplement to intermediate- and advanced-level language or culture courses or by those who wish to study folktales independently. The eight folktales included in the textbook can be taught on their own, or they can be used in conjunction with other materials, including grammar textbooks, Russian films and cartoons, and non-literary readings. Students who have completed the readings included in this textbook will have a better understanding of Russia’s rich tradition of folklore.
• Lucey, C. M., Dengub, E., & Alexieva, P. (2015). About That, Which Did Not Happen: An Annotated Russian Reader. iLearnRussian Publishers, an imprint of Russia Online, Inc..
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  About That, Which Did Not Happen (О том, чего не было), An annotated Russian reader is intended for low-intermediate and intermediate level students of Russian (B1-B2, ТРКИ I-II). The story is a dynamic narrative by the well-known author Victoria Tokareva about one doctor's lifelong dream to own a tiger. Tokareva masterfully portrays how Dima's dream dictates his inner world and dealings with the people around him. Through allusion, parody, and repetition, Tokareva examines the challenge of believing in dreams and aspirations in the modern world. The story will definitely engage learners as they master grammatical and lexical structures. The reader can be used as a supplement to language courses or by learners who study independently. The text of the story is slightly abridged, but preserves the original language and narrative. The book provides a wide range of exercises to check reading comprehension and the accompanying activities will help develop students' lexical and grammatical skills. Discussion questions and essay prompts enhance students' speaking and writing skills. The reader will help learners of Russian to expand their vocabulary, review and build on some common syntactic constructions, and develop language skills in formal and informal social contexts.

Chapters

• Jens, B. C., Lucey, C. M., & Rifkin, B. (2020). Oral History in the Russian Language Curriculum: A Transformative Learning Experience. In The Art of Teaching Russian(pp 211-230). Georgetown University Press.
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  Foreign language learners benefit from engaging with target language native speakers; oral history projects provide a theoretical framework for the purposeful integration of such interactions into the Russian-language curriculum. By incorporating oral history projects into their Russian language curriculum, instructors give students the necessary support to engage in meaningful and productive interactions with native speakers of Russian that will substantially improve learning outcomes in a number of different ways. In this chapter, we first provide a theoretical framework for the development and implementation of oral history interviews in the Russian language curriculum.

Journals/Publications

• Lucey, C. (2021). The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth. By Thomas M. Bohn. Trans. Francis Ipgrave. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. xvi, 288 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $135.00, hard bound.. Slavic Review, 80(2), 401-402. doi:10.1017/slr.2021.106
• Lucey, C. M. (2019). Dracula by Matei Cazacu, Stephen W. Reinert, Nicole Mordarski, Stephen W. Reinert, Alice Brinton, Catherine Healey. The Polish Review, 64(1), 2. doi:10.5406/polishreview.64.1.0123
• Lucey, C. M. (2019). Fallen but Charming Creatures: The Demimondaine in Russian Literature and Visual Culture of the 1860s. The Russian Review, 78(1), 103-121.
• Lucey, C. M., & Rifkin, B. (2019). Tell Me in Your Own Words: Oral Histories in the Russian Language Curriculum. ACTR Newsletter, 45(3/4), 3.
• Lucey, C. M., & Caffee, N. (2018). Borscht, Bliny, and Burritos: The Benefits of Peer-to-Peer Experiential Learning through Food. Russian Language Journal, 68, 33-54.
• Lucey, C. M., & Miller, M. (2018). The Hunt for an Eternal Legacy: Putin and the Vampire Legend in Modern Russia. Folklorica, 22, 25-56.
• Lucey, C. M. (2016). "Violence, Murder, and Fallen Women: Prostitution in the Works of Vsevolod Garshin". Canadian Slavonic Papers, 30.
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  This article investigates the theme of prostitution in two stories by the Russian writer, Vsevolod Garshin (1855-1888). Like many authors of the time, Garshin utilizes the symbolic figure of the prostitute to question social and medical beliefs about commercial sex. Focusing on Garshin’s “An Occurrence” (1878) and “Nadezhda Nikolaevna” (1885), the article traces the use of melodrama and violence in the depiction of prostitution. Particular focus is given to Garshin’s use of St. Petersburg to add heightened meaning to the fallen woman’s plight. Connected through the Petersburg myth and the character of Nadezhda Nikolaevna, the stories complicate the traditional redemption plot associated with prostitutes by focusing on the inner life of the fallen woman and her impact on the male characters that she encounters.

Presentations

• Lucey, C. M. (2019, April). Women’s Emancipation in the Prose of Avdot’ia Panaeva. The Expansive Embrace: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Russian Realism. Lawrence: University of Kansas.
• Lucey, C. M. (2019, February). Women Who Traffic Women: The Madam in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. AATSEEL. New Orleans: AATSEEL.
• Lucey, C. M. (2019, June). Seducing Russian Oligarchs: The Politics of Prostitution in Contemporary Russia. US-Russia-Future: A Foreign Policy and Security Studies Workshop. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
• Lucey, C. M. (2019, June). Tales of Violence and Murder: The Prostitute in Fin-de-Siècle Russian Literature. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, REEC Lecture Series. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
• Lucey, C. M. (2019, March). Chrezvychainoe proisshestvie: Red Tarzan’s Vigilante Raids on Petersburg Brothels. Wisconsin Slavic Conference. Madison, WI: UW-Madison.
• Lucey, C. M. (2019, November). The Venal Economy in Alexander Kuprin’s The Pit. ASEEES. San Francisco: ASEEES.
• Lucey, C. M. (2018, December). Pictures of Russian Morals: Female Performers in Russian Visual Culture. ASEEES National Convention. Boston.
• Lucey, C. M. (2018, July 18, 2018). Любовь на продажу: проституция среди русской элиты (Love for Sale: Prostitution Among the Russian Elite). Invited Lecture, Middlebury College School of Russian. Middlebury College: Russian Language School.
• Lucey, C. M. (2018, October 13, 2018). The Art of the Deal: The Marriage Market in Aleksandr Ostrovskii’s Plays. Two Centuries of Modern Russian Culture: From the Golden Age to Post-Soviet Space, A Symposium in Honor of David Bethea and Alexander Dolinin. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Lucey, C. M. (2018, Spring). Acts of Defiance: The Body Politic in Contemporary Russian Drama. AATSEEL National Conference.
• Lucey, C. M. (2016, November). Gender and Sexuality in The Merchant Bashkirov's Daughter. ASEEES. Washington DC: ASEEES.
• Lucey, C. M. (2015, November). “Fallen Women in Nineteenth-Century Russian Satirical Journals”. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Philadelphia, PA.
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  In my presentation, I analyzed images of courtesans and kept women from Russian periodical presses of the mid-nineteenth century. I demonstrated how caricatures perceived fallen women as both commodities to be consumed and themselves astute and active consumers. In the popular series Kartinki russkikh nravov (Pictures of Russian Morals, 1842-3), the album Eralash (Hodgepodge), and the journals Budil’nik (The Alarm Clock) and Iskra (The Spark, 1859-1873), illustrators use courtesans to poke fun at infidelity and the financial strain placed on men to keep both a wife and mistress. More importantly though, images of kept women challenged viewers to conceptualize women who avoided the patriarchal system by not taking on the roles of wife and mother. In so doing, caricature made the phenomenon of adultery humorous to the public while also glamorizing the fallen woman.

Reviews

• Lucey, C. M. (2021. • Ewa Wampuszyc. Mapping Warsaw: The Spatial Poetics of a Postwar City. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018.(pp 122-4).