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Prof. Gary R. Jahn

Gary Jahn

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612-625-6557
German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch
320H Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch
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Specialties
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Specialties

  • Computer technology in language teaching and acquisition
  • History of Russian literature: origins through 19th century
  • Tolstoy
  • Computer technology in literary study
Publications
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Publications

  • Jahn, Gary. "Beginning Russian: An Electronic Supplement, ver 10." (1999).
  • Jahn, Gary. Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych: A Critical Companion [Northwestern/AATSEEL Critical Companions to Russian Literature]. Northwestern University Press, 1999.
  • Jahn, Gary. Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilich: An Interpretation [Twayne's Masterwork Studies]. Macmillan and Company, 1993.
  • Jahn, Gary. "Brother or Other: Tolstoy's Equivocal Surrender to the Concept of Brotherhood." Lev Tolstoy and the Concept of Brotherhood, Legas, pp. 71-87 (1996): 71-87.
  • Jahn, Gary. "Electronic Russian." (2002).
  • Jahn, Gary. "The Crisis in Tolstoy and in Anna Karenina." Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (2003): 67-73.
  • Jahn, Gary. "Tolstoy as a Writer of Popular Literature." The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (2002): 113-126.
  • Jahn, Gary. "The Death of Ivan Ilich": An Electronic Study Edition of the Russian Text. .
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Activities

Professional

  • Editorial Board: Tolstoy Studies Journal. 1998-present
  • Editorial Board: Slavic and East European Journal. 1993-present
  • Editor in Chief: Slavic and East European Journal. 1988 - 1993

Research

  • Computer-based Research Edition of Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Ilich"
  • Computer-Assisted Language Learning Software: Development of programs to assist students in learning Russian language.
Awards
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Awards

  • 1998-University of Minnesota Award for Innovation in Technology Enhanced Learning, 1998
  • 2010 Recipient of AATSEEL Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Post-Secondary Level for 2010 (conferred 8 January 2011)
  • 2011 Named Horace G. Morse – Minnesota Alumni Association Distinguished University Teaching Professor of Russian Language and Literature (conferred 25 April 2011)
  • 2011 Inducted into the University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers (inducted 25 April 2011)
Courses
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Courses

  • Russ 1304W - Introduction to Russian Literature: 19th-Century Fiction
  • Russ 3/5404 - Tolstoy in Translation
  • Russ 3/5421 - Literature: Middle Ages to Dostoevsky in Translation
  • Russ 3411/5411 - Dostoevsky in Translation
  • Russ 1905 - Leo Tolstoy and Radical Christianity
  • Russ 1101 - Beginning Russian
  • Russ 3001 - Intermediate Russian
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