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Sarah Bishop

Associate Professor of Russian
Specialty: Russian language, Russian literature, Russian film

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Contact Information

Salem Campus

Address
Ford 305
900 State Street
Salem  Oregon  97301
U.S.A.
Phone
503-370-6889
503-375-5398 (Fax)
Email
sbishop@willamette.edu

Biography

Sarah Bishop teaches Russian language, literature, and film. Her courses include a survey of Russian and Soviet film, a writing-centered approach to Russian short stories, and a theme-based course on love and family in twentieth-century Russian literature. Her research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century poetry and film. She has also begun writing about recent English-language prose by Russian emigres.

Education

  • MA, PhD Princeton University
  • BA Williams College

Teaching Areas

  • Russian language, Russian literature, Russian film

Book Chapters

Bishop, Sarah. “Bakhtin Attends the Theater: Kama Ginkas’s Chekhov Trilogy.” Russian Review 75 (2016): 264-283.

Bishop, Sarah. “Harmonious Disharmony: Elena Shvarts’s Trudy i dni Lavinii, monakhini iz Ordena Obrezaniia Serdtsa.” Slavic and East European Journal, Summer 56.2 (2012): 213-231.

Bishop, Sarah. “Elena Andreevna Shvarts (17 May 1948-11 March 2010).” Slavonica 16.2 (November 2010): 112-130.

Bishop, Sarah. "St. Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus: The Radiant Inspiration behind Zinaida Gippius's Siianiia." Slavic and East European Journal 50.2 (Summer 2006): 272-286.

Reviews and Translations

Bishop, Sarah. “Kama Ginkas’s The Black Monk.” The Theatre Times, 2016.

Willamette University

German Studies

Address
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem Oregon 97301 U.S.A.
Phone
503-370-6253 voice
503-370-6720 fax
Email
german-info@willamette.edu