Research

Professor Bidoshi's research centers on the use of the oral tradition in Eastern European literature and culture. The focus of her most recent research is on contemporary folk belief in the newly developed democratic Albania. She is currently working on a book project on rites of passage in contemporary Albanian society. She conducts fieldwork in Eastern Europe and has published articles on contemporary Albanian folklore, the Albanian literary fairy tale as a reflection of a nation's quest for cultural identity, the interaction between French and Russian oral and literary versions of “Beauty and the Beast,” and the use of the oral tradition in the works of Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Liudmila Petrushevskaia. She has also published articles on Russian language pedagogy (technology based language acquisition) and has recently received (with Prof. David Galloway of Hobart-William Smith Colleges) a $250,000 grant from the Department of Education to develop a dynamic web-based module for training students on Russian verb conjugation and verbal aspect. 

Publications
Articles              "Beauty and the Beast à la Russe.” Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairytale Studies. Wayne State University
                            Press.Vol. 22, No. 2 (2008). 

                              "The Case for Dynamic Exercise Systems in Language Learning" (with David Galloway). Computer Assisted Language Learning: An International Journal (CALLIJ).  Forthcoming 2008, 16 pp. 

 

“Liudmila Petrushevskaia:  Voicing Marginalized Histories, Writing Women, Simulating Realities." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. Forthcoming 2008, 44 pp.

 

Asynchronous Computer-Assisted Classroom Discussion in the Beginning Level Russian Language Classroom” (with Natasha Anthony). Inventio: Creative Thinking About Learning and Teaching. George Mason University. 2007. 42 pp.

 

“The Stranger in the Fictional Works of Nikolai Gogol's Arabesques.” New Zealand Slavonic Journal (NZSJ) 39: 1-36. Victoria University Press, Dec 2006.  

 

“’Veronica’s Dream’: A Contemporary Albanian Fairytale.” Folklorica:  Journal of the Slavic and E. European Folklore Association (Translation from Albanian with Introduction and Notes.) Vol. XI, No. 1.  Edmonton:  Priority Printing (Autumn 2006): 78-116. 

                                   

                                    “The Dordolec: Albanian House Dolls and the Evil Eye.”  Journal of American Folklore 119

                                        (473): 337-355. University of Illinois Press, Summer 2006.

 

                                    "Circles and Crowds: ‘Svoi krug’ Liudmily Petrushevskoi v angliiskikh perevodakh"  [Circles and Crowds: Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s ‘Our Circle’ in English Translation] in Rossiia i S.Sh.A.: formy literaturnogo dialoga. Eds. M. Odesskaia and I. Masing-Delic.  Moscow:  Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi gumanitarnyi universitet (2000):  164-171.

 

"U nego bylo takoe zhe angel'skoe litso, iasnoe i dobroe" (Simvolika podteksta rasskaza 'Chernyi monakh')" [‘He had the same angelic face, kind and clear’: Underlying Symbols in the “Black Monk”] in Molodye issledovateli Chekhova. Moscow, Russia III (1998): 74-77.

                                        

Book Reviews            Susan Ingram. Zarathustra's Sisters: Women's Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History. Slavic and East European Journal. (Book Review) Vol. 49, No. 4 (Winter 2005). Lexington, Kentucky: 682-683.

                             

                              Stephen Moeller-Sally. Gogol's Afterlife: The Evolution of a Classic in Imperial and Soviet Russia. Canadian Slavonic Papers. (Book Review) Vol. 47, No. 3-4 (Sept-Dec 2005).  Edmonton:  Priority Printing: 47.

 

                              Aleksandr Kondratiev. On the Banks of the Yaryn. Trans. Valentina G. Brougher. Folklorica:  Journal of the Slavic and E. European Folklore Association (Book Review) Vol. X, No. 1.  Edmonton:  Priority Printing (Spring 2005): 57-58.

                             

                              Sally Dalton-Brown.  Voices from the Void: The Genres of Liudmila PetrushevskaiaCanadian Slavonic Papers. (Book Review) Vol. XLIII, No. 4.  Edmonton:  Priority Printing (Dec. 2001): 570-572.

                                                   

Edited Journals           Associate Editor, Symposium. Syracuse University Press, April 2007-present.

 

                                        Co-Editor, The Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin. The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Vol. 16, No. 2-3, Eds. Sabra J. Webber, Kristin Peterson and Ipek Celik, Spring 2000.

 

Edited Book         Fantasy or Ethnography?  Irony and Collusion in Subaltern Representation. Papers in Comparative Studies, Vol. 8, Eds. Sabra J. Webber and Margaret R. Lynd with Kristin A. Peterson, 1996: 3-254.

 

Other                             Golosa. Book 1, Third Edition. Internet Video Interviews and Web based Exercises (Interviews in Moscow)

Textbook & CD         (www.gwu.edu/~slavic/golosa/) Richard Robin and Kristin Peterson. Prentice Hall, September, 2002.

                                     

                                    "Tochki zreniia". Ohio 5 Viewpoints Series, Russian Video CD-Rom Project "Crossing Cultures and Platforms" (with Arlene Forman). August 1999.