Halina Stephan

Professor, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
Director, Center for Slavic and East European Studies
Research Associate, Mershon Center for International Security Studies
105D Mershon Center
614.292.6025
stephan.31@osu.edu

Education
Ph.D., Russian Literature, Polish, University of Michigan (1975)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Stephan’s areas of expertise include Russian cultural history, modern Russian literature, avant-garde art and literature, and modern Polish literature, culture and theater.

Selected Publications
Living in Translation: Polish Writers in the United States (Rodopi, 2003)

Zycie w przekladzie. Polscy autorzy w Ameryce [Polish version of Living in Translation] (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2002)

Transcending the Absurd: Drama and Prose of Slawomir Mrozek (Rodopi, 1997)

Mrozek (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1996)

LEF and the Left Front of the Arts (Sagner, 1981)

Honors and Awards
U.S. Dept. of Education Title VI Grant for the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, The Ohio State University (2006-10)

U.S. Dept. of Education Title VI Grant for the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, The Ohio State University (2003-06)

Special Merit Distinction, Committee for Research of the Polish Ministry of Higher Education, for Mrozek (1996)

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) grants (1993, 1988)

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award (1988-89)

American Philosophical Society Research Grant (1988)

National Endowment for the Humanities grants (1988, 1984)

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Grant (1984)

Mershon Projects
Immigrant Discourse and Homeland Culture: Impact and Integration
Literature and National Security: Immigrant Authors in the Files of the FBI
American Culture and Anti-Americanism in Russia
The Image of the United States in Slavic Literatures