Gary Cox

CURRICULUM VITAE


Russian Studies Lecturer [part-time] University of Colorado [Boulder]
Affiliate Faculty, Regis University, School of Professional Studies
Performer, Young Audiences of Colorado
garyduanecox@mindspring.com

Home address:
1040 East Tenth Avenue, No. 105
Broomfield, Colorado 80020
303-588-5615, 720-887-0325

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EDUCATION

  • PhD., 1978, Columbia University, New York, New York
    Major field: Russian Literature
    Minor fields: Intellectual History, Old Russian
    Dissertation: A Study of Gogol's Narrators, Advisor: R.A.Maguire
  • M.A., 1973, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana (Dobro slovo )
  • B.A., 1969, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
    (cum laude, FBK, dep't honors in Religious Studies, Philos. minor)

POSITIONS HELD

  • University of Colorado/Boulder, Lecturer [part time], Germanic/Slavic
  • University of Colorado/Denver, Vis.Assoc.Prof. [pt], Modern Languages, 2000-01
  • SMU -- 1981-May, 2001, Director of Russian Studies
    (Ass't Professor--1981-4, Assoc. Prof.--1984-present)
  • U. of Missouri, Columbia--Instructor '76-8, Ass't Prof,1978-81

BOOKS PUBLISHED

CURRENT SCHOLARLY WORK


Pawn's Gambit: Terrorism and the Underground Mind

SCHOLARLY WORK AVAILABLE ONLINE


at Gary Cox's Cyber Spot:Writing:
  • "Russia's Feminine Soul Revisited"
  • "Dostoevsky and Serbia"
  • "The [Mostly True] Story About How Lev Nikolaevich [Almost] Met Fyodor Pavlovich"
  • Shootout at "Truth" Corrall: Big Woody is Gunning for Big Fyodor"

MULTIMEDIA SCRIPTING


* "Firebird's World" A projected series of interactive programs, teaching Russian culture and language through on-line exercises. The student interacts with on-screen Russian characters as they proceed through a story or adventure, learning language in an adventure game format. Five demo units were produced, but the grant [SMU] was discontinued before the project could be completed or marketed, despite considerable interest in the product nationally.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED (beginning with most recent):

  1. "Russia's Feminine Soul Revisited: A Neo-Darwinian Look at Dostoevskian Group Psychology." The New Zealand Slavonic Journal Vol. 35, 2001.
  2. "The Biology of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Cultural Text as Adaptive Mechanism," in Sociobiology of Art (selected proceedings of a conference of the European Sociobiological Society, Amsterdam, 1993), Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  3. "Recent English Translations of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: A Review Article," (by invitation) for Dostoevsky Studies, the journal of the International Dostoevsky Society (1995).
  4. "Montage in Gogol's Dead Souls: The View from the Bachelor's Carriage," in Russian Narrative and Visual Art: Varieties of Seeing, eds. Paul Debreczeny and Roger Anderson (Gainesville, FL: Florida University Press, 1993)
  5. "Treugol'nik muzhskoi zavisimosti i treugol'nik spaseniia v Prestuplenii i nakazanii: K teorii modernistskoi formy," in The Ljubljana Papers [Proceedings of the VII Congress, Int'l Dostoevsky Society], (Sussex, Eng.: Astra Press, 1993 --title translated, "Male dependency triangles and rescue triangles in Crime and Punishment).
  6. "Frank's Dostoevsky, No. 3: Review Article," Canadian-American Slavic Studies 23:2 (Summer 1989).
  7. "Identifying the Idiot: Myshkin and Rogozhin in Dostoevsky's Fictional World," Dialogue (Dallas Theatre Center Magazine), Feb., 1989.
  8. "Can a Literature Be Neurotic?: Literary Self and Authority Structures in Russian Cultural Development," Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis, ed. Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1989).
  9. "Dostoevskian Psychology and Russian Political Behavior," Mosaic, XVII:3 (1984).
  10. "D.H. Lawrence and F.M. Dostoevsky: Mirror Images of Murder," Modern Fiction Studies, 29:2 (Summer 1983).
  11. "Dramatic Genre as a Tool of Characterization in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time," Russian Literature XI (1982).
  12. "Geographical, Sociological and Sexual Tensions in Gogol's Dikanka Stories," Slavic and East European Journal, 24:3 (Fall 1980).
  13. "Fairy Tale Plots and Contemporary Heroes in Early Russian Prose Fiction," Slavic Review 39:1 (March 1980).
  14. "The Writer as a Stand-Up Comic: A Note on Gogol and Dickens," Ulbandus Review II:1 (Fall 1979).
  15. "Toward a System of Poetic Parallelism in Slovo o polku Igoreve," Ulbandus Review 1:2 (Spring 1978).

FICTION, HUMOR, AND MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE PAPERS (beginning with most recent)

  1. "Russian Political Behavior as a Vestigial Adaptation to Post Neolithic Conditions?" Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Salt Lake City, 1999.
  2. "Neoteny as an Enabler of Cultural Evolution," HBES, June 1998, Davis California.
  3. "Cultural Preferences and the Brain," HBES Bio-aesthetics group, Davis California, Summer, 1998.
  4. "Grammar, Culture, and the Modular Brain: Russian Cases and Political Dysfunction," International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, Washington, D.C., November 1997.
  5. "Multi-level Adaptive Utility in the Evolution of Narrative Behavior: Replicators or Motivators? (Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Tucson AZ, June '97)
  6. "Agonistic Literature as a Control Mechanism: Theoretical Prolegomena and a Pilot Project," Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 1996.
  7. "Dostoevskii-antropolog: Pushkinskaia rech' i etnichnost';" (Dostoevsky the anthropologist: The Pushkin speech and ethnicity), conference paper for "Russian Literature and the Contemporary World," conference September, 1995, at Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.
  8. " Proppovskaia skazka i ekzogamicheskii brak: Opyt k sociobiologii drevnikh slav'ian," (Propp's fairy tale and exogamy: Toward the sociobiology of the ancient Slavs), conference paper for the International Congress on Slavic and East European Studies, Warsaw, Poland, August 6-11, 1995, panel on "Sociobiology of Russian Literature."
  9. "Dyslexia and Russian: A Case Study and Theoretical Considerations," Rocky Mt. Assoc. for Slavic Studies, Albuquerque, 1994.
  10. "The Biology of Crime and Punishment," European Sociobiological Society, Amsterdam, 1993, (see forthcoming articles).
  11. "Crimes and Misdemeanors as a Parody of Crime and Punishment," Int'l Dostoevsky Symposium, Oslo, 1992 (see Fiction]
  12. "The 'Word' about Igor's Campaign: Poem, Song, or Speech?" Dallas Opera Prince Igor Symp.,1990(also conf. organizer, performer).
  13. "Rhyming Character Triangles in Crime and Punishment," Int'l Dostoevsky Symp., Ljubljana,Slovenia,1988 (see Articles, 2)
  14. "Dostoevsky and the Modernist Aesthetic," National AATSEEL (North American Dostoevsky Society), Washington, D. C., 1988.
  15. "Social Type versus Ideology in Crime and Punishment," Southwest Assoc. for Slavic Studies, College Sta., TX, 1988.
  16. "Can a Literature Be Neurotic?" Conference on Russian Literature & Psychoanalysis, Davis, CA, 1987 (see Articles, 5).
  17. "The Story about How Lev Nik. (Almost) Met Fyodor Pav.," Rocky Mt. Assoc. for Slavic Studies (RMASS), Ft.Worth,1985 (see Fiction).
  18. "On the Russianness of Gogol," National AATSEEL, Wash., DC, 1984.
  19. "Gogol and Tolstoy: The Career Paradigm," Central States Slavic Conference (CSSC), Columbia, MO, 1984.
  20. "The Writer's Role in Russian Society," RMASS, Albuquerque,1983.
  21. "The Author in Spite of Himself: Image of the Author in Gogol," Bengazi Balalaika Club (TX Slavic Conf.), Austin, 1983.
  22. "Ilyusha and Swiss Marie," National AAASS, Washington DC, 1982.
  23. "Dostoevsky contra Christianity:Salvation through Crime"SW Slavic Conf,SanAntonio 1982.
  24. "Totem & Taboo and The Brothers Karamazov," CSSC,St.Louis,1981
  25. "D.H. Lawrence and Dostoevsky," CSSC, Omaha, 1981.
  26. "Family and Nation in Dostoevsky," Conf.on Lit.&Soc.,Omaha, 1979
  27. "Character Doubling in Dostoevsky," CSSC, Wichita, KS, 1979.
  28. "Gogol's Dikanka Stories," Missouri AATSEEL, Columbia, 1978.
  29. "17th Century Russian Tales," CSSC, Manhattan, KS, 1977.
  30. "Dramatic Genre & Characterization in Lermontov," CSSC, Columbia, MO, 1976.
  31. "Gogol and the Reader," National AAASS, Atlanta, 1975.

BOOK REVIEWS

Slavic and East European Journal
: Dostoevsky translations by R. Wilks (1989), Mother Syndrome in Russian Folklore by A. Barker (1988), Enigma of Gogol by R. Peace (1982), Gogol by V. Gippius (1982), Oxford Companion to Russian Studies (1982). Freud's Russia by James Rice (1996).
Russian Review
: H. Murav Holy Foolishness (1994), A. Wachtel The Myth of Russian Childhood (1990), M. Levitt Literary Politics & Pushkin Celebration (1989), R. Busch Humor in Dostoevsky (1988), J. Woodward Dead Souls (1979).
Slavic Review
: J. Frank's Dostoevsky biography #3 (1988), L. Johnson Time in C & P (1987), Dostojewskij und die Literatur (1986).
Modern Language Journal
: Turgenev translations by O. Shartse (1984), J. Tulloch Chekhov (1981).
International Fiction Review
: V. Terras The Idiot (1991).
Canadian-American Slavic Studies
: J. Rice Freud's Russia (1996), S. Forrester and P. Chester, Engendering Slavic Literatures (forthcoming).
Dostoevsky Studies
: Poverty and Power in the Early Novels of Dostoevsky.
Newsletter of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society
: Joseph Carroll, Evolution and Literary Theory.

STUDY ABOAD PROGRAMS

Gary Cox has designed and led numerous study abroad programs in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Prague, for SMU, CU/Denver, and for tourist groups.

ACADEMIC AWARDS and GRANTS

  • SMU travel grant, 1995
  • Presidential grant for faculty career development, SMU, 1992
  • SMU University Lecture Series Authors' Award, 1991
    Panhellenic teaching award, SMU, 1990
  • Travel grant, Fund for Faculty Excellence, SMU, 1989
  • IREX, Summer language teachers' exchange, Moscow State U., 1977
  • Junior Fellow of Russian Institute, Columbia University, '75-6
  • Fellowship for Russian paleography seminar, Harvard U., 1975
  • NDFL Fellowship, Columbia University, 1974-75, 1975-76
  • University Fellowship, Columbia University, 1973-4
  • Teaching/Research assistantships, Indiana University, 1972-3

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

  • Editorial consultant for Slavic Rev., SEEJ, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, The Russian Rev., Dost. Studies, Journal of the Hist. of Sexuality, Human Nature.
  • Conference organizer for Dallas Opera, SW Slavic Ass'n.
  • Tenure Committee consultant, Texas A & M U., Mod. & Class. Langs.
  • Affiliate of CIEE Cooperative Russian Language Program.
  • Exchange program with Moscow State U. Center for Int'l Education.

CAMPUS SERVICE

  • Service on numerous campus committees.
  • Director of Russian Studies (administration, advising, FL exec. comm.)
  • Administration of exchange program in Moscow (application for SSRC grant pending)
  • Language Mission Project--part of SMU's team participating in this national study group on foreign language and area studies education.
  • Director of Outreach and Careers, Foriegn Languages and Literatures, Fall 1996--this new position helps track students and grads toward career opportunities. Wrote WebSite entitled "Doc SMUFLL's Career Page for the Worldly Wise.
  • Faculty Senate, 1996-8 (Chair of Subcommittee on Academic Policy, 97-98) LI
    President, Phi Beta Kappa, l997-98

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Dostoevsky [in English and Russian]
  • Russian Language, all levels.
  • Russian Literature in translation, all periods and genres.
  • Russian Culture, multidisciplinary course.
  • Russian Diction for Singers.
  • Topics courses: Literature of Glasnost, Literary Surrealism
  • Core curriculum (interdisciplinary): Thought II (Medieval), Institutions I (Roots of Society), Institutions II (Ancient World),Institutions III (Early Modern)
  • Comparative Grammar of Russian and English.
  • Development of proficiency testing and conversation lab for Russian Area.
  • Surrealism and the State: 20th Century Eastern European Literature
  • After Communism [Seminar in Eastern Europe since '85]

< NAME=travel>--Study tours of Russia (11) for students and tourists
--Program Director for Summer study in Prague, Summer 2000
--Advising Russian Club
--Direction of 12 Russian plays incl.Klop, Revizor, Samoubijca
--Invited editorials in student newspaper.

THEATRICAL AND MEDIA CONSULTING

  • Simgers' Master Chorale, Denver -- Russian Diction Coach
  • Boulder Chorale, Boulder, Colorado -- Russian Diction Coach
  • Dallas Symphony, Diction coach for choral concert of Chaikovsky works, Fall, '95.
  • Consultant for Channel 5 (Dallas) documentary on Catherine the Great, 1992.
  • Dallas Opera, Diction coach (and first tenor) for Borodin'sPrince Igor (1990) and Chaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (1992); also for SMU Choirs/Fort Worth Ballet (Stravinsky's Les noces). Also for production of Prokofiev's Aleksandr Nevsky (SMU Choirs).
  • Consultant for productions on Russian themes at Undermain Theatre, Moonstruck Theatre, Dallas Theatre Centre.
  • Consultant and performer for performance art piece, The Language of Fear, Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth, October, 1987.
  • Dallas Symphony--Diction coach for Chaikovsky, "Moscow," "1812 Overture," including editing, translation, transcription, program notes, consulting for recording, record jacket notes.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN COMMUNITY

--Business consultant/interpreter (Texas Instruments, Mary Kay Cosmetics, others)
--Dallas/Riga Sister Cities Project, committees, workshops.
--Translating/interpreting for arts groups, citizen diplomats, etc.
--Planning committee for Dallas Opera Prince Igor Symposium, '89.
--Community tours of Russia ("citizen diplomacy," "homestays").
--Expert witness in refugee cases for Alicia Burkman, att'y at law; Mark Jacobs, att'y @ law.
--Cross-cultural training workshop for Bennett Associates, Chicago.
--Pres., Board of Directors, Russian American Center, 1997-98

GUEST APPEARANCES, as Lecturer, Recitalist, Interpreter, Folksinger, Ensemble Singer, Actor for various groups including: