Faculty Member

Dr. Frederick White

Biography

Dr. Frederick H. White is Professor of Russian and Integrated Studies. He has published eight books and more than fifty academic articles on Russian literature, film and culture. He is one of the leading specialists on the writer Leonid Andreev and has published in the areas of Russian Modernism, psychiatry and literature in the Russian fin de siecle, the economics of culture and post-Soviet cinema, with a specific interest in the filmmaker Aleksei Balabanov. Presently, he is working on Ernest Hemingway's reception in the Soviet Union.

Education

PhD, University of Southern California, 2002

Major: Slavic Languages and Literatures

MA, University of Kansas, 1994

Major: Slavic Languages and Literatures

BA, The Ohio State University, 1992

Major: Russian Language and Literature

Teaching

RUS 416G

Contemporary Russian Cinema GI, Spring 2025

NSS 301R

National Security Area Studies, Spring 2025

RUS 4170

Russia Under Putin, Spring 2025

IS 350R

Topics in Integrated Studies, Spring 2025

Presentations

White, Frederick H (Panelist), AATSEEL, "Strategic Change_ Adapting Russian Programs within the Present Higher Education Environment", AATSEEL, New Orleans, LA. (February, 2026)
White, Frederick H (Chair), AATSEEL, "Time and Spaces of Illness Across Literary Borders", AATSEEL, New Orleans, LA. (February, 2026)
White, Frederick H (Presenter & Author), 25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, "In dialogue_ Tarnovskaia and Tolstoi", European Society of Criminology, Athens, Greece. (September 6, 2025)
White, Frederick H (Presenter & Author), Rossiia / SSSR i zapad. Literaturnye kontakty. XX vek. , "Tret’ia verbovka_ Ernest Kheminguei i sovetskie spetssluzhby [The third recruitment_ Ernest Hemingway and the Soviet secret service]", Institue of World Literature, Moscow, Russia (via zoom). (October 22, 2024)
White, Frederick H (Presenter & Author), International Hemingway Conference, "The Third Approach_ Ernest Hemingway and the KGB", Spain. (July, 2024)
White, Frederick H. (Presenter & Author), AATSEEL, "‘If there is no God…’: Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena and Leviathan", Las Vegas. (February, 2024)

Scholarly/Creative Works

White, Frederick H, (2026) "The Third Approach_ The Hemingways, the KGB, and the Cultural Cold War" (Issue: 1, vol. 46). United States: The Hemingway Review.
White, Frederick H, (2025) "Stanislav Svetlov_ Ada" (Issue: 87). KinoKultura. https://www.kinokultura.com/2025/87r-ada.shtml
White, Frederick H, (2024) "Dreaming of Space_ a premonition of Ernest Hemingway" (Issue: 1, vol. 18). Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema.
White, Frederick H, (2024) "Liubov’ Arkus_ Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem" (Issue: 84). KinoKultura. https://www.kinokultura.com/2024/84r-balabanov-requiem.shtml
White, Frederick H, (2024) "Alex Vernon. Reading Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. Glossary and Commentary" (Issue: 2, vol. 43). United States: The Hemingway Review.
White, Frederick H, (2024) "EH-EH: Ernest Hemingway and Euskal Herria / the Basque Country. 20th Biennial International Hemingway Conference" (Issue: 2024, vol. 17). Moscow: Literature of the Americas.

Awards

Dissemination Grant

Utah Valley University - September, 2025

Board of Trustees Award of Excellence

Utah Valley University

Faculty Travel Grant

Utah Valley University

Louis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship

The Hemingway Society

Princeton University Library Research Grant

Friends of the Princeton University Library

Dean’s Faculty Award of Excellence for Scholarship

Utah Valley University