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Dr. Frederick White

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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

Ph D, University of Southern California, 2002

Major: Slavic

MA, University of Kansas, 1994

Major: Slavic

BA, The Ohio State University, 1992

Major: Russian

Teaching

RUS 416G

Contemporary Russian Cinema GI, Spring 2024

LANG 490R

Special Topics in Languages, Spring 2024

RUS 490R

Special Topics in Russian Studies, Spring 2024

NSS 3350

The Cold War--Culture and Politics, Spring 2024

IS 350R

Topics in Integrated Studies, Spring 2024

Presentations

White, Frederick H. (Author Only), AATSEEL, "‘If there is no God…’: Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena and Leviathan", Las Vegas. (February, 2024)

White, Frederick (Author Only), XIX International Hemingway Conference, "A Remarkable Life_ Hemingway’s Soviet Biography", Hemingway Society, Wyoming and Montana. (July, 2022)

White, Frederick H. (Author Only), ASEEES, "Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War", Washington DC. (November, 2020)

White, Frederick H. (Author Only), Humanities+ 2019, "The Most Outstanding Work of an Idealistic Tendency_ Hemingway, Pasternak and the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature", The Russian-American Academic Center at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia. (April, 2019)

White, Frederick H. (Author Only), AATSEEL, "Pauline Tarnowsky and the Russian Influence on Cesare Lombroso’s Criminal Woman", New Orleans. (February, 2019)

White, Frederick (Author Only), ASEEES, "Temple Drake in the Soviet Union", San Antonio, TX. (November, 2014)

Scholarly/Creative Works

White, Frederick , (2024) "Dreaming of Space_ a premonition of Ernest Hemingway" (Issue: 1, vol. 18). Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema.

White, Frederick H., (2023) "1902: razmyvaia granitsy mezhdu meditsinoi i literaturoi [1902: Blurring the Boundaries between Medicine and Literature]" (Issue: 179). Russia: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie.

White, Frederick H., Leving, Yuri , (2023) "Ulysses on Soviet Celluloid_ Sergei Eisenstein, James Joyce and Sylvia Beach" . Frankfurt am Main: Esterum.

White, Frederick H., (2022) "1958: Kheminguei, Pasternak i Nobelevskaia premiia po literature [1958: Hemingway, Pasternak and the Nobel Prize for Literature]" (Issue: 3). Russia: Rossica. Literaturnye sviazi i kontakty.

White, Frederick H., (2020) "B-2: Brikolazh rezhissera Balabanova. [B-2: Bricolage of the filmmaker Balabanov]" . Nizhnii Novgorod: Dekom.

White, Frederick H., Ioffe, Dennis , (2019) "The Many Lives of the Russian Avant-garde. Nikolai Khardzhiev’s Legacy_ New Contexts" (vol. 32). Amsterdam: Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies .

Awards

Board of Trustees Award of Excellence

Utah Valley University

Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Award of Excellence

Utah Valley University

Fulbright Scholar Award

RUS 3660

Twentieth Century Russian Culture, Fall 2011

RUS 416R

Post Soviet Russian Media and Film, Spring 2011

White, Frederick (Author Only), Rossiia i Velikobritaniia_ Vstrechnoe dvizhenie. Ekonomika, politika, kul’tura, "TARZAN: British Lord, American movie idol and Soviet counterculture figure", , Higher School of Economics, Nizhnii Novgorod, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia. (May, 2014)

White, Frederick (Author Only), Metakomparativistika v kontekste gumanitarnogo znaniia_ mezhdistsiplinarnye s, "Visual Marketing and the Early Leonid Andreev", , Higher School of Economics, Nizhnii Novgorod, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia. (December, 2013)

White, Frederick (Author Only), Internatsionalizatsiia kachestvennogo obrazovaniia i nauki. Problemy iazykovoi politiki i iazykovogo planirovaniia_ «Dve storony medali», "Language politics in the USA_ New challenges and solutions", , Educational and Industrial Forum, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia. (September, 2013)

White, Frederick (Author Only), Adaptation: Russian Text into Film, "A Slap in the Face of American Cinematic Taste", , The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. (May, 2013)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Global Sptolight_ Eurasia, "Contemporary Russia", , International Center, UVU, Orem, Utah. (April, 2013)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Global Sptolight_ Eurasia, "The Thaw and Stagnation Periods", , International Center, UVU, Orem, Utah. (March, 2013)

White, Frederick (Author Only), ASEEES, "Visual Marketing and the Early Postcards of Leonid Andreev", , New Orleans, LA. (November, 2012)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Global Sptolight_ Eurasia, "Silver Age Culture", , International Center, UVU, Orem, Utah. (October, 2012)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Lectures at the Museum, "Socialist Realism", , International Center, UVU, Woodbury Art Museum. (October, 2012)

White, Frederick , Demonocracy. Russian Satirical Journals in the Russian 1905 Revolution, "The Danger of Decadence and Degeneration ", , University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. (September 9, 2011)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), National Conference, "Fathers and Sons… and Stepmothers_ Vadim Andreev’s memoir of childhood ", , American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Los Angeles, CA. (January, 2011)

White, Frederick , Global Review of New York Times, "Discussion of the coverage of Russia in the New York Times ", , International Center, Utah Valley University. (December 9, 2010)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Russian Film Symposium, "Introduced Crush, directed by Boris Khlebnikov, Ivan Vyrypaev, Petr Buslov, Aleksei German Jr. and Kirill Serebrennikov ", , University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (May, 2010)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Slavonic Studies Section, "Of Freaks and Men_ Aleksei Balabanov’s critique of degenerate post-Soviet society ", , University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. (March, 2010)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), Introduction to Modern Russian Culture_ Magnificence, Mayhem and Mafia, "Falling into the Abyss_ Literary and cultural antecedents to Andreev’s ‘The Abyss’", , The Ohio State Univesrity, Columbus, OH. (February, 2010)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), Literature and Culture Forum, "The Role of the Critic in the Consecration of Leonid Andreev ", , The Ohio State Univesrity, Columbus, OH. (February, 2010)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, " Fathers and Sons…and Stepmothers_ Vadim Andreev’s memoir of childhood", , University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. (January, 2010)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), International Project «The Conception of Chaos and Order in the Natural Sciences and Humanities», "Khaos «Mysli»: Litsedeistvo i obman ", , The Linguistic University of Nizhnii Novgorod, Nizhnni Novgorod, Russia. (October, 2009)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), (HUMN 6020): Autobiography, "Illness Narrative ", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (March, 2009)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), ArtsWorks, "Applying to Graduate School – Focus on Arts Programs ", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (March, 2009)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Global Cinema Series, "An introduction to Andrei Zvyagintsev’s The Return ", , Faculty of Arts and Lifelong Learning, Memorial University, St John's, NL. (February, 2009)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), National Conference, "Marketing Strategies_ Vadim Andreev in Dialogue with the Soviet Union ", , American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, San Francisco, CA. (December, 2008)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), (HUMN 6010): Historiography, "Posthumous Legacies ", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (November, 2008)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), ArtsWorks, "Applying to Graduate School – Focus on Arts Programs", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (November, 2008)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Faculty of Arts Excellence Forum, "Moving On Up_ Picking and Preparing for Graduate School", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (November, 2008)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Global Cinema Series, "An introduction to Pavel Lungin’s The Island", , Faculty of Arts and Lifelong Learning, Memorial University, St John's, NL. (November, 2008)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), Masterpieces of Russian Short Fiction, "Falling into the Abyss_ Literary and cultural antecedents to Andreev’s ‘The Abyss’ ", , Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. (November, 2008)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), ArtsWorks, "Applying to Graduate School – Focus on Arts Programs", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (March, 2008)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Faculty of Arts Excellence Forum, "Moving On Up_ Picking and Preparing for Graduate School ", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (March, 2008)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Global Cinema Series, "An introduction to Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark ", , Faculty of Arts and Lifelong Learning, Memorial University, St John's, NL. (February, 2008)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), National Conference, "Asylums for undesirables, degenerates and madmen_ A Russian institution of social control ", , American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Chicago, IL. (December, 2007)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), ArtsWorks, "Applying to Graduate School – Focus on Arts Programs ", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (November, 2007)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Introduction to Kinesiology, Physical Education and Recreation, "The Soviet Sports Machine", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (November, 2007)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), Midwestern Slavic Conference, "Institutional Spaces in the Works of Leonid Andreev ", , American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Columbus, OH. (April, 2007)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Introduction to Kinesiology, Physical Education and Recreation, "The Soviet Sports Machine", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (March, 2007)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Introduction to Kinesiology, Physical Education and Recreation, "The Soviet Sports Machine", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (November, 2006)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Introduction to Kinesiology, Physical Education and Recreation, "The Soviet Sports Machine", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (March, 2006)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), National Conference, "Diary of a Madman_ Leonid Andreyev’s Melancholic Moods ", , American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Washington, DC. (December, 2005)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Introduction to Kinesiology, Physical Education and Recreation, "The Soviet Sports Machine", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (November, 2005)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), International Conference, "Leonid Andreyev and His Narrative of Illness ", , International Council for Central and East European Studies, Gerlin, Germany. (July, 2005)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), (HUMN 6021): Autobiography, "The Russian Literary Portrait as Autobiographical Document ", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (March, 2005)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Introduction to Kinesiology, Physical Education and Recreation, "The Soviet Sports Machine", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (February, 2005)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Introduction to Kinesiology, Physical Education and Recreation, "The Soviet Sports Machine ", , Memorial University, St John's, NL. (November, 2004)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), Those Crazy Russians_ Madness in Russian Culture, History and Society , "Fine Madness_ Aleksandr Blok and Cyclothymia ", , The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. (April, 2003)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), National Conference, "Fine Madness_ Aleksandr Blok and Cyclothymia ", , American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, New York City, NY. (December, 2002)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), National Conference, "‘He is not with them, he is with us, he is ours....’ Andrej Belyj’s Literary Portrait of Leonid Andreev", , American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, New Orleans, LA. (December, 2001)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), National Conference, "Literature and Politics Aside_ Gorky and Andreev ", , British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge, England. (April, 2000)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), National Conference, "Gorky on Andreev_ A Bittersweet Relationship ", , American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Chicago, IL. (December, 1999)

White, Frederick (Presenter & Author), Regional Conference, "Falling into the Abyss_ Leonid Andreev’s Meditation on Arthur Schopenhauer’s Philosophy ", , Western Association of Slavic Studies, Denver, Colorado. (April, 1998)

White, Frederick (Presenter Only), Russia 2000, "Living the Russian Life", , Pasedena City College Forum, Pasadena, CA. (March, 1997)

White, Frederick H., (2016) "Brikolazh rezhissera Balabanova [Bricolage of the filmmaker Balabanov]" . Nizhnii Novgorod: Dekom.

White, Frederick , Burry, Alexander , (2016) "Border Crossings_ Russian Literature into Film" . Edinburg UP.

White, Frederick , Ioffe, Dennis , "The Danger of Decadence and Degeneration" (Issue: August 2017, vol. 92). Russian Literature (Elsevier Science BV).

White, Frederick , (2014) "Degeneration, Decadence and Disease in fin de siecle Russia. Neurasthenia in the Life and Work of Leonid Andreev" . Manchester University Press.

White, Frederick , Ioffe, Dennis , (2014) "“Taxi Blues_ The Anxiety of Soviet Masculinity" (Issue: 3, vol. 44). Journal of European Studies.

White, Frederick , (2014) "Interviews with Vsevolod Benigsen and Andrei Bogatyrev about Judas (2013)" (Issue: 43). Kinokultura. www.kinokultura.com/2014/43i-benigsen-bogatyrev.shtml

White, Frederick , (2014) "“Andrei Bogatyrev_ Judas by Frederick H. White.” " (Issue: 43). Kinokultura. www.kinokultura.com/2014/43r-iuda.shtml

White, Frederick , Leving, Yuri , (2013) "Marketing Literature and Posthumous Legacies. The Symbolic Capital of Leonid Andreev and Vladimir Nabokov" .

White, Frederick , (2013) "“Marjorie L. Hilton. Selling to the Masses_ Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930.”" (Issue: 1, vol. 57). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , Ioffe, Dennis G., (2012) "The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism_ An Introductory Reader" . Boston: Academic Studies.

White, Frederick , (2012) "“Creating Posthumous Legacies_ The power to consecrate and to blaspheme. Vadim Andreev’s memories of childhood,”" (Issue: LXXII-III/IV). Russian Literature (Elsevier Science BV).

White, Frederick , (2011) " “The Role of the Scholar in the Consecration of Leonid Andreev (1950s to present)” " (vol. 44). New Zealand Slavonic Journal.

White, Frederick , (2011) "“Liudmila Ken and Leonid Rogov. Zhizn’ Leonida Andreeva, rasskazannaia im samimim i ego sovremennikami.” " (Issue: 2, vol. 55). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2011) "“Joan Delaney Grossman. Ivan Konevskoi, “Wise Child” of Russian Symbolism.” " (Issue: 1, vol. 55). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2011) "“Marketing Strategies_ Vadim Andreev in Dialogue with the Soviet Union” " (Issue: 2, vol. 70). Russian Review.

White, Frederick , (2010) "“The Role of the Scholar in the Consecration of Leonid Andreev (1950s to present)” " . New Zealand Slavonic Journal.

White, Frederick , (2010) "“Boele, Otto. Erotic Nihilism in Late Imperial Russia.” " (Issue: 2, vol. 16). Slavonica.

White, Frederick , (2009) "“Brigit Beumers. A History of Russian Cinema.” " (Issue: 2-3, vol. LI). Canadian Slavonic Papers.

White, Frederick , Clark, Hilary , (2009) "“Leonid Andreev’s Construction of Melancholy”" . New York: SUNY Press.

White, Frederick , (2009) "“Nancy Condee. The Imperial Trace_ Recent Russian Cinema.”" (Issue: 4, vol. 53). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2008) "“Daniel Beer. Renovating Russia_ The human sciences and the fate of liberal modernity, 1880-1930.”" (Issue: 4, vol. 52). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2008) "“Ekaterina Ivanovna and Salomé: Cultural Signposts of Degenerative Illness” " (Issue: 4, vol. 52). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2008) "“Peering into the Abyss_ Andreev’s rejoinder to Tolstoi’s Kreutzer Sonata” " (Issue: 3-4, vol. L). Canadian Slavonic Papers.

White, Frederick , (2008) "“Of Freaks and Men_ Aleksei Balabanov’s critique of degenerate post-Soviet society” " (Issue: 3, vol. 2). Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema.

White, Frederick , (2007) "“Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky, eds. Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture.” " (Issue: 3-4, vol. XIX). Canadian Slavonic Papers.

White, Frederick , (2007) "“Leonid Andreev’s Release from Prison and the Codification of Mental Illness” " (vol. 41). New Zealand Slavonic Journal.

White, Frederick , (2006) "Memoirs and Madness_ Leonid Andreev through the Prism of the Literary Portrait" . Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

White, Frederick , Brulotte, Gaetan , Phillips, John , (2006) "“Andreev, Leonid”" . New York: Routledge.

White, Frederick , (2006) "“Tak byl li bolen L. Andreev? (O pravde, pravdopodobnosti, i prave na literaturnuiu diagnostiku)” " (Issue: 4). Russkaia literatura.

White, Frederick , (2005) "“Gary Rosenshield. Pushkin and the Genres of Madness_ The Masterpieces of 1833.”" (Issue: 3, vol. 49). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2005) "“«Tainaia zhizn’» Leonida Andreeva_ Istoriiа bolezni”" (Issue: 1). Voprosy literatury.

White, Frederick , (2004) "“Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. New Myth, New World_ From Nietzsche to Stalinism.” " (Issue: 3-4, vol. XLVI). Canadian Slavonic Papers.

White, Frederick , (2004) "“Beth Holmgren, ed. and intro. The Russian Memoir_ History and Literature.” " (Issue: 2, vol. 48). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2004) "“Leonid Andreev. Litsedeistvo i obman” " (Issue: 69). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie.

White, Frederick , (2004) "“Zamiatin’s Fact and Fiction_ Andreev, Mrs. Fitzgerald and the 1905 Revolution” " (Issue: 1-2, vol. XLVI). Canadian Slavonic Papers.

White, Frederick , (2003) "“Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier. Valentin Serov_ Portraits of Russia’s Silver Age.”" (Issue: 3-4, vol. XLV). Canadian Slavonic Papers.

White, Frederick , (2003) "“Nadezhda Chulkova. Portret Leonida Andreeva. 1906-1908 gg. Podgotovka teksta, publikatsiia i komentarii_ Frederick H. White” " (Issue: 5-6). Jerusalem; Moscow_ Gesharim /Mosty kul'tury: Solnechnoe Spletenie.

White, Frederick , (2002) "“Mikhail Artsybashev. Sanin_ a novel. Translation Michael R. Katz; introduction Otto Boele; Afterward Nicholas Luker.” " (Issue: 2, vol. 46). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2002) "“Thomas Gaiton Marullo, ed. Ivan Bunin_ The Twilight of Émigré Russia, 1934-1953. A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs.” " (Issue: 4, vol. 46). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2000) "“Ivan Bunin. Cursed Days_ A Diary of Revolution. Translated, introduced and annotated by Thomas Gaiton Marullo.”" (Issue: 2, vol. 44). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (2000) "“Tovah Yeldin. Maxim Gorky_ A Political Biography.”" (Issue: 4, vol. 44). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (1999) "“Andrew Barratt and Barry P. Scherr. Maksim Gorky_ Selected Letters.”" (Issue: 3, vol. 43). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (1998) "“Julie de Sherbinin, Chekhov and Russian Religious Culture_ The poetics of the Marian Paradigm.” " (Issue: 3, vol. 42). Slavic and East European Journal.

White, Frederick , (1997) "“Leonid Andreev. S.O.S. Dnevnik (1914-1919), Pis’ma (1917-1919), Stat’i i interv’iu (1919), Vospominaniia sovremennikov (1918-1919). Pod redaktsiei i so vstupitel’noi stat’ei Richarda Devisa i Bena Khellmana.” " (Issue: 3, vol. 41). Slavic and East European Journal.