Associate Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Director, Undergraduate Studies
Director, Graduate Studies
Degree/Institution: PhD University of Stockholm Office: HU 217 Phone: (518) 442-4223 Fax: (518) 442-4111 Email: rougle@cas.albany.edu
Academic Focus
Russian language; 19th and 20th century Russian literature and cultural history; translation
Bio
Charles Rougle (University of Stockholm, 1977) was born and raised in Helena, Montana, whose high school was among the first 13 in the nation to offer Russian. He is the editor of a book on Isaak Babel and has published numerous scholarly articles on Soviet literature and cultural politics. In addition to Russian he speaks fluent Swedish and Finnish and reads Spanish, French, German, Polish and Ukrainian. At UAlbany he has taught courses in Russian language, literature and civilization, and translation. He has worked as a freelance translator since 1970 and has translated to date 43 books from Russian and Swedish, most of which deal with Russian literature and culture. His translation of Ilia Dorontchenkov (ed.), Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1900-1934 is forthcoming with the University of California at Berkeley in 2008.
