Faculty and
Staff Profiles
Edwina
Cruise
Edwina J. Cruise, professor
of the department of Russian and Eurasian Studies has taught at
Mount Holyoke since 1981. She is a specialist in Russian nineteenth-century
prose, with particular interests in Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Chekhov.She
is the author of a study guide, English Grammer for Students of
Russian (2nd ed. 1993), and the translator of two volumes of Chekhov
criticism. Her published scholarship focuses on the development
of Russian realism and Leo Tolstoy.
Professor Cruise is currently
at work on a series of articles devoted to the horse in Russian
culture. In September, 1998, she was invited to speak on the symbolic
use of horses in Anna Karenina at the First International Tolstoy
Conference, held at Tolstoy's ancestral home near Tula, Russia. More
recently, she was invited to contribute biographies of Russian-bred
horses to the new web site being developed by the International
Museum of the Horse at the Kentucky Horse Park, Horse Breeds of
the World.
At Mount Holyoke Professor
Cruise teaches courses in Russian language and culture. Among
her favorite courses she cites Elementary Russian Language, Masterworks
of Russian and Soviet Cinema, Leo Tolstoy, and Images of Women in
Russian Literature. She received an undergraduate degree from
Barnard College, and a master's and doctoral degree in Slavic Languages
and Literatures from Columbia University.
College Street Journal
Article:
Volume 12, Number 14, Mount Holyoke College, December 11, 1998 Cruise-ing
in Russia from Tolstoy to Trotters.
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