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E-mail: peppard@cas.usf.edu

Victor Peppard, Professor of Russian, is currently Chair of the Department, which he has led for the past five years. He has been at USF since 1975 and has taught courses on Russian language, literature, and culture.

Professor Peppard has published on Russian language pedagogy, Russian literature, and Russian and Soviet sport. Russian writers of the 1920s have long been a special interest of his, and in 1989 he published a monograph with U Florida Press, The Poetics of Yury Olesha. His article "The Carnival World of Envy" was anthologized in Olesha's Envy. A Critical Companion, ed. Rimgaila Salys. Northwestern UP / AATSEEL, 1999: 82-100. Peppard's interest in Soviet sport culminated in the publication, together with James Riordan, of Playing Politics: Soviet Sport Diplomacy to 1992. Russian and East European Studies, Vol. 3, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1993. In 2003 he published articles on Olesha and Nikolai Nikitin in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 272: Russian Prose Writers Between the World Wars, ed. Christine Rydel. New York: Thomson Gale. Currently, Peppard is working on the prose of Isaak Babel' and also on the contemporary writer Viasheslav P'etsukh.

Peppard has published a small number of short stories, including "Babel's Brighton Beach" in Northeast Corridor, no. 7, 2000, and continues to work on a number of others.

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