Nila Friedberg, Ph.D. (University of Toronto) Linguistics

Nila Friedberg received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Toronto in 2002 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the UCLA Slavic Department in 2002-2004. Her interests include linguistic approaches to literature, Russian poetics, Joseph Brodsky's poetry, and language contact. She is  the coordinator of the Heritage Russian program at PSU, and teaches Russian phonetics and phonology, Languages of the world, second and fourth year Russian and nineteenth century Russian literature. She has previously taught Russian at the Middlebury College Russian School and UCLA, and taught linguistics and phonetics at the University of Toronto and York University in Canada.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

Formal Approaches to Poetry Recent Developments in Metrics Ed. by Dresher, B. Elan / Friedberg, Nila ISBN 3-11-018522-9 MOUTON DE GRUYTER, 2002 http://www.degruyter.de/index.html

ARTICLES

• “Brodsky’s Auden: On Meter, Meaning, and Translation”

In Towards a Typology of Metrical Forms, ed. J.L. Aroui, 228-247

Elsevier: North Holland, 2007 (in press)

•   “Constraints, Complexity, and the Grammar of Poetry”

In Formal Approaches to Poetry, ed. B. Elan Dresher and Nila Friedberg,

Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006

•  “Joseph Brodsky”

In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture, ed. Karen Evans-Romaine, Helena Goscilo, Tatiana Smorodinskaya. Routledge, 2006

• Review of “M. Wachtel, The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry”

            Slavic and Eastern European Journal 50.4, 2006

•  “The Rhythm of Exile: Rhythm and Semantics in Brodsky's Iambic Verse”

Die Welt der Slaven, vol. 47 (2), 275-306. Munich, 2002

•  “Rhyme as Reason: Conjunct Morphology in Ojibwe Storytelling”

In Storytelling: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives, ed. M. Sanchez and I. Blayer, 118-129. New York: Peter Lang, 2002

•  “Foreign Flavor’ in Brodsky's Verse”

In Meter, Rhythm and Performance, ed. K. Kueper, 373-384,

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002

•  “Teoriia russkogo metra na osnove ogranichenii”/ “A Constraint-based Theory of Russian Meter”.

  In Slavianskii stikh: Lingvisticheskaia i prikladnaia poetika/ Slavic Verse: Linguistic and Applied Poetics, ed. M.L. Gasparov, A.V. Prokhorov and T.V. Skulacheva, Moscow: Jazyki russkoi kul’tury, 2001

  Contact Information:
  Email: nfriedbe@pdx.edu
  Office: Neuberger Hall 451