Lucey, Colleen M

Assistant Professor, Russian / Slavic Studies

luceyc@email.arizona.edu
Phone 520-621-3608
Office LSB 334

Office Hours

Mondays and Thursdays, 2-3PM or by appointment

Colleen Lucey holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (defended 2016; advisor Alexander Dolinin). Her research focuses on the commodification of marginal women in Russian literature and art. Currently Dr. Lucey is expanding her dissertation into a monograph that investigates the portrayal of prostitutes, courtesans, and dowerless brides in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian works. Through an interdisciplinary approach that reveals the evolution of commercial sex in Russian culture, Dr. Lucey demonstrates how women of the demimonde embody fears of modernity and contagion in a variety of literary works. Likewise, Dr. Lucey illustrates the importance of visual representation of impoverished and "fallen women" in paintings and lithographs by Russian artists, including A.I. Lebedev and V.E. Makovsky.

In addition to works of literary and cultural analysis, Dr. Lucey has published two language textbooks: About That, Which Did Not Happen: An Annotated Russian Reader (2015) co-authored with Evgeny Dengub (Smith College and University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Petia Alexieva (Defense Language Institute); and Russian Folktales: A Reader for Students of Russian, 2nd Edition (May 2017) co-authored with Jason Merrill (Michigan State).

Before joining the Russian and Slavic Department at University of Arizona, Dr. Lucey taught at The College of New Jersey in 2013-2014 and Middlebury College School of Russian (summers 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014).

Select publications:

"Violence, Murder, and Fallen Women: Prostitution in the Works of Vsevolod Garshin," Canadian Slavonic Papers 13.4 (2016). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00085006.2016.1234589

Currently Teaching

RSSS 101B – Elementary Russian II

For the student with some knowledge of Russian.

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RSSS 160C2 – Contemporary Russia in a Historical and Global Context

This course examines contemporary Russian culture and politics in a historical context, determining how the country's past influences present day culture and politics. We will learn of Russia's recent cultural and artistic triumphs within the context of Russia's rich history. In discussing Russian literary and cinematic works of the early 21st century, we will assess the impact of history on Russian consciousness and identity, noting how Russia presents itself around the world, and how it is perceived by other nations.

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RSSS 311 – Love for Sale: Fallen Women in Art and Literature

This course examines the portrayal of prostitution in visual and print culture of the nineteenth century. We will determine how writers and artists conceptualized commercial sex in French, Russian, and German contexts. For the era's writers, artists, thinkers, and social activists, the prostitute became linked with urban decay and the disastrous effects of industrialization. In our discussions of works by Alexandre Dumas fils, Emile Zola, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Frank Wedekind, we will uncover how these writers utilize the female body to discuss issues of deviance and attraction. In analyzing paintings by Edouard Manet, Ilya Repin, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, we will determine how the courtesan and streetwalker appear as emblems of modernity.

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Currently Teaching

RSSS 101B – Elementary Russian II

RSSS 160C2 – Contemporary Russia in a Historical and Global Context

RSSS 311 – Love for Sale: Fallen Women in Art and Literature