John A. Barnstead

Associate Professor of Russian

Linguistic Program Coordinator (2009-2011)
President of the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia

E-mail: userrusj@dal.ca

Phone: 494-6951

Office: Room 3011, McCain Building

Bio: John Barnstead was born in Schenectady, New York — where all good science fiction ideas originate.  His current research projects are:

• The Kuzmin Collection: an electronic bilingual multimedia presentation of the works of Russian poet, novelist, dramatist and composer Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936);
• Russian Imagery in Canadian Poetry: an exhaustive examination of all references to
  things Russian in Canadian poetry, both French and English, from its beginnings
  to the year 2000;
• Ekphrasis, Deixis, and the Chronotope: a theoretical examination of the interactions of categories of reference and ostension when art changes mode — what exactly happens to the pointing when somebody writes a poem about a picture depicting a pointing figure, for example?