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WEB PAGE
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/slavic/faculty/profiles/Gar...
BIOGRAPHY
Professor Tom Garza teaches in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and is the director of the Texas Language Center. Recent publications include: "Breakthrough! American English for Speakers of Russian," with Lapidus, Barchenkov and Tolkacheva, "Ne Trozh' Molodezh'! A Portrait of Urban Youthspeak and the Russian Language in The 21st Century" in Russian Language Journal, vol. 58, 2008, "From Aga Khan to Dim Sum: New Russia's Asian Appetite" in Ulbandus vol. 10, 2008, "Conservative Vanguard? The Politics of New Russia's Youth" in Current History, and "Getting from Gorbachev to Grunge: Constructing Ethnographic Portraits to Introduce Contemporary Russian Culture" in "The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures," Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin, editors. Garza's research on vampires was featured on the UT home page: Vampires Never Die, in the History Channel's docudrama, "Vampire Secrets," and in HBO's vampire documentary to launch the "True Blood" television series.
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Public Affairs CONTACT
Michelle Bryant
512-232-4730
mbryant@austin.utexas.edu
EXPERTISE
Russian language, the vampire in slavic cultures, Russian fairy tales, Russian youth culture, Post-Soviet youth culture, Chechyna and the Chechen wars, contemporary Russian culture, Gorbachev, Yeltsyn, Putin, Russian organized crime, Russian mafia.
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