Office: Phelps Hall
Email: esweygan@sewanee.edu
Teaching and Academic Specialization
I received my PhD from Princeton’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and my work is at the intersection of literary theory, film studies, and gender and performance studies. At UCSB, I teach Russian language and culture, developing my own methods, for example by teaching the language through dramatic texts.
Recent Publications
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From Metaphor to Direct Speech: Contemporary Russophone Drama and Performance Theory (2025)
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New Drama: An Anthology (2019)
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“Ludic Acts of Language Acquisition: Role, Dialogue, and Stage for L2 Russian Oral Proficiency” (2023)
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“From Gesture to Coded Knowledge: Rediscovering TPR when Teaching Russian in an Outdoor Classroom” (2025)