Tim Scholl
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Oberlin College
Chair, Department
of Russian Language, Literature, and Culture
tel +1 (440) 775 8920
fax +1 (440) 775 6355
Docent, Department
of Theatre Research, Helsinki University
tel +1 358 40 854 49 18
Tim Scholl is a scholar of Russian and dance historian who
has authored two volumes on the history of Russian dance: From Petipa to
Balanchine, Classical Revival and the Modernization of Ballet (Routledge
1994) and Sleeping Beauty, a Legend in Progress (Yale 2004). In demand
as a lecturer on Russian and North American ballet, his writings on dance have
been translated into Russian, Finnish, Swedish, German, Italian, French, and
British English.
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Oberlin
College, Scholl is a docent in the Theatre Research Department of Helsinki
University, where he held a Fulbright teaching/research fellowship in 2000-01.
A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century ballet,
Scholl holds degrees from Yale University (PhD 1991) and Vanderbilt University
(BA 1984). His articles on dance have appeared in Playbill, The New
York Times, MoscowÕs Kommersant Daily, and StockholmÕs Danstidnigen,
and in programs of the New York City Ballet, MilanÕs La Scala Theater, LondonÕs
Royal Opera House, the Paris Opera, and the Hamburg Ballet. His Sleeping
Beauty, a Legend in Progress was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title
by Choice in 2005, and nominated and nominated for the 2006 American
Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) book
prize in literary/cultural studies.
He is currently at work on a history of Soviet ballet.