Slava Paperno: Publications

Original Works

Books

• An English-Russian Dictionary of Nabokov's Lolita, compiled and with an introduction by A. Nakhimovsky and V. [Slava] Paperno, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1982
• Intermediate Russian: The Twelve Chairs by Slava Paperno, Alexander D. Nakhimovsky, Alice S. Nakhimovsky, and Richard L. Leed, Slavica Publishers, 1986
• 5000 Russian Words with All their Inflected Forms and Other Grammatical Information: A Russian-English Dictionary by Richard L. Leed and S. Paperno, Slavica Publishers, 1987
• A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body, by Lidija Iordanskaja and Slava Paperno, English equivalents by Lesli LaRocco and Jean MacKenzie, edited by Richard L. Leed, Slavica Publishers, 1996

Articles

• A. Nahkimovsky and S. Paperno, "A Linguistic Study of Nabokov's Russian Prose" The Slavic and East European Journal Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 78-87. Note: in 1977, Paperno was still living in the U.S.S.R., and his name could not appear in an American publication. Nakhimovsky and Paperno wrote the article in Leningrad in 1975-76, and in 1977 it appeared under one name only.
• B. Gasparov and V. [Slava] Paperno, "The English Oral Text: A Typological Study," in Linguistics X, Tartu, 1978
• J. Hagopian and S. Paperno, "Official and Unofficial Responses to V. Nabokov in the USSR," in The Achievements of Vladimir Nabokov, 1984: Cornell University Press
• S. Paperno, "The Lexical Status of the Word sdacha," in Russian Language Journal No. 129-130, Winter-Spring 1984
• S. Paperno, "Lexical Functions as a New Tool in Designing CALI Systems," in Proceedings of the 1985 Academic Information Systems: University AEP Conference, 1985
• Richard L. Leed and Slava Paperno, "Corrigenda to A. A. Zaliznyak, Grammaticheskij Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka," in Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 30. No. 1, Spring 1986
• Deborah McGraw and S. Paperno, "An Authoring System as a Tool for Foreign Language Learning," in Proceedings of the 1986 Academic Information Systems: University AEP Conference, 1986
• Slava Paperno and Richard L. Leed, "Vocabulary Words in Elementary Russian Textbooks," in Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 32. No. 2, Summer 1988
• Slava Paperno, "Unrehearsed Interviews from Russia," in Consortium News Spring 1994, reprinted in AATSEEL Newsletter, vol. 37, issue 4, January 1995
• Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Slavomir Grunberg, Slava Paperno, and Kathleen M. Vogel. "A Historical Lens: A Man names Guenna" in Cultures, Fall 2014, Volume 1, issue 4, page 76.
• Slava Paperno, "Non-traditional presentation of entries" in International Journal of Lexicography, "Non-traditional presentation of entries" Contents, Contexts, Comments: Round Table Discussion. Vol. 28 No. 3, 2015, pp. 416-424.

Software

• Cornell Russian Support, (for DOS) programs for the use of Russian on personal computers, published by Cornell University, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (DMLL), 1986 and by Exceller Software, 1989 (with Peter Cassetta)
• LabLog: A Teacher's Utility for Written Language Lab, (for DOS) published by Cornell University, DMLL, 1987 and by Exceller Software, 1989 (with Ellen Vesey and Peter Cassetta)
• LabIndex: A Vocabulary database for Written Language Lab, (for DOS) published by Cornell University, DMLL, 1987 and by Exceller Software, 1989 (with Ellen Vesey and Peter Cassetta)
• Morphology Exercises for IBM personal computers, to complement Intermediate Russian by S. Paperno, A. Nakhimovsky, A. Nakhimovsky, and R. Leed, (for DOS) published by Slavica Publishers, 1987 and by Exceller Software, 1989
• Graduated Word-Nest Generator for Intermediate Russian: Vocabulary-Building Tool, (for DOS) published by Exceller Software, 1989 (with Richard L. Leed and Catherine Chvany)
• Word-Nest Editor, (for DOS) published by Exceller Software, 1989
• 12 Stories by M. Zoshchenko: An On-Screen Reader for students of Intermediate Russian (for MS Windows) Lexicon Bridge Publishers 1989-97 (with Lesli LaRocco)
• The Russian Dictionary Tree: A Combinatorial Computer Dictionary of Modern Russian, (for desktop computers and now for online access) edited by Slava Paperno, Lexicon Bridge Publishers 1992-2008 (with Richard L. Leed and Peter Cassetta), 2016
• 3-D Keyboard, (for MS Windows) published by Exceller Software, 1992 (with Peter Cassetta); version 2.4 and later published by Fingertip Software, 1995
• Cyrillic Support for Windows, published by Exceller Software, 1992 (with Peter Cassetta and Richard L. Leed); version 3.0 and later published by Fingertip Software, 1996
• Beginning Russian Quizzes (for MS Windows), A Multimedia Computer program for students of elementary Russian, Lexicon Bridge Publishers 1993-97 (based on a book by Richard L. Leed)
• Intermediate Russian Exercises (for MS Windows), Lexicon Bridge Publishers, 1993-97 (based on Intermediate Russian from Slavica Publishers)
• Little Vera: Episodes (for MS Windows), an interactive multimedia course for students of advanced Russian, published by Cornell University, DMLL, 1993 (based on Soviet feature film)
• A Forgotten Tune for the Flute: Episodes (for MS Windows), an interactive multimedia course for students of advanced Russian, published by Cornell University, DMLL, 1993 (based on Soviet feature film)
• Let's Get Acquainted (for MS Windows), an interactive multimedia course for students of elementary Russian, published by Cornell University, DMLL, 1994 (with Viktoria Tsimberov, based on Soviet film series)
• 12 Chairs Interactive (for MS Windows and Macintosh), an interactive multimedia course for students of intermediate and advanced Russian, 1997
• A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body, (for MS Windows and Macintosh), a CD-ROM version of the book from Slavica Publishers, Lexicon Bridge Publishers 1997
• HTML Basics, a tutorial and workshop by Slava Paperno, with assistance from Lesli LaRocco. CD-ROM. South Central Regional Library Council, 1999
• Introduction to JavaScript, a Web-based tutorial and workshop by Slava Paperno, with assistance from Lesli LaRocco. South Central Regional Library Council, 2000
• Style Sheets for Better Web Pages, a Web-based tutorial and workshop by Slava Paperno, with assistance from Lesli LaRocco. South Central Regional Library Council, 2000
• Smart Web Site Management: Introduction to ColdFusion, a video CD-ROM and interactive Web site by Lesli LaRocco and Slava Paperno. South Central Regional Library Council, 2003
• Modern Russian Culture: A Course of Ideas and Images, a multimedia course on CD-ROM and Video DVD by Lauren G. Leighton. Conceptual design and programming by Slava Paperno. Lexicon Bridge Publishers, 2004
• Russian Short Stories on Your Screen, a series of video DVDs for advanced students of Russian. With Sophia Lubensky and Irina Odintsova. Lexicon Bridge Publishers, 2005
• Advanced Russian: From Reading to Speaking, an interactive multimedia course on DVD-ROM. With Sophia Lubensky and Irina Odintsova. Lexicon Bridge Publishers, 2008

Television Documentaries and Other Videos

• Life on the Atomic River, 56 minutes, in Russian; 1993 (with Slawomir Grunberg)
• Children from Russia, 56 minutes, in Russian; 1994 (with Slawomir Grunberg)
• Adopting Olya, 30 minutes, in English; 1994 (with Slawomir Grunberg)
• Michael and Svetlana, 90 minutes, in Russian; 1995 (with Slawomir Grunberg)
• Interviews from Russia, 110 minutes, in Russian, 1995 (with Viktoria Tsimberov, camera work by Slawomir Grunberg)
• Video in 3^rd-year Russian, 30 minutes, in Russian, 1995 (with Viktoria Tsimberov)
• The Anthrax Diaries, 26 minutes, in Russian, 2011-2012 (with Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Slavomir Grunberg, and Kathleen M. Vogel)
• Recipe-Free Cooking, 45 minutes, in Russian, 2015 (with Lora Paperno)

Major Web Sites

• Beginning Russian Through Film, a World Wide Web site for a course in the Russian language, Cornell University. Originally at the Department of Modern Languages, later at the Department of Russian. Probably the earliest of its kind, this interactive all-video-based course is now part of the Web Audio Lab system at Cornell's Language Resource Center. With Viktoria Tsimberov and Lora Paperno.
• Communal Living in Russia: A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life, a multimedia World Wide Web site for historians, anthropologists, and students of Russian literature and language, Colgate University, 2006-2008. With Alice Nakhimovsky, Nancy Ries, and Ilya Utekhin.
• Cornell On-Line Language Tests, an online testing system for language teachers and learners. Language Resource Center, Cornell University, 2006-2015.
• Web Audio Lab, an authoring system for developing interactive audio-based language courses. Language Resource Center, Cornell University. 2003-2016.

Translations from English to Russian

Books

• Herman Melville, Moby Dick, abridged translation for children by D. Dar and V. [Slava] Paperno, Izdatel'stvo Detskaya Literatura, Leningrad, 1968
• Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Russian translation by T. Golenpol'sky and V. Paperno, Sibirskie Ogni, 1971
• Arthur Hailey, Hotel, Russian translation by T. Golenpol'sky and V. [Slava] Paperno, Sibirskie Ogni, 1972
• Robert Penn Warren, Meet Me in the Green Glen, Russian translation by T. Golenpol'sky and V. [Slava] Paperno, Moskva, 1975; also published by Kartya Modavenska, Kishinev, 1978
• Farley Mowat, A Whale for the Killing, Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, Zvezda, 1976; also published by Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1977 and 1979; abridged version published in Ocean and Man, Dal'nevostochnoye Knizhnoye Izdatel'stvo, Vladivostok, 1978
• Henry James, Washington Square, Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, in Selected Works of Henry James in Two Volumes, compiled by V. [Slava] Paperno, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Leningrad, 1979
• Edward Ricciuty, Killers of the Sea, Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1980
• Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno and N. Tolstaya, published after Paperno's emigration with his name omitted, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Leningrad, 1981
• Victor B. Sheffer, The Year of the Whale, Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, published after Paperno's emigration under the pseudonym A. Slavinskaya, Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1982

Shorter Works

• Frank O'Connor, "Guests of the Irish Nation," Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, in Awakening: Irish Short Stories, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Leningrad, 1975
• Sean O'Faolain, "Do Not Fear the Sun" and Tom McIntyre, "Fable," Russian translation by Slava Paperno, in Irish Short Stories, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1975
• Farley Mowat, "The Last Husky," Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, Avrora, 1975
• E. M. Forster, "Another Kingdom," Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, in Selected Works of E. M. Forster, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Leningrad, 1977
• Bernard Shaw, "Epistle Dedicatory to Arthur Walkley," Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, in Complete Collection of Plays by Bernard Shaw, vol. 2, Iskusstvo, Leningrad, 1979
• Bernard Shaw, "Annajanska, the Wild Grand Duchess" and "Inka of Perusalem," Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, in Complete Collection of Plays by Bernard Shaw, vol. 4, Iskusstvo, Leningrad, 1980
• Rudyard Kipling, "Todd's Amendment" and "Death-of-Women," Russian translation by V. Paperno, in Selected Works of Rudyard Kipling, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Leningrad, 1980
• Bernard Shaw, "The Village Wooing" and "Geneva," Russian translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, published after Paperno's emigration under the pseudonyms L. Galina and N. Rakhmanova in Complete Collection of Plays by Bernard Shaw, vol. 6, Iskusstvo, Leningrad, 1981
• Approximately two dozen stories (fiction and non-fiction) in the U. S. Information Agency monthly America Illustrated, 1982-1986
  

Translations from Russian to English

• O. Neverov, "Antique Intaglios in the Hermitage Collection," English translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1976
• "Watercolors of Samokhvalov," English translation by V. [Slava] Paperno, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1977
• Alexander Knaifel, The Canterville Ghost: Romantic Scenes for Soloists and Chamber Orchestra, libretto by T. Kramarova, English version by V. [Slava] Paperno, Sovetskiy Kompozitor, Leningrad-Moscow, 1977
• "Artists from Soviet Central Asia," English translation by V. [Slava] Paperno and R. J. Rosengrant, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1978
• Henry Matisse: "Paintings and Scepters in Soviet Museums," English translation by V. [Slava] Paperno and R. J. Rosengrant, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1978
• Alexander Knaifel, The Canterville Ghost (the complete opera), Russian libretto by T. Kramarova, English version by Slava Paperno, publication pending, 2015-2016.

Editorial Work

• 12 Stories by M. Zoshchenko, selected and annotated for English-speaking students by Lesli LaRocco and Slava Paperno, Slavica Publishers, 1990
• George Houot, Twenty Years in a Bathyscaph, translated from French by Ya. Golant, edited by V. [Slava] Paperno, Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1976
• Miscellaneous book reviews in Leninskie Iskry, Leningrad, 1970