Kristin Peterson, assistant professor of Russian, has presented the following conference papers: “A family of Strangers: Liudmila Petrushevskaia's `The Time: Night'” at the Canadian Association of Slavists Conference this month in Toronto; “Framing Evil and Framing Art: Gogol's `Portrait' and Chekhov's `House with a Mezzanine'” (in Russian) at the Crimean Ministry of Culture Chekhov Conference, Yalta, in April; “Writing From the Margins: Liudmila Petrushevskaia's Construction of Genre and Place” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, in Lexington; and “Teaching Strategies in a Multimedia Classroom” at the Midwest Slavic Conference, Bowling Green (Ohio) University.