EDUCATION

• SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND FORESTRY
  Master’s in Professional Studies in Environmental Communications
  and Participatory Processes, 2003
• STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, California
  Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1990
• OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Oxford, United Kingdom
  M.Litt. in Modern Languages, 1988 (Requirements completed in 1984)
• PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, New Jersey
  B.A. with highest honors in Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1978

EMPLOYMENT

• SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY and SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY
  Director, EnSpire Office of Environment and Society, 2003-
• LE MOYNE COLLEGE, Syracuse, NY
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Urban Studies, 2004
• SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND FORESTRY
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, 2003
• MACALESTER COLLEGE, St. Paul, Minnesota
  Associate Professor of Russian (with tenure), 1997-2001
  Assistant Professor of Russian, 1992-1997
• THE JOHN AND LAREE CAUGHEY FOUNDATION, Los Angeles
  Director, 1992 – present
• STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, STONY BROOK
  Assistant Professor of Russian, 1990-1992

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• NSF workshop grants for interdisciplinary workshops in St. Petersburg and New Orleans, 2004-06
• New Directions Initiative grant, Colorado School of Mines, 2002
• Davis Center fellowship, Harvard University, 2000
• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1998-99
• National Center for Soviet and E. European Research grant, 1997
• Social Science Research Council, postdoctoral fellowship, 1991-1993
• Social Science Research Council, dissertation fellowship, 1989-1990
• Mellon “New Directions” Fellowship, Stanford University, 1988-1989
• Stanford Humanities Center graduate fellowship, 1987-1988
• Marshall Scholarship, 1978-1980

Books and book-length works:

• Russian Nature: Essays on Landscape and Nature Writing in Russia. Edited by Rachel May. Special two-volume issue of Russian Studies in Literature.39.2-3 (Spring and Summer, 2003)
• The Translator in the Text: On Reading Russian Literature in English. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1994.
• Little Jinx, by Abram Tertz. Translated by Rachel May and Larry Joseph. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1992.
• Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The memories of Anna Labzina. Translated and edited by Gary Marker and Rachel May. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001.
  

Journal and book articles:

• "River and city in The Bronze Horseman: The poetic dimensions of urban ecology." Submitted to Slavic Review, April, 2008.
• "Connectivity" in urban rivers: Conflict and convergence between ecology and design. in Technology in Society 28.4 (2006): 477-488.
• “On the role of the humanities in urban ecology: The case of St. Petersburg.”  Urban Ecosystems 7 (1): 7-15, March, 2004.
• “The Power of Speech: Dialogue as History in the Russian Primary Chronicle. In Dialogue and Critical Discourse. 47-64. Ed. Michael S. Macovski. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.in Dialogue and Critical Discourse, ed. Michael S. Macovski. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997
• “Introduction: On the idea of ‘Russian Nature,’” and “Narrating landscape, landscaping narrative.” In “Russian Nature: Essays on landscape and nature writing in Russia.” Russian Studies in Literature 29.2-3 (Spring and Summer, 2003).
• “This way to the Develephant!” Progress in Development Studies 2.4 (2002): 337-9.
  “Sensible Elocution: How Translation Works in and upon Punctuation.” The Translator 3, No. 1 (1997): 1-20.
• “Superego as Literary Subtext: Story and Structure in Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Before Sunrise.” Slavic Review 55, No. 1 (Spring 1996): 106-124.
• “Otnoshenie k prirode v literature Rossii I SshA,” (Attitudes toward nature in Russian and American literature). Pro eko (Special issue of Russian bulletin of nature conservation) 11 (December, 1996): 46-48.
• “National Borders, Natural Boundaries: Translation, Liminality, and the Environment in Central Europe.” Macalester International 2 (1995): 257-268.
• “Where did the Narrator Go? Towards a Grammar of Translation.” SEEJ 38, No. 1 (1994): 33-46.

Newspaper articles in The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Boston Phoenix.

Encyclopedia articles on Lake Baikal and Russian Environmentalism for the Encyclopedia of Russian History, MacMillan Reference USA

Book reviews in Landscape Journal, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Review, Translation Journal and others.