127:"In every way I was obliged to begin from scratch at Melbourne University. There was no established department, no staff, no suitable textbooks, no library (except my own), no secretarial support, and nobody to whom I could turn for advice on how best to structure the courses. To say the least, funding was inadequate. The only available typewriter with a keyboard of Russian characters belonged to the CSIRO, and I was allowed to use it only during lunchtime. I could not persuade the Registrar to spend fifty pounds on a fount of Russian matrices owned by an aged priest in Sydney, so I bought it myself and taught compositors at a commercial printery how to set the type for our examination papers and texts. I wonder if a man would have fared better? I am not altogether sure of that."
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journal. She was on the executive committee of the
International Slavists' Association and various other scholarly bodies. She published "articles on pedagogy, Tolstoy and Pushkin in scholarly journals". She was admired equally for "her scholarship, inspirational teaching and her warmth, kindness and
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in 1946, Christesen established the
Department of Russian Language and Literature the following year and remained at its head until her retirement in 1977. Christesen remained active in the Australian Russian community and continued to work tirelessly in promoting Russian language and culture.
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