Abstract: In her five 2009 interviews with Robert Lange, Associate Dean Judith Kornblatt chronicles her early life in Chicago, her education at Williams College and Columbia University, and her career both as a Slavist and administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She discusses her travels to the Soviet Union and research on Russian novelists and philosophers. She also highlights her contributions to the Graduate School at UW, detailing what she sees as alarming changes being made to the research-education complex by the current chancellor, Biddy Martin. She talks frankly about her Jewish faith, the importance of teaching and research, the tenure process, university service, WARF, the relationship between the humanities and sciences, and her future plans. This interview was conducted for inclusion in the University of Wisconsin Oral History Project.