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Curriculum Vitae Last Updated 16 June 2021 Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Curriculum vitae Last updated 16 June 2021 Dr Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353, USA [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California (January 2018-present). Foote Junior Research Fellow in Russian, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford (October 2015-December 2017). EDUCATION Lincoln College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3DR, United Kingdom (2012-2016). D.Phil. in Medieval and Modern Languages. Date of award: 19 January 2016. Thesis title: ‘The Letters of Catherine the Great and the Rhetoric of Enlightenment’. Supervisor: Andrew Kahn FBA. Examiners: Nicholas Cronk (University of Oxford) and Marcus C. Levitt (University of Southern California). Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY 10027, USA (2010-2012). MA in Russian Literature. Thesis title: ‘Diderot, Derzhavin, and the Salon of Catherine II: Case Studies on the Integration of Russia into the Republic of Letters’. Advisors: Tatiana Smoliarova, Joanna Stalnaker. Christ Church, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1DP, United Kingdom (2006-2010). B.A. (Hons) in Medieval and Modern Languages, French and Russian. Preliminary Examination in Modern Languages: Pass with Distinction in French and Russian. Final Honour School of Modern Languages: Congratulatory First, with distinction in colloquial use of French and Russian. Extended Essay title: ‘The Correspondence between Voltaire and Catherine II: An Analysis of Literary Role-Play’. Supervisor: Nicholas Cronk. MONOGRAPHS The Bible in Enlightenment Russia, in preparation (expected submission Fall 2023) The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019) <https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781789620078/>. 1 Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Curriculum vitae Last updated 16 June 2021 Winner of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Best First Book Award 2020 Winner of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies 2019 Reviews: Victoria Frede, Slavic Review 79, no. 4 (Winter 2020), 872-73 <doi:10.1017/slr.2020.232>. Angelina Vacheva, Vivliofika: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies 8 (2020), 129-41 <https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/vivliofika/issue/view/87>. TRANSLATION/EDITION Catherine the Great, Selected Letters, trans. and ed. by Andrew Kahn and Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-letters- 9780198736462?cc=gb&lang=en>. Reviews: Patrick Hunt, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 50 (2019), 214- 16 <https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/734089> Malcolm Jack, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 4 (2019), <https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12656> Vera Proskurina, Women’s Writing 26 (2019), <https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2019.1607150> REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES ‘An Ancient in Catherinian Russia: Classical Reception, Sensibility, and Nobility in Princess Ekaterina Urusova’s Poetry of the 1770s’, Slavic Review 80, no. 1 (Spring 2021), 90-111. ‘“What Would Voltaire Say?”: Voltaire’s exchange value in the correspondence of Catherine the Great’, Revue Voltaire 16 (2016), 241-52. ‘Voltaire and the Affair of the Bottle Conjuror: the authorship of the review of Tristram Shandy in the Gazette littéraire de l’Europe (20 March 1765)’, Revue Voltaire 12 (2012), 285-92. ‘La Correspondance de Voltaire et Catherine II: un jeu de rôle littéraire’, Revue Voltaire 11 (2011), 237-56. REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS ‘Russian Epistolary Writing from the Middle Ages to the Turn of the 19th Century’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, ed. by Paula Rabinowitz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). <https://doi- org.libproxy2.usc.edu/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1245> 2 Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Curriculum vitae Last updated 16 June 2021 With Andrew Kahn, ‘Catherine the Great and the Art of Epistolary Networking’, in Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters, ed. by Chloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019), pp. 47-73. NON-REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS ‘Mary Ann Cavendish-Bradshaw, Ferdinand and Ordella, A Russian Story; With authentic anecdotes of the Russian court after the demise of Peter the Great (1810)’, in The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel 1660-1820, ed. by April London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021). ‘Rudolph Erich Raspe, Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (1786)’, in The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel 1660-1820, ed. by April London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021). ‘Ein kaiserliches Briefnetzwerk—Katharina die Große’, in Handbuch Brief: Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart, ed. by Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig, Jörg Schuster, Gesa Steinbrink, and Jochen Strobel (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 871-83. ‘A Philosopher-Empress in a Revolutionary World: Catherine the Great to the Prince de Ligne’, in ‘Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life’: The Letters of Great Thinkers, ed. by Ada Bronowski (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), pp. 73-79. CRITICAL EDITIONS Voltaire’s letter to Prince D. A. Golitsyn of 19 June 1773 in ‘Commentaire historique sur les œuvres de l’auteur de la Henriade’, in Voltaire, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, ed. by Theodore Besterman and others (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1968-), vol. 78C (2018), pp. 287-94. With Christophe Cave, ‘Articles extraits de la Gazette Littéraire de l’Europe’, in Voltaire, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, ed. by Theodore Besterman and others (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1968-), vol. 58 (2016), pp. 1-301. ‘Lettres et réponses de M. Palissot et de Monsieur de Voltaire’, in Voltaire, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, ed. by Theodore Besterman and others (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1968-), vol. 51A (2015), pp. 245-339. Contributed editorial notes to Voltaire, Corpus des notes marginales, 8: Rollin-Sommier, ed. by Natalia Elaguina (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012). 3 Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Curriculum vitae Last updated 16 June 2021 BOOK REVIEWS Review of Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche, Lettres de l’impératrice Marie-Thérèse à Sophie d’Enzenberg (1746-1780): ‘le soleil même me paraît noir’, ed. by Jean-Pierre Lavandier. (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019), French Studies 74, no. 3 (July 2020), 472. Review of Anthony J. La Vopa, The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), Modern Philology 116, no. 1 (August 2018), E55-E57 <https://doi.org/10.1086/697674>. Review of Lettres d’Odessa du duc de Richelieu, 1803-1814, ed. by Elena Polevchtchikova and Dominique Triaire (Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’Etude du XVIIIe siècle, 2014), Modern Language Review 111, no. 3 (July 2016), 867-68. Review of Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, Correspondances russes, 2 vols, ed. by Alexandre Stroev and Jeroom Vercruysse (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2013), French Studies 68, no. 2 (April 2014), 249. Review of Julia V. Douthwaite, The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), Journal of European Studies, 43, no. 2 (June 2013), 175-77. ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONOURS University of Southern California American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Best First Book Award 2020 For The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies 2019 For The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2022-2023), Lichtenberg-Kolleg—The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study, Göttingen, Germany. For work on a new monograph, The Bible in Enlightenment Russia. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2020-2021 cohort, held 1 January-31 December 2021). Funded at assistant professor level to work on a new monograph, The Bible in Enlightenment Russia. David Walker Memorial Fellowship in Early Modern History (October-November 2021), The Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Visiting fellowship for research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. 4 Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Curriculum vitae Last updated 16 June 2021 Graduate Study The Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities (2012-2015), University of Oxford. Covered tuition, fees, and living stipend. Senior Scholarship (2013-2015), Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Small grant for academic performance. Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) Russian Archive Training Scheme (April 2013). Awarded a CEELBAS-funded place on a week-long training programme in Moscow archives. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, (Summer 2012), Columbia University. Funding from the US Department of Education for Russian language study. Faculty Fellowship (2010-2012), Columbia University. Covered tuition, fees, and living stipend. Harriman-GSAS Named Fellowship (2010-2011), Columbia University. Grant.
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