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Curriculum vitae Name: Ellen Chances Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 249 East Pyne Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5264 Phone: (609)258-4729 E-mail: [email protected] Publications: Books: Conformity’s Children: An Approach to the Superfluous Man in Russian Literature, Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1978 Andrei Bitov. The Ecology of Inspiration, Cambridge, England:Cambridge University Press, 1993; in book series, Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature and in book series, Studies of the Harriman Institute Andrei Bitov. Ekologiia vdokhnoveniia (Russian translation of Andrei Bitov. The Ecology of Inspiration), trans. I. Larionov, Saint Petersburg, Russia: Akademicheskii proekt Publishing House; in book series, “Sovremennaia zapadnaia rusistika” (“Contemporary Western Studies in Russian Literature”), 2006. Editing of Special Issue of International Journal: Guest Editor, Special Issue, In Honour of Andrej Bitov’s Seventieth Birthday, in journal, Russian Literature (Netherlands), vol.61, No.4, 2007. Articles: “Pochvennichestvo: Ideology in Dostoevsky’s Periodicals,” Mosaic, vol.7, No.2 (Winter, 1974), pp.71-88. “Pochvennichestvo – Evolution of an Ideology,” Modern Fiction Studies, vol.20, No.4 (Winter, 1974-75), pp.543-551. “Literary Criticism and the Ideology of Pochvennichestvo in Dostoevsky’s Thick Journals Vremia and Epokha,” The Russian Review, vol.34, No.2, April 1975, pp.151-164. “Mayakovsky’s ‘Vse-taki’ and Boccioni: Case Study in Comparable Technique,” Russian Literature Triquarterly, vol.12, Spring, 1975, pp.345-351. “Chekhov’s Seagull: Ethereal Creature or Stuffed Bird?” in Chekhov’s Art of Writing: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. with an intro. Paul Debreczeny and Thomas Eekman, with preface by Ronald Hingley, Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1977, pp.27-35. “Balmont – Bard of the Existential Void,” Russian Language Journal, vol.31, No.110 (Fall, 1977), pp.65-77. “Mayakovsky’s ‘Vse-taki’ and Boccioni: Case Study in Comparable Technique,” article reprinted in The Ardis Anthology of Russian Futurism, ed. E. and C. Proffer, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis Publishers,1980. “Chekhov and Kharms: Story/Antistory,” Russian Language Journal (also solicited by Russian Literature), 1982, vol.36, Nos.123-124, pp.181-192. “The Reds and Ragtime: The Soviet Reception of Doctorow,” in E.L. Doctorow. Essays and Conversations, ed. Richard Trenner (Ontario Review Press: Princeton, New Jersey), 1983, pp.153-158. “Miliukov’s ‘Svetoch’ and Dostoevsky’s ‘Vremya’: A Case of Recycled Ideas?” Slavic Review, vol.43, No.4 (Winter, 1984), pp.588-603. “Daniil Kharms’ ‘Old Woman’ Climbs Her Family Tree: ‘Starukha’ and the Russian Literary Past,” Russian Literature (Netherlands), vol.XVII (1985), pp.353-366. “Chekhov, Nabokov, and the Box: Making a Case for Belikov and Luzhin,” Russian Language Journal, No.140, 1987, pp.135-142. “Sunny Side Up: Creativity in Andrei Bitov’s ‘Sun,’” in A Festschrift in Honor of Thomas G. Winner. Semiotics and the Arts, ed. Amy Mandelker (Special Issue of Canadian-American Slavic Studies), vol.22, Nos.1-4 (1988), pp.329-336. “Andrei Bitov’s ‘Armenia Lessons’: Culture and Values,” Armenian Review, vol.41, No.3-163 (Autumn, 1988), pp.41-52. “Andrei Bitov: The Attenuated Boundary between Art and Life,” special issue on transposition of genres, Slavic and East European Arts, vol.6, No.2 (Winter, 1990), pp.148-158. “Authenticity as the Tie That Binds: Andrei Bitov’s ‘Armenia Lessons,’” Russian Literature (Netherlands), vol.XXVIII, 1990, pp.1-10. “Nationalities and Universalities in Contemporary Soviet Literature,” Nimrod. International Journal of Fiction and Poetry, special issue, From the Soviets, vol.33, No.2 (Spring/Summer, 1990), pp.137-141. “Andrei Bitov’s ‘Life in Windy Weather’: The Creative Process in Life and Literature,” Slavic Review, vol.50 No.2 (summer, 1991), pp.400-409. “Keeping the Lies Alive: Case Studies of the Psychology of Stalinism in Contemporary Soviet Literature and Film,” Harriman Institute Forum, vol.4, No.4, April, 1991, pp.1-8. “The Seasons of Our Consciousness: Andrei Bitov’s ‘Life in Windy Weather’ and ‘Notes from around the Corner,’” Russian Language Journal, vol.XLV, Nos.151-152 (Spring-Fall, 1991), pp.121-128. “Moscow Meets Manhattan: The Russian Soul of Woody Allen’s Films,” American Studies International, vol.XXX, No.1, April, 1992, pp.65-77. “The Island and the Ocean: Andrei Bitov and his ‘Allusions’ to Dostoevsky. The Significance of Dostoevsky for Bitov’s Writings,” in Festschrift for Joseph Frank volume of Stanford Slavic Studies, ed. Edward Brown, Lazar Fleishman, Gregory Freidin, Richard Schupback, vol.4:2, Part II, 1992, pp.461-477. “Andrei Bitov’s ‘Life in Windy Weather’: The Creative Process in Life and Literature,” article reprinted in Russian, “’Zhizn’ v vetrenuiu pogodu’ Bitova: Tvorcheskii protsess v zhizni i v literature” in volume, Russkaia literatura XX veka. Issledovaniia amerikanskikh uchenykh, ed. B. Averin and E. Neatrour (St. Petersburg, Petro-RIF), 1993, pp.536-553. “‘Unheard Music’: Literary Refrains in the Film ‘A Forgotten Melody for the Flute,’” American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists (Bratislava, August-September, 1993), ed. Robert A. Maguire & Alan Timberlake, Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1993, pp.36-42. “‘In the Middle of the Contrast.’ Andrei Bitov and the Act of Writing in the Contemporary World,"”World Literature Today, vol.67, No.1 (Winter, 1993), pp.65-68. “Nina Berberova,” encyclopedia article, Dictionary of Russian Women Writers, ed. Marina Ledkovsky, Charlotte Rosenthal, and Mary Zirin, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994, pp.77-79. “First Steps Toward Superfluity: Griboedov, Pushkin, and Lermontov” from chapter (pp.40-46) in my book, Conformity’s Children: An Approach to the Superfluous Man in Russian Literature, reprinted in “Lermontov and His Critics,” in Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time, revised and ed. Neil Cornwell, London, England: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1995, pp.161-167. “Nina Berberova,” in Luminaries. Princeton Faculty Remembered, ed. Patricia Marks, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Princeton Academic Press, 1996, pp.13-20 “Andrei Georgievich Bitov,” encyclopedia article, Reference Guide to Russian Literature, ed. Neil Cornwell, London, England: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998, pp.168-170. “Life in Windy Weather,” encyclopedia article, Reference Guide to Russian Literature, ed. Neil Cornwell, London,