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, England: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998, pp.170-171.
“Russian Literature’s Superfluous Man, From the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day,” one of five extensive introductory articles in Reference Guide to Russian Literature, ed. Neil Cornwell, London, England: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998, pp.29-35.
“Reflections of Contemporary Russian Society, Culture, and Values in Iurii Mamin’s Film, Window to Paris,” in American Contributions to the Twelfth International Congress of Slavists (Cracow), August-September 1998,Literature. Linguistics. Poetics, ed. Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake, Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 1998, pp.21-31.
“The Superfluous Man in Russian Literature” (reprint of “Russian Literature’s Superfluous Man, From the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day”), The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature, ed. Neil Cornwell, London, England and New York: Routledge Press, 2001, pp.111-122.
“Andrei Bitov’s Novyi Gulliver: A Soul’s Whisper and a Hole, or Shepherds, Reed Pipes, and the Resilience of the Creative Spirit,” review essay, Slavic and East European Journal, vol.47, No.2 (Summer, 2003), pp.292-297.
“Andrey Tarkovsky’s Film, ‘The Sacrifice,’ and its Russian Literary Roots,” in American Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists (Liubliana), 2003. Vol.2 Literature, eds. Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake, Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 2003, pp.9-19.
“A Conference on Novyi zhurnal (The New Review), or the ‘Accidental Symmetry’ of Personal and Professional Life,” in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the thick journal, Novyi zhurnal, in book, Tvorchestvo diaspory i “Novyi Zhurnal,” New York: The New Review Publishing, 2003, pp.52-57.
“The Thick Journal Novyi mir at the Peak of Glasnost Era Euphoria,” in book, Toward a Classless Society. Studies in Literature, History, and Politics in Honor of Thompson Bradley, ed. Sibelan Forrester and Thomas Newlin, Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 2005, pp.71-83.
“‘The World of Art’ and the Context of Russian Literature,” in catalogue/book for “World of Art” art exhibit in US (including Princeton University Art Museum, spring, 2006). Exhibit on loan from and selected by Russian Museum (Russkii Muzei), St. Petersburg, Russia. Catalogue/book published by Russian Museum, Mir iskusstva. Russia’s Age of Elegance, The State Russian Museum and the Foundation for International Arts and Education: Palace Editions, 2005, pp.30-35.
“Chekhov’s Seagull: Ethereal Creature or Stuffed Bird?” reprint of article in book, Chekhov’s Art of Writing: A Collection of Critical Essays, published in Gale Research volume, Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism, vol.163, ed. Linda Pavlovski, 2005; was also reprinted in Gale volume, World Drama.
“The Energy of Honesty, or Brussels Lace, Mandelstam, ‘Stolen Air,’ and Inner Freedom. A Visit to the Creative Workshop of Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House,” in on-line volume, A Casebook on Bitov’s “Pushkin House”, ed. Ekaterina Sukhanova, Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007 [this is a less complete version than the version of this article that is in the journal, Russian Literature, in a special issue of the journal in honor of Bitov’s seventieth birthday – see below].
“Don Quixotes, Past and Present: The Importance of Books, the Humanities, and the Arts in the Contemporary World,” in volume of scholarly articles, Kontrapunkt. Kniga statej pamiati G.A. Beloi, ed. Iurii Troitskii, Moscow: Rossiskii gosudarstvennyi gumanitarnyi universitet (RGGU) [Russian State Humanities University Publishers], 2005, pp.158-166.
“Tolstoy in the Tropics: The Importance of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in Twenty-First-Century Cuban-American Drama,” in Word, Music, History: A Festschrift for Caryl Emerson, Stanford Slavic Studies, vol.29-30, Part Two, ed. Lazar Fleishman, Gabriella Safran, Michael Wachtel, Oakland, California: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 2005, pp. 742-751.
“Nepreryvnaia ekologiia,” new introduction for Russian edition of my book, Andrei Bitov. The Ecology of Inspiration (Andrei Bitov. Ekologiia vdokhnoveniia), St. Petersburg, Russia: Akademicheskii proekt, 2006, pp.7-10.
“Cycles, Layers, Fragmentariness, Creation Myths, and Thread, or Why is Bitov’s Man in the Landscape?,” in Special Issue, In Honour of Andrej Bitov’s Seventieth Birthday,” Guest Editor, Ellen Chances, in Russian Literature (Netherlands), vol.61, No.4, 2007, pp.417-424.
“Bitov, Life, and Literature: Introduction,” in Special Issue, In Honour of Andrej Bitov’s Seventieth Birthday, Guest Editor, Ellen Chances, in Russian Literature (Netherlands), vol.61, No.4, 2007, pp.371-376.
“The Energy of Honesty, or Brussels Lace, Mandel’štam, ‘Stolen Air,’ and Inner Freedom. A Visit to the Creative Workshop of Andrej Bitov’s Puškin House,” in Special Issue, In Honour of Andrej Bitov’s Seventieth Birthday, Guest Editor, Ellen Chances, in Russian Literature (Netherlands), 2007, vol.61, No.4, pp.503-529. [This is a slightly altered, more complete version of online Dalkey Press Archive article (see above).]
“‘Ekologiia’ cheloveka v romane Bitova ‘Oglashennye’: ptitsy, granitsy, sviazi i pauzy” (“The ‘Ecology’ of Man in Bitov’s Novel, The Monkey Link: Birds, Boundaries, Connections and Pauses”), trans. from English Ksana Blank, in special rubric, “K iubileiu Andreia Bitova,” Guest Editor, Irina Surat, in Oktiabr’ (Moscow), No.4, 2007, pp.153-161.
“Contemporary Russian Women’s Journals: A Case Study of ‘We/Myi,’” in Festschrift for Marina Ledkovsky, Mapping the Feminine. Russian Women and Cultural Difference, ed. Cathy Nepomnyashchy, Hilde Hoogenboom, and Irina Reyfman, Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 2008, pp.301-320.
“An Event Like No Other -- A St. Petersburg Café, Cabaret, Conference, ‘Kukhnia,’ and the Contemporary Russian Creative Intelligentsia, or An International Forum/Festival: ‘The Four Dimensions of Andrei Bitov,’ Plus Fireworks On the Fontanka,” Harriman Review (Columbia University), double issue: volume 16, No.4-volume 17, No.1, April, 2009, pp.6-21.
“Pushkin House,” in The Literary Encyclopedia (London, England), online literary encyclopedia, www.litencyc.com, (2011).
“Andrei Bitov,” in The Literary Encyclopedia (London, England), online literary encyclopedia, www.litencyc.com, (2011).
“The Superfluous Man in Russian Literature,” in The Literary Encyclopedia (London, England), online literary encyclopedia, www.litencyc.com, (2011).
“Chekhov i Kharms: rasskaz, anti-rasskaz, ili novyi rasskaz?,” trans. from English Julia Belopolsky, in book, Obraz Chekhova i chekhovskoi Rossii v sovremennom mire,” ed. V.B. Kataev and S.A. Kibal’nik, (St. Petersburg: “Petropolis,” 2010), pp.224-232 (?). [Publication date in book is 2010; actually came out at end of January, 2011.]; [Revised and updated version of article “Chekhov and Kharms: Story or Anti-Story?,” see above.]
“Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Links between Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina,” in Dostoevsky Studies. New Series, vol.XV, 2011, pp.17-28; article appeared as part of a group of articles, “Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Roundtable. An Introduction and Three Essays (Naples 2010),” pp.7-36; introduction by Robin Feuer Miller, and essays by Robert Belknap, William Mills Todd III, and me.
Participant in “Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? Eight Experts on Who’s Greater?” compiled by Kevin Hartnett, in online literary journal, The Millions; my written contribution to the debate, together with that of Gary Saul Morson, Donna Orwin, Carol Apollonio, and others, published online on April 23, 2012, http//:www.themillions.com/2012/04/tolstoy-or-dostoevsky-8-experts-on-whos-greater.ht ml.
“Drugie izmereniia. Sunduk/chemodan Andreia Bitova,” trans. from English by Julia Belopolsky, in Russkaia literatura (St. Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences), No.3, 2012, pp.204-210.
“Slova, knigi, obrazovanie, russkaia literatura i kul’tura”[translation into Russian of my unpublished article, “Words, Books, People, Education, Russian Literature, and Culture” not mine], in book, Vospominaniia o Galine Andreevne Beloi, compilers N. Azhgikhina, E. Oborina, and Iu. Troitskii, introduction Iurii Mann, Moscow, 2014, pp.69-75.
“Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground Revisited, Plus a Few Thoughts about Winnie-the-Pooh,” in book, Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap, ed. Deborah Martinsen, Cathy Popkin, and Irina Reyfman (Boston, Mass.: Academic Studies Press, 2014), pp.186-198.
“What Can We, in the Twenty-First Century, Learn from Tolstoy? Ruminations on Reading All Ninety Volumes of the Jubilee Edition of Tolstoy’s Complete Works; … and a Bit about Pigeons, Cookies and Milk, and Snails…,” chapter of book; to appear in book on Tolstoy and the Twenty-First Century, edited by Inessa Medzhibobskaya; I completed the article and have submitted it to Inessa Medzhibovskaya.
“Dostoevsky’s Journalism and Fiction,” in book on Dostoevsky in Context, ed. Deborah Martinsen and Olga Maiorova (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming, 2016 (?).
Reprint of review essay, “Bitov’s Novyi Gulliver: A Soul’s Whisper and a Hole, or Shepherds, Reed Pipes, and the Resilience of the Creative Spirit,”[Slavic and East European Journal, 2003, pp.292-297], reprinted in a section on Andrei Bitov, pp.35-192), in volume, Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol.361, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau (Layman, Poupard Publishing, Gale/Cengage Learning), 2014, pp.156-160.
Reprint of article, “Andrei Bitov’s ‘Zhizn’ v vetrenuiu pogodu’: The Creative Process in Life and Literature,” [Slavic Review, 1991, pp.400-409], reprinted in a section on Andrei Bitov, pp.35-192), in volume, Contempoary Literary Criticism, vol.361, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau (Layman, Poupard Publishing, Gale/Cengage Learning), 2014, pp.66-73.
Translations of Essays:
“A Ship of Fools,” by Andrei Bitov
“Memory as Rough Draft (A Controlled Experiment),” by Andrei Bitov
(Both of the above essays will appear, in Russia, in a booklet that will accompany a set of CDs of international performances [1997-2008] of the “Pushkin Band” [Andrei Bitov reading rough drafts of Pushkin poetry, and jazz musicians {Alexander Alexandrov, bassoon; Vladimir Tarasov, percussion; Yuri Parfenov, trumpet; and Vladimir Volkov, double bass} improvising.)
Translation of Poem:
“A Young Girl Sang in a Cathedral Choir,” translation of Aleksandr Blok’s poem, “Devushka pela v tserkovnom khore,” in Russian Silver Age Poetry. Texts and Contexts, ed. and introduction by Sibelan Forrester and Martha Kelly (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2015), p.47.
Essay about Translation:
“The Curious Adventures of a Literary Scholar’s Romp through Translationland… Balloons, Bassoons, Jazz Improvisation, Essays, Poetry, Memory, Rough Drafts, a Shave on a Ship – and the Meaning of Life? What I Learned from Translating a Bit of Andrei Bitov’s Prose,” in special issue of literary journal, Cardinal Points, guest edited by Robert Chandler, No.12, 2010, pp.86-99. Also online on Stosvet website.
Essay for Royal Opera Program of Bolshoi Opera:
“Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin and the ‘Superfluous Man’ Tradition,” in program (pp.26-27) for the Bolshoi Opera production of Eugene Onegin, for the Royal Opera House, London, England, August 11-14, 2010.
Book Reviews:
Books on nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian and Soviet literature reviewed in Slavic Review, Russian Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Comparative Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Russian Language Journal, Dostoevsky Studies, Slavonica (England), Slavonic and East European Review (England), including, among others:
Zhurnal M.M. i F.M. Dostoevskix “Vremja” 1861-1863, by V.S. Nechaeva, Slavic and East European Journal, summer, 1973, vol.17, No.2, pp.229-231.
Dostoevsky and Dickens. A Study of Literary Influence, by N.M. Lary, Comparative Literature, spring, 1977, vol.29, No.2, pp.172-175.
Zhurnal M.M. i F.M. Dostoevskix “Epoxa” 1864-1865, by V.S. Nechaeva, The Russian Review, April, 1977, vol.36, No.2, pp.236-237.
Through Gogol’s Looking Glass: Reverse Vision, False Focus, and Precarious Logic, by William Woodin Rowe; Quelques Lettres D’Ivan Tourgenev à Pauline Viardot, ed. Henri Granjard; Anton Chekhov’s Life and Thoughts: Selected Letters and Commentary, eds., Michael Henry Heim and Simon Karlinsky; Dostoevsky. The Seeds of Revolt, by Joseph Frank, Modern Fiction Studies, summer, 1977, vol.23, No.2, pp.326-328.
Majakovskij and Futurism 1917-1921, by Bengt Jangfeldt, Canadian Slavonic Papers, September, 1977, vol.19, No.3, pp.389-390.
Varieties of Public Utterance. Quotation in The Brothers Karamazov, by Nina Perlina, Russian Language Journal, winter-spring-fall, 1988, vol.XLII, Nos.142-143, pp.357-358.
Complete Letters. Vol.1 1832-1859, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, ed. and trans. David Lowe and Ronald Meyer, Slavic Review, summer/fall, 1989 (?).
Moral Apostasy in Russian Literature, by George Gutsche, Slavic Review, summer/fall, 1989 (?)
Dostoevsky. Critical Essays, by Robin Miller, Dostoevsky Studies, vol.9, 1989, pp.218-219.
The Supernatural in Slavic and Baltic Literature: Essays in Honor of Victor Terras, eds. Amy Mandelker and Roberta Reeder, Slavic and East European Journal, 1992 (?)
Pushkin House, by Andrei Bitov, trans. Susan Brownsberger, (paperback version, 1990), Slavic and East European Journal, fall, 1992, vol.36, No.3, pp.?
Complete Letters, 1878-1881, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, ed. and trans. David A. Lowe, Slavic Review, fall, 1993, vol.52, No.3, pp.631-632.
Stalinism and Soviet Cinema, eds. Richard Taylor and Derek Spring, Slavic Review, fall, 1994, vol.53, No.3, pp.917-919.
Russian Writers on Russian Writers, ed. Faith Wigzell, Slavonica [Great Britain], 1995/96, vol.2, No.2, pp.102-103.
Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov’s Prose. Postmodernism and the Quest for History, by Sven Spieker, Slavonica [Great Britain], 1999, pp.99-100.
Russian Postmodernist Fiction. Dialogue with Chaos, by Mark Lipovetsky, ed. Eliot Borenstein, Slavic Review, summer, 2000, vol.59, No.2, pp.483-484.
Postmoderne metahistoriographische Fiktion und Andrej Bitovs Puskinskij dom, by Dunja Kary, Russian Review, July, 2001, vol.60, No.3, p.433.
Endquote. Sots-Art and Soviet Grand Style, eds., Marina Balina, Nancy Condee, and Evgeny Dobrenko, Slavic Review, Spring, 2002, vol. 61, No.1, pp.194-196.
Poverty of the Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature about the Poor, by David Herman, Russian Review, October, 2002, vol.61, No.4, pp.628-629.
Anne Lounsbery, Thin Culture. High Art. Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America, in Slavonic and East European Review (SEER) [London], vol.87, No.3, July 2009, pp.530-532.
Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto, selectors, trans. and ed., “I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary.” The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms (Boston: Academic Studies Press), in Russian Review, January, 2014, vol.73, No.1, pp.121-122.
John MacKay, True Songs of Freedom. Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Russian Culture and Society, in Slavonic and East European Review (England), vol.93, No.3, July 2015, pp.543-545.
Film Review:
review of Bernard Rose’s film, “Anna Karenina,” Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol.X, 1998, pp.130-132 [reprint of film review, Trenton Sunday Times, May 25, 1997, pp.CC1 and CC3].
Satires:
“Slavic Languages: A Multi-Dimensional Study,” Russian Literature Triquarterly, Spring, 1972.
“Stylistic Features of Contemporary Application Blanks, or The Five Little Fulbrights and How They Grew,” Pucred, vol.2, No.4, 1974, pp.16-17.
“The Committee,” The Daily Princetonian, September 20, 1984, p.8.
Publications and Readings of My Essays, Fiction, and Poetry:
Poem, published in Alura Quarterly, vol.11, No.4 (Spring,1987), p.20.
Poem, published in Alura Quarterly, vol.11, No.4 (Spring,1987), p.20.
Poetry Reading (translations from Russian and my original poetry), as part of program, “Evening of Slavic Poetry and Song,” Princeton Arts Council (partially funded by New Jersey Council of the Humanities), October, 1988.
“A Tulip,” poem, published in Night Roses, 1990, p.48.
“Visit to Room 438,” poem, published in Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Nov., 1991.
“When Putsch Came to Shove in Moscow” [my title: “The Day of the Moscow Coup”], Trenton Sunday Times (New Jersey), Sept.29, 1991, pp.CC1 and CC6.
Adapted version of “The Day of the Moscow Coup,” printed in Princeton Alumni Weekly, Nov.20, 1991, pp.39-40.
“United States Feeling More Like USSR” [my title: “Back to the USSR?”], Trenton Sunday Times, May 30, 1993, p.EE1.
“Shultz and the Cold War Share Tolstoyan Evening” [my title: “George Schultz Meets Leo Tolstoy at an End of the Cold War Conference”], Trenton Sunday Times, April 18, 1993, p.BB1.
“At Home with the Snow. March, 1993,” The Princeton Eclectic, fall, 1993, p.44.
“Ruminations on Modern-Day Talk,” The Princeton Eclectic, spring, 1994, p.101.
“Berberova Imbued with Joie de Vivre” [my title: “Reminiscences of Nina Berberova, In Life and Art”], Trenton Sunday Times, May 22, 1994, pp.DD1 and DD6.
“Taking Back Our Youthful Ideals” [my title: “The 60s Meet the 90s. On the Death of a Kennedy and a Nixon”], Trenton Sunday Times, July 17, 1994, pp.DD1 and DD6.
“The Sky is Falling” [my title: “Oh, To Avoid That Asteroid”], Boston Globe, op-ed page, February 9, 1995, p.19.
“Building a Bigger, Better Treadmill [my title: “Cake, Balloons, Fighter Planes, and the Meaning of Life”], Trenton Times, Sept.29, 1995, p.A13.
Poetry and Prose Reading, of my poetry, short stories, and essays, Unitarian Church, Princeton, April, 1995
“Batteries Not Included. For Best Results, Try a No.2 Pencil” [my title: “Reach Out andTouch, or Life among the Hi-Tech Hearty”], Trenton Sunday Times, May 26, 1996, pp.CC1 and CC3.
“American Writing with Russian Dressing, or Chances’ Compositions” [reading of my essays and short stories], Princeton University, March 15, 1996.
“Life, in Wonderment,” my poem, read (by graduate student) at Princeton University Baccalaureate, June 2, 1996.
“Confronting the Challenges of the Human Condition” [my title: “How to Register to Vote in New York City, in Eighty Thousand or More Steps”], Trenton SundayTimes, March 2, 1997, pp. CC1 and CC3.
“Music Lessons. He and She,” my short story, in Russian translation (not mine), “Uroki muzyki. On i ona,” in Russian journal, We/Myi. Dialog zhenshchin. Mezhdunarodnyi zhenskii zhurnal. Women’s Dialogue. International Women’s Journal, No.12 (28), 2000, pp.39-40.
“Music Lessons. He and She,” my short story, in English original, in English edition of Russian journal, We/Myi. Dialog zhenshchin. Mezhdunarodnyi zhenskii zhurnal. Women’s Dialogue. International Women’s Journal, on-line edition.
Reading of my short stories in series, “Stories with Soul,” New York City, All Souls Unitarian Church, June, 2001
“My Mother and the Disappearing Letter ‘T’” [my title: “My Mother and the Disappearing ‘T,’ or ‘T’ for Two?”] Lewiston Sun Journal (Maine), Sunday, October 26, 2003, p.D1.
th “Anti-Miracle on 34 Street?” [my title: “Parading through Contemporary American Values, or A Day in the Life of the Macy’s Parade, November, 2003: Anti-Miracle on 34th Street?”] The Christian Science Monitor, December 5, 2003, p.11.
“Jackass Annie Spurs Hunt for History” [my title: “Minot, Maine, for You Never Know What Comes Out of What”], Maine Sunday Telegram, December 5, 2004, pp.G1 and G7.
“A Whimsical Tale of the Dinky Canopy,” The Daily Princetonian, September 30, 2013, p.6.
Interview with me (in Russian):
“Professor Ellen Chantses: Ia vsegda tianulas’ k russkoi kul’ture,” interviewer: Vladimir Nuzov, in Russian newspaper, Vecherniaia Moskva, June 24, 2004, p.11.
“Ne ironiia sud’by. Ellen Chantses: V N’iu-Iork pereekhala iz-za Moskvy,” interviewer: Vladimir Nuzov, in Russian émigré newspaper (New York), O novom svete, October 8-14, 2004, p.18.
Misc. Other Reviews: book review of Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina Van den Heuvel, Voices of Glasnost. Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers, Trenton Sunday Times, December 3, 1989, p.BB5. book review of Francine du Plessix Gray, Soviet Women. Walking the Tightrope, Trenton Sunday Times, July 14, 1991, p.BB5. book review of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, vols.1 and 2, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer, ed. and intro. Roberta Reeder, Trenton Sunday Times, November 17, 1991, BB1. book review of Aleksandr Kushner, Apollo in the Snow. Selected Poems, with an introduction by Joseph Brodsky, Trenton Sunday Times, February 2, 1992, p.BB4.
book review of Jane T. Costlow, Worlds within Worlds. The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, Bates College Alumni Magazine, 1992. book review of Emilie Carles, A Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth- Century France, trans. Avriel H. Goldberger (New York: Penguin), Trenton Sunday Times, June 7, 1992, p.BB5. drama review of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America. Part One. Millenium Approaches,” Trenton Times, October ?, 1993, p.?. book review of William Craft Brumfield, A History of Russian Architecture (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Trenton Sunday Times, Dec.24, 1995, p.CC4. film review of Japanese film, “Mabarosi” [review appeared with title, “Film Opens a Window on the Human Heart”], Trenton Sunday Times, Dec.1, 1996, pp.CC1 and CC3. film review of Bernard Rose’s “Anna Karenina” [review appeared with title, “Latest Film ‘Anna’ Fails to Do Justice to Tolstoy’s Work”], Trenton Sunday Times, May 25, 1997, pp.CC1 and CC3. film review of Ang Lee’s “The Ice Storm” [review appeared with title, “A Chill Moral Wind Blows Through ‘The Ice Storm’”; my title: “Does an ‘Ice Storm’ of the 1970s Prefigure an Emotional Ice Age of the 1990s?”], Trenton Sunday Times, Nov.16, 1997, pp.CC1 and CC3.
Current Research Interests:
Writing a book on Andrei Bitov’s post-Pushkin House writings (1980s to the present), and writing a book on the ethical dimensions of Russian cinema.
Special interests in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century Russian novel, contemporary Soviet and post-Soviet Russian literature and culture, Dostoevsky, Kharms, Chekhov, Andrei Bitov, the interdisciplinary study of literature in its historical context, literature and ideas, literature and values, literature and film, literature and art, the “thick journal,” comparative Russian and American literature and culture, ethical dimensions of film.
Education:
BA Oberlin College 1967
MA Princeton University 1970
PhD Princeton University 1972
Dissertation: “The Ideology of Pochvennichestvo in Dostoevsky’s Thick Journals Vremia and Epokha” (advisor: Joseph Frank)
Honors and Fellowships:
College: graduated magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Russian Dean’s List Phi Beta Kappa scholarship for participation in first nationwide undergraduate Winter Semester in Moscow
Graduate school:
NDFL Title VI Fellowships—1967-68; 1968-69; 1969-70;1970-71.
Honorary Charles Grosvenor Osgood Fellowship – 1969-70, Awarded by Princeton University to intermediate students “as a signal academic honor” for “making outstanding records in their graduate work.”
Adelia A. Johnston Fellowship – summer, 1970, one of six annual graduate fellowships awarded to by Oberlin College to Oberlin alumni.
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) year in Soviet Union – 1971-72, declined because of job offer
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Abroad Fellowship for the Soviet Union, 1971-72, declined because of job offer
Teaching:
Princeton University, 1971-72 to the present: Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (with tenure), Professor, in Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
Specialty – Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet literature and culture.
Columbia University, Visiting Professor, spring, 1996: taught graduate course, “Russian Literature and Cinema.”
Honors and awards:
Princeton Council on International and Regional Studies Summer Faculty Research Stipend, summer, 1972
Class of 1931 Bicentennial Preceptor (one of three or four endowed assistant professorships awarded by Princeton University), 1975-78
Research Associate, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, 1975-76 (Bicentennial Preceptorship year off)
ACLS Travel Grant-in-Aid, awarded, but I had to decline because of bad political situation in USSR for certain writers (including Bitov), 1984
American Philosophical Society Grant, for work on book on Bitov, 1984 two of my courses on Russian literature in translation were rated top ten in Princeton University student evaluation ratings
Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences – summer travel and other research grants for 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004
ACLS/USSR Academy of Sciences Senior Scholar Exchange and Fulbright-Hays Faculty Grant Abroad, Moscow and Leningrad – one semester, fall, 1980-81
IREX Summer Exchange of professors and teachers of Russian language at Moscow State University, summer, 1988
Senior Fellow, W.Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, Columbia University, 1988-89
th 250 Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, Princeton University, Faculty Grant, summer, 1997
Administrative responsibilities:
Departmental Representative, 1971-72 to 1990, 1994-95, Feb., 2004 to Feb., 2005, Sept., 2005 to June, 2007; 2009-10; fall, 2011-12.
Acting Director, Program in Russian Studies, 1985-86, spring, 1991, 1992, 1993
Director, IREX Summer Exchange of professors and teachers of Russian Language at Moscow State University, summer, 1979
Clerk of the Faculty, Princeton University, July, 1999-June, 2011.
Courses taught:
History of Russian Literature (1800-1860) History of Russian Literature (1860-1920); now called The Great Russian
Novel and Beyond – Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Others Mayakovsky and the Theater Seminar on Dostoevsky Turn-of-the-Century Russian Literature (Chekhov, Symbolism, Acmeism, Futurism) Russian Literature and Revolution Politics and Cultural Expression (team taught with faculty in politics, history, and architecture: section on NEP Culture) Russian language Comparative Literature seminar on Dostoevsky and the West Humanistic Studies course on the Russian Imagination in Literature and Art (co-taught with art historian Marian Burleigh-Motley) Contemporary Soviet Culture (1953 to the Present), Freshman Seminar The Search for Integrity in Russian and Soviet Literature Western Cultural and Historical Studies (team taught with Carl Schorske and others) European Cultural Studies seminar on cultural response to social change: (team taught; course focused on England and the Industrial Revolution, and on Russia and the Revolution of 1905) Modern European Languages Senior Seminar: Italy in the Modern European Imagination (course co-taught with colleagues from other literature departments; my section on Tarkovsky’s film, “Nostalghia”) Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, Freshman Seminar The Abuse of Children in Life and Literature (co-taught with a clinical psychologist) Modern European Languages Senior Seminar: The Idea of Revolution (co-taught; my section on The Demons) Modern European Languages Senior Seminar: Historical Avantgarde Movements in Europe (co-taught; my section on Kharms)
Ethical Dimensions of Contemporary Russian Cinema, Freshman Seminar, spring, 1998; upper-level undergraduate course, fall, 1998 and beyond. What Makes for a Meaningful Life? A Search, Freshman Seminar, spring, 2013; spring, 2014; fall, 2014. Seminar on Chekhov, fall, 2014.
Graduate courses on: Dostoevsky Topics in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian literature and culture: The Interplay between Contemporary Film and Literature. Chekhov
Graduate reading courses on: Readings in Contemporary Russian Literature Pushkin in his Comparative Context Chekhov in his Comparative Context Russian Literature of the Nineteenth Century The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky Dostoevsky’s Fiction and Journalism
Languages:
Russian Latin French German
Lectures and Conference Presentations:
Guest lectures at Columbia University, Harvard University (Russian Research Center), Yale University, University of Chicago, Dartmouth College, Indiana University, University of Washington, Five College (Amherst, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Hampshire, University of Massachusetts) Russian Studies Faculty Colloquium, Northwestern University, Douglass College, Amherst College, Moscow State University, Williams College, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Drew University, Bates College, Brandeis University, Swarthmore College, New School University (Eugene Lang)
Numerous papers, acting as chair and discussant on panels at regional and national conventions of AAASS (now ASEEES) and AATSEEL; also, some at MLA
Papers at International Chekhov Symposia at Yale University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Tufts University
“Soviet and American Culture, or Moscow on the Potomac: A Study in Apples and Oranges?” my paper a part of two Special Event panels, with two Soviet and two American scholars on contemporary Soviet and American fiction at annual Modern Languages Association (MLA) conference; panels organized by Executive Director of MLA; December, 1989
“Russian Literary/Cultural Perspectives on Joseph Brodsky,” one of speakers on panel on Brodsky, New York University Institute for the Humanities, Feb., 1990
“Contemporary Soviet and American Cultures: Thoughts and Speculations,” paper in International Symposium on USSR/USA: Perspectives in Comparative Cultures, University of Vermont, Burlington, April, 1990
“Andrei Bitov’s Prose,” Trinity College, Dublin (Irish Slavists’ Association Conference), July, 1990
“Keeping the Lies Alive: Case Studies of the Psychology of Stalinism in Contemporary Soviet Literature and Film,” IV World Congress of Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England, July, 1990
discussant, “Le statut de l’objet litteraire au tournant des années 30,” IV World Congress of Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England, July, 1990
discussant, “Approaches to Andrei Bitov’s Writings,” IV World Congress of Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England, July, 1990
“Enigmas of Contemporary Soviet Culture,” Presidential Symposium: The Changing Face of Socialism,” Whitman College, September, 1990. Other speakers: Robert Legvold, Director of Harriman Institute, Columbia University; George Breslauer, Berkeley; Vladimir Pechatnov, First Secretary, USSR Embassy, Washington, DC, etc.
“The Real Meets ‘The Wheel’: Andrei Bitov’s Circular Philosophy,” Conference on Contemporary Soviet-Russian Literature, in Honor of Writer-in-Residence Tatiana Tolstaya, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, October, 1990
“Pasternak and Bitov,” Stanford University American/Soviet Conference in Honor of the Centennial of Boris Pasternak, October, 1990
“Soviet-American Comparative Contemporary Culture: Perspectives for Comparative Cultural Studies,” lecture at Soviet-American Conference, funded by Rockefeller Grant and Moscow State University; Moscow, December, 1990
“Moscow Meets Manhattan: The Russian Soul of Woody Allen’s Films,” Plenary Session, All-Soviet-Union American Studies Conference, Moscow State University (as one of first seven American scholars to present papers at this annual conference); Moscow, December, 1990
“Literature around Malevich,” Metropolitan Museum of Art (in connection with Malevich exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York, March, 1991
“Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House,” in Wolfe Institute’s Literary Theory Series, Brooklyn College, May, 1991
“A Conceptual Framework for Soviet and American Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies,” Conference on Culture/Kultura: Soviet and American Dialogues on Literature, held at National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina, May, 1991
“A Blade of Grass, Birds’ Footprints, and Andrei Bitov’s Books. What Do They Tell Us About Contemporary Life and Literature?” (in Russian), International Symposium on Literatura i vlast’, Norwich University, Vermont, June, 1992
“The Role of the Literary Theorist Iurii Tynianov in Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House” (in Russian), at conference, Tynianovskie chteniia, Daugavpils, Latvia, July, 1992
“Dostoevsky’s ‘Influence’ on Andrei Bitov,” International Dostoevsky Symposium, Oslo, August, 1992
“The Intelligentsia and Culture. Flowers and Dinosaurs” (in Russian), International Symposium, “Crisis and Culture,” in connection with first meeting of International Advisory Board of Russia’s new humanities university, Russian State Humanities University, Moscow, October, 1992
“Moscow on the Charles. Woody Allen’s Films and Russian Culture,” Brandeis University, April, 1993
“A New Conceptual Approach to the Superfluous Man in the Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Russian Novel” (in Russian), International Symposium, “Mentalitet russkoi kul’tury,” Russian State Humanities University, Moscow, September, 1993 (I was in Princeton [first week of classes], but my paper was read.)
“Komparativistika v SShA,” in connection with annual meeting and international symposium of International Advisory Board, Russian State Humanities University Moscow, September, 1993 (I was in Princeton [first week of classes], but my paper was read.)
“Cycles, Layers, Fragmentariness, Creation Myths, and Thread, or Why is Bitov’s Man in the Landscape?” AAASS Conference, Washington, DC, October, 1995
discussant on panel, “Images of Nature in Russian Culture,” AAASS Conference, Boston, October, 1996
“What’s New in Russian Writing,” Princeton Club of New York Continuing Education Seminars; my lecture, March, 1996
“Anna Akhmatova,” guest lecture in Comparative Literature Freshman Seminar on poetry taught by S. Bermann, spring, 1996
“Petersburg and Literature,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, in series on Petersburg, New York, January, 1997
on City University of New York (CUNY) TV program, “City Cinémathèque,” on New York cable TV (Time/Warner) network, as Russian cinema specialist to discuss the Czech director Vera Chytilova’s 1987 film, “The Jester and the Queen,” in the context of contemporary Russian cinema, July, 1997 (aired October, 1997)
“Who is Russia’s Dostoevsky of Today – and Why? Andrei Bitov and the Ecology of Inspiration,” Wellesley College, October, 1997
“A Key, A Violin, and The Meaning of Life: Speculations on a Psychological Approach to Dostoevsky’s Netochka Nezvanova,” paper delivered at Tenth International Dostoevsky Symposium, held at Columbia University, July, 1998
Lecture Series (three lectures), “Conversations about Pushkin,” New York Society Library: “Pushkin in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature,” “Pushkin’s Poetry,” “Pushkin and Russian Literature of the Twentieth Century,” February, March, 1999
“Alexander Pushkin,” Century Club, New York, March, 1999
“Andrei Makine’s Once Upon the River Love in the Context of his Other Writings and in the Context of Russian Literature and Culture,” guest lecture in Comparative Literature course, Princeton University, “International Contemporary Fiction,” taught by April Alliston, October, 1999
Discussant on Daniil Kharms panel, AAASS Conference, Denver, November, 2000 (my comments were read; I was sick and couldn’t go to Denver)
“Contemporary Russian Women’s Journals: A Case Study of “We/Myi,” paper delivered at working conference, “Mapping the Feminine: Russian Women and Cultural Difference,” Columbia University, February, 2001
Lecture Series (three lectures), “Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov,” New York City, All Souls Unitarian Church: 1. “Dostoevsky in the Context of Russian Literature,” 2. “Brothers Karamazov: Layers of Meaning, Questions and Quest,” 3. “Brothers Karamazov: “Everything Touches Everything,” April, May, 2001
“Mandelstam and September 11,” remarks as chair of panel, “Mandelstam and Biography,” International Conference on “The Legacy of Osip Mandelstam,” Princeton University, October, 2001
th “What Russian Culture Teaches Us about Post-September 11 Life, or Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and the Resilience of the Human Spirit,” lecture in “Russian Winterfest” series, given by Slavic Department faculty, Princeton Alumni Council, Princeton University, February, 2002
Lecture Series (three lectures), “Russian Literature and the Resilience of the Human Spirit,” New York City, All Souls Unitarian Church: 1. “Chekhov. Freedom and the Human Condition” th 2. “What Russian Culture Teaches Us about Post-September 11 Life, or Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and the Resilience of the Human Spirit” 3. “New Russian Writers. Andrei Bitov and the Ecology of Inspiration” March, 2002
Recording of lecture, “What Russian Culture Teaches Us about Post-September th 11 Life, or Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and the Resilience of the Human Spirit,” CD made by Princeton Alumni Council (of the February, 2002 lecture), May, 2002.
th “What Russian Culture Teaches Us about Post-September 11 Life, or Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and the Resilience of the Human Spirit,” Princeton Alumni Association of Maine, Portland, Maine, November, 2002
on City University of New York (CUNY) TV program, “City Cinémathèque,” on New York cable TV (Time/Warner) network, as Russian cinema specialist, to discuss Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1970s film, “Siberiade,” as part of TV series on “Late Soviet Cinema,” CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, November, 2002 (aired December, 2002)
“Andrei Bitov’s Recent Fiction. Traveling through Time Meets Traveling through Space, or Art and Life, Noses and Knowing, Pickles and Perfection,” Swarthmore College, April, 2003
Chair of panel, “Andrei Bitov,” Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Barnard College/Columbia University, March, 2004
“Musings on Life, Russian Literature, Butterfly Wings, Serendipity, and Isaac Asimov, or The Ecology of Learning,” Mathey College Luncheon Lecture, April, 2004
“Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pasternak, Bitov, and Andrey Tarkovsky: On Parallel Tracks? Doctor Zhivago and the Depiction of Reality in Russian Literature and Film,” International Pasternak Conference, Stanford University, May, 2004
“A New Reading of Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House,” AAASS Conference, Boston, Dec., 2004
Chair of panel, “Other Shores: Intellectual and Literary Circles within the First Wave of Russian Emigration in America,” AAASS Conference, Boston, Dec., 2004
“The ‘World of Art’ and the Context of Russian Literature,” Colloquium on the ‘World of Art’ (“Mir iskusstva”), Princeton University, February, 2006
On City University of New York (CUNY) TV program, “City Cinémathèque,” on New York cable TV (Time/Warner) network, as Russian cinema specialist, to discuss Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1986 film, “The Sacrifice,” as part of TV series on Andrei Tarkovsky’s films, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, February, 2006 (aired April, 2006 and again, at other times)
“Time, Epoch, and Diary of a Writer: How to Assess Dostoevsky’s Journalism?” Conference, “From My Wondrous, Beautiful Far-Away,” in Honor of Robert A. Maguire, Columbia University, March, 2006
“A Tribute to Robert Maguire: Petersburg, Words, and Memory,” on panel conceived as a tribute to Robert Maguire, on Andrei Bely’s Petersburg, annual AAASS conference, Washington DC, Nov., 2006 [I couldn’t go to Washington for the conference, but my paper was read.]
discussant on panel, “Twentieth-Century Russian Prose,” Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, March 31, 2007, Barnard College/Columbia University.
On panel of editors of Bitov [my presentation (in Russian) on my editing of Russian Literature Special Issue, In Honour of Andrej Bitov’s Seventieth Birthday], Mezhdunarodnyi Forum, “Imperiia. Chetyre izmereniia Andreia Bitova” (International Forum, “The Four Dimensions of Andrei Bitov”), St. Petersburg, October 1, 2007.
Co-Chair, with German scholar, Wolf Schmid, of one day of conference proceedings of Mezhdunarodnyi Forum, “Imperiia. Chetyre izmereniia Andreia Bitova,” St. Petersburg, October 4, 2007.
“Drugie izmereniia. Sunduk/chemodan Andreia Bitova, ili prichem tut Vinni-Pukh?,” trans. from English Julia Belopolsky, Mezhdunarodnyi Forum, “Imperiia. Chetrye izmereniia Andreia Bitova” (International Forum, “The Four Dimensions of Andrei Bitov”), sponsored by Russian Academy of Sciences Literary Institute in Moscow (Institute of World Literature), Russian Academy of Sciences Literary Institute in St. Petersburg (Pushkin House), St. Petersburg University, Nabokov Museum, and Mezhdunarodnaia Assotsiatsiia, Zhivaia klassika (International Association, Living Classics) connected to the Russian Academy of Sciences Literary Institute in St. Petersburg (Pushkin House), (scholarly conference part of the Mezhdunarodnyi Forum held at the Nabokov Museum), St. Petersburg, October 4, 2007.
“An Event Like No Other -- A St. Petersburg Café, Cabaret, Conference, ‘Kukhnia,’ and the Contemporary Russian Creative Intelligentsia, or An International Forum/Festival, ‘The Four Dimensions of Andrei Bitov,’ Plus Fireworks On the Fontanka,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, November 28, 2007.
Lecture Series (three lectures): “Molly the Dog, and Other Life Lessons: A Journey-Meditation on Transcending Adversity,” New York City, All Souls Unitarian Church, December, 2007: 1. “How It All Began: Vertigo, Mon Amour, or Life in Slow Motion,” December 2 2. “Healing in One’s Own Way,” December 9 3. “Trains, the Back Porch, Acceptance, Living in the Moment,” December 16
Recording of above lecture series for CD (not commercial) was to be made by All Souls Unitarian Church, New York City, to be used by All Souls ministers for pastoral purposes, project not yet begun, but was proposed by a minister there.
Discussant on panel, “Cultivated Pain,” at conference, “The Pain of Words. Narratives of Suffering in Slavic Cultures,” Princeton University, May 11, 2008.
Keynote Speaker at City University of New York (CUNY) International Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference on topic, “The Underground.” My talk: “Dostoevsky’s Underground and Beyond. The Floating Underground,” November 6, 2008.
On panel, after performance of Peter Brook’s The Grand Inquisitor, Post-Performance Theater for a New Audience (TFANA) Talks (Robert Belknap, I, and the actors Bruce Meyers and Jake Smith); joint production of (1) New York Theater Workshop and (2) Theater for a New Audience, New York City, November 8, 2008.
Moderator of the above Post-Performance Talks, November 8, 2008.
“The Curious Adventures of a Literary Scholar’s Romp through Translationland, or Balloons, Bassoons, Jazz Improvisation, Essays, Poetry, Memory, Rough Drafts, A Shave on a Ship, … and the Meaning of Life?,” presented at the Translation Luncheon Series of Princeton University’s Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications, November 10, 2008.
On City University of New York (CUNY) TV program, “City Cinémathèque,” on New York cable TV (Time/Warner and RCN) networks, as Russian cinema specialist, to discuss B. Khlebnikov’s and A. Popogrebsky’s 2003 film, “Koktebel” [English title: “Roads to Koktobel”]. CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, January 21, 2009 (aired April, 2009 and beyond).
Chair of panel, “Jolly Fellows of Sad Comedies,” at international conference, “Totalitarian Laughter: Cultures of the Comic under Socialism,” Princeton University, May 16, 2009.
“Why Winnie-the-Pooh is Relevant to Teaching Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground Revisited,” “A Conference in Honor of Robert L. Belknap. Formulations: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature,” Columbia University, February 13, 2010.
Reading parts of my essay, “The Curious Adventures of a Literary Scholar’s Romp through Translationland, or Balloons, Bassoons, Jazz Improvisation, Essays, Poetry, Memory, Rough Drafts, a Shave on a Ship, … and the Meaning of Life? What I Learned from Translating a Bit of Andrei Bitov’s Prose,” one of several readers at presentation of the inaugural English-language edition of the literary journal, Cardinal Points, East Village New York Public Library branch (Tompkins Square branch, Manhattan), February 24, 2010.
Presentation at round table, “Tolstoy and Dostoevsky,” at the Fourteenth Conference of the International Dostoevsky Society, Naples, Italy, June 16, 2010. (Other members of the round table: Robert Belknap, William Todd; chaired by Robin Feuer Miller.)
“What Can We, in the Twenty-first Century, Learn from Tolstoy? Ruminations on Reading All Ninety Volumes of the Jubilee Edition of Tolstoy’s Complete Works; and a Bit about Pigeons, Cookies and Milk, and Snails…,” at international Tolstoy symposium, “Tolstoy in the Twenty-first Century,” New School University, October 16, 2010.
Reading parts of my essay, “The Curious Adventures of a Literary Scholar’s Romp through Translationland, or Balloons, Bassoons, Jazz Improvisation, Essays, Poetry, Memory, Rough Drafts, a Shave on a Ship, … and the Meaning of Life? What I Learned from Translating a Bit of Andrei Bitov’s Prose,” one of several readers at presentation of the inaugural English-language edition of the literary journal, Cardinal Points, Russian Samovar, New York City, October 17, 2010.
Discussant on panel, “The Brothers Karamazov and the Ethics of Narration,” at ASEEES annual conference, Los Angeles, November, 2010 [I couldn’t go to Los Angeles, but my comments were read.]
Lecture on “Approaches to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, a two-hour session teaching Columbia University Core Curriculum faculty and graduate students how to teach Crime and Punishment, Columbia University, March, 2011.
Guest lecture, “Interpretations of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment,” in course, “Criminology and Salvation,” New School University (Eugene Lang), September, 2011.
Lecture Series (three lectures), “Russian Literary Giants: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the Meaning of Life,” New York City, All Souls Unitarian Church, January, 2012:
1. “Approaches to Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground,” January 8 2. “Interpreting Crime and Punishment. What’s the Novel All About?” January 15 3. “What Does Tolstoy Teach Us about Contemporary Life?” January 22
Post-Performance Featured Guest, “Dialogue on Drama,” McCarter Theater (Princeton), to discuss Chekhov and the Christopher Durang play, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” September 16, 2012
Lecture Series (three lectures), “Molly, the Dog, and Other Life Lessons: A Journey-Meditation on Transcending Adversity,” New York City, All Souls Unitarian Church, January, 2013: 1. “How It All Began: Vertigo, Mon Amour, or Life in Slow Motion,” January 13 2. “Healing in One’s Own Way,” January 20 3. “Trains, the Back Porch, Acceptance, Living in the Moment,” January 27
Chair of panel, “The Press and Dostoevsky’s Journalism,” at “Dostoevsky in Context” conference/workshop, Columbia University, May 4, 2013. All participants are contributors to forthcoming Cambridge University Press volume, Dostoevsky in Context.
Chair of panel, “What is Constructivism?,” at conference, “Illusions Killed by Life: Afterlives of (Soviet) Constructivism,” Princeton University, May 10, 2013.
Lecture, “A Search, in Literature and Life, for a Meaningful Life,” one of five featured Princeton University faculty speakers (one from each division [humanities, social sciences, sciences, etc.], including Paul Krugman), at conference, “Many Minds, Many Stripes, a Princeton University Conference for Graduate Alumni” {first ever Princeton University conference for its graduate alumni; attendance at the conference – ca. 1000}, October 18, 2013.
Was asked questions and filmed for forthcoming film, “Peace, Love, and Tolstoy,” January 11, 2014.
“Andrei Bitov and Petersburg,” paper presented on panel, “If Petersburg is Not the Capital, Then There is No Petersburg,” at American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, New York University, March 21, 2014.
On panel, Talk Back, after performance of “His Majesty, the Devil” (play based on Ivan Karamazov/devil scene in Brothers Karamazov), as part of International Fringe Festival, New York City, August 15, 2014.
Moderator of alumni panel, “Meaning in Life,” Princeton University, October 25, 2014.
Other Professional Activities:
Rockefeller Dodge Foundation’s New Jersey Scholars program on Russian/Soviet Studies (interdisciplinary) for gifted high school students -- taught Russian literature, summer, 1983, 1984
International Institute of Education Presidential Scholar Selection Committee for year in Moscow, 1988, 1989, 1990
Attended, by invitation, International Theater Festival sponsored by Russian Republic Theater Union, Moscow, April, 1991
AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies) Vucinich Book Prize Committee, for best scholarly work (2 other committee members; social scientists from Yale and Berkeley), 1991, 1992; chair, 1993
AAASS National Nominating Committee, 1992
Member of International Advisory Board, Russian State Humanities University (Moscow), opened by Iurii Afanasiev and other reformers, fall, 1992
Advisory Council (regional), North American Dostoevsky Society, 1992
Whiting Humanities Fellowships for Russian Scholars, on American/Russian Selection Committee, meetings in New York, spring, 1993 and Moscow, 1993; New York, spring, 1994, spring, 1995
Editorial Board, international journal, Dostoevsky Studies, 1992-98
National Selection Committee for Fulbright Faculty Research Abroad Fellowships and for Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowships,” Soviet and East Europe Area, for US Department of Education, Washington, DC
Evaluator of National Endowment for the Humanities grant proposals
Literary Editor, journal, Soviet Union, which became Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) National Selection Committee for semester programs at Leningrad State University
Modern Languages Association Commission on Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Member, Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Slavic History and Culture
Editorial Board, Slavic and East European Journal
President-Elect, then President, Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference of AAASS
Member, National Board of Readers for journal, Criticism in Translation
Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association
Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), National Policy Committee
Member of Visiting Committee to evaluate Russian Department, Hunter College
Artistic Consultant, Roundabout Theater (on Broadway) production of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” directed by Scott Elliott, January, 1997
Artistic Consultant for New York Theater production of play based on Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, spring, 1997
Evaluator of MA Russian and/or Slavic Cultures Program, Columbia University, spring, 1998
Referee for AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) panel proposals for 1998 annual AATSEEL conference, proposals on nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature
Referee for AATSEEL panel proposals for annual AATSEEL conference, proposals on twentieth-century Russian contemporary literature, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Literature and Culture Consultant, fall, 1999, for McCarter Theater production (March, 2000) of Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard, directed by Emily Mann
Participant in Dostoevsky Symposium, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, in connection with the theater’s production of play based on Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, March, 2001
Member of reader/referee committee to read paper proposals for articles for volume, American Contributions to the International Congress of Slavists, spring, 2001
Alumni Board, Oberlin College: Executive Committee; chair, Committee on Extended Education
Board of Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni
Certificate of Recognition by National Phi Beta Kappa
Executive Committee, Division on Sociological Approaches to Literature of the Modern Languages Association
Reader of manuscripts for presses (Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, Northwestern University Press, etc.)
Referee for scholarly journals: Slavic Review, Russian Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Tolstoy Studies Journal, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Slovo. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Russian, East-Central European and Eurasian Affairs (School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College of London), Slavonic and East European Review (England), etc.
Letters of evaluation of scholarship for promotion to associate professor and tenure, and to promotion to full professor, of scholars at other universities (four, during 2014)
Editorial consultant, Dostoevsky Studies. New Series (journal of International Dostoevsky Society), 1998-
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Scholars for Russia, reader/evaluator, spring, 1999, spring, 2000, spring, 2001, spring, 2002, spring, 2003
Reading of Chekhov short stories, in series, “Stories with Soul,” New York City, All Souls Unitarian Church, May, 2002
Outside Examiner, PhD dissertation defense, Program in Comparative Literature, Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY), November, 2002
Literature and Culture Consultant, fall, 2002, for McCarter Theater production (May, 2003) of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, directed by Emily Mann
Open World Cultural Program [under auspices of Library of Congress] Russian Writers Selection Committee, May, 2004
External Reviewer for Slavic Department, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), January, 2005
Outside Reader Evaluator of application for Title VIII Research Scholar Program, American Councils for International Education, 2007, 2012.
Member of Organizing Committee of Mezhdunarodnyi Forum. “Imperiia. Chetyre izmereniia Andreia Bitova,” sponsored by Russian Academy of Sciences Literary Institute in Moscow (Institute of World Literature), Russian Academy of Sciences Literary Institute in St. Petersburg (Pushkin House), St. Petersburg University, Nabokov Museum, and Mezhdunarodnaia Assotsiatsiia, Zhivaia klassika (connected to Russian Academy of Sciences Literary Institute in St. Petersburg [Pushkin House]), with the support of the St. Petersburg City Government’s Committee on Culture, held in St. Petersburg, October 1-4, 2007.
Creator of idea of exhibit, “Kommentarii k romanu,” based on physical objects that Bitov mentions in the “Commentary” to his novel, Pushkinskii Dom. Exhibit held in Russian Academy of Sciences Literary Institute (Pushkin House) as part of Mezhdunarodnyi Forum. “Imperiia. Chetyre izmereniia Andreia Bitova,” St. Petersburg, October 2, 2007.
On Ad Hoc Promotion Review Committee, New School University, 2008.
Evaluator of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2008.
Evaluator of manuscript for “Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme,” administered by the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009.
Reader’s Report for Farrar Straus and Giroux Publishers, 2010.
Served as a judge of international Compass Translation Award: summer, 2011 – Gumilev Competition, under the auspices of the literary journal, Cardinal Points. Storony sveta. Gumilev Competition part of the First International Gumilev Festival; other judges included Robert Chandler, Sibelan Forrester, Peter France, George Kline, Angela Livingstone, etc.
Presented the Compass Translation Award to the winners; Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, October, 2011.
Presentation and leader of discussion of Turgenev’s Fathers and Children, Schwab House Book Club, New York City, January 15, 2013.
Presentation and leader of discussion of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Schwab House Book Club, New York City, September 3, 2014.
Misc. Campus Committees and Activities:
Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy, 1996-97, 1997-98
Executive Committee of Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC), 1996-97, 1997-98
Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC), 1996-97, 1997-98
Executive Committee of the Council on Regional Studies, 1996-97, 1997-98
Faculty Committee for Film Studies, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99
Faculty Committee on Russian Studies (now called Faculty Committee on Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies), 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-12, 2012-2013.
Faculty Committee on Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Executive Committee
Faculty Fellow, Mathey College, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-2006, 2006-07, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012; 2012-2013; 2013-2014; 2014-2015.
Sophomore Advisor, Mathey College, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002.
Freshman Advisor, Mathey College, many years.
Faculty Marshal, 1980s- 2007 (for many years, was Associate Chief Faculty Marshal)
President, Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Committee, 1989(?)-2003
“The Best Contemporary Russian Writers,” in Mathey College lecture series, fall, 1997.
Reader of applications for Martin Dale Fellowships, 1998, 2001, 2002.
Faculty Committee on Visual Arts, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06.
Secretary, Faculty Committee on Committees, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-2008, 2008-2009; 2009-2010; 2010-11.
Reader of applications for Beinecke Scholarship Program, as part of Faculty Selection Committee process, spring, 2002
Organizer of Princeton University year-long series of lectures, panels, a colloquium, and events for academic year 2005-2006, in connection with “World of Art” (“Mir iskusstva”) exhibit on loan, from St. Petersburg Russian Museum (Russkii Muzei), to Princeton University Art Museum, spring, 2006
Talk at Mathey College luncheon, “What Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature Can Teach Us about Twenty-First Century Life,” February, 2011
Evaluation of application for Humanities Council Postdoctoral program (2010 or 2011?; 2012)
Co-organized, with Caryl Emerson (my part was mostly from ca. end of July, 2013 until the event), “A Commemoration of the Life and Work of Joseph Frank,” sponsored by the Slavic Department; the Department of Comparative Literature; Princeton University Press; Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for French Studies; and Gauss Seminars in Criticism; at Princeton University Press, October 23, 2013.
Compliance Officer for the Slavic Department, 2012-2013.
Associated Faculty, Center for the Study of Religion, July, 2012 through June, 2013.
Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Religion, 2013-14, 2014-15.
Freshman Advisor for students in my fall, 2014 freshman seminar – 2014-15.
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