JOAN NEUBERGER Department of History The University of Texas at Austin 128 Inner Campus Dr. Austin, Texas 78712 joanneuberger.wordpress.com
Professional Appointments
Professor, University of Texas, 2007-present Associate Professor, University of Texas, 1994-2007 Assistant Professor, University of Texas, 1990-1994 Lafayette College, 1989-90, Univ of Houston, 1986-89 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, 1985-86 Lecturer, Stanford University, 1984-85
Education
Ph.D. in History, Stanford University, 1985 M.A. in History, Stanford University, 1977 B.A. in Russian, Honors, Grinnell College, 1975
Books
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2019.
The Flying Carpet: Studies on Eisenstein in Honor of Naum Kleiman, Joan Neuberger and Antonio Somaini, editors. Paris and Milan: Mimésis International. 2017.
Everyday Life in Russian History: Quotidian Studies in Honor of Daniel Kaiser, Gary Marker, Joan Neuberger, Marshall Poe, Susan Rupp, editors. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. 2010.
Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger editors. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2008.
Robin Winks and Joan Neuberger, Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914. Oxford University Press. 2005.
Ivan the Terrible: The Film Companion. KINOfiles Film Companion 9. London: I.B.Tauris. 2003.
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Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia. Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, editors. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2001.
Hooliganism: Crime, Culture and Power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1993.
Hooliganism was one of 18 books chosen by UCPress to launch its on-line publication series in 1999. http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft809nb565&brand=ucpress
WORKS IN PROGRESS Global Eisenstein: Immersion, Internationalism, and the Politics of Landscape Picturing Russian Empire: Explorations in Visual Culture, edited with Valerie Kivelson and Sergei Kozlov.
DVD
“The History of Ivan" Multi-media “special feature” (40 minutes) Eisenstein: The Sound Years. The Criterion Collection (DVD compilation boxed set), New York, 2001
Articles
“Eisenstein and the Politics of Landscape,” Eisenstein for the 21st Century, edited by Ian Christie and Julia Vassilieva (forthcoming)
“The Film Maker in Wartime: Eisenstein Inside and Out,” Slavic Review (forthcoming)
“Picasso and Other Failures: Eisenstein’s Politics of the Arts,” Eisenstein 2020, edited by Naum Kleiman (forthcoming)
“Not a Film But a Nightmare: Revisiting Stalin’s Response to Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, Part II,” Kritika 19:1 (Winter 2018)
“Another Dialectic: Eisenstein on Acting,” The Flying Carpet: Studies on Eisenstein in Honor of Naum Kleiman, Joan Neuberger and Antonio Somaini, eds. Mimésis International, 2017
”Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible as History,” Journal of Modern History, 86 (June 2014), 1- 40
“Ivan the Terrible,” Russian Cinema Reader, ed Rimgaila Salys (Academic Studies Press), 2013.
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“The Music of Landscape: Eisenstein, Prokofiev, and the Uses of Music in Ivan the Terrible,” Sound, Speech, and Music in Russian Cinema, Lilya Kaganovsky and Masha Salazkina, eds, Indiana University Press, 2013
“Strange Circus: Eisenstein’s Sex Drawings,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 6:1 (2012), 5-52.
“Ivan Groznyi,” [Ivan the Terrible] in Noev kovcheg russkogo kino. Ekaterina Vasilieva and Nikita Braginskii, eds. Globus Press, 2012.
“Angel Eizenshteina,” Kinovedcheskie zapiski, 91/92 (2009), Transl: Natalia Ryabchikova. (Translation of “Eisenstein’s Angel”)
“Introduction: Seeing into Being.” (with Valerie Kivelson). Picturing Russia: Essays on Visual Culture. Valerie Kivelson and Joan Neuberger, eds. Yale University Press, 2008
“Visual Dialectics: Murderous Laughter in Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible.” Picturing Russia: Essays on Visual Culture.
“Eisenstein’s Cosmopolitan Kremlin: Drag Queens, Circus Clowns, Slugs, and Foreigners in Ivan the Terrible,” Ours and Theirs: Outsiders, Insiders, and Otherness in Russian Cinema. Stephen Norris and Zara Torlone, eds. Indiana University Press, 2008
“Eisenstein’s Angel” The Russian Review, 63:3. (July 2004): 374-406.
“Between Public and Private: Revolution and Melodrama in Nikita Mikhalkov’s Slave of Love.” Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia.
“Introduction” (with Louise McReynolds) Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia. Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, eds. Duke University Press. 2002.
“The Politics of Bewilderment: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in 1945.” Eisenstein at 100: A Reconsideration. Albert LaValley and Barry Scherr, eds. Rutgers University Press. 2001.
“When the Word Was the Deed: Workers vs. Employers Before the Justices of the Peace.” Workers and the Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections. Reginald E. Zelnik, ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press: International and Area Studies Research Series, #101. 1999.
“Vlast’ slova: rabochie protiv khoziaev v mirovykh sudakh” [The Power of the Word: Workers vs. Employers in the Justice of the Peace Courts] Rabochie I intelligentsiia Rossii v epokhe reform I revoliutsii, 1861-February 1917 3 Joan Neuberger
[Workers and Intelligentsia in the Epoch of Reform and Revolution, 1861-Feb 1917]. S. I. Potolov, ed. St. Petersburg: Russko-Baltijskij Informatsionnyj tsentr BLITs: 1997.
'Shysters’ or Public Servants: Uncertified Lawyers and Legal Aid for the Poor in Late Imperial Russia." Russian History/Histoire Russe 23:1-4. (1996).
"Culture Besieged: Hooliganism and Futurism." Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg, eds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1994.
"Popular Legal Cultures: The St. Petersburg Mirovoi Sud," Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881. Ben Eklof, John Bushnell, and Larissa Zakharova, eds. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 1994.
“Stories of the Street: Hooliganism in the St. Petersburg Popular Press." Slavic Review 48:2 (Summer 1989): 177-194.
PUBLIC HISTORY
Editor, website: NOT EVEN PAST (launched January 2011) Co-Editor and Host, Podcast: 15 Minute History, (launched 2012) Guest Editor: History Carnival, May 2012: compilation of best history blogs from April 2012. Editor, website: Behind the Tower: New Histories of the UT Tower Shooting (launched 2016) Editor, website: Thinking in Public: Public Scholarship at UT Austin (Launched July 2016) Editor, website: The Public Archive: Digital Historical Documents for Public Use, *Selected by the American Library Assoc as one of 12 “Best Historical Materials” (2018)
BLOG POSTS
Slate: The Vault “Early Stop-Motion Animation Starring Dead Bugs,” April 15, 2013. “Scoping Sergei Eisenstein’s Bookshelves,” March 29, 2013. “This 1922 Kodachrome Test Footage is Strangely Bewitching,” February 8, 2013.
Not Even Past blog posts “The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin,” April 1, 2019 “Films on Migration, Exile, and Forced Displacement,” July 20, 2017 “Digital Learning: Starting From Scratch,” January 26, 2017 “Digital Dividends,” January 4, 2017 “Public and Digital: Doing History Now,” January 2, 2016 “History Museums: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful,” March 23, 2015 “Notes From the Field: The Accidents of Research,” January 28, 2015
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“Passover, 1934: An American Jewish Story,” April 15, 2014 “It’s a Wide Road that Leads to War,” April 10, 2014 “Fools and Kings,” April 1, 2014 “World War I: Teaching at the Museum,” April 2, 2014 “Braided History,” October 14, 2013. “Digital History, A Primer: (Part 2),” April 15, 2013. “Digital History, A Primer (Part 1),” April 1, 2013. “From the Editor: On the Report by the National Association of Scholars About US History at UT,” January 13, 2013 “Napoleon in Russia,” October 19, 2012 “Pussy Riot,” September 30, 2012 “The Threat of Violence Comes Home to UT,” September 14, 2012 “Black Amateur Photography,” February 27, 2012 “The Flu Epidemic, 1918-19,” February 21, 2012 “African American History Online,” February 14, 2012 “Telling Stories, Writing History,” November 14, 2011 “On Veterans Day: War Photos,” November 11, 2011 “I am Twenty,” November 11, 2011 “Looking at World War II,” September 26, September 29, 2011 “Flickers of the Past,” August 27, 2011
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS
The American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, The Russian Review, Russian History/Histoire Russe, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Slavic Review, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Slavonic and East European Review, Revolutionary Russia
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (Since 2005) “The Soviet Film Industry as Network, 1918-53” Aleksanderi Institute, University of Helsinki, June 2019 “Only Art: Picasso, Michelangelo and Other Failures,” Eisenstein’s History of Art, Amherst College, April 2019 “Eisenstein/Tisse/Moskvin: Mobile Framing in Ivan the Terrible, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, March 2019 “Podcasting Master Class,” University of Georgia, February 2019 “Eisenstein’s Underground Socialism in Stalin’s Russia,” Revolutionary Russia Conference, Cardiff, Wales, January 2019 “Contour, Space, and the Music of Landscape in Eisenstein’s Polyphonic Montage” Assoc for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Boston, Dec 2018 “Landscape as Object“
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Eisenstein’s Things: An International Conference Film University Babelsberg, Potsdam, Germany, Nov 2018 “Eisenstein’s Collectives: The Politics of Landscape” (Keynote) Eisenstein for the 21st Century, Monash University Prato, Italy, June 2018 “Something Old, Something New: Going Digital” Keynote: Southern Conference for Slavic Studies, Charlotte, March 2018 “Nature as Medium, Landscape as Self-Portrait: Eisenstein’s Nonindifferent Nature” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Toronto, March 2018 “Thinking Like a Computer,” AHA, Washington, DC, January 2018 “Mapping Influence: Social Network Analysis of the Soviet Film Administration, 1920-53” ASEEES, Chicago, November 2017 “The Filmmaker in Wartime: Eisenstein, The Mutability of Form, and the Importance of Living,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2017 “What Else They Are: Reading Photographs Historically,” The Higher School of Economics, Moscow, June 2017 “The Mutability of Form: Eisenstein’s Permeable Screen,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2017 “A Filmmaker in Wartime: Eisenstein, The Bombing of Moscow, and the Importance of Living,” IHS, UTAustin, February 2017 “Eisenstein’s Sex Drawings,” Alexander Gray Gallery, January 14, 2017 “Digital History and Public History,” Digital History in Slavic Studies, Yale University, November 2016 “After Method: Eisenstein Now” American Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Association, Nov 2016 “The Red Queen and the Dark Oath: Eisenstein’s Drawings of Elizabeth I, Sigismund II, and Ivan IV” The Courtauld Institute of Art, April 2016 “Love, Lust, and Laughter,” Introduction to the Collection, Gallery Opening, Eisenstein’s Sex Drawings, Pace London, April 2016 “Eisenstein in the Countryside: The Old and the New and Bezhin Meadow, McGill University, October 2015 “Eisenstein’s Ivan: Feeling-Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney,” University of Cambridge, Center for Russian and East European Studies, Mar 2015 “Re-reading Stalin Reading Eisenstein,” University College London, School for Slavonic and East European Studies, Feb 2015 “Visual Anthropology and the Moving Picture as Historical Document” American Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Association, Nov 2014 “This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible,” Michigan State University, History Symposium, Oct 2014 “Power Personified: Eisenstein’s Ivan,” 6 Joan Neuberger
University of Michigan, Oct 2014 “Exceptional and Typical: Eisenstein as Auteur,” New Directions in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Cambridge University, Sept 2014 “Making Ivan the Terrible: The Institutions of Socialist Realism” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, March 2014 “Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible as History,” UC Berkeley, Feb 2014 “What We talk about When We Talk about Socialist Realism in Cinema: Cinematography” ASEEES, Boston, Nov 2013 “Past and Presence: Photography as Historical Evidence,” Keynote: Photography/Authenticity Sheffield University (UK), May 2013 “Eisenstein’s Actresses,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies UNC-Greensboro, March 2013 “Eisenstein and Prokofiev,” UT Film Studies, UT Austin, October, 2012 “Pussy Riot: Turning Point in Russian History,” Gender Symposium, UT Austin, September, 2012 “Bad Table! Eisenstein’s Things with Feelings” Conference: Objects of Affection: the Materiality of Emotions Princeton University, May 2012 “Soviet Film: Comedy & Tragedy” Ohio State University, April 2012 “Revenge Drama: Violence and History in Eisenstein” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Savannah, GA March 2012 “Eisenstein’s Strange Circus: Drawing Sex and Violence” Yale University, October 2011 “Historical Fiction on Film” American Historical Association, Boston, January 2011 “Violence in Eisenstein” ASEEES, Los Angeles, November 2010 “Russian Orientalism in Turksib and One-Sixth of the World” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Gainesville, March 2009 “Eisenstein’s Books: Ivan the Terrible as a Theory of History” Institute for Historical Studies, UT Austin “Don’t Touch: Pleasure and Pain in Eisenstein's Drawings of Sex" AAASS, Philadelphia, November 2008 “Prokofiev and Eisenstein” Bard College Music Festival, Prokofiev and his World August 2008 “Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Historical Context” Yale University, April 2008 “Visual Experience: Eisenstein’s Wartime Diary” 7 Joan Neuberger
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 2008 “Teaching the Visual” AAASS, New Orleans, November 2007 “Deadly Clowns-Murderous Laughter: Eisenstein’s Sense of Humor” Pacific Coast Branch, AHA, Honolulu, July 2007 “The Dialectics of Violence in Ivan the Terrible” Southern Slavic Association, Montgomery, AL, March 2007 “Andrei Moskvin: Cinematography in Ivan the Terrible” AAASS. Washington DC, November 2006 “The Retrospective Eye: Historical Photography and the Thinking-Feeling Spectator” New York Public Library, June 2006 NEH Summer Institute, Visual Resources in Early Slavic Studies “The Thinking-Feeling Spectator: Film Theory as Visual Theory” University of Michigan, March 2006 “Eisenstein’s Books: Ivan the Terrible as History” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Salt Lake City, November 2005 “Eisenstein, Ivan, Stalin,” University of Michigan, March 2005 “Unlikely Flaneur: Eisenstein’s Film Theory for Historians of the Visual” University of Maryland Center for Historical Studies, February 2005
RESEARCH AWARDS and HONORS American Historical Association, Herbert Feis Award for Distinguished Contributions in Public History, 2018 American Library Association, “Best Historical Materials,” 2018 for The Public Archive Humanities Research Award, UT Austin, 2018-2021 Senior Scholar Award, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, March 2018 Special Research Grant, UT Austin, Summer 2017. Institute for Historical Studies, UT Austin, 2016-17 Media Humanities Project (UT) award (Spring 2016) Visiting Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge University, Spring 2015 American Historical Association Member Spotlight, Interview, May 9, 2013 Institute of Civil Society and Social Policy, (Warsaw, Poland), Conference on European History, (seminar on my co-edited book, Picturing Russia), May 2010 UT Institute for Historical Studies, Research Fellowship, Spring 2010 UT-Humanities Institute, Fellowship, Fall 2009 Faculty Research Assignment, Fall 2007 Robert Hamilton University Co-op Subvention Award for Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, Yale University Press, 2008 National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, 2002-03
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Faculty Research Assignment, University Research Institute, UT, Austin, Spring 2002 Robert Hamilton Subvention Award, for Imitations of Life: Melodrama in Russia, Duke University Press, 2001 IREX Short-Term Travel Grant, 1995, 1998 Special Research Grant, University Research Institute, UT, Austin, 1997 National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1993-1994 International Research and Exchanges Board Individual Advanced Research Grant, 1992-93 Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Ctr for Scholars, 1992-1993 Summer Research Award, University of Texas, Summer 1992 University Research Institute Award, University of Texas, Summer 1991 Research Grant, University of Houston, Spring 1989 Hoover Institution (Title VIII) Fellowship, Summer 1988 Research Initiation Grant, University of Houston 1987 Andrew W. Mellon Research and Writing Grant, Summer 1984 James Birdsall Weter Grant, 1981-1982 Mabelle McLeod Lewis Grant in the Humanities, 1980-1981 International Research and Exchanges Board Pre-Doctoral Grant for Research, USSR,1979-80 Stanford University Graduate Fellowship, 1976-1979 Phi Beta Kappa, 1975
ADMINISTRATION & SERVICE
UT Austin
Conference Co-Organizer: The Materiality of the Commons, UT Austin, April 2020 Provost’s Task Force on the Future of UT’s Libraries, 2018-19 Executive Committee (History) 2018-20 Digital Humanities Pop-up Institute, Summer 2017 Director, Center for Russian, E. European and Eurasian Studies, UT, Austin, 1998-2002 Associate Director, Center for Russian, E. European and Eurasian Studies, 1994-98 UT Committees: CoLA Tenure and Promotion, Faculty Grievance, Dean’s Search Committee Department Committees: Chair: Social Media Committee, Chair: Salary Committee, Chair: Post-Tenure Review, Chair: European Area Committee, Executive Committee; various search committees, peer review teaching committees, scholarship review committees.
National/International
Conference Co-Organizer: Picturing Russian Empire, University of Tyumen, June 2019 Conference Founder/Organizer, Texans in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UT Austin, Oct 2018 Whiting Foundation Public History Fellows (Public history projects), Application evaluations Eisenstein Network International, co-founder/co-organizer ASEEES Commons Steering Committee, 2016-present
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ASEEES Digital Humanities Board Member, 2015-present Book Series Editorial Board, Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries, Academic Studies Press ASEEES Program Committee Chair, 2013-14 Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Advisory Council, 2012- 2016 Board of Directors, Association for Slavic, E. European & Eurasian Studies, 2011-2013 ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Humanities Program in Belarus, Russian, and Ukraine, Selection Committee, 2001-2006 Reader, 2007-09, 2012 ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russian, and Ukraine, Annual Conference September 2002, Kyiv, Ukraine, Executive Council, organizer, speaker October 2004, Moscow, Russia, Executive Council, organizer, speaker Board of Directors, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1999-2001 AAASS representative to American Council of Learned Societies, 1999, 2000 Committee on Modern European History, American Historical Association, 1997-2000 Editorial Board, Journal of Modern History, 2002-2004 Editorial Advisory Board, Russian Life, 2003-present
COURSES
Undergraduate Russian/Soviet Cinema and Video Essays (new 2019) Russian Empire in Russian Cinema (new 2014) Picturing Russia: Russian History through Visual Culture (new 2011) European Imperialism in European Cinema (new 2008) Art in Public (Signature Course, new 2008) Soviet History in Soviet Film Art, Power and Public Ethics in Russia 1800-1945 Russia to 1917 Nineteenth-Century Europe
Graduate Digitizing History: The Public Archive (new 2018) Public History in a Digital Age (new 2016) Socialism Realism in the Visual Arts (new 2008) Research Seminar: Visual Evidence in History (new 2006) Problems of Visual Experience and Evidence (with D. Crew, new 2005) Constructions of Culture, 1880-1945
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