Publications
Edited books
● (with Andy Byford and Stephen Hutchings) Transnational Russian Studies (Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2019). Transnational Modern Languages series. 354 pp.
● (with Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland) A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018). Cultural Syllabus series. 535 pp.
Journal Articles
● ‘Myshkin’s Queer Failure: (Mis)reading Masculinity in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot’, Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ) 63.1, Spring 2019, 1–27.
● ‘The malen’kii chelovek in Almaty: Masculinity in Nariman Turebaev’s Films’, KinoKultura 54, Oct 2016. c. 8000 words.
● ‘What’s Papa For? Paternal Intimacy and Distance in Chekhov’s Early Stories’, SEEJ 59.4, Winter 2015, 517–541.
● ‘One Man’s Meat is Another Man’s Poetry: Masculinity and Metaphor in the Work of Vladimir Maiakovskii’, Modernism/Modernity 20.2, April 2013, 239–264.
● ‘Babushka Writes Back: Grandmothers and Grandchildren in Petrushevskaia’s Time: Night’, Forum for Modern Language Studies 47.2, April 2011, 170–181.
● ‘Poltava at 300: Reading Byron’s Mazeppa and Pushkin’s Poltava in the Post-Soviet Era’, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies (ASEES) 24.1–2, 2010, 83–101.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
● ‘Queer Transnational Encounters: Russian LGBT Writing across Borders’, in Transnational Russian Studies, ed. Andy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen Hutchings (Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, in press, 2020), 213–231.
● ‘
The Emotion as Such: Un/masking the Poet in Mayakovsky’s Early Lyrics and Drama’, in
Behind the Masks of Modernism: Global and Transitional Perspectives, ed. Andrew Reynolds and Bonnie Roos. Gainesville, FL: Univ. of Florida Press, 2016, 135–157.
● ‘
Masculine Degeneration in Dostoevskii’s Demons’, in
The Twilight of Realism: Russian Writers and the Fin de Siècle, ed. Katherine Bowers and Ani Kokobobo. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015, 105–125.
Editorials
● (with Kevin M.F. Platt and Vlad Strukov) ‘The Transnational Turn in Russian Studies’, NewsNet, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), March 2020, 2-6
● (with Andy Byford and Stephen Hutchings) ‘Transnationalizing Russian Studies’, British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Newsletter, February 2020, p. 5.
Encyclopedia Entries
● ‘Russian Futurism’ and ‘Ukrainian Futurism’ in The Routledge Online Encyclopedia of Modernism, ed. Stephen Ross, 2017.
● Edited and revised entries for
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed., 2012:
(i) Burns Stanza; (ii) Dol’nik; (iii) Priamel; (iv) Satanic School; (v) Smithy Poets.
Book Reviews
● Susanne Fusso, Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian Novel. In Modern Language Review (MLR) 114.3, Jul 2019, 609–610.
● Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl, ed. Aging in Slavic Literatures: Essays in Literary Gerontology. In SEEJ 62.3, Fall 2018, 617–619.
● Rico Isaacs, Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia. In Studies in Soviet and Russian Cinema 12.3, Autumn 2018, 266–268.
● Sibelan E.S. Forrester and Martha M.F. Kelly, eds. Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts. In SEEJ 60.2, Summer 2016, 358–360.
● Russell Scott Valentino, The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel. In Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 2.1, Apr 2016. 253–256.
● Bengt Jangfeldt, Mayakovsky: A Biography. In Slavonic and East European Review 94.1, Jan 2016, 158–160.
● Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment. A new translation by Oliver Ready. In SEEJ 59.2, Summer 2015, 298–300.
● Gary Rosenshield,
Challenging the Bard: Dostoevsky and Pushkin. A Study of Literary Relationship. In
MLR 110.1, Jan 2015, 306–307.
● Cathy Popkin, ed. Anton’s Chekhov Selected Stories. In SEEJ 58.4, Winter 2014, 707–708.
● Carmen Bugan, Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile. In SEEJ 58.1, Spring 2014, 166–167.
● Dennis G. Ioffe and Frederick H. White, eds.
The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader. In
SEEJ 57.4, Winter 2013, 687–688.
● Rina Lapidus, Passion, Humiliation, Revenge: Hatred in Man-Woman Relationships in the 19th and 20th Century Russian Novel. In Canadian Slavonic Papers 52.1, Mar–Jun 2010, 200–201.
● Irene Masing-Delic, Exotic Moscow Under Western Eyes: Essays on Culture, Civilization and Barbarism. In Slavonica 16.1, 2010, 45–46.
● ‘Men’s Tears and Other Extreme Situations’. Review of D.V. Gromov and N.L. Pushkareva, Muzhskoi sbornik [Masculinities Symposium] vv. 1-3. In Forum for Anthropology and Culture 5, 2009, 459–464; Russian translation by Arkadii Bliumbaum in Antropologicheskii forum 9, 2008, 324–330.
● I occasionally contribute book reviews to Forum of Modern Language Studies, which publishes short (250–350 words) anonymized reviews of recent academic titles in modern languages/literary studies.
Film Reviews
● Griaz’ bol’shogo goroda [City Filth], dir. Nariman Turebaev (2017). In KinoKultura 55, Jan 2018. 1700 words.
● Kletka [The Cage], dir. Ella Arkhangel’skaia (2015). In KinoKultura 51, Jan 2016. 2000 words.
● Prikliuchenie [Adventure], dir. Nariman Turebaev (2014). In KinoKultura 49, July 2015. 1200 words.
●
The Double, dir. Richard Ayoade (2013). In
KinoKultura 45, July 2014. 1300 words.
Interviews
●
Interview with Nariman Turebaev, film director. In
Kinokultura 54, Oct 2016.
Translations
● ‘The Knight of the Air’, a translation of Sergei Gorodetskii’s poem ‘Vozdushnyi vitiaz’’. In Tertia Vigilia, an online journal of Russian Silver Age poetry in translation. 26 April 2016.
Research-Based Blog Posts
● (with Andy Byford and Stephen Hutchings) ‘All the Russias: A Transnational Approach’. In All the Russias, the blog of the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, 7 Mar 2016. 1200 words.
● ‘Painting the Town Black: A Japanese Take on Brothers Karamazov’. Review of Brothers Karamazov miniseries (Fuji TV, Japan, 2013). In All the Russias, 7 Mar 2016.
● ‘Gender Trouble in The Double: Masculinity in Dostoevsky’s Novella and Ayoade’s Film’. In All the Russias, 30 Oct 2015.
