Research Interests:
Ann Komaromi’s research interests center on late Soviet culture, especially uncensored literature and unofficial art, and the history of dissidence. Komaromi has been working on Samizdat as a problem of textual culture and material texts for some time. She has applied the prism of Samizdat to the Soviet Jewish movement for aliya and problems of imagining community in the postmodern era. Broadly speaking, theoretical interests include the avant-garde, post-structuralism, print culture and material texts, performativity and the imagination of subjective agency and community.
Current Projects:
Komaromi is currently completing a book-length study on Samizdat, Literature and History in the Late Soviet Era, which treats uncensored novels by Aksenov, Bitov and Ven. Erofeev. She has been working on a catalog of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals, 1956-86, and continues to research Soviet nonconformist art and its reception in Paris in the 1970s.
Education:
Ph. D. The University of Wisconsin–Madison,
2001. Slavic Languages and Literatures
M. A. The University of Wisconsin–Madison,
1997. Slavic Languages and Literatures. May 1997.
B. A. Northwestern University, 1994.
Major: Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Selected Publications:
“Samizdat as Extra-Gutenberg Phenomenon,” Poetics Today, 29/4, 2009.
“The Unofficial Field of Late Soviet Culture,” Slavic Review, 67/4 (2007).
"Perepiska Andreia Siniavskogo s redkollegiei serii 'Biblioteki poeta': Izmenenie sovetskogo literaturnogo polia," Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 71 (2005).
"The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat," Slavic Review, 63, 3 (2004).
"Wyspianski's Wesele: Poised on the Border," Theatre Journal, 54, 2 (2002).
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