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Research Interests:
19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture, 19th
and 20th century French literature and culture, literary
and critical theory, comparative approaches to literary
and cultural studies, Russian-Jewish cultural relations.
Education:
Ph.D. Slavic languages and literatures with a minor in
French language and literature. The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1999.
M.A. French language and literature. Middlebury College.
1998.
M.A. Slavic languages and literatures. The University of
Wisconsin-Madison. 1996.
B.A. The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. 1993.
Recent Scholarship:
Books:
How It was Done in Paris: Russian Émigré Literature and French Modernism. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Le Studio franco-russe. Textes réunis et présentés par Leonid Livak. Sous la rédaction de Gervaise Tassis. Toronto: Toronto Slavic Library, 2005.
The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Russian Émigrés in the Intellectual and Literary Life of Inter-War France: A Bibliographical Essay. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.
Articles:
"Nina Berberova et la mythologie culturelle de l'émigration russe en France." Cahiers du monde russe 43.1-2 (2002), 463-77.
"Kriticheskoe khoziaistvo Vladislava Khodasevicha." Diaspora: novye materialy, Vol. IV. SPb-Paris: Feniks-Athenaeum, 2002, 391-456.
"Prolegomena to the Study of ‘the jews’ in Russian Literature." Jews and Slavs, Vol. XIII. Jerusalem-Haifa: Hebrew University-University of Haifa, 2004, 49-95.
"'Geroicheskie vremena molodoi zarubezhnoi poezii'. Literaturnyi avangard
russkogo Parizha (1920-1926)". Diapora: novye materialy, Vol. VII. SPb-Paris:
Feniks-Atheneum, 2005, 131-242.
“Le Social contre l’esthétique: le Zemgor dans la vie littéraire de l’émigration.” Cahiers du monde russe 46.4 (2005), 817-30.
“Why is Dracula Afraid of Garlic, or Anton Chekhov and ‘the jews’.” In: D. Bethea et al, eds. The Real Life of Pierre Delalande, 2 vols. Stanford:
Stanford Slavic Studies, 2007, I: 126-53.
“L’Émigration russe et les élites culturelles françaises, 1920-1925: les débuts d’une collaboration.” Cahiers du monde russe 48.1 (2007), 23-43.
“How Gogol’s Iankel’ is Made.” Jews and Slavs 19 (2008), 219-38.
“A. L. Bem v pis’makh i dokumentakh.” In: M. Vasil’eva, ed. A. L. Bem i gumanitarnye proekty russkogo zarubezh’ia. Moscow: Russkii put’, 2008, 341-99.
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