PUBLICATIONS

Please see my CV for a complete list of publications, works in progress, and other projects.

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DIGITAL EDITION

  • The Encyclopedia of the Dog: An Annotated Edition of Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf. 2023. Open access.

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

  • “Finding Our Words: Representations of Chornobyl and the Impossibility of Language.” Slavica Bergensia. Vol. 14. Eds. Irina Anisimova, Alyssa DeBlasio, and Maria Hristova. Slavica Bergensia. 130-154. Open access.

  • “Good Readers, Good Writers: Collaborative Student Annotations for Invitation to a Beheading.” Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century. Eds. Sara Karpukhin and José Vergara. Amherst College P, 2022. 39-51. Open access.

  • “This Land Is Your Land: Andrei Bitov Travels through the Caucasus.” Russian Literature 129 (2022): 95-118. Link.

  • “The Story of Silence: Performing Scenes from Crime and Punishment.” Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Eds. Michael R. Katz and Alexander Burry. MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series. Expected early 2022.

  • “Flap Your Wings for Goodbye: Avian Imagery in Sasha Sokolov’s Between Dog and Wolf.” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 55.3-4 (2021): 361-374.

  • “A Requiem for Dolores: On Teaching Lolita in a Prison Literature Course.” Teaching Lolita in the #MeToo Era. Ed. Elena Rakhimova-Sommers. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 57-71.

  • “Lard, Macaroni, and the Mundane: Food as Metapoetic Device in Ivan Blatný’s Bixley Remedial School.” The Slavic and East European Journal 64.4 (2020): 714-733.

  • “Fate, Free Will, and the Prison Classroom.” The Slavic and East European Journal. Special form: “Toward a More Equitable Slavic Language and Literature Classroom in the United States.” The Slavic and East European Journal 64.4 (2020). 589-591.

  • “The Embodied Language of Sasha Sokolov’s A School for Fools.” The Slavonic and East European Review 97.3 (2019): 426-450. Link.

  • “‘Return That Which Does Not Belong to You’: Mikhail Shishkin’s Borrowings in Maidenhair.” The Russian Review 78.2 (2019): 300-321. Link.

  • "Conceptual Blending, Ambiguous Conclusions, and Nabokov's ‘Signs and Symbols.’” Nabokov Online Journal 12 (2018): 1-22. Link.

  • “The Distorted Images and Realities of Andrei Bitov’s Literary Photographs.” Russian Review 77.2 (2018): 259-278.

  • “Reading the Body: Corporeal Imagery, Language, and Identity in Ivan Blatný’s Pomocná škola Bixley.” Slovo a smysl / Word & sense 23 (2015): 128-38. Open Access.

  • “Kavalerov and Dedalus as Rebellious Sons and Artists: Yury Olesha’s Dialogue with Ulysses in Envy.” The Slavic and East European Journal 58.4 (2014): 606-25. Link.

  • “Cognitive Play in Daniil Kharms’ ‘Blue Notebook №10.’” The Linguistic Worldview: Ethnolinguistics, Cognition, and Culture. Eds. A. Glaz, P. Lozowski, and D. Danaher. London: Versita, 2013. 115-34. Open Access via De Gruyter

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REVIEWS

  • Poplavsky, Boris. Homeward from Heaven. Trans. Bryan Karetnyk. Columbia UP, 2022. The Times Literary Supplement. Solicited review. Forthcoming.

  • O’Neill, Patrick. Finnegans Wakes: Tales of Translation. University of Toronto Press, 2022. James Joyce Literary Supplement (2022). Solicited review. Forthcoming.

  • Reich, Rebecca. State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin. Northern Illinois University Press, 2019. Slavic and East European Review 98.1 (2020): 165-167. Solicited review.

  • Doucette, Siobhan. Books Are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2017. The Polish Review 64.3 (2019): 119-122. Solicited review.

  • Sokolov, Sasha. Between Dog and Wolf. Trans. Alexander Boguslawski. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. SEEJ 61.2 (2017).

  • Zamyatin, Yevgeny. The Sign and Other Stories. Trans. John Dewey. Dorset, UK: Brimstone Press, 2015. SEEJ 61.2 (2017): 363-4.

  • Wozniuk, Vladimir, ed. and trans. The Annotated “WE”: A New Translation of Evgeny Zamiatin’s Novel. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh UP, 2015. SEEJ 59.4 (2015): 633-4. Solicited review.

  • Curtis, J.A.E.,The Englishman from Lebedian': A Life of Evgeny Zamiatin. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013. SEEJ 58.4 (2014): 724-5.

  • Leving, Yuri, ed. Anatomy of a Short Story: Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, “Signs and Symbols.” London: Continuum Books, 2012. SEEJ 57.3 (2013): 486-8.

TRANSLATIONS

  • Ruslana, and Armen Zakharyan. “‘My Ithaca Burned Down, Too’: A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee.” Literary Hub. Jan. 3, 2023.

  • Popov, Evgeny. “Sasha Sokolov and the ‘Iron Curtain.’” Co-translated with Martina Napolitano. Canadian-American Slavic Studies 55.3-4 (2021): 203-205.

  • Malikova, Maria. “Authorial Identity.” Nabokov in Context. Eds. David M. Bethea and Siggy Frank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 59-68.

  • Bliumbaum, Arkadii . “Civilization, Irony, Neurasthenia: Anti-Semitic Discourse in the Writings of Alexander Blok.” Reframing Russian Modernism. Ed. Irina Shevelenko. University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Forthcoming.

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ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, & OTHER PUBLIC WRITING