Chloë Kitzinger
208 Bakers Basin Road, Apt. D
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
(646) 592-3011
[email protected]
Princeton University
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
10 Joseph Henry House
Princeton, NJ 08544
EMPLOYMENT
Perkins-Cotsen Fellow in the Humanities
Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
(Sept. 2016 – June 2019)
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Slavic Languages and Literatures, May 2016
Dissertation: “Illusion and Instrument: Problems of Mimetic Characterization in
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.”
Committee: Irina Paperno (Slavic), Eric Naiman (Slavic), Dorothy J. Hale
(English)
M.A.
University of California, Berkeley
Slavic Languages and Literatures (with distinction), May 2011
M.A.
Middlebury College School of Russian
Russian Language, August 2009
Thesis: “Bred ili oblako”: snovideniie i mechtaniie v strukture romana
Dostoevskogo “Podrostok” (“Raving or a Cloud”: Dreaming and Daydreaming in
the Structure of Dostoevsky’s The Adolescent)
B.A.
Yale University
Philosophy (summa cum laude), May 2006
Phi Beta Kappa, September 2005
Thesis topic: Approaches to the problem of practical reason in Schiller’s Letters
on the Aesthetic Education of Man and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
2013
“‘This Ancient, Fragile Vessel’: Degeneration in Bely’s Petersburg,” Slavic and
East European Journal 57:3 (Fall 2013): 403-424.
Other Publications
2016
“Istoriia vsekh”: Epilog i sistema personazhei v romane Tolstogo ‘Voina i mir’
[“The history of all”: The epilogue and the character-system of Tolstoy’s War and
Peace]. In Lev Tolstoi i mirovaia literatura: Materialy IX Mezhdunarodnoi
nauchnoi konferentsii, edited by Galina Alekseeva (2016). (Conference
presentation)
2014
“Tolstoy and World Literature 2014, Yasnaya Polyana,” Tolstoy Studies Journal
XXVI (2014). (Conference report)
Manuscripts in Submission
“Dinner at the English Club: The Marginal Illusions of War and Peace.” Submitted to Slavic and
East European Journal, June 2016.
“‘A Variety of Forms’: Reading Bodies in Nabokov.” Submitted to Nabokov Studies, Oct. 2015.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Research
2015-2016
2015-2016
2009-2015
2009-2012
Dissertation Completion Grant, Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund
Townsend Dissertation Fellowship, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the
Humanities, UC Berkeley
Berkeley/Mellon Fellowship, UC Berkeley
Mellon Discovery Fellowship, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities,
UC Berkeley
Teaching
2015
2012
2012
Berkeley Language Center Fellowship, UC Berkeley (Project: “Two Revolutions:
Teaching History in Fourth Semester Russian”)
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley
Course Improvement Grant for Slavic 4, UC Berkeley (Project: Anna Karenina,
text and film)
Language Study
2009
2008
2007
Watson Scholarship, Middlebury College School of Russian
Betty Jones Language Scholarship, Middlebury College School of Russian
ACTR/ACCELS Overseas Russian Flagship Program (Fall semester only), St.
Petersburg
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER ACADEMIC TALKS
[2016
“Myshkin and the Middle,” ASEEES Convention, Washington, DC, November
2016]
[2016
Roundtable participant — “Dostoevsky’s ‘The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,’”
ASEEES Convention, Washington, DC, November 2016]
[2016
“Crime and Punishment in Networks.” Crime and Punishment at 150 Conference,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 2016]
2015
“‘Ves’ vash Karamazovskii vopros’: Naming in The Brothers Karamazov,”
ASEEES Convention, Philadelphia, November 2015
2015
Roundtable participant — “Minor Characters in Russian Literature (Dostoevsky
to Nabokov),” ASEEES Convention, Philadelphia, November 2015
2015
“‘To describe the life of humanity, or even of a single nation...’”: Representing
Crowds in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace,” ACLA Convention, Seattle, March
2015 (Horst Frenz Prize Nominee)
2015
“Arkady’s Overcoat: The ‘life of the majority’ in Dostoevsky’s The Adolescent,”
UCLA, February 2 2015
2014
“ ‘Istoriia vsekh’: Epilog i sistema personazhei v ‘Voine i mire’” (“ ‘The history
of all’: The epilogue and the character-system of War and Peace”) IX
Mezhdunarodnaia nauchnaia konferentsiia ‘Lev Tolstoi i mirovaia literatura,’
Iasnaia Poliana (Russia), August 2014
2014
“ ‘A Variety of Forms’: Reading Character in Nabokov,” Doctoral Day on
Nabokov, Strasbourg University (France), May 2014
2013
“‘Dva, dva!’: Nikolen’ka’s Dream and the Dream of Reality in War and Peace,”
ASEEES Convention, Boston, November 2013
2013
Discussant – “Russian Literary Debates of the 1850s and 1870s: Complicating
the ‘Aesthetic’ and ‘Radical’ Divide,” ASEEES Convention, Boston, November
2013
2012
“Dinner at the English Club: Approaching the Character-System of Tolstoy’s War
and Peace,” ASEEES Convention, New Orleans, November 2012
2011
“ ‘Iskolotaia iglami pamiat’’: Narrative, Proof, and the Reader in The Master and
Margarita,” AATSEEL Convention, Los Angeles, January 2011.
2011
Roundtable participant – “Mikhail Kuzmin’s ‘Trout Breaking Through the Ice’:
The Poem’s Reputation and the Aesthetic Experience of Reading,” ASEEES
Convention, Washington, DC, November 2011
Panels/Roundtables/Colloquia Organized
2017
“Mimesis in Russian Literature” (Panel Stream), AATSEEL Convention, San
Francisco, January 2017
2016
“Formal (Dis)solutions in Dostoevsky” (Panel), ASEEES Convention,
Washington, DC, November 2016
2015
“Minor Characters in Russian Literature (Dostoevsky to Nabokov)” (Roundtable),
ASEEES Convention, Philadelphia, November 2015
2014
Stanford/Berkeley Graduate Colloquium on “Form in the Novel,” Stanford and
UC Berkeley, November 2014 and February 2015, co-organizer with Mark Taylor
(Stanford, English)
2012
“Characters on the Margins in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy” (Panel), ASEEES
Convention, New Orleans, November 2012
2011
“Mikhail Kuzmin’s ‘Trout Breaking Through the Ice’: The Poem’s Reputation
and the Aesthetic Experience of Reading” (Roundtable), ASEEES Convention,
Washington, DC, November 2011, co-organizer with Olga Matich (UC Berkeley,
Slavic)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
[Princeton University, Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities and Dept. of Slavic
Languages and Literatures
Death and the Character, Fall 2016 (Freshman Seminar)
Approaches to Western Culture, Spring 2017 (Second half of interdisciplinary humanities survey,
Renaissance to the Modern; team-taught)]
University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2010-2016
Literature
Great Books of Russian Literature: Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Reading and Composition: The Elements of Character
Nabokov (Course reader)
Reading and Composition: Encounters with Utopia (Substitute instructor, last third of course)
Language
Intermediate Russian (Fourth-semester)
Elementary Russian (First-semester)
WriterCoach Connection, Albany, CA, 2016
Writing Coach, Longfellow Middle School (Writing tutor, grades 6-8)
M.S. 243, New York City, 2008-2009
Urban Teaching Fellow (Teaching intern, tutor, and assistant, grades 5-8)
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE
Departmental Service
2015
2012
Graduate student co-representative, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of
Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
Co-coordinator, graduate student response to External Review of the Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
Working Groups Organized
2014-2016
2010-2011
Co-coordinator, “Consortium on the Novel,” UC Berkeley (Interdisciplinary)
Co-coordinator, “Kruzhok,” UC Berkeley (Slavic)
Research Assistance and Editing
2011-2016
2012-2013
2011
2010-2011
Research assistant and editor/translator of manuscripts for Irina Paperno, UC
Berkeley (Slavic)
Research assistant for Eric Naiman, UC Berkeley (Slavic)
Research assistant for Catherine Gallagher, UC Berkeley (English)
Research assistant for Viktor Zhivov, UC Berkeley (Slavic)
Academic Translations from Russian
2011
Draft translation of “Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood,”
in L. Olson and S. Adonyeva, Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition,
Transgression, Compromise. Madison, WI: U. of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
2007
“Epilogue: The Spirit of Literature,” in Ilya Vinitsky, Ghostly Paradoxes: Modern
Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism. Toronto: U. of Toronto
Press, 2009.
LANGUAGES
English (native), Russian (fluent), French (reading), German (reading), Old
Church Slavic (basic reading)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: ASEEES, AATSEEL, ACLA
REFEREES
Irina Paperno
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2979
[email protected]
Eric Naiman
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2979
[email protected]
Dorothy Hale
English Dept.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3467
[email protected]
Lisa Little
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2979
[email protected]