Dr Alexandra Smith: Short CV. (MAY 2016.)
Reader in Russian Studies, Department of European Languages and Cultures, School of
Languages, Literatures and Cultures, The University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square,
Edinburgh EH8 9JX ; [email protected]
Education: BA Hons: Herzen State Pedagogical University, St Petersburg, 1980; PhD:
SSEES, UCL, University of London, 1993.
Work: University of Edinburgh: 1 January 2007- current. Previous employment:
University of Essex (Tutor in Russian, 1987-1990); University of Bristol (Lecturer in
Russian, 1993-94); University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Lecturer/Senior
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer above the Bar, 1995-June 2006); University of Sheffield
(Lecturer in Russian, July –December 2006).
Relevant training and experience: School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures’
Coordinator for Equality and Diversity (2008-present); participant of the training course
“Research Leaders” organized by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
University of Edinburgh in 2012-13; Head of Russian, University of Canterbury (19992003); Head of Russian (University of Edinburgh: 2008-2009; 2012 (S2); 2014-15);
Chairperson of the Association of Australian and New Zealand Slavists (2003-2008).
Professional service: member of the editorial and advisory boards of several journals,
including “New Zealand Slavonic Review”, “Australian East European and Slavonic
Studies”, "The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review”, “Experimental Poetics and
Aesthetics", and "AvtobiographiIA" (University of Padua), and member of the Editorial
Board of the series "Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance"
published by Edinburgh University Press; Member of the Northern Theory School
network: http://www.northerntheoryschool.co.uk
Current teaching: second- and fourth-year Russian courses on literature and culture;
contributor to second -year DELC courses on European Theatre, European Cinema and
Prose Fiction in Comparative perspectives; Contributor to MSc course on the Fantastic
Fiction, and to MSc programmes on Comparative and General literature, and on Theatre
and Performance Studies; Director of the MSc in Theatre and Performance Programme;
Coordinator of Introduction to European Theatre course; The Golden and Silver Ages of
Russian literature course; The Great Russian novel course, and the Post-Soviet Word,
Image and Memory course.
Nominated for the Best Overall Teacher award in 2014-15 and in 2015-16.
Administrative duties: Director of MSc Programme in Theatre and Perfromance (2015current); Organiser of the Introduction to European Theatre course; The Great Russian
Novel course; the Post-Soviet Word, Image and Memory course; the Golden and Silver
Ages of Russian literature course; year-abroad coordinator; coordinator of the 3rd year
Russian course for visiting students; member of the LLC’s Library committee; LLC’s
Equality and Diversity coordinator; member of the of LLC’s group of assessors of
research grants.
Research activity (since 2003)
In 2003-2007 – participation in an international inter-disciplinary project on post-Soviet
Petersburg culture led by the University of Helsinki; in autumn 2008: an award of the
British Academy Overseas Conference grant (for participation in the AAASS conference
in November 2008): £400; in December 2010: an award of the AHRC grant jointly with
Dr Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter) for a 3-year project: "Reconfiguring the
Canon of Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry, 1991-2008" (£429,000 - with funding for 1
post-doctoral fellow and 2 PhD students). Its objective is to explore the ways in which the
contemporary Russian literary world has reshaped the canon of 20th-century poetry;
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2010-13: participation in the one international project on Russian 19 and 20 century
auto/biographical writing led by the University of Padua, Italy; autumn 2012: an award of
the grant by the Centre for Research, Central and East European Studies (funded by the
two major funding bodies such as AHRC and British Academy), University of Glasgow,
towards an international conference/workshop "Word and Image in Russian Contexts"
(£3, 990). It took place on 1.02.2013 at Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh; A
small grant from the LLC towards the organisation on 4 October 2013 (together with
Professor Olga Taxidou (English Literature) of a one-day workshop/seminar on Russian
and European modernist theatre and performance; a £ 5,000 LLC impact grant jointly
with Nicola McCarty (playwright, director, Lecturer in Creative Writing University of
Edinburgh) for organizing an international event at Traverse theatre (29.05.2014);
another LLC impact grant towards the translation and production of 2 Russian plays at
Oron Mor. A joint project with the National Theatre of Scotland (October 2014- May
2015).
RECENT GRANTS: a joint award with Dr Isabelle Darmon (Department of Sociology,
University of Edinburgh) from the Principal’s teaching Award for the project “Theory on
Stage” (£1,495) in April 2016; Moray Endowment Fund Grant (2,000) in December
2015 for a research assistant related to a co-authored book on Russian post-Soviet poetic
canon.
Publications:
Books
"Canonicity, 20th-c. Poetry and Russian National Identity (1991-2008) (with Katharine
Hodgson) (Peter Lang, forthcoming) “The Art of Memory: Russian 20th-c. Elegy from
Tsvetaeva to Sokurov”(in preparation). “Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of
Modernity in Russian 20th-century Poetry” (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam / New York:
2006). [361 pp.]
“Pesn ́ peresmeshnika: Pushkin v tvorchestve Mariny Tsvetaevoi”, Tsvetaeva Museum
and Ellis Lak, Moscow, 1999. [252pp.] “The Song of the Mockingbird: Pushkin in the
Work of Marina Tsvetaeva”. Peter Lang, Bern / Berlin/ New York / Paris / Wien, 1994.
[211pp]
Edited Special Editions of Journals
Alexandra Smith and Catherine Ciepiela, editors. Russian Literature : Marina Cvetaeva,
Volume 73, Issue 4, Pages 493-644 (15 May 2013).
Articles in Refereed Journals
“Lev Tolstoy in the Age of Kinoglasnost’: Mikhail Shveitser’s The Kreutzer Sonata as a
Critique of Russian Erotic Utopia and Soviet ideology,” Australian Slavonic and East
European Studies, volume 29, nos. 1-2, 2015, pp.31-61.
“Anastasiia Tsvetaeva (1894-1993) as a Gulag writer”, Gulag Studies, vols 7-8, 2014-2015, pp.28-49.
Marina Tsvetaeva's Memoir on Maksimilian Voloshin in the Context of Artistic and
Intellectual Trends of the 1910s-30s, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Band 71, 2013,
pp.189-210.
Searching for a New Self: Truth-telling and Double Vision in Joseph Brodsky's Essay 'In
a Room and a Half' (1985)", AvtobiografiIa, volume 2, part 1, 2013, pp.152- 169;
http://journals.padovauniversitypress.it/avtobiografija/content/searching-new-self- truth%C2%ADtelling-and-double-vision-joseph-brodsky’s-essay-room-and-half
Consuming Utopian Thought in an Anti-Utopian Age: The Reception of Andrej
Platonovʼs Čevengur in Todayʼs Russia", Russian Literature, volume 73, issue 1/2, 2013,
pp.209-227
(with Catherine Cieliela). "Marina Cvetaeva and Her Readers", Russian Literature,
Amsterdam, volume 73, issue 4, 2013, pp.539-563. "The Transcendent Power of the
Image: Marina Cvetaeva's Vision of Russian Icons and the Mother of God in the 1910s20s", Russian Literature, Amsterdam, volume 73, issue 4, 2013, pp.539-563.
"Мемуарная проза Марины Цветаевой как анти-памятник: очерк 'Живое о живом
'(1932 г.) в контексте мифотворческих тенденций российского и европейского
модернизма 1910х-30х годов", AvtobiografiЯ, volume 1, 2012, pp.167–210.
[http://journals.padovauniversitypress.it/avtobiografija/]
“Reconfiguring the Utopian Vision: Tret′iakov’s Play I Want a Baby!(1926) as a
Response to the Revolutionary Restructuring of Everyday Life”, Australian Slavonic &
East European Studies, Vol. 25, Nos. 1–2 (2011), pp.107–120.
[http://miskinhill.com.au/journals/asees/25:1-2/reconfiguring-utopian-vision]
"Nikolai Evreinov and Edith Craig as Mediums of Modernist Sensibility", New Theatre
Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, No. 26, 2010, pp. 203-216.
‘The Effacement of History, Theatricality and Postmodern Urban Fantasies in the Prose
of Petrushevskaya and Pelevin’, Die Welt der Slaven, LIV, 2009, pp. 53-78.
"The Reach of Modern Life: Tynianov's Pushkin, Melancholy and the Critique of
Modernity’, Wiener Slawisticher Almanach, Bd. 61, 2008, pp. 85-108.
[http://periodika.digitale-sammlungen.de/wsa/Blatt_bsb00064689,00087.html]
“A Case of Fluid Identity: Boris Pasternak as Flâneur and an Invitation au Voyage”,
Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, band 58, 2006, pp. 117-139. [http://periodika.digitalesammlungen.de/wsa/Blatt_bsb00050166,00117.html]
“Fictionality, Theatricality and Staging of Self: A New Look at Pushkin’s ‘Egyptian
Nights’, Slavonic and East European Review , University of London, volume 84, number
3, July 2006, pp. 393-418.
“Bypassing Death, Life Creating and Last Poems of Four Russian Modernists: Nikolai
Gumilev, Nikolai Otsup, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova”, Australian Slavonic &
East European Studies, vol.18, 1-2, 2004, pp.87-102. “Toward the Poetics of Exile:
Marina Tsvetaeva’s Translation of Baudelaire’s ‘Le Voyage’”, Ars Interpres, No.2,
Stockholm-Moscow-New York, May 2004, pp.179-199. (or: http://ars-interpres2.nm.ru/a_s_an_2.html).
“Andrei Tarkovsky as Reader of Arsenii Tarkovsky’s Poetry”, Russian Studies in
Literature: Special Issue: Russian Literature on the Silver Screen, [edited by John
Givens], vol.40. No.3, USA, Summer 2004, pp.46-63.
“Vladimir Nabokov As Translator of Russian Poetry”, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach,
Band 51, 2003, pp.133-166. [http://periodika.digitalesammlungen.de/wsa/Blatt_bsb00010117,00135.html]
“The Picaro Myth in the Leningrad Alternative Writing of the Sixties: Andrei Bitov,
Joseph Brodsky and Alexander Kushner”, Australian Slavonic and East European
Studies, vol.17, Numbers 1-2, 2003, pp.79-100.
“Writing As Performance: The Case of Marina Tsvetaeva”, New Zealand Slavonic
Journal, vol.37, 2003, pp.143-153.
“New Interpretations of Nabokov”, Slavonica, Manchester, Vol.9, No.2, November 2003,
pp.127-130.
“The Return of the Flâneur in Platonov’s Story ‘Doubting Makar’”, in: Livingstone,
Angela, editor. “Andrei Platonov: Special Issue, Volume 2”, Essays in Poetics, volume
27, Keele, Autumn 2002, pp.124-138.
“The Memoirs of Emma Gershtein and Nikolai Khardzhiev and Russian Modernist
Canon”, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, volume 15, Numbers 1-2,
Melbourne, 2001, pp.75-92.
“The Enigma of Mikhail Prishvin: Prishvin’s Pre-Soviet and Soviet Diaries”, New
Zealand Slavonic Journal, 2001, pp.79-92.
“Surpassing Acmeism? – The Lost Key to Cvetaeva’s ‘Poem of the Air’”, Russian
Literature, [special issue: The Silver Age], XLV-II, 15 February 1999, Amsterdam,
pp.209-222.
“The Poetics of Expressiveness and Some Aspects of Non-Verbal Communication in
Pushkin’s Work”, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, vol.13, Number 2,
1999, pp.95-114 (This essay was co-winner of ASEES’s Pushkin Prize contest).
“The Representation of Memory in Petrushevskaia’s Prose”, Essays in Poetics, Keele,
1999, pp.182-201.
“In Populist Clothes: Anarchy and Subversion in Petrushevskaya’s Latest Fiction”, New
Zealand Slavonic Journal, 1997, Wellington, pp.107-127.
“Dance as Theme and Structure in Russian Modernism”, Essays in Poetics, Autumn
1996, vol 2, Keele, pp.19-34.
“The Tsvetaeva Theme in Akhmatova’s Late Poetry”, Australian Slavonic and East
European Studies, vol.10, No.2, 1996, Melbourne, pp.139-156. [Smith, Alexandra and
Crone, Lisa.]
“Cheating Death: Tsvetaeva and Derzhavin on the Immortality of the Poet”, Slavic
Almanac: Volume 3, University of South Africa Press, 1995, pp.1-30.
“Tsvetaeva Resurrected”, The Slavonic and East European Review, October 1993,
London, pp.693-700.
“Recent Books on Tsvetaeva”, The Slavonic and East European Review, July 1990,
London, pp.512-51.
“Literary Portrait in the Poetry of Pasternak and Tsvetaeva”, Essays in Poetics, Keele,
Sep. 1990, pp.94-101.
“The Cnidus Myth and Tsvetaeva’s Interpretation of Pushkin’s Love for Nataliia
Goncharova”, Essays in Poetics, Keele, September 1989, pp.83-102.
Book Chapters
“The Muse of Lament or the
MuseofCompassion?TheReceptionofAnna
AkhmatovainGreatBritain”in Victoroff, Tatiana, editor.Anna Akhmatova et la poesie
europeenne, Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter
Lang Publishing Group, [Vol. Series: Nouvelle poetique comparatiste / New Comparative
Poetics - Volume 36], 2016, pp. 265-293.
“Pushkin as a Cultural Myth: Dostoevskii’s Pushkin Speech and Its Legacy in Russian
Modernism,” in Andrew, Joe and Reid, Robert. Dostoevskii’s Overcoat:Influence,
Comparison, and Transposition, Amsterdam, New York, NY: Rodopi, 2013, pp.123-147.
"Through the Lens of Soviet Psychoanalysis of the 1920s: Ivan Ermakov's Readings of
Pushkin's Poetry", in Dinega, Alyssa, editor. The Other Pushkiniana: Taboo Texts,
Topics, Interpretations, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012, pp.350-377.
"Jane Harrison as an Interpreter of Russian Culture in the 1910s-1920s", in Cross,
Anthony. editor. A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture,
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2012, pp.170-190. (See:
http://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/PPR/chap12.html)
"The Image of Marina Tsvetaeva in the Emigre Memoirs, Criticism and Scholarship," in
Adamovitch, Marina; Smotodinska, Tatiana; Ermolaev, Natalia, eds. Russian Emigration
at the Crossroads of the XX-XXI Centuries: Proceeding of the International Conference
Dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the New Review/Novyj Zhurnal, New York: The
New Review Publishing, 2012, pp.186-201.
"Russian Women Poets on the Death of the Poet, the Modernist Canon and the
Postmodern Condition," in Marsh, Rosalind. New Women's Writing in Russia, Central
and Eastern Europe: Gender, Generations and Identities, Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2012, pp.300-319. "Russian Children's Literature," in
Literary Encyclopedia, edited by Clark and Cornwell;
http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=16293 (published in March
2011)
"Peterburgskii tekst v novykh kontekstakh: Serebrianyi vek kak mesto pamiati," (The
Petersburg Myth in New Contexts: The Silver Age as a Mnemonic Space"), in Pesonen,
Pekki et al, editors. Evropa v Rossii: Sbornik statei, Moscow: Helsinki University/Novoe
literaturnoe obozrenie, 2010, pp.417-433.
“Aleksandr Fadeev”, in Adams, Bruce. The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of
Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History, Vol. 10, Gulf Breeze, FL, Academic Publishers,
2008.
"Rol' snovidenii v samoprezentatsii I sozdanii kommunikativnykh situatsii v poezii
Tsvetaevoi i Parnok v svete idei Shpielrein" ("The Role of Dreams in the SelfRepresentation Strategies of Tsevetaeva and Parnok in Light of Spielrein's Theory"),
in Russkaia Antropologicheskaia Shkola: Trudy: Sledy Snovideniia v Snovidcheskoe v
filosofii, psikhologii, iskusstve, volume 5, Moscow: RGGU, 2008, pp.78-89.
"Nostalgic Visions and Mnemonic Figures: Tsvetaeva's Allusions to Ivan Turgenev's
Goethian Outlook’", in: Andrew, Joe; Offord, Derek, and Reid, Robert, editors, Turgenev
and Russian Culture. Essays to Honour Richard Peace, Studies in Slavic Literatures and
Poetics, XLIX (Amsterdam-NewYork, NY: Rodopi, 2008), pp.333-346.
“In the Shadow of Nabokov: The Postmodernist Parody in Tolstaya’s Novel The Slynx”
(in Russian), in Abasheva, Marina. Sovremennaia russkaia literatura: problemy
izucheniia I prepodavaniia: Materialy tret’ei mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi I prakticheskoi
konferentsii; 27.02.-2.03.2007 (Contemporary Russian literature: Analysis and Practice:
Materials of the Third International Conference), Perm’ State Pedagogical University,
Perm’, 2007, pp.51-59.
“Misticheskii ateizm i poisk novoi etiki: tsvetaevskoe ponimanie iskusstva pri svete
sovesti” (“Mystical atheism and a search for new ethics: Tsvetaeva’s vision of the art in
light of conscience”), Beliakova, I.Iu., editor. Dobro i zlo v mire Tsvetaevoi (The Good
and the Evil in Tsvetaeva’s Artistic World: Proceedings of the 14th International
Conference: Moscow, 9-12 October 2006), Dom-muzei Mariny Tsvetaevoi, Moscow,
2007, pp.119-129.
“L’Image de Saint-Pétersbourg dans la littérature de ces dernières années” (“The Image
of St Petersburg in Russian Literature in the Last Decade”), in: Hélène Mélat, editor. Le
Premier Quinquennat De La Prose Russe Du XXI e Siécle, Institut D’Études Slaves,
Paris, 2006, pp.143-155.
“Georgii Adamovich kak kritik Tsvetaevoi i poslednii akmeistskii kritik v kontekste
literaturnogo byta russkoi emigratsii 1920kh” (“G. Adamovich as an Acmeist Émigré
Critic of the 1920s”), in: Beliakova, I. Iu., editor. V rasseianii suschie...
kul'torologicheskie chteniia «Russkaia emigratsiia XX veka (15-16 February 2005,
Moscow), Dom-muzei Tsvetaevoi, Moscow, 2006, pp.147-168.
“Marina Tsvetaeva v sovremennoi klassicheskoi muzyke” (“Marina Tsvetaeva in
contemporary classical music”), in.Beliakova, I. Iu., Liki Mariny Tsvetaevoi (Marina
Tsvetaeva’s Various Selves: Proceedings of the International Conference: Moscow, 9-12
October 2005), Moscow: Dom-muzei Mariny Tsvetaevoi, Russian Academy of Sciences,
2006, pp.470-78.
“Publishing Houses: Soviet and Post-Soviet”; “Musicals: Russian and Soviet”;
“Operetta”; “Song: Soviet popular”; “Puppet theatre”; “Research institutions”; and
“Traditions and Customs”, in Smorodinskaia, Tatiana,Evans-Romaine, Karen, and
Goscilo, Helena, editors. Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian Culture,
Routledge,London, New York, 2006.
“Iurii Tynianov: Life and Works”, in Literary Encyclopedia, edited by Clark and
Cornwell; http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4495 (2006)
“Liudmila Petrushevskaya” , in Literary Encyclopedia, edited by Clark and Cornwell;
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11693 (2006);
“Maxim Gorky”, in Literary Encyclopedia, edited by Clark and Cornwell;
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1816 (published in 2006).
“Marina Tsvetaeva: Life and Works”, in Literary Encyclopedia, edited by Clark and
Cornwell; www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4466 (2005);
“Marina Tsvetaeva On Creative Evolution and Intuitive Cognition (In the light of Henri
Bergson’s Ideas)”, (In Russian) in: Stikhiia i razum v zhizni i tvorchestve Mariny
Tsvetaevoi, edited by Beliakova, I.Iu.., Moscow: Dom-muzei Mariny Tsvetaevoi, 2005,
pp.25-36.
Entries in: Rubins, Maria, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century
Russian Émigré Writers, A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, Thomson-Gale, Detroit, New
York, San Francisco, London, Munich, 2005: Georgii Adamovich (pp.3-10); Nikolai
Evreinov (93-101); Roman Gul' (134-140); Mat' Mariia (Kuzmina-Karavaeva) (215-221);
Irina Odoevtseva (269-277); Nikolai Otsup (278-282); I.S. Shmelev (293-300); Anatolii
Shteiger (301-306); Boris Zaitsev (340-47).
“Poslednee stikhotvorenie Mariny Tsvetaevoi kak poeticheskoe zaveshchanie,” in
Emigrantskii Period v zhizni i tvorchestve Mariny Tsvetaevoi, edited by I.Iu. Beliakova,
Dom-muzei Mariny Tsvetaevoi, Moscow, 2004, pp.324-331. Entries in: Russian Writers
Since World War 2, vol.302, edited by Christine Rydel, Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli
Clark Layman, Chicago, 2004: “Iurii Vasil’evich Bondarev”, pp.64-71. “Daniil Granin”,
pp.108-114. “Iurii Nagibin”, pp.177-186. “Vladimir Soloukhin”, pp.317-323. “The
Strugatsky Brothers (Strugatskie)”, pp.356-365. “Vladimir Tendriakov”, pp.366-372.
Entries in: Rydel, Christine, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 272:
Russian Prose Writers Between the World Wars, Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli Clark
Layman Books, Thompson-Gale, Detroit, New York, San Diego, London, Munich, 2003:
“Valentin Petrovich Kataev”, pp.174-186. “Aleksandr Serafimovich”, pp.352-360. “Il’f
and Petrov”, pp.147-160. “Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy”, pp.432-445.
Entries in: Balina, Marina and Lipovetsky, Mark, editors. Dictionary of Literary
Biography, volume 285: Contemporary Russian Writers, Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli
Clark Layman Books, Thompson-Gale, Detroit, New York, San Diego, London, Munich,
2003: “Viktor Krivulin, pp.156-165. “Aleksey Parshchikov”, pp.202-208.
“Pushkin’s Imperial Image of St. Petersburg Revisited”, in: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid,
editors. Two Hundred Years of Pushkin; volume 2: Alexander Pushkin: Myth and
Monument, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, 2003, pp.117-138.
“Tekst kak teatralizovannoe predstavlenie v tvorchestve M.Tsvetaevoi,” Marina
Tsvetaeva: Epokha, Kul’tura, Sud’ba, edited by I.Iu. Beliakova, Dom-muzei Mariny
Tsvetaevoi, Moscow, 2003, pp.237-247.
“Entre art et politique (Le récit de Marina Tsvétaeva ‘Le Chinois’ à la lumière des idées
du mouvement eurasien dans les années 20 et 30 à Paris)”, in: Véronique Lossky and
Jacqueline de Proyart, editors, Marina Tsvétaeva Et La France: Nouveautés et Inédits,
Institut D’Études Slaves, Paris and “Russkii Put’”, Moscow, 2002, pp.178-193.
Entries in: Jolly, Margaretta, editor. Encyclopaedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical
and Biographical Forms, 2 volumes, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, Chicago,
2001: “Marie Bashkirtseff”, volume 1, pp.94-95. “Conversations, Dialogues, and Table
Talks”, volume 1, pp.231-232. “Czech and Slovak Life Writing”, volume 1, pp.256-258.
“Natal’ia Dolgorukaia”, volume 1, pp.281-282. “Bernard de Fontenelle”, volume 1,
pp.327-328. “Vaclav Havel”, volume 1, pp.415-416. “Aleksandr Herzen”, volume 1,
pp.425-426. “Nadezhda Mandel’shtam”, volume 2, pp.584-585. “Vladimir Nabokov”,
volume 2, pp.629-630. “Marina Tsvetaeva”, volume 2, pp.891-893.
“Nabokov’s Short Stories”, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 244: American
Short Stories Writers, edited by P. Meanor and J. McNicholas, A Bruccoli Clark Layman
Book: The Gale Group, Detroit, San Francisco, London, Boston, Woodbridge, Conn.,
2001, pp.254-271.
“Liudmila Petrushevskaia's The Real Fairy Tales As Ethical Self-Situating", in: Gelhard,
Dorothy, editor, Ethics and Literature, Galda and Wilch, Berlin,
Cambridge/Massachusetts, 2001, pp.229-251.
“The Shaping of the Literary Canon in A. Tyrkova-Williams’s book The Life of
Pushkin”, in: Kiseleva, L., editor. Pushkinskie chteniia v Tartu: 2, University of Tartu
(Estonia), Tartu, 2000, pp.267-281.
“The Image of Briusov in the Memoirs of Z.Gippius and M.Tsvetaeva”, in: By Pen and
Charm: Women in the Pantheon of Russian Literature /Piorem i wdziekiem: Kobiety w
panteonie literatury rosyiskiej, edited by Wanda Laszczak and Daria Ambroziak, Opolski
University, Opole (Poland), 1999, pp.114-137.
“Carnivalising the Canon: the Grotesque and the Subversive in Contemporary Russian
Women’s Prose” (Petrushevskaya, Sadur, Tolstaya, Narbikova), in: Russian Literature in
Transition, edited by Ian Lilly and Henrietta Mondry, Astra Press, Nottingham, 1999,
pp.35-58.
Entries in: Reference Guide to Russian Literature, edited by Neil Cornwell, Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers, London/Chicago, 1998: “Balmont’s ‘Let’s Be Like the Sun’”,
pp.138-39. “Bednyi, Demian”, pp.150-51. “Briusov’s ‘The Fiery Angel’”, pp.190-91.
“Chukhontsev, Oleg”, pp.227-28. “Fedin, Konstantin”, pp.300-1. “Gorkii’s ‘The Life of
Klim Samgin’”, pp.353-54. “Khodasevich’s ‘The Heavy Lyre’”, pp.444-46.
“Merezhkovsky, Dmitrii”, pp.549-50. “Pushkin’s ‘The Little Tragedies’”, pp.678-80.
“Severianin, Igor”, pp.718-19. “Tsvetaeva’s ‘After Russia’”, pp.839-40. “Tsvetaeva’s
‘Craft’”, pp.835-6. “Tsvetaeva’s ‘The Tsar-Maiden’”, pp. 834-5. “Tsvetaeva’s ‘Poem of
the Mountain’ and ‘Poem of the End’”, pp.838-839. “Tsvetaeva’s ‘Molodets’”, pp.836-7.
“Tsvetaeva’s ‘Ratcatcher’”, pp.837-38. “Tvardovskii’s ‘Vassilii Terkin’ and ‘Terkin in
the Other World’”, pp.853-54. “Tvardovskii, Aleksandr”, pp.852-53. “Tynianov, Iurii”,
pp.855-56. “Voloshin, Maksimilian”, pp.885-86. “Zamiatin’s ‘The Islanders’”, pp.91112.
“Conformist by Circumstance v. Formalist at Heart: Some Observations on Tynianov’s
Novel Pushkin”, in: Neo-Formalist Papers: Contributions to the Silver Jubilee
Conference to Mark 25 Years of the Neo-Formalist Circle, edited by Joe Andrew and
Robert Reid, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1998, pp.296-315.
“The Role of Mirroring and Doubling in Tsvetaeva’s Work”, in: Marina Tsvetaeva: Un
Chant de Vie, edited by V.Lossky and E.Etkind, YMCA-Press, Paris, 1996, pp.319-332.
“The Role of Pushkin’s Subtexts in Tsvetaeva’s Poetry”, in: Studia Russica
Budapestinensia: 2-3, 1995: Materialy 3 I 4 Pushkinologicheskogo Kollokviuma v
Budapeshte: 1991, 1993, edited by Arpad Kovach and Nagy Istvan, Budapest University
Press (Institutum Philologia Slavicae Orientalis et Balticae in Universitate
Budapestinensi de Rolando Eotvos Nominata), Budapest; 1995, pp.237-45.
Reviews and Review-Articles
Alexandra Smith. Review of: Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the NineteenthCentury Forest by Costlow, Jane T., The Slavonic and East European Review, Volume
92, no.4, 2014, pp.765-767.
Alexandra Smith. Review of: Vladimir Nabokov: Poetry and the Lyric Voice by Morris,
Paul D., The Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 92, no.4, 2014, pp.748-750.
Review of Vera Tolz's book Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental
Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods, Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 65,
Issue 4, June 2013, pp. 783-784.
Review-article: Alexandra Smith "Silver Age Studies: The State of the Field", in Thomas
Seifrid and Nancy Condee, editors. The AATSEEL Newsletter, volume 56, issue 2, April
2013, pp.2-4;http://www.aatseel.org/100111/pdf/aatseelapril13nl.pdf
Review of Galya Diment's book A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of
Samuel Koteliansky, in Wilson, Janet; Kimber, Gerri and Correa, Delia da Sousa, editors.
Katherina Mansfield and the (Post)colonial, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2013, pp.203-205.
Review of Efron, Georgy, The Diaries of Georgy Efron, August 1942-August 1943,
[Translated by O. Zaslavsky], Slavic and East European Journal, Volume 56, number 3,
Fall 2012, pp.484-486.
Review of Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions. (Ed. by A. Schönle),
in The Modern Language Review, Volume 106, Number 2, 1 April 2011 , pp. 619-621.
Review of Emily Lygo's book Leningrad Poetry, 1953-1975, The Times Literary
Supplement, December 24 and 31 2010, No.5621/2, p.34.
Review of Andrew Kahn's book Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence, in Pushkin Review, volume
12-13, 2009-10, pp.149-151.
Review of the DVD "Pantomime in Scotland" in Viewfinder Online, 2013:
http://bufvc.ac.uk/reviews/pantomime-in-scotland
Review of Tim Beasley- Murray's book Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin:
Experience and Form. in The Modern Language Review, Volume 105, Number 4, 1
October 2010 , pp. 1200-1202.
Review of Rylkova, Galina. The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its
Legacy, The Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 88, Number 3, 1 July 2010 pp.
540-542.
Review of Olga Slavnikova's novel 2017, The Scotland-Russia Forum Review, issue 23,
June 23, pp.10-11. Review of Kukulin, I., Lipovetsky, M. and Maofis, M., Veselye
chelovechki: Kul'turnye geroi sovetskogo detstva. Sbornik statei in Slavic Review,
volume 69, number 2, summer 2010, pp.486-487.
Review of Catriona Kelly's book Children's World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991 in
The Modern Language Review, Volume 104, Number 1, 1 January 2009 , pp. 304-305.
Review of Caryl Emerson's book Introduction to Russian Literature in Canadian Slavonic
Papers, volume 51, Number 2-3, June-September 2009, pp.393-95. Review of
Khardzhiev, Nikolai. Vvedenie i kommentarii Sergei Sigei. Pegasus Oost- Europese
Studies, 4. Pegasus, Amsterdam, 2006 in The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol.
87, Number 1, 1 January 2009 , pp. 125-126.
Review of Fleishman, Lasar et al, editors. "A Century's Perspective: Essays on Russian
Literature in Honour of Olga Raevsky Hughes and Robert P. Hughes"., The Slavonic and
East European Review, Volume 86, Number 4, 1 October 2008 , pp. 713-715.
Review of Crone, Anna Lisa. “My Petersburg/Myself: Mental Architecture, and
Imaginative Space", The Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 85, Number 2, 1
April 2007, pp. 337-339.
Review of Adrian Wanner, Russian Minimalism: From the Prose Poem to the Anti-Story,
p. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, volume 40, 2005, p.225. Review of Maxim Shrayer’s
book “Genrikh Sapgir: Klassik avangarda”, in The Slavonic and East European Review,
London, October 2005, pp. 746-747.
Review of Holmgren, Beth, editor. “The Russian Memoir: History and Literature”
(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003), Slavic Review, vol.64, No.1, Spring
2005, pp.232-33.
Review of Stephanie Sandler’s book “Commemorating Pushkin”, The Slavonic and East
European Review, 83, No.1, 2005, pp.123-124.
Review of Shevelenko’s book “Literaturnyi put’ Mariny Tsvetaevoi”, Slavic Review,
vol.63, No. 2, summer 2004, p. 442.
Review of V. Khodasevich’s book “Pushkin i poety ego vremeni” (edited by R. Hughes),
Slavonica, vol.9, No.2, November 2003, pp.135-137.
Review of Joanna Woods’s book “The Russian World of Katharine Mansfield”,
Women’s Studies Journal, vol. 18:1, Autumn 2002, Dunedin, 2002, pp.129-132.
Review essay on L. Zubova’s book “Contemporary Russian Poetry”, The Slavonic and
East European Review, vol.80, No.3, 1 July 2002, London, pp.529-530.
Review of S. Dalton-Brown’s book “Voices from the Void: The Genres of Liudmila
Petrushevskaia”, The Russian Review, vol.61, No.1, January 2002, pp.145-146.
Review of A. Hansen-Love’s book “Der Russische Symbolismus: System und Enfaltung
der Poetichen Motive”, The Slavonic and East European Review, vol.79, no.3, 1 July
2001, London, pp.506-507.
Review of thr book “Sexuality and Body in Russian Culture”, edited by S.Sandler, et al,
Irish Slavonic Studies, 1999.
Review of M.Epstein’s book “Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet
Culture”, (NY, 1998), New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 1999, pp.330.
Review of the book “Russia Through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist
Russia”, ed. By T.W.Clyman, NZSJ, 1999, pp.343-345. Review of the “GLAS 16:
“Childhood: Zip and Other Stories”, NZSJ, 1999, pp.333-35.
Review of A. Verbitskaya’s novel “Keys to Happiness” (tr. By H. Goscilo), NZSJ, 1999,
pp.361-63.
Review of Timo Suni’s book “Kompozitsiia ‘Krysolova’ i mifologism Tsvetaevoi”,
SEER, vol.77, 2, Apr 1999, pp.318-320.
Review of Robert Reid’s book “‘Mozart & Salieri’: Themes, Characters, Sociology”,
SEER, vol.77, 2, Apr 1999, pp.323-4,
Review of Wendy Rosslyn’s book “Anna Bunina”, Irish Slavonic Studies, 1999. Review
of Graham Roberts’ book “The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU – Fact, Fiction,
Metafiction”, Europe-Asia Studies, September 1998.
Review of the book “Tolstoi and Britain” (edited by W.Gareth Jones), Journal of the
Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, No.90, November 1998,
pp.127-29.
Review of Ian K. Lilly’s book “The Dynamics of Russian Verse”, Journal of the
Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, No.90, November 1998,
pp.126-27.
Review of the book edited by Alvin A. Lee and Robert D. Denham, “The Legacy of
Northrop Frye” (Toronto, 1994), Journal of Australasian Universities and Literature
Association, No 87, May, 1997, pp.120-21.
Review of Sven Spieker’s book “Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrei Bitov's
Prose”, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, vol.11, Number 1/2, 1997,
pp.239-242.
Review of David Wells’ book “Anna Akhmatova: Her Poetry”, Australian Slavonic and
East European Studies, vol.11, Number 1/2, 1997, pp.242-244.
Review of Pamela Davidson’s book “Viacheslav Ivanov: A Reference Guide”,
Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, vol.11, Number 1/2, 1997, pp.245-247.
Review of the book edited by Patrick Waddington, “Ivan Turgenev and Britain”, Journal
of Australasian Universities and Literature Association, No 87, May, 1997, pp.119-20.
Review of the book edited by Peter Barta “Russian Literature and the Classics”, Irish
Slavonic Studies, vol.18, 1997, pp.129-30.
Review of Robert Porter’s book “Russian Alternative Prose”, Slovo, Autumn 1997.
Review of the book edited by V.Terras “A.S.Pushkin: ‘Boris Godunov’”(Bristol Classical
Press), New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 1997, pp.264-65.
Review of D.Rayfield's book “Chekhov: ‘Uncle Vania’ & ‘The Wood Demon’”, New
Zealand Slavonic Journal, 1997, pp.267-8.
Review of "A.Platonov: ‘The River-Potudan’” (Bristol Classical Press), NZSJ, 1997,
pp.270-72.
Review of M.Razumovsky’s “Marina Tsvetaeva: A Critical Biography”, SEER, vol.75,
3, July 1997, 1997, pp.511-13. Review of M.Makin’s book “Marina Tsvetaeva: Poetics of
Appropriation”, SEER, vol.74, January 1996.
Review of “Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Iu.Lotman”, (edited by Joe
Andrew, et al), SEER, vol.74, 1, January 1996, pp.116-18.
Review of D.Wells’s book: “Akhmatova and Pushkin: The Pushkin Contexts of
Akhmatova Poetry”, NZSJ, 1996, pp,252-54.
Review of E.Chances’s book “Andrei Bitov: The Ecology of Inspiration”, SEER, vol.73,
2, April 1995, pp.309-312.
Review of A.D.P.Briggs’ book “Alexander Pushkin: ‘Eugene Onegin’”, SEER, vol. 72,
2, April 1994, pp.302-4.
Review of C.Kelly’s anthology “An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing”, Slovo,
London, Autumn 1994.
Review of “An Anthology of Chuvash Poetry” (translated by Peter France), Russistika,
Autumn 1994.
Review of “Art in the Light of Conscience: 8 Essays on Poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva”
(translated by Angela Livingstone), SEER, vol.71, 1, January 1993, pp.145-46.
Review of “Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism” (ed. B.Gasparov, et al), SEER,
vol.71, 2, April 1993, pp.311-13.
Review-article on “Zvezda No.10, 1992”, The Book Review, Moscow, 30 July 1993, p.7.
Review of “Marina Tsvetaeva: Actes du 1er Colloque International” (edited by Robin
Kemball), SEER, vol.70, 4, October 1992, p.746.
Review of A.V.Anikin’s book “Muza i mammona: sotsial ́no-ekonomicheskie motivy u
Pushkina”, SEER, vol.69, 2, April 1991, p.329.
Review of “Bakhtin and Cultural Theory” (edited by D.Shephard), Irish Slavonic Studies,
vol.11, 1990 (1991).
Review of Stephanie Sandler’s “Distant Pleasures: Alexander Pushkin and the Writings
of Exile”, SEER, vol.68, 4, October 1990, pp.737-38.
S.Schwarzband’s “Logika khudozhestvenogo poiska u A.S.Pushkina”, SEER, vol.68, 2,
Apr.1990, pp.310-11. Review of Efim Etkind’s book “Simmetricheskie kompositsii u
Pushkina”, SEER, vol.68, 1, January 1990, pp.110-11.
Review of V.Lossky book on M.Tsvetaeva, The Slavonic and East European Review,
vol.67, 2, April 1989.
Review of Elena Guro’s prose and poetry, SEER, vol.67, October 1989.
Review of the biographies of Tsvetaeva by E.Feinstein and A.Saakyants, The Slavonic
and East European Review, London, vol. 66, 2, April 1988, pp.274-73.
Selected Conference Presentations (Since 2007)
Presented a conference paper on Evreinov’s plays and the commedia della’arte tradition,
and served as a discussant in the panel on Petrushevskaya at the International Congress in
Japan in the beginning of August 2015.
Presented a conference paper at the ASEEES conference in Philadelphia in November
2015, and chaired one session.
Presented a conference paper during the BASEES conference in Cambridge in the
beginning of April 2016, and chaired a session.
"Performing the Crisis of the Imperial Sublime: Fomenko's Production of Tolstoy's Novel
"War and Peace'," 42th Annual Convention, Association for Slavic, East European, and
Eurasian Studies, November 18-21, 2010, Los Angeles, California. "Reading Tolstoi
through the Postmodern Lens: Petr Fomenko’s ‘War and Peace. The Introductory Parts of
the Novel’ (2001) as a Collective Collage", Neo-Formalist Conference "Tolstoy: 100
Years On", 13-15 September 2010, Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
Re-reading Pushkin and Briusov through a Postmodern Prism: Fomenko's play 'Egyptian
Nights', " VIII World Congress, 26-31 July 2010, Stockholm, Sweden. "Tsvetaeva's
Image of Voloshin in the 1930s", NeMLA Convention, Montreal, Quebec, April 8-11,
2010.
"Reading Pushkin and Briusov through the Lens of Postmodern Irony: Fomenko’s
‘Egyptian Nights’”-41st Annual Conference, AAASS, November 12-15, 2009, Boston,
USA. "Out of the Shadow of Freud, Spielrein and Jung: Ermakov's Pushkin", at the
international conference "Alexander Pushkin and Russian National Identity: Taboo Texts,
Topics, Interpretations", January 9-11 2009, The University of Notre-Dame, USA.
“Putting Love At The Operation Table: Tretyakov’s 1926 play “I want a baby”, AAASS
conference, Philadelphia, November 2008. "The Imperial Coastlines in the Writings of
Akhmatova and Brodsky", AAASS, 15-18 November 2007, New Orleans. "The
Petersburg Myth in Post-Soviet Films", at the conference "Europe in Russia", University
of Helsinki, 28-31 August 2007. "Between Football and Poetry: The Representation of
World War 1 in Aleksei German Jr's film "Garpastum" (2005)", ICCEES Regional
European Congress, 2-4 August 2007, Berlin.
Creative Work/ Translations/Interviews/Online publications
Translated 2 plays comissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland by Mikhail
Durnenkov and Yuri Klavdiev : they were performed by Oran Mor theatre in Glasgow in
May 2015.
An Interview with Dmitry Bobyshev after the conference on Russian émigré literature in
New York City (27–28 April 2012) in the US emigre journal "Sviaz' vremen":
http://www.thetimejoint.com/taxonomy/term/3072; and in:
http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/russianpoetrycanon/
An iterview with M. Galina and A.Shtypel: Attitudes to the 20th-century poetic canon:
Maria Galina and Arkady Shtypel’
(5.11.2012):http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/russianpoetrycanon/ "Russian Drama", Drama on
Line,
2012, http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/genres/russian-drama-iid-2536
Translations of several poems of 20th-c. Russian poets (Pasternak, Mandelshtam,
Brodsky, Tsvetaeva, Vvedensky, Blok, Satunovsky, Mnatsakanova) in: A Journey in Five
Postcards: Russian Poetry from the 20th-Century, edited by Katharine Hodgson, Rossica,
volume 20, London: Rossica, 2011.
"The Living Word," in A Journey in Five Postcards: Russian Poetry from the 20thCentury, edited by Katharine Hodgson, Rossica, volume 20, London: Rossica, 2011,
pp.77-79.
Translations of 7 Afanas'ev's fairy tales into English for the Royal Shakespeare Company
(June 2010).
Poetry Collection: "Po sledu Evridiki" , “New Review / Novyj zhurnal” , New York,
2004. Translations of 5 poems of Marina Tsvetaeva published in Issue 2 of “Ars
Interpres” (Stockholm/ Moscow/New York) (see http://ars-interpres2.nm.ru/m_ts_an_2.html)
“Magiia Muzy: a collection of poems”, Gostinaya,volume 6 , conversation 5, Ulita
productions, Philadelphia, 2004: http:www.ulita.net/gost-v6-b5.htm
Several poems published in “We/Myi: The Women’s Dialogue”, No. 25 (41),
Moscow/New York, 2004, pp.36-38. A collection of poetry "Po sledu Evridiki", New
York: New Journal Publishing House, 2004.
Co-author and co-presenter of the TV programme “Tsvetaeva in London” (with Lidiya
Grigor’eva): produced in June 1993 and broadcasted by Russian Central Television.
2015.