Katherine Hill Reischl, Ph.D.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Princeton University
227 East Pyne * (609) 258-4509 * [email protected]
POSITIONS:
Assistant Professor, Princeton University
(2014-present)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
(2013-2014)
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, June 2013
Dissertation: “Objective Authorship: Photography and Writing in Russia, 1905-1975,” defended
with distinction.
M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, June 2007
M.A. Thesis: “The Aesthetics of Space in Soviet Photography: The Case of Il’ia Ehrenburg’s
Moi Parizh,” high pass.
B. A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, June 2005
B.A. Thesis: “Dostoevsky’s Icons,” with honors.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
“An Exercise in Photographic Literacy: The Refamiliarizing of the Soviet Avant-garde,”
October. (Under Review).
“Authorship and Photography in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: The Transformation of Tolstoy’s
Legacy in Popular Photographic Press,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 60 (2012),
special issue on the visual history of Russia in the 19th century (peer-reviewed).
“Playing with Photography,” contribution to book-catalogue for the University of Chicago
Special Collections exhibit Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Children’s Books and Graphic
Arts, ed. Robert Bird (University of Chicago Library, 2011) and entry:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits/sovietchildrensbooks/
Reviews:
Book Review: Ben Hellman. Fairy Tales and True Stories: The History of Russian Literature for
Children and Young People (1574-2010) (Brill, 2013) in Slavic and East European Journal 59.2
(Summer 2015) (forthcoming).
Book Review: Exposed Memories: Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory. Eds.
Zsófia Bán and Hedvig Turai (2010) in Art Margins (September 2014). Available online:
http://artmargins.com/index.php/4-books/752-2014-09-16-15-53-34
Exhibition Review: “The Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932,” at the
Graham Foundation, Chicago; Art Margins, January 2013. Available online:
http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/3-exhibitions/700-the-lost-vanguard-soviet-modernistarchitecture-1922-32Exhibition Review: “Vision and Communism,” at the Smart Museum of Art, University of
Chicago, Art Margins, December 2011. Available online:
http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/3-exhibitions/654-vision-and-communism
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
University of Chicago Mellon Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, Academic year 2011-2012.
Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching, University of Chicago,
2010.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, Moscow and St. Petersburg,
Academic year 2010-11.
University of Chicago Mellon Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, Academic year 2010-11
(declined).
Nicholson Center for British Studies Graduate Fellowship for archival research at the Leeds
Russian Archive, Summer 2009.
University of Chicago Humanities Division Travel Grant for archival research of Soviet
photographic journals at the New York Public Library, Summer 2009.
University of Chicago Provost’s Summer Fellowship, 2008.
Department of Education Fulbright-Hays funded fellowship for ACTR Summer Russian
Teachers Program, 2008.
Department of State Critical Language Scholarship for Summer Study in Russia, 2008
(declined).
Summer Research Associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, July 2007.
Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, entering 2005.
FLAG (Foreign Language Acquisition Grant), summer 2004 for language study abroad with
CIEE in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Phi Beta Kappa
G.V. Bobrinskoy Award for excellence in undergraduate studies in Slavic Languages and
Literatures, University of Chicago.
TEACHING:
Princeton University
SLA/RES 221: Soviet Culture, Above and Below Ground (Undergraduate Course), Spring 2015
SLA/RES 334: “Moscow/Petersburg: Russia in Two Capitals” (Undergraduate Course), Fall
2014
FRS 171: “Photography and Literature” (Freshman Seminar), Fall 2014
University of New Mexico
RUSS 497: “Undergraduate Problems: Russian Sci-Fi” (Independent Study), Spring 2014
RUSS 338/COMP 338/ENGL 338: “Modern Russian Culture: Utopia, Fantasy, Reality”
(Undergraduate Course), Spring 2014
RUSS 340/COMP 340/ENGL 340: “Moscow/St. Petersburg: Russia through Two Capitals”
(Undergraduate Course), Fall 2013
RUSS 201-202: “Intermediate Russian,” 2013-2014
University of Chicago
HUMA 141: “Reading Cultures: Travel” (Freshman Seminar), Winter 2013
HUMA 140: “Reading Cultures: Collecting Cultures” (Freshman Seminar), Fall 2012
RUSS 201-203: “Second-Year Russian: Intermediate Russian,” 2012-2013
RUSS 242: “Soviet Literature: Above and Below Ground” (Undergraduate Course), Winter
2009
RUSS 257/357/ISHU 231/331/HUMA 241: “Russian Literature from Modernism to
Postmodernism” (Undergraduate/Graduate Course), Spring 2008
RUSS 104-105-106: “Elementary Russian through Pushkin,” 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“Smile: The Foreign Photo-Narratives of Il’ia Ehrenburg and Il’ia Il’f,” ASEEES Convention,
San Antonio TX, 2014.
“Cultural Tectonics: The Large-Scale Motions of Culture,” roundtable participant presentation
on early color photography in America and Russia, ASEEES Convention, San Antonio TX,
2014.
“A Photographic Inheritance: The Afterlife of Leonid Andreev’s Family Photographs,”
AATSEEL Conference, Chicago IL, 2014.
“Photography and the Problem of Authorship at the Belomor Canal,” ASEEES Convention,
Boston MA, 2013.
“Towards a Soviet Photographic Literacy: Reading Photo-Textual Spaces in the 1930s,”
ASEEES Convention, New Orleans LA, 2012.
“Chto eto takoe? What is this?: Locating the Narrative in Soviet Print Culture,” invited
contribution to Agitation! A Symposium, conference event for the Chicago based “Soviet Arts
Experience,” University of Chicago, October 2011.
“Intersections of Photography and Literature,” roundtable, co-organizer and participant,
presentation on Mikhail Prishvin’s photography, ASEEES Conference, Los Angeles CA, 2010.
“The Battle of Light and Dark: Photography and Prose of Edgar Allan Poe and Leonid Andreev,”
ASEEES Conference, Los Angeles CA, 2010.
“Visualizing the Invisible: The Gulag in Photography and Illustration,” AAASS Conference,
Boston MA, 2009.
“The Aesthetics of Space in Soviet Photography: The Case of Il’ia Ehrenburg’s Moi Parizh,”
English Graduate Colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal, March 2007.
“The Svejkian Imaginary,” Slavic Forum, University of Chicago, April 2007.
“The ‘Scrapbooks’ of V.V. Rozanov and Il’ia Ehrenburg,” Slavic Forum, University of Chicago,
April 2006.
GUEST LECTURES:
“Битва света и тьмы: Фотография и проза Л. Н. Андреева” in Prof. Dmitrii Bak’s young
scholars’ seminar “История русского литературного быта” Russian State University for the
Humanities (RGGU), Moscow, March 2011.
“Leonid Andreev’s Finnish Dacha” in Prof. Malynne Sternstein’s course Philosophy of
Architecture, University of Chicago, Spring 2010.
“Socialist Realism” in Prof. Aleksandr Spektor’s Intro to Russian Literature-3, University of
Chicago, Spring 2007.
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
Departmental Representative for Undergraduate Studies, Department of Slavic Languages,
Princeton University, 2014 to present.
Member of organizing committee for interdisciplinary Soviet Children’s Book Symposium,
Princeton University, to be held in Spring 2015.
Faculty Fellow, Forbes College, Princeton University, 2014 to present.
Member of Masthead Committee for the Program in Language and Culture, Princeton
University, 2014-present.
Member of student sub-committee for the selection of the University Registrar, University of
Chicago, March 2012.
Member of organizing committee for Soviet children’s books exhibition Adventures in the Soviet
Imaginary, Special Collections, University of Chicago, 2006-2011.
Member of Dean of Humanities Student Advisory Committee, University of Chicago, Winter
2008-Summer 2010.
Chair, Slavic Graduate Society, University of Chicago, 2007-2010.
Representative for the Slavic Department to the Humanities Division Graduate Student Council,
2007-2008.
Committee Chair, University of Chicago Annual Slavic Forum, April 2007, April 2008, May
2009.
Member of student sub-committee for the selection of Vice President Dean of Students at the
University of Chicago, 2006-2007.
TRANSLATION AND PUBLICATION ASSISTANCE:
Russian to English translation of interview with Nadya Tolokonnikova. Excerpt published in
WSJ Magazine, July/August 2014.
Russian to English translation consultant for Prof. Matthew Jesse Jackson’s The Experimental
Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes, (University of Chicago
Press, 2010).
Russian to English translation and transliteration consultant for John Tredea’s Russian Warships
in the Age of Sail 1696-1860, (Naval Institute Press, 2009).
Russian translation consultant for Goodman Theater for production of Anton Chekhov’s
Platonov, Chicago, Il, October - December 2009.
Gathered images for publication and constructed index for Robert Bird’s Andrei Tarkovsky:
Elements of Cinema (Reaktion, 2008).
Constructed index for Professor Robert Bird’s Viatcheslav Ivanov: The Russian Prospero
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2006).
OTHER SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
“An Introduction to Pushkin’s Russian in ‘The Bronze Horseman’” for Russian Writers’
Seminar, The Bishop’s School, La Jolla CA, Oct. 2013.
“How to Work your Conference,” presentation on networking at academic conferences for the
Office of Graduate Affairs, University of Chicago, Apr. 2012
“A Career in Russian Literature” Keynote address for Alumni Career Day at The Bishop’s
School, La Jolla CA, Feb. 2009
“Tolstoy’s Russian in Anna Karenina” for Russian Writers’ Senior Seminar, The Bishop’s
School, La Jolla CA, Mar. 2008
“Translating Dostoevsky” for Russian Writers’ Senior Seminar, The Bishop’s School, La Jolla
CA, Mar. 2006
LANGUAGES:
Russian: near native; completed Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpretation in Russian,
University of Chicago, Summer 2009.
Czech: basic speaking; reading knowledge
Old Church Slavonic: reading knowledge
German: reading knowledge
French: reading knowledge
Spanish: Proficient speaking and reading