Research Interests:
Samizdat, dissidence, uncensored literature, and nonconformist art in the Soviet Union after Stalin. The Jewish movement in the USSR. Bourdieu, public theory, book history, the underground and counterculture, avant-garde and neo-avant-garde. Current projects include: a co-authoredbook on Unofficial Jewish Life in Leningrad; an edited collection on Forms of the Soviet Underground; a digital project on dissident archives and memoirs; a book-length study of trash and used objects in post-war socialist and western art.
Scholarship
Selected Publications:
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat, an electronic archive at the University of Toronto Libraries (launched 2015).
Uncensored: Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence, Northwestern University Press, 2015.
“Ardis Tamizdat Publishing: Giving Back Russian Literature,” From Samizdat to Tamizdat: Transnational Media During and After Socialism, ed. Friederike Kind-Kovacs and Jessie Labov, Berghahn Books, 2013.
“Jewish Samizdat - Dissident Texts and the Dynamics of the Jewish Revival in the Soviet Union,” The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union, ed. Yaccov Roi, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2012.
“Samizdat as Extra-Gutenberg Phenomenon,” Poetics Today, 29/4, 2009.
“The Unofficial Field of Late Soviet Culture,” Slavic Review, 67/4 (2007).
"Perepiska Andreia Siniavskogo s redkollegiei serii 'Biblioteki poeta': Izmenenie sovetskogo literaturnogo polia," Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 71 (2005).
"The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat," Slavic Review, 63, 3 (2004).
"Wyspianski's Wesele: Poised on the Border," Theatre Journal, 54, 2 (2002).
Education:
Ph. D., The University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2001
M. A., The University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1997
B. A., Northwestern University, 1994
Courses (Cross-appointed to Comparative Literature):
SLA343: Late Soviet Culture
VIC 204: Canons and Canonicity
VIC 403 Special Topics: Joyce’s Ulysses
VIC202: Forms of Representation.
VIC402: Translation and Comparativity
VIC302: Pasts and Futures
SLA1206H1S: Samizdat Seminar
JLV5143H: Censorship, Culture, Archive
COL5147H/BKS2000H: Books at Risk
COL5047: The Two Avant-Gardes
COL5124H: Public Reading
COL5104: Dialogue with Poststructuralism (Bakhtin and Poststructuralism)
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