Teaching Chekhov in the Time of Trump
Anne Lounsbery offers some tips for reading and teaching Chekhov in an era marked by moral catastrophe.
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September 26, 2018
Redefining the Russian Civilization and Culture Survey for the Trump Era
Except Princess Olga, Elizabeth, and Catherine II, there were few women discussed in the Russian civilization and culture course that Rachel Stauffer taught. There was little discussion of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class in Russia’s artistic, literary, and cultural history. In light of recent events, she has decided that she can no longer continue to teach this course without devoting more time to these topics.
September 26, 2018
Reading Akhmatova Now
Rather than reading the poetry of Anna Akhmatova as discrete entities, Sarah Krive shares her experience reading them as they once were, situated in journals, newspapers, and small anthologies of their original publication. She wants to see how they appeared on the page, what other texts and images surrounded them. Remediating is a way of trying to understand, in part, “crucial cultural information about how different components of the periodical’s readership were intended to interact with its content.”
September 26, 2018
“Why is There a Bull on the Magazine Cover?” The Readers of the Soviet Magazine 30 Days
Cassio de Oliveira introduces us to the readership of the Soviet magazine 30 Days (30 dnei, 1925-1941). Better known nowadays for having been the venue for the publication in installments of Il’ia Il’f and Evgenii Petrov’s famous novels The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf (Dvenadtsat’ stul’ev and Zolotoi telenok, published in 1928 and 1931 respectively), 30 Days also holds a unique place in the Soviet publishing environment between the NEP Era and the First Five-Year Plan.
September 19, 2018
Writing in Public
An interview with Boris Dralyuk (Executive Editor, Los Angeles Review of Books) and Maya Vinokour (Assistant Professor at NYU and Editor, All the Russias’ Blog).
July 12, 2018
The Public Humanities, Prison Education, and Our Hidden Interlocutors
José Vergara writes of his discussions with prisoners at Oakhill, a men’s minimum-security prison located about twenty minutes south of Madison, Wisconsin, where he witnessed immense talents gone unnoticed by society and a pure desire to learn and engage with new material that rivals that of any so-called traditional college student.
July 12, 2018
The Russian Revolution and Public History: Expanding America’s Story
Susan Smith-Peter, an associate professor of history at the College of Staten Island in the City University of New York, recreates the dialogue of Russia in 1917 by presenting the story of the Russian Revolution to the public. This project demonstrates how Slavists can interact with the larger field of public history as part of public humanities.
July 12, 2018
