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Departmental Faculty | Affiliated Faculty Yanni Kotsonis (History)
B.A. 1985 (history), Concordia (Montreal) Yanni Kotsonis is a specialist in late-Imperial and early Soviet Russia. His areas of interest include governmentality, Russia in comparative European context, and political economy. His research has treated, among other topics, the techniques of analysis that can allow historians to consider what made Russian "modern" and thus an example of modernity. His current research projects concern the emergence of a specific concept of citizenship in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on the period 1890-1939. Professor Kotsonis is especially interested in the ways in which Russia and the USSR can be viewed in comparative perspective, as well as in the uses of literature and film as historical text. Professor Kotsonis can be contacted at yanni.kotsonis@nyu.edu Anne Lounsbery
B.A. 1986 Brown University; Professor Lounsbery is the author of Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in 19th-century Russia and America (Harvard University Press 2006), a book exploring the impact of print culture on the development of national literature in Russia and America. Her second book (Life is Elsewhere, forthcoming from Yale University Press) analyzes Russia's symbolic geography, specifically the cultural construction of "provincialism" and provincial places in Russian literature. In addition to articles on these subjects, she has published on topics ranging from the African-American reception of Alexander Pushkin and the American career of the emigre poet Joseph Brodsky to analyses of works by Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and others. Her teaching interests include 19th-century Russian prose, comparative literary topics, geographies in literature, and literary theory. Professor Lounsbery can be contacted at anne.lounsbery@nyu.edu Irina Belodedova B.A.
1973, Kiev Ms. Belodedova's interests include contemporary Russian literature and culture, teaching methodology, and computer-assisted language instruction. Professor Belodedova can be contacted at irina.belodedova@nyu.edu Jane Burbank Reed College, B. A., 1967 Jane Burbank has a joint appointment in History and Russian and Slavic Studies. She specializes in the history of law, imperial governance, rural society and political theory. Her publications include Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism 1917?1922; Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire (edited with David L. Ransel); Russian Peasants Go to Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905?1917, and most recently, Russian Empire: Space, People, Power 1700-1930 (edited with Mark von Hagen and Anatolyi Remnev). A focus of her current research and writing is empire, both in Russia and in other areas. With Frederick Cooper, she is completing a book entitled "Empires and the Politics of Difference in World History," under review at Princeton University Press. Her teaching interests include Russian cultural, social, and intellectual history; European intellectual history and social theory; rural people and their politics; legal cultures; gender and social organization; political cultures of empires. Professor Burbank can be contacted at jane.burbank@nyu.edu Eliot Borenstein B.A. 1988, Oberlin College Professor Borenstein is the author of Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction (2000; Winner of AATSEEL award for Best Book in Literature/Cultural Scholarship, 2001) and the editor and co-translator of Mark Lipovetsky's Russian Postmodernism: Dialogue with Chaos (1999). He is the author of numerous articles on Russian modernist fiction and, more recently, on pornography, sexuality, violence, pulp fiction and film, and new religious movements in post-Soviet culture. His book in progress, Made in Russia (tm): National Identity and Popular Culture after 1991, examines the manner in which the Russian media and culture industry define and present Russia and "Russianness" for domestic consumption. Professor Borenstein can be contacted at eb7@nyu.edu. Professor B.S. (Economics and Public Policy), 1960, Indiana University Stephen Cohen's research and teaching subjects are Russian history and politics from 1917 to the present. His MAP course, Russia Since 1917, is crosslisted in the History Department. Professor Cohen's books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938; Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917; Sovieticus: American Perceptions and Soviet Realities; Voices of Glasnost (with Katrina vanden Heuvel); and Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia. Milan FryscakAssociate Professor Promovany Filolog 1956, Palacky (Czech Republic) Professor Fryscak is a specialist in Russian and Slavic Linguistics and Slavic Culture. His areas of interest include Slavic historical linguistics and Russian and Czech cultural history. His most recent publications concern the history of Slavic linguistics and problems of Czech immigration to America. Professor Fryscak can be contacted at mf6@nyu.edu Anneta GreenleeSenior Language Lecturer
Diploma of Higher Education 1975, University of Leningrad Anneta Greenlee taught Russian Language and Literature as well as Comparative Literature at Queens College and Hunter College before coming to NYU. She was on the faculty at Norwich University Russian School Summer Immersion program, where she researched foreign language teaching methods and put these methods into practice in the classroom. Methodology remains her strong interest. Her doctoral dissertation analyzes the work of four women authors from Russia, North America and Brazil. Among her other interests is Russian, West European and Latin American theater. Dr. Greenlee has presented conference papers on Zinaida Gippius, Galina Shcherbakova, Clarice Lispector and Kate Chopin, and has served as a Russian language editor for major translations of works by Chekhov and Babel. Dr. Greenlee can be contacted at ag66@nyu.edu. Boris Groys
1971 B.A./B.S. (Philosophy and Mathematics), University of Leningrad. 1992 Ph.D (Philosophy), University of Muenster Professor Groys is an internationally recognized authority on 20th-century Russian art, international avant garde movements, aesthetics, and cultural theory. Educated in the Soviet Union, he emigrated to West Germany in 1981 and taught in universities there until 2007. In 2005 Professor Groys came to NYU as a Global Distinguished Professor; in 2008, he will join the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies as a full-time faculty member. Professor Groys's many books include The Total Art of Stalinism and Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment. In over a hundred and fifty other publications, he covers topics ranging from 19th-century Russian literature to contemporary museum culture. He has also curated numerous exhibitions and has been the recipient of fellowships at institutions in the Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. Professor Groys can be contacted at groys@aol.com. Mikhail Iampolski
B.A. 1971, Moscow Pedagogical Institute Mikhail Iampolski has a joint appointment in Comparative
Literature and Russian and Slavic Studies.
He moved to the United States from Russia in 1991. After one year at theGetty Center, he came to teach at NYU, first in the Departments of Cinema
and Performance Studies and later in the Departments of Comparative Literature
and Russian Studies. He has published seven books and more than 300
articles in various languages on cinema, literature and history of European
culture. Professor Iampolski’s interests include Slavic literatures and
cinema, theories of representation, and the body in culture. Professor Iampolski can be contacted at mi1@nyu.edu Ilya Kliger
B.A. 1995, Cornell University
Professor Kliger's interests include the 19th-century Russian and French novel, theory of the novel, literary theory, aesthetics, and epistemology. He has written articles on Russian Formalism, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the memoirs of Alexander Herzen, as well as on various aspects of novelistic realism. He is currently completing a book titled The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century France and Russia, delineating a philosophical history of the novel in light of a "narratology of truth." In 2006 his dissertation received the American Comparative Literature Association's Charles Bernheimer Prize for the best thesis in the United States. Professor Kliger can be contacted at ik32@nyu.edu. Michael Kunichika
B.A. 1999 Reed College
Michael Kunichika's research interests include Russian modernism, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between painting and literature; Russian cinema and visual culture; literary theory, rhetoric, and Russian archaeology. He has published an article "Landscape and Vision at the White Sea-Baltic Canal" in Picturing Russia: Essays in Visual Culture (Yale UP). He is currently at work on a book examining the creation of an indigenous antiquity during the Russian modernist period. Professor Kunichika can be contacted at michael.kunichika@nyu.edu. Michael Beckerman (Music) B.A. 1973, Hofstra University Michael Beckerman's research interests include Czech and Eastern European music; Janacek, Dvorak, and Martinu; nationalism, Gypsies, Mozart, Brahms, Gilbert and Sullivan, Schubert, and film music. He received the Janacek Medal from the Czech Republic and is a Laureate of the Czech Music Council. Before coming to NYU he taught at Washington University and at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has published several books, including Janacek and His World (Princeton) and New Worlds of Dvorak (Norton) this year. He lectures widely and writes regularly for the New York Times. J. Martin Daughtry With research interests centering on the intersection of music, literature, and politics, Professor Daughtry joined the Department of Music in 2007. His recent research deals with sung poetry in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union, post-Soviet musical nationalism, and the transformation, persistence, and attenuation of musical traditions in the wake of cataclysmic socio-political change. His work has been published in the journals Ethnomusicology (2003) and Poetics Today (forthcoming) and in Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader (Routledge, 2006). In 2007, Music in the Post-9/11 World, which Professor Daughtry co-edited with Jonathan Ritter, was published by Routledge. Currently he is working on an ethnography of American soldiers' listening practices in Iraq and Afghanistan. Professor Daughtry can be contacted at jmd19@nyu.edu. Bruce Grant B.A. 1985, McGill University Professor Grant is the author of In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas (recipient of the American Ethnological Society Book Prize for First Book) as well as articles on the cultures of Russia and the Caucasus. His forthcoming book is titled The Gift of Empire: Sovereignty and the Arts of Persuasion in Russia and the Caucasus; he is also co-editing The Russia Reader: Culture, History, Politics. Professor Grant's research interests include the former Soviet Union, Siberia, the Caucasus; Azerbaijan; (post-) Soviet cultural politics; shamanism; Islam; cinema; and histories of anthropology. Professor Grant can be contacted at bruce.grant@nyu.edu. Diana Greene (Bobst Library) AB 1969 Vassar College Diana Greene has been Bobst Library's Slavic Studies Librarian since 1995. She very much enjoys helping students and faculty access NYU's Slavic library resources, and building the Slavic collection to reflect users' research and teaching needs. She is the author of Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid Nineteenth Century (2003), Women Writers in Russian Literature (coedited with Toby Clyman, 1994) and Insidious Intent: An Interpretation of Fedor Sologub's The Petty Demon (1986). The topics of her articles range from domestic ideology in Russia to Russian science fiction. Nancy Ruttenburg (Comparative Literature) B.A. 1980, UC/Santa Cruz Nancy Ruttenburg is the author of Dostoevsky's Democracy (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) and Democratic Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship (Stanford University Press, 1998). In other publications she has done groundbreaking work on comparative issues in Russian and American literature. Formerly Professor Ruttenburg taught in the English Department at Harvard University (1987-90) and in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English at UC Berkeley (1990-01). Her interests include Russian nineteenth-century literature and culture, American colonial through antebellum literature and culture, democratic theory, novel theory, theories of authorship, and political/literary subjectivity. Professor Ruttenburg can be contacted at nr36@nyu.edu Joshua Tucker B.A. 1993, Harvard Professor Tucker's major field is comparative politics with an emphasis on mass politics, including elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, public opinion formation, and political representation and democratization. His primary regional specialization is in East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. He is the author of Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-1999 (Cambridge University Press). He is currently writing a book on the development of partisan attachment in newly competitive party systems. Other work in progress includes a project on the mass politics aspects of European Union accession in Poland, patterns of turnout in post-communist elections, and the "2nd Wave" post-communist electoral revolutions. He is the recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association for the top scholar in the field within 10 years of the doctorate. Professor Tucker can be contacted at joshua.tucker@nyu.edu. Cristina Vatulescu Professor Vatulescu joined the Department of Comparative Literature in 2006. Her interests include aesthetics and politics, artistic and extra-artistic genres, Russian and Eastern European twentieth-century culture, cinema and visual culture, the interdisciplinary study of subjectivity, and immigration and cultural exchange. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and The Secret Police, a study of the relationships between cultural and policing practices in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. Two articles stemming from this project--"Arresting Biographies: The Secret Police File in The Soviet Union and Romania" and "Politics of Estrangement: Tracking Shklovsky's Device in Literary and Policing Practices"--have been published in Comparative Literature and Poetics Today. Her new project explores the experience of immigrant intimacy and the ways in which it overlaps with two other types of intimacy at a distance: literary and cinematic intimacy. For the 2007-2008 academic year Professor Vatulescu is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Professor Vatulescu can be contacted at cristina.vatulescu@nyu.edu. | |