Robert P. Hughes, Professor Emeritus

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Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).

Research interests: Modern Russian poetry; Symbolism (Solov’ev, Belyi, Blok) and post-Symbolism (Mandel’shtam, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Khodasevich); Brodskii; twentieth-century experimental prose; Nabokov; Russian emigre culture; Pushkin.

Current project. Khodasevich’s studies of Pushkin and his period (3 volumes, Berkeley); Collected works of V.F. Khodasevich (8 volumes, Moscow); Remizov’s epistolary circle.

Selected publications:

Books

  • V.F. Khodasevich, Pushkin i poety ego vremeni, vol. III. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, forthcoming.
  • Vladislav Khodasevich, Sobranie sochinenii v vos’mi tomakh. Tom 2. Kritiki i publitsistika, 1905-1927. Co-edited with John Malmstad. Moscow: “Russkii put'”, 2010.
  • Vladislav Khodasevich, Sobranie sochinenii v vos’mi tomakh. T. 1. Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii. Co-edited with John Malmstad. Moscow: “Russkii put'”, 2009.
  • V.F. Khodasevich, Pushkin i poety ego vremeni, vol. II. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 2001.
  • V.F. Khodasevich, Pushkin i poety ego vremeni, vol. I. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1999.
  • Russkii Berlin, 1921-1923. Co-edited with Lazar Fleishman and Olga R. Hughes. Paris: YMCA, 1983; second edition: Moscow, 2003.
  • Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: from the Golden Age to the Silver Age. Co-edited with Boris Gasparov and Irina Paperno. University of California Press, 1991.
  • Christianity and the Eastern Slavs: Russian Culture in Modern Times. Co-edited with Irina Paperno. University of California Press, 1994.
  • Vladislav Khodasevich, Stat’i i retsenzii (1905-1926). [Vol. 2 of the collected works of Khodasevic in five volumes.] Co-edited, commentary, with John Malmstad. Ardis, 1989.
  • Vladislav Khodasevich, Sobranie sochinenii: Stikhotvoreniia. [Vol. 1 of the collected works of Khodasevich in five volumes.] Co-edited, introductions and commentary with John Malmstad. Ardis, 1983.

Articles

  • “Zametki Khodasevicha o ‘Kamennom goste'”, Paraboly. Studies in Russian Modernist Literature and Culture. In Honor of John E. Malmstad. Wien: Peter Lang, 2011.
  • “Khodasevich-kritik”, Vladislav Khodasevich, Sobranie sochinenii v vos’mi tomakh. T. 2. Moscow, 2010. Pp. 3-20.
  • “…iz etogo nichego, krome ryb’ego khvosta, i ne moglo poluchit’sia”. Razgovor Z.N. Gippius i P.P. Suvchinskogo”, Vademecum. K 65-letiiu Lazaria Fleishmana. Moscow: Vodolei, 2010. Pp. 340- 353.
  • “Iz pisem P.P. Suvchinskogo k A.M. Remizovu 1920-x godov”, Na rubezhe dvukh stoletii. Sbornik v chest’ 60-letiia A.V. Lavrova. Moscow: NLO, 2009. Pp. 759-770.
  • “Pushkin and Russia Abroad” in The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • “Brodskij, Mandel’shtam, and an Elegaic Epitaph,” Telling Forms. 30 Essays in Honour of Peter Alberg Jensen. (Stockholm, 2004).
  • “‘… s Vami beda – ne perevesti’ (Pis’ma D.P. Sviatopolka-Mirskogo k A.M. Remizovu. 1922-1929),” Diaspora V. Novye materialy (Paris-St. Petersburg, 2003).
  • “V.F. Khodasevich: Pis’ma k M.A. Tsiavlovskomu”, Russkaia literatura, No. 2, 1999.
  • “Khodasevich: Oda russkomu chetyrekhstopnomu iambu,” in Blokovskii sbornik, XIII (Tartu, 1996).
  • “Duel in the Snow” [on Robin Edmonds’ Pushkin (New York, 1995)]. The New York Times Book Review, December 17, 1995.
  • “Russia’s Cassandra, Russia’s Antigone,” [on Roberta Reeder’s Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (New York, 1994)]. The New York Times Book Review, January 1, 1995.
  • “Some Reflections on Khodasevich’s Ode to the Russian Iambic Tetrameter,” in: O Rus! [Festschrift for Hugh McLean]. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1995.
  • “Khodasevich in Venice,” in For SK. In Celebration of the Life and Career of Simon Karlinsky. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1994.
  • “Poems With a Heroine” [recent translations of Anna Akhmatova]. The Washington Post Book World, XXIII/7 (April 25, 1993).
  • “Poets without ‘-isms’ — Cvetaeva and Chodasevich.” Marina Tsvetaeva.. Bern, 1992.
  • “Pushkin in Petrograd, February 1921.” In Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism.
  • “Nabokov Reading Pasternak.” Pasternak and His Times. Berkeley, 1989.
  • “Andrei Belyi i Vladislav Khodasevich: k istorii otnoshenii.” Vestnik russkogo khristianskogo dvizheniia. Paris, 1988 [With first publication of Khodasevich’s “Moskovskaia simfoniia.”]
  • “Vladislav Khodasevich /Wladyslaw Chodasiewicz and Polish Romanticism.” Language. Literature. Linguistics. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1986.
  • “Vladislav Khodasevich to Mikhail Karpovich: Six Letters (1923-1932).” Co-edited with John Malmstad. Oxford Slavonic Papers, 19 (1986).