Education:
Ph.D. Harvard University (Slavic Languages and Literatures).
Selected publications:
Books
Ivan Konevskoi. “Wise Child” of Russian Symbolism. Joan Delaney Grossman. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010.
William James in Russian Culture. Eds. Joan Delaney Grossman and Ruth Rischin. Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books, 2003.
Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, edited with Irina Paperno. Stanford University Press, 1994.
Valery Bryusov and the Riddle of Russian Decadence. University of California Press, 1985.
The Diary of Valery Bryusov (1893-1905). Edited, translated, with introductory essay. University of California Press, 1980.
Edgar Allan Poe in Russia: A Study in Legend and Literary Influence. Wurzburg: JAL-Verlag, 1973 (Russian translation, St. Petersburg, 1998).
Articles
“Variations on the Theme of Pushkin in Pasternak and Brjusov.” In: Boris Pasternak and His Times. Ed. Lazar Fleishman. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1989.
“Words, Idle Words: Discourse and Communication in Anna Karenina.” In Tolstoy: Essays in Interpretation. Ed. Hugh McLean. University of California Press, 1989.
“Transformations of Time in Turgenev’s Poetic.” Literature, Culture, and Society in the Modern Age. In Honor of Joseph Frank. Eds. Edward J. Brown et. al. Stanford Slavic Studies, 1991.
“Moi Pushkin. Briusov’s Search for the Real Aleksandr Sergeevich.” Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism. Eds Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes, and Irina Paperno. University of California Press, 1992.
“Ivan Konevskoi: Bogatyr of Russian Symbolism.” The Silver Age in Russian Literature. Ed. John D. Elsworth. Macmillan, 1992.
“Alternate Beliefs: Spiritualism and Pantheism Among the Early Modernists,” Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, vol. III: Russian Literature in Modern Times, eds. Boris Gasparov et al., University of California Press.
“Valery Bryusov and Nina Petrovskaia: Clashing Models of Life in Art,” in Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, eds. Irina Paperno, Joan Delaney Grossman, Stanford University Press, 1994.
“Neo-Kantianism, Pantheism, and the Ego. Symbolist Debates in the 1890’s,” in Studies in East European Thought, December 1995.
“Rise and decline of the ‘literary’ journal: 1880-1917,” in Literary Journals in Imperial Russia. Ed. Deborah A. Martinsen, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
“Ivan Konevskoi’s Metaphysical Journey to Finland,” in Studia Slavica Finlandensia, XVI/2, Helsinki, 1999.
“From the Finland Station: Ivan Konevskoi,” in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Eds. Karen L. Ryan and Barry Scherr. St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
“The Transformation Myth in Russian Modernism: Ivan Konevskoi and Nikolai Zabolotskii,” in Metamorphoses in Russian Modernism. Ed. Peter I. Barta. Central European University Press, 2000.
“Philosophers, Decadents, and Mystics: James’s Russian Readers in the 1890s,” in William James in Russian Culture. Eds. Joan Delaney Grossman and Ruth Rischin, Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books, 2003.
“Briusov and the Healing Art: Northern Nature in ‘Na granitakh,” The Russian Review, 62: 1 (2003).
Russian symbolism and decadence viewed especially as a cultural process. General interests: questions of literary evolution; Russian modernism.