Polina Barskova is a scholar and a poet, author of thirteen collections of poems and three books of prose in Russian. Her collection of creative nonfiction, “Living Pictures,” received the Andrey Bely Prize in 2015 and is forthcoming in German with Suhrkamp Verlag and in English with NYRB. She edited the Leningrad Siege poetry anthology Written in the Dark (UDP) and has four collections of poetry published in English translation: This Lamentable City (Tupelo Press), The Zoo in Winter (Melville House), Relocations (Zephyr Press) and AirRaid (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021). Barskova also...
Armenian language; 20th-century Armenian literature; modern Armenian drama and Europe; Armenian film and culture; reading advanced Armenian
Education:
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UCLA
Publications:
Articles: “Armenianness Reimagined in Atom Egoyan’s Ararat.” Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography. Eds. Houri Berberian and Touraj Daryaee. Irvine, CA: UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018.
“Contemporary Armenian Drama and World Literature.” An Armenian Mediterranean: Words...
Affiliated with the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Teaching: 18th- and 19th-century Russian and European literature; the lyric and lyric theory; the novel, the short story; nature poetry; 19th-century lyric; history and fiction, visual culture; Romanticism, Realism; Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy; Stylistics. Education:
Ph.D. Stanford University (Comparative Literature)
Selected Publications:
Books
The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian...
19th and 20th-century Russian literature; Nabokov; Chekhov; the short story; prison literature in Russia and America; women in Soviet cinema
Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University (Slavic Languages and Literatures) M.Phil, Columbia University (Slavic Languages and Literatures, with a minor in Film Studies) M.A., Columbia University (Slavic Languages and Literatures) B.A., Barnard College (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Publications:
Articles and Book Chapters
“‘Had I Been a Painter’: Lolita and the Perversity of Interart Relations,”...
19th and 20th Century Russian Literature. Nabokov. Dostoevsky and Modernism. Law and Literature. Early Soviet Culture. Literature and Ideology. The Body in Russian Culture. Graduate seminars have included: The Gothic Novel; The Master and Margarita; Andrei Platonov; Early Dostoevsky; Mikhail Bakhtin; Poetic Justice: Dostoevsky and Nabokov in the Shadow of the Law.
Education:
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Russian and Soviet Literature; Russian and Soviet Film; ; Literature for Children; Eisenstein; the Novel in Russia and the West; Literary Theory; Film Theory; Russia and America; Gogol; The Soviet Union and American Minority Movements. Recent graduate seminars have included: Literature of the 1920s; Film: Eisenstein; Film: Vertov. Literature for Children.
Education:
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Comparative Literature). D.E.A. Universite de Paris – III (General & Comparative Literature).
