(pictured on left: Stanley Katz, Woodrow Wilson School)

Professor of Russian Literature

Director of Graduate Studies

Education: Yale University (B.A., 1982, Comparative Literature), Harvard University (Ph.D., 1990, Comparative Literature); additional study in Konstanz (Germany) and Moscow

Research Interests: Poetics; Russian Poetry from the 18^th century to the present; Russian Symbolism; German-Russian Literary Relations

Courses taught (undergraduate): Pushkin; Survey of Russian Poetry

Courses taught (graduate): Evolution of Russian Poetic Form; 18^th-century Russian Literature; Pushkin; Russian Symbolism; The "poema"; 19^th-century poetry; Contemporary Russian poetry

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Authored:

The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry —Cambridge University Press, 2004.

The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and its Meanings—Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Russian Symbolism and Literary Tradition: Goethe, Novalis, and the Poetics of Vyacheslav Ivanov —

University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1994.

Edited:

Vyacheslav Ivanov, Selected Essays, Northwestern University Press, 2001.

Vjaceslav Ivanov: Dichtung und Briefwechsel aus dem deutschsprachigen Nachlass —

Liber Verlag, Mainz, Germany, 1995.

Articles:

"Joesph Brodsky chitaet Iosifa Brodskogo: "Chast' rechi" i poetika perevoda" (Festschrift for Lena Szilard, Moscow, forthcoming)

"Remembering Nadezhda Iakovlevna Mandel'shtam (1899–1980)," "Nadezhda Iakovlevna Mandel'shtam: Letters to Arthur Miller and Inge Morath," "Nadezhda Iakovlevna Mandel'shtam: Letters to and about Robert Lowell" (the last one co-authored with former graduate student Craig Cravens), Russian Review (October 2002), pp. 483–84, 505–16, 517–30.

"The Correspondence of Vyacheslav Ivanov and Charles Du Bos," Archivio italo-russo, vol. 3, (Salerno, 2001), pp. 497–540 (co-authored with former graduate student Julia Zarankin)

"'Chernaia Shal'' i ee metricheskii oreol," in Russkii stikh Moscow, 1996, , ed. D. Bak, J. Bailey, Iu. Orlitsky, K. Postoutenko, pp. 61–80.

"K probleme perevoda razmerom podlinnika u Viacheslava Ivanova," Studia Slavica Academiae Scientarum Hungaricae,

Budapest, 1996, pp. 45–53.

"Vyacheslav Ivanov: From Aesthetic Theory to Biographical Practice" in Creating Life:

The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, Stanford, 1994, edited by Irina Paperno and Joan Grossman, pp. 151–166.

"Viaceslav Ivanov als 'missing link' in der Kulturphilosophie von Ernst Robert Curtius."

Die Welt der Slaven, Munich, 1992, pp. 97–106.

"The Veil of Isis as a Paradigm for Russian Symbolist Mythopoesis."

In: The European Foundations of Russian Modernism, Lewiston, 1991, edited by Peter Barta, pp. 25–50.

"Turgenev and Storm: A Critical Reappraisal." Germano-Slavica, vol. vi, no. 2, 1988, pp. 69–81.

Work in progress:

1) A scholarly edition (prepared with Prof. Christian Wildberg, Classics) of V. Ivanov's unpublished manuscript Dionysos und die vordionysischen Kulte

2) A commentary to Pushkin's lyric poetry