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Books
Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood: Myths and Realities. Co-edited with Marina Balina and Anastasia Kostetskaya. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Russian Childrenâs Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Marina Balina. Routledge, 2008, 2011.
Understanding Boris Pasternak. U of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Pasternak's Early Fiction and the Cultural Vanguard. Peter Lang, 1994.
Selected Articles
âIntroduction: The World of Russian Childhood.â Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 1-19.
âFrom Socialist Realism to Mash-up Fiction: The Evolution of Arkadii Gaidarâs Timur and His Team.â Filoteknos: Childrenâs Literature, Cultural Mediation, Anthropology of Childhood, vol. 12 (2022): 307-319.
âTransformative Vision and Abiding Traditionalism: Gender in the Canon of Soviet Childrenâs Literature.â Canon in Move: Ways and Subjects in Formation. Eds. Zofia Zasacka and Dorota MichuĹka. Forthcoming.
âFrom Nature to âSecond Natureâ and Back.â The Pedagogy of Imagery: Depicting Communism for Children. Eds. Marina Balina and Sergei Oushakine. University of Toronto Press, 2021.
âEmbracing Eccentricity: Cinderella and the Avant-Garde Imagination.â Brill Companion to Soviet Childrenâs Literature and Film. Ed. Olga Voronina. Brill, 2019, pp. 417-439.
âErich Kästnerâs Playful Characters in the Cultural Space of Stagnationâ (Veselye syshiki Erikha Kestnera v kulâturnom prostranstve zastoia). Detskie chteniia/ Childrenâs Readings: Studies in Childrenâs Literature (Research Institute of Russian Literature/Russian Academy of Sciences) 15:1 (Fall 2019): pp. 127-144.
"The Second Congress of Soviet Writers and Boris Pasternak's Lyrical Poetry." The Second Congress of Soviet Writers. The Ideology of the Historical Transition and Transformation of Soviet Literature. 1954. (Vtoroi s''ezd sovetskikh pisatelei. Ideologiia istoricheskogo perekhoda i transformatsiia sovetskoi literatury. 1954). Eds. Konstantin Bogdanov and Valery Viugin. St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 2018. 596, pp. 270-288.
âStorying War Childhood in Albert Likhanovâs Russian Boys.â Filoteknos: Anthropology of Childhood 8 (2018): pp. 63-74.
âFictional and Historical Remembering of the Great Patriotic War and War Childhood: Events and Heroes Great and Small.â Editorâs Introduction to the cluster, âRussian and Eastern European War Childhood.â Filoteknos: Anthropology of Childhood 8 (2018): pp. 7-12.
âNew Plots for the New German Child, or Mikhail Ilâinâs âPoetry of Scienceâ in East German Childrenâs Literatureâ/ âNovye siuzhety dlia novogo nemetskogo rebenka, ili âpoeziia naukiâ Mikhaila Ilâina v detskoi literature GDR.â Detskie chteniia/ Childrenâs Readings: Studies in Childrenâs Literature (Research Institute of Russian Literature/Russian Academy of Sciences) 13:1 (2018): pp. 141-152.
ââCross-Writingâ and War Memory: Fridrikh Gorenshteinâs Autobiographical Story, âThe House with a Turret.ââ AvtobiografiĐŻ: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture 4 (2015): pp. 29-46.
âMasculinity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Children's literature: Transformation of Timur and his Team.â (Maskulinnostâ v sovetskoi i postsovetskoi detskoi literature: transformatsiia Timura i ego komandyâ). Detskie chteniia/Childrenâs Readings: Studies in Childrenâs Literature 2:6 (2014): pp. 88-103.
ââWho is the Fairest of Them All?â Beauty and Femininity in Contemporary Russian Adolescent Girl Fiction,â The Russian Review 73:3 (July 2014): pp. 389-403.
Selected Review Essays and Book Reviews
âRussian Childrenâs Literature and Childhood Research in the Post-Soviet Age: Past-Present-Future,â with Marina Balina. The Russian Review 81:1 (January 2022): 122-132.
âIcons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911â2011.â (âStilâ ikon: modnaia fotografiia, muzei i khudozhestvennoe znachenieâ). With Hans JĂźrg Rindisbacher. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture/Teoriia mody 50 (Winter 2018-2019): 295-317.
âHow Fashion Constructed Soviet Identity.â Review of Fashion, Consumption and Everyday Culture in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1985. Ed. Eva Hausbacher, Elena Huber, Julia HargaĂner. Teoriia mody/Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture 46 (Winter 2017-2018): 323-329.
With Hans JĂźrg Rindisbacher. The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms (Aug. 15, 2018).
âWhen Fashionable Men Reign: 300 Years of Dressing Men.â Review Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear 1715-2015. LACMA April 10-August 21, 2016. With Hans J. Rindisbacher. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Teoriia mody: odezhda, telo, kulâtura) 42 (Winter 2016-2017): 299-306.
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia zur MĂźhlen. Translated and edited by Jack Zipes. The European Legacy 27:7-8 (2022): 858-860
Moscow Has Ears Everywhere: New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya by Paolo Mancosu. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2019. Russian Review 79:1 (2020): 130-132.
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook by Sara Pankenier Weld. The Lion and the Unicorn 43:1 (2019): 136-139.
Russische Kinderliteratur im europäischen Exil der Zwischenkriegszeit by Nadia Preindl. Slavic Review 77:1 (Spring 2018): 281-282.
Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject. By Constantin Parvulescu. Slavic Review 76:1 (May 2017): 232-234.
Fairy Tales and True Stories: The History of Russian Literature for Children and Yong People (1574-2010) by Ben Hellman. Detskie chteniia/Childrenâs Readings: Studies in Childrenâs Literature (Research Institute of Russian Literature/Russian Academy of Sciences) 11 (2017): 259-263. (In Russian)
Russiaâs New Fin de Siècle: Contemporary Culture Between Past and Present. Ed. Birgit Beumers. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2013. The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 22:1 (2017): 114-116.
Sowjetische Kindheit im Zweiten Weltkrieg: GenerationsentwĂźfe im Kontext nationaler Errinnerungskultur. By Oxane Leingang. Slavic Review75:3 (Fall 2016): 797-799.
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde by Sarah Pankenier Weld. International Research in Childrenâs Literature Quarterly 9:2 (2016): 226-228.
Fashion, Consumption and Everyday Culture in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1985. Ed. Eva Hausbacher, Elena Huber, Julia HargaĂner. The Russian Review 74:4 (October 2015): 724-725.
Ben Hellman. Fairy Tales and True Stories: The History of Russian Literature for Children and Yong People (1574-2010). The Russian Review 73:3 (July 2014): 465-467.
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