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Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt
University, Comparative Literature
M.F.A., Sopot Conservatory of Music
B.A., University
of Warsaw
Books
Imperial
Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (Westport, CT and
London: Greenwood, 2000). Excerpts available at Postcolonial Disourse.
Witold Gombrowicz (Twayne, 1979).
Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New
Criticism: A Comparative Study (Mouton, 1971).
Articles in
Slavic Review,
Slavic
and East European Journal, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Russian
Literature, Yale Handbook of Russian Literature, Slavia Orientalis, Kwartalnik
Neofilologiczny, Modern Age, Intercollegiate Review, Znaki Czasu, Teksty
Drugie, Southern Humanities Review, others
Articles
and book chapters
“Postcolonial Russia,” A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires, edited by Prem Poddar, Rajeev S. Patke & Lars Jensen (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2008).
“Genrik Senkevich, Aleksei Tolstoi i <<Stolknovenie tsivilizatsii>> Semiuela Khantingtona,” translated by S. S. Sekerinskii. Istorik i khudozhnik (Moscow), nos.1-2 (15-16), vol. V (2008), 170-182. In Russian.
“Imperskoe znanie: russkaia literatura i kolonializm,” translated into Russian by Taciana Nedbaeva. Perekrestki (Vilnius), vol. VII (nos. 1-2, 2007), 32-75. Revised translation of chapter 1 of Imperial Knowledge.
“Leo Tolstoy and the Idea of a Good Life,” Kultura rosyjska w ojczyznie i diasporze, edited by Lidia Liburska (Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2007), 231-38.
"Anton Chekhov and Russian colonialism: the denial of identity in
Ostrov Sakhalin," Dzielo Antoniego
Czechowa dzisiaj, edited by Alicja Wolodzko-Butkiewicz and Ludmila
Lutevici (Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press-Studia Rossica Series, 2005),
75-86.
"Ways of Remembering: the Case of Poland," Toronto Slavic Quarterly, vol. 12, Spring
2005, <www.utoronto.ca/tsq/12/thompson12.shtml>.
"Holy Fools and Shamanism," Shamanism:
Critical Concepts in Sociology, vol. 2, edited by Andrei A. Znamenski
(London: Routledge, 2004), 355–382. Reprint of chapter four of Understanding
Russia.
"Discourse, Empire and Memory in Postcommunist
Russia," New Zealand Slavonic
Journal, vol. 37 (2003), 155–164.
"Ways Out of the Postmodern Discourse," Modern Age, vol. 45, no. 3 (Summer 2003),
195–207.
"Leopold Tyrmand, Peripheral Subordination and the American Conservative
Movement,"in Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America
edited by Halina Stephan (New York: Rodopi, 2003),
153–169.
"The changing semantics of diaspora/emigration: the politics of recognition,"
in Literatura rosyjska w kontekstach
miedzykulturowych, edited by Jerzy Lukszyn et al. (Warsaw: University
of Warsaw Press, 2001), 330–340.
"Russian Literature and Imperialism: the Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet
Periods," in Reconstructing the
Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980s, edited by Arnold McMillin
(Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000), 243–57.
"Nacjonalizm, kolonializm, tozsamosc," translated into Polish by Anna Sierszulska. Teksty
Drugie: Teoria Literatury, Krytyka, Interpretacja (bi-monthly).
May 1999, 25–38. Reprinted in Polonistyka po amerykansku, edited by H. Filipowicz, A. Karcz and T. Trojanowska
(Warsaw: Instytut Badan Lierackich, 2005), 286–300).
"Holy Fools," in Ideas
in Russia, vol. 1, edited by A. de Lazari (Warsaw: Semper Publishers,
1999), 479–85.
"Nationalism, Imperialism, Identity: Second Thoughts," Modern
Age, vol. 40, no. 3 (Summer 1998), 250–261.
"East Central European Democracies and Russia: the End of Colonialism?"
in Annie Allain and Gervais Essama, editors,
Libre echange et identite culturelle (Paris-Lille: Presses Universitaires,
1998), 201–211.
"The Political Activation of Social Groups," in Richard F. Staar, editor, Transition to Democracy
in Poland, 2nd ed. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 75–92.
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward and the Russian Colonialist Experience," Slavia
Orientalis, vol. XLVI, no. 4 (Fall 1997),
545–555.
"Why the Conservative Tradition Is an Important Philosophical Option
in Polish Intellectual Life," Periphery, vol.
3, nos. 1/2 (1997), 30–35.
Recent book reviews
Knut Andreas Grimstad, Styling Russia. Forthcoming in Slavic Review.
Marina Balina et al., eds., Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales. Canadian American Slavic Studies, vol. 41, no. 4 (Winter 2007).
Simon Cosgrove, Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature: The Case of Nash sovremennik, 1981-91. Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 9, no. 4 (2007).
"Zbigniew Herbert: The Courage to Live," Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, May 2007. A review of Herbert's Collected Poems.
Recent essays in Europa (Dziennik—Warsaw)
"Po upadku," Europa, no. 6 (201), 9 February 2008.
"W kolejce po aprobate: kolonialna mentalnosc polskich elit," Europa, no. 180 (14 September 2007).
“Narodowosc i polityka: polska swiadomosc narodowa jako problem,” Europa, no. 165 (2 June 2007).
"Sarmatyzm
i postkolonializm," then go
to Europa, no. 137 (2006), p. 11.
“Discovering the world anew: John Ralston Saul on neo-nationalism,” Europa, no. 43(2006). <http://www.dziennik.pl/magazyny/europa/wydania/artykul,295.html>.
“Edward Said and the Polish Question,” Europa, no. 149 (05), 29 June 2005.. <http://efakt.pl/artykuly/artykul.aspx/Artykul/64409>.
“The strength of literature and the strength of the state,” Europa, no. 7 (46), 16 February 2005.
“Old women, the old world: on J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello,” Europa, no. 85/05, 13 April 2005.
Recent columns in Washington Times
"'New Europe' still matters," 17 March 2008; "The Lobby Archipelago," 2 March 2008; "Polish polls and the press," 25 October 2007; "Somber anniversaries, chances to reconcile," 23 September 2007;
“America, Russia,
and the EU,”
8 July 2007 (translated into Russian 8 July 2007 by the Inostrannye Sredstva
Massovoi Informatsii (inosmi.ru) and published at
http://www.inosmi.ru/stories/07/04/25/3510/235414.html);
"Praising the Kaczynski brothers," 8 April 2007; “Borat,
or shoplifting,” 10 December 2006;
"Postcommunist
Central Europe at 17," 2 July 2006.
Editorial work
Editor, Sarmatian Review
Editorial Advisory Board or Editorial Board: Chesterton Review,
Intercollegiate Review, Modern Age, Regiony Polski, Studies in Twentieth
Century Literature
Courses/lectures at Rice
ALUMNI COLLEGE - DOSTOEVSKY
RUSSIAN 331/SLAVIC 331 (RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND COLONIALISM)
RUSSIAN 352 (DOSTOEVSKY) - see RUSS351 course
description
RUSSIAN 351 (TOLSTOY) - see RUSS352 course
description
RUSSIAN 420 (WOMEN IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE) - see RUSSIAN 420 course
description
RUSSIAN 411 (CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA)
RUSSIAN 312 (SURVEY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE)
For biography, see Who's Who in America starting
with the late 1990s editions.
Updated 04/17/08