Graduate Student CFP: Studies in Slavic Cultures X

[Natasha Randall]

Elise!

You might not remember me - but I'm Sandy Cortesi's neice... a  
Russian translator. We met at Wendy and Sandy's several years ago and  
talked about Russian drama and a play you were doing and Olga  
Meerson. I was so glad to see you pop up on SEELANGS... :)

I'm still translating, now living just outside Oxford and about to  
start a PhD there on freedom, will, agency, choice and the Russian  
psyche (as evidenced in first-person fictional narratives)... if that  
makes any sense. I have yet to get it into a good nutshell. It's  
mostly an extension of and meditation on the translations I did of  
Zamyatin's WE, Lermontov's Hero and Notes from Underground. I'm doing  
the Dostoyevsky right now and translating some contemporary stuff  
too. I'm always also writing various pieces of my own, including some  
criticism and fiction. But tell me, what is the subject of your PhD?  
(And do you know my supervisor Julie Curtis at Oxford who is also  
rather drama-oriented?)

Anyway, I love the topic of your next issue of Studies in Slavic  
Cultures - what a very good and interesting idea! I'm sure I wouldn't  
be able to offer anything towards it (partly because I'm giving birth  
to my first offspring any minute now) but I really look forward to  
reading it when it comes out... will it be easily available?

Meanwhile, I hope you are thriving and your work is going well. Give  
me your news when you have the chance.

Yours,
Natasha (Randall)




On Sep 19, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Elise Thorsen wrote:

> *Studies in Slavic Cultures* is now accepting submissions for the 2011
> issue.  The theme of this issue is “Postmodernism” and we welcome  
> graduate
> student submissions investigating any aspect of this topic in  
> relation to
> literary, visual, performative, and other areas of contemporary  
> culture in
> Russia and Eastern Europe.
>
>
>
> We understand postmodernism to mean a cultural tendency emerging  
> globally in
> the wake of World War II.  Beginning in the 1970s, the particular  
> iteration
> of postmodernism of the Soviet bloc responds to the tropes of  
> modernity and
> the imposed aesthetic practice of Socialist Realism, among other  
> things.  The
> demise of the Soviet Union brought about an explosion of new texts as
> artists eagerly appropriated and reworked a plethora of previously
> unexplored themes, images, and material from both East and West.  The
> question is now open as to whether postmodernism is at an end,  
> whether all
> texts are finally played out, and whether the author is really and  
> truly
> dead.  We propose no solution to this question, but seek rather to  
> explore
> what may be the outermost limits of this period.
>
>
>
> Submissions should concern texts produced within the bounds of
> postmodernism, as defined above.  We understand “text” in the  
> widest sense
> possible, from the monumental trace of architecture to the ephemera of
> performance art.  Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to
> postmodernism, postmodernity, and the postmodern condition will be
> considered.
>
>
>
> Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2010.  Queries and submissions
> should be sent to Hillary Brevig and Elise Thorsen at sisc at pitt.edu.
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Elise Thorsen
>
>
> PhD Student
>
> University of Pittsburgh
>
> Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
>
> Cathedral of Learning 1417
>
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
>
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