Graduate Student CFP: Studies in Slavic Cultures X

[Natasha Randall]

Oh goodness, sorry SEELANGers for this - i didn't mean to send it to  
the list, apologies... NR


On Oct 12, 2010, at 11:48 PM, Natasha Randall wrote:

> 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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