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Dr Alexandra Smith: Short CV. (March 2017.) Reader in Russian Studies, Department of European Languages and Cultures, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, The University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JX ; [email protected] Education: BA Hons: Herzen State Pedagogical University, St Petersburg, 1980; PhD: SSEES, UCL, University of London, 1993. Work: University of Edinburgh: 1 January 2007- current. Previous employment: University of Essex (Tutor in Russian, 1987-1990); University of Bristol (Lecturer in Russian, 1993-94); University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Senior Lecturer above the Bar, 1995-June 2006); University of Sheffield (Lecturer in Russian, July –December 2006). Relevant training and experience: School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures’ Coordinator for Equality and Diversity (2008-2016); participant of the training course “Research Leaders” organized by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh in 2012-13; Head of Russian, University of Canterbury (1999- 2003); Head of Russian (University of Edinburgh: 2008-2009; 2012 (S2); 2014-15; 2007-18 (S2)); Chairperson of the Association of Australian and New Zealand Slavists (2003-2008). Administrative duties since 2007: Director of MSc Programme in Theatre and Performance (2015- 2017); Organiser of several courses, including The Introduction to European Theatre course; The Great Russian Novel course; the Post-Soviet Word, Image and Memory course; the Golden and Silver Ages of Russian literature course; year- rd abroad coordinator; coordinator of the 3 year Russian course for visiting students; member of the LLC’s Library committee; LLC’s Equality and Diversity coordinator (2008-2016); member of the of LLC’s group of assessors of research grants; Head of Russian (2008- 2009; 2011-12 (S2); 20014-15; 20017-18 (S2). Professional service: member of the editorial and advisory boards of several journals, including “New Zealand Slavonic Review”, “Australian East European and Slavonic Studies”, "The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review”, “Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics", and "AvtobiographiIA" (University of Padua), and member of the Editorial Board of the series "Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance" published by Edinburgh University Press; Member of the Northern Theory School network: http://www.northerntheoryschool.co.uk Current teaching: second- and fourth-year Russian courses on literature and culture; contributor to second -year DELC courses on European Theatre, European Cinema and Prose Fiction in Comparative perspectives; Contributor to MSc course on the Fantastic Fiction, and to MSc programmes on Comparative and General literature, and on Theatre and Performance Studies; Director of the MSc in Theatre and Performance Programme; Coordinator of Introduction to European Theatre course; The Golden and Silver Ages of Russian literature course; The Great Russian novel course, and the Post-Soviet Word, Image and Memory course (not offered in 2016-2017). Postgraduate supervision: I am currently supervising 6 PhD students as Principal Supervisor (PhD projects in Comparative Literature; European Theatre; Russian literature). Since 2007 I have supervised 5 PhD projects to successful completion, including 2 co-supervised projects. Nominated for the Best Overall Teacher award in 2014-15 and in 2015-16. Research activity (since 2003) In 2003-2007 – participation in an international inter-disciplinary project on post-Soviet Petersburg culture led by the University of Helsinki; in autumn 2008: an award of the British Academy Overseas Conference grant (for participation in the AAASS conference in November 2008): £400; in December 2010: an award of the AHRC grant jointly with Dr Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter) for a 3-year project: "Reconfiguring the Canon of Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry, 1991- 2008" (£429,000 - with funding for 1 post-doctoral fellow and 2 PhD students). Its objective is to explore the ways in which the contemporary Russian literary world has reshaped the canon of 20th-century poetry; th 2010-13: participation in the one international project on Russian 19 th and 20 century auto/biographical writing led by the University of Padua, Italy; autumn 2012: an award of the grant by the Centre for Research, Central and East European Studies (funded by the two major funding bodies such as AHRC and British Academy), University of Glasgow, towards an international conference/workshop "Word and Image in Russian Contexts" (£3, 990). It took place on 1.02.2013 at Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh; A small grant from the LLC towards the organisation on 4 October 2013 (together with Professor Olga Taxidou (English Literature) of a one-day workshop/seminar on Russian and European modernist theatre and performance; a £ 5,000 LLC impact grant jointly with Nicola McCarty (playwright, director, Lecturer in Creative Writing University of Edinburgh) for organizing an international event at Traverse theatre (29.05.2014); another LLC impact grant towards the translation and production of 2 Russian plays at Oran Mor. A joint project with the National Theatre of Scotland (October 2014- May 2015). In 2015-16: co-edited a book on the Russian poetry canon for Open Book Pubslishers (Cambridge; forthcoming in April 2017). RECENT GRANTS: a joint award with Dr Isabelle Darmon (Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh) from the Principal’s teaching Award for the project “Theory on Stage” (£1,495) in April 2016; Moray Endowment Fund Award (£2,000) (2015-16; for the Research assistant for the monograph (co-authored with K. Hodgson) "The Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry Canon and Post- Soviet National Identity"). Publications: Books “The Art of Memory: Russian 20th-c. Elegy ”(in preparation). "Canonicity, 20th-c. Poetry and Russian National Identity (1991-2008) (with Katharine Hodgson) (Oxford, Peter Lang, forthcoming in 2017-18) [Co-edited with Katharine Hodgson and Joanne Shelton] “Twentieth- Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon” (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2017) [504 pp.] “Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian 20th-century Poetry” (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam / New York: 2006). [361 pp.] “Pesn ́ peresmeshnika: Pushkin v tvorchestve Mariny Tsvetaevoi”, Tsvetaeva Museum and Ellis Lak, Moscow, 1999. [252pp.] “The Song of the Mockingbird: Pushkin in the Work of Marina Tsvetaeva”. Peter Lang, Bern / Berlin/ New York / Paris / Wien, 1994. [211pp] Edited Special Editions of Journals th Co-edited with David Wells. A special issue on Russian 20 -c. poetry, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, volume 30, 1-2, 2017, forthcoming in 2017. Alexandra Smith and Catherine Ciepiela, editors. Russian Literature : Marina Cvetaeva, Volume 73, Issue 4, Pages 493-644 (15 May 2013). Articles in Refereed Journals “Lev Tolstoy in the Age of Kinoglasnost’: Mikhail Shveitser’s The Kreutzer Sonata as a Critique of Russian Erotic Utopia and Soviet ideology,” Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, volume 29, nos. 1-2, 2015, pp.31-61. “Anastasiia Tsvetaeva (1894-1993) as a Gulag writer”, Gulag Studies, vols 7-8, 2014-2015, pp.28-49. Marina Tsvetaeva's Memoir on Maksimilian Voloshin in the Context of Artistic and Intellectual Trends of the 1910s-30s, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Band 71, 2013, pp.189-210. Searching for a New Self: Truth-telling and Double Vision in Joseph Brodsky's Essay 'In a Room and a Half' (1985)", AvtobiografiIa, volume 2, part 1, 2013, pp.152- 169; http://journals.padovauniversitypress.it/avtobiografija/content/searching- new-self- truth- %C2%ADtelling-and-double-vision-joseph-brodsky’s- essay-room-and-half Consuming Utopian Thought in an Anti-Utopian Age: The Reception of Andrej Platonovʼs Čevengur in Todayʼs Russia", Russian Literature, volume 73, issue 1/2, 2013, pp.209-227. (with Catherine Cieliela). "Marina Cvetaeva and Her Readers", Russian Literature, Amsterdam, volume 73, issue 4, 2013, pp.539-563. "The Transcendent Power of the Image: Marina Cvetaeva's Vision of Russian Icons and the Mother of God in the 1910s- 20s", Russian Literature, Amsterdam, volume 73, issue 4, 2013, pp.539-563. "Мемуарная проза Марины Цветаевой как анти-памятник: очерк 'Живое о живом '(1932 г.) в контексте мифотворческих тенденций российского и европейского модернизма 1910х-30х годов", AvtobiografiЯ, volume 1, 2012, pp.167–210. [http://journals.padovauniversitypress.it/avtobiografija/] “Reconfiguring the Utopian Vision: Tret′iakov’s Play I Want a Baby!(1926) as a Response to the Revolutionary Restructuring of Everyday Life”, Australian Slavonic & East European Studies, Vol. 25, Nos. 1–2 (2011), pp.107–120. [http://miskinhill.com.au/journals/asees/25:1-2/reconfiguring-utopian- vision] "Nikolai Evreinov and Edith Craig as Mediums of Modernist Sensibility", New Theatre Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, No. 26, 2010, pp. 203-216. ‘The Effacement of History, Theatricality and Postmodern Urban Fantasies in the Prose of Petrushevskaya and Pelevin’, Die Welt der Slaven, LIV, 2009, pp. 53-78. "The Reach of Modern Life: Tynianov's Pushkin, Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity’, Wiener Slawisticher Almanach, Bd. 61, 2008, pp. 85-108. [http://periodika.digitale- sammlungen.de/wsa/Blatt_bsb00064689,00087.html] “A Case of Fluid Identity: Boris Pasternak as Flâneur and an Invitation au Voyage”, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, band 58, 2006, pp. 117- 139. [http://periodika.digitale- sammlungen.de/wsa/Blatt_bsb00050166,00117.html] “Fictionality, Theatricality and Staging of Self: A New Look at Pushkin’s ‘Egyptian Nights’, Slavonic and East European Review , University of London, volume 84, number 3, July 2006, pp. 393-418. “Bypassing Death, Life Creating and Last Poems of Four Russian Modernists: Nikolai Gumilev, Nikolai Otsup, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova”, Australian Slavonic & East European Studies, vol.18, 1-2, 2004, pp.87-102. “Toward the Poetics of Exile: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Translation of Baudelaire’s ‘Le Voyage’”, Ars Interpres, No.2, Stockholm-Moscow-New York, May 2004, pp.179-199. (or: http://ars- interpres- 2.nm.ru/a_s_an_2.html). “Andrei Tarkovsky as Reader of Arsenii Tarkovsky’s Poetry”, Russian Studies in Literature: Special Issue: Russian Literature on the Silver Screen, [edited by John Givens], vol.40. No.3, USA, Summer 2004, pp.46-63. “Vladimir Nabokov As Translator of Russian Poetry”, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Band 51, 2003, pp.133-166. [http://periodika.digitale- sammlungen.de/wsa/Blatt_bsb00010117,00135.html] “The Picaro Myth in the Leningrad Alternative Writing of the Sixties: Andrei Bitov, Joseph Brodsky and Alexander Kushner”, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, vol.17, Numbers 1-2, 2003, pp.79- 100. “Writing As Performance: The Case of Marina Tsvetaeva”, New Zealand Slavonic Journal, vol.37, 2003, pp.143-153. “New Interpretations of Nabokov”, Slavonica, Manchester, Vol.9, No.2, November 2003, pp.127-130. “The Return of the Flâneur in Platonov’s Story ‘Doubting Makar’”, in: Livingstone, Angela, editor. “Andrei Platonov: Special Issue, Volume 2”, Essays in Poetics, volume 27, Keele, Autumn 2002, pp.124-138. “The Memoirs of Emma Gershtein and Nikolai Khardzhiev and Russian Modernist Canon”, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, volume 15, Numbers 1-2, Melbourne, 2001, pp.75-92. “The Enigma of Mikhail Prishvin: Prishvin’s Pre-Soviet and Soviet Diaries”, New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 2001, pp.79-92. “Surpassing Acmeism? – The Lost Key to Cvetaeva’s ‘Poem of the Air’”, Russian Literature, [special issue: The Silver Age], XLV-II, 15 February 1999, Amsterdam, pp.209-222. “The Poetics of Expressiveness and Some Aspects of Non-Verbal Communication in Pushkin’s Work”, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, vol.13, Number 2, 1999, pp.95-114 (This essay was co-winner of ASEES’s Pushkin Prize contest). “The Representation of Memory in Petrushevskaia’s Prose”, Essays in Poetics, Keele, 1999, pp.182-201. “In Populist Clothes: Anarchy and Subversion in Petrushevskaya’s Latest Fiction”, New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 1997, Wellington, pp.107-127. “Dance as Theme and Structure in Russian Modernism”, Essays in Poetics, Autumn 1996, vol 2, Keele, pp.19-34. “The Tsvetaeva Theme in Akhmatova’s Late Poetry”, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, vol.10, No.2, 1996, Melbourne, pp.139-156. [Smith, Alexandra and Crone, Lisa.] “Cheating Death: Tsvetaeva and Derzhavin on the Immortality of the Poet”, Slavic Almanac: Volume 3, University of South Africa Press, 1995, pp.1-30. “Tsvetaeva Resurrected”, The Slavonic and East European Review, October 1993, London, pp.693-700. “Recent Books on Tsvetaeva”, The Slavonic and East European Review, July 1990, London, pp.512-51. “Literary Portrait in the Poetry of Pasternak and Tsvetaeva”, Essays in Poetics, Keele, Sep. 1990, pp.94-101. “The Cnidus Myth and Tsvetaeva’s Interpretation of Pushkin’s Love for Nataliia Goncharova”, Essays in Poetics, Keele, September 1989, pp.83- 102. Book Chapters “Marina Tsvetaeva’s images of the Mother of God in the context of Russian cultural developments in the 1910s-20s”, in Shevtsov, V. & Adams, A. (eds.). Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern and Post-Soviet Russia, DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2017, pp. 193-216, forthcoming. (with Katharine Hodgson) “Introduction: Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry and the Post-Soviet Reader: Reinventing the Canon”, in Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton and Alexandra Smith, editors. Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2017, pp.1-42. “The Post-Soviet Homecoming of First-Wave Russian Émigré Poets and Its Impact on the Reinvention of the Past”, in Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton and Alexandra Smith, editors. Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2017, pp.347-384. “Marina Cvetaeva in the Artistic Imagination of Russian Poets of the 1960s-1990s”, in Forrester, Sibelan E.S., A Companion to Marina Cvetaeva: Approaches to a Major Russian Poet, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017, pp.239-269. “ The Muse of Lament or the Muse of Compassion? The Reception of Anna
Akhmatova in Great Britain” in Victoroff, Tatiana, editor.Anna Akhmatova et la poesie europeenne, Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang Publishing Group, [Vol. Series: Nouvelle poetique comparatiste / New Comparative Poetics - Volume 36], 2016, pp. 265-293. “Pushkin as a Cultural Myth: Dostoevskii’s Pushkin Speech and Its Legacy in Russian Modernism,” in Andrew, Joe and Reid, Robert. Dostoevskii’s Overcoat:Influence, Comparison, and Transposition, Amsterdam, New York, NY: Rodopi, 2013, pp.123-147. "Through the Lens of Soviet Psychoanalysis of the 1920s: Ivan Ermakov's Readings of Pushkin's Poetry", in Dinega, Alyssa, editor. The Other Pushkiniana: Taboo Texts, Topics, Interpretations, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012, pp.350-377. "Jane Harrison as an Interpreter of Russian Culture in the 1910s-1920s", in Cross, Anthony. editor. A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2012, pp.170-190. (See: http://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/PPR/chap12.html) "The Image of Marina Tsvetaeva in the Emigre Memoirs, Criticism and Scholarship," in Adamovitch, Marina; Smotodinska, Tatiana; Ermolaev, Natalia, eds. Russian Emigration at the Crossroads of the XX-XXI Centuries: Proceeding of the International Conference Dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the New Review/Novyj Zhurnal, New York: The New Review Publishing, 2012, pp.186-201. "Russian Women Poets on the Death of the Poet, the Modernist Canon and the Postmodern Condition," in Marsh, Rosalind. New Women's Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe: Gender, Generations and Identities, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2012, pp.300-319. "Russian Children's Literature," in Literary Encyclopedia, edited by Clark and Cornwell; http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=16293 (published in March 2011) "Peterburgskii tekst v novykh kontekstakh: Serebrianyi vek kak mesto pamiati," (The Petersburg Myth in New Contexts: The Silver Age as a Mnemonic Space"), in Pesonen, Pekki et al, editors. Evropa v Rossii: Sbornik statei, Moscow: Helsinki University/Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2010, pp.417-433. “Aleksandr Fadeev”, in Adams, Bruce. The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History, Vol. 10, Gulf Breeze, FL, Academic Publishers, 2008.

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