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Edyta Bojanowska
         
        Edyta M. Bojanowska
     

Associate Professor,
Russian and Comparative Literature

     

Ph.D., Harvard University

       
     

195 College Ave, 2nd floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Phone: (732) 932-7201

Fax: (732) 932-1111

bojanows@rci.rutgers.edu

 

Fall 2012 office hours:
Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm or by appointment
 
         
  Research Interests:
       
    19th century Russian literature, especially prose (Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov), national and imperial discourses in Russian culture, Russian intellectual history, literature’s connections to history and ideology, 19th century Russian journalism, reception studies, post-colonial theory, Central European literatures, especially Polish.
       
       
  Honors/Awards:
       
    The Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, 2012
     
    Rutgers University SAS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2012
     
    MLA Scaglione Prize for the Best Book in Slavic Studies, 2007-2008, awarded for Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (Harvard Univ. Press, 2007)
       
    Harvard University Society of Fellows, 2003-2006
       
       
  Publications:
       
    Books
     

 

    Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (Harvard Univ. Press, 2007). MLA’s Scaglione Prize for the best Book in Slavic Studies, 2009. Ukrainian translation forthcoming, Spring 2013.
       
    Articles
       
   

“Empire by Consent: Strakhov, Dostoevsky, and the Polish Uprising of 1863,” Slavic Review 71.1 (2012): 1-24.

       
   

Review of From the Shadow of Empire: Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855-1870 by Olga Maiorova (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2010), The Russian Review 70.3 (2011): 519-520.

       
   

“Chekhov's The Duel, or How to Colonize Responsibly,” Chekhov in the 21st Century, Carol Apollonio and Angela Brintlinger, eds., (Bloomington: Slavica, 2012) 31-48.

       
   

“A Ticket to Europe: Collections of Ukrainian Folk Songs and Their Russian Reviewers, 1820s-1830s,” forthcoming in Ukraine and Europe: Cultural Alternatives, Encounters, and Negotiations, Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Marko Pavlyshyn, Serhii Plokhii, eds., University of Toronto Press (2013).

       
   

“Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852” in Stephen Norris and Willard Sunderland, eds., Russia’s People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2012) 159-167.

       
   

“Equivocal Praise and National-Imperial Conundrums: Gogol’s ‘A Few Words About Pushkin,’” Canadian Slavonic Papers (an anniversary volume on Gogol), 51.2-3 (2009): 173-196.

       
   

E Pluribus Unum: Isaac Babel’s ‘Red Cavalry’ As a Story Cycle,” Russian Review 59 (2000): 371-89.

       
   

“Wislawa Szymborska: Naturalist and Humanist,” Slavic and East European Journal 41 (1997): 199-223. Reprints: Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 190. Detroit: Gale Research Co., August, 2004; and in Poetry for Students, vol. 27. Detroit: Gale Research Co., November, 2007.

       
       
  Works in Progress:
     

 

    Book project: Empire and the Russian Classics. Under contract with Harvard Univ. Press
       
       
 

Courses taught at Rutgers:

       
   

Undergraduate

      The World According to Gogol (860:329/195:397:02)
      Contemporary Polish Literature (787:350/195:396:02/563:396:01)
      Tolstoy's War and Peace (860:486/195:480), satisfies Core Curriculum req.
      Empire in Russian Culture (860:334/195:334)
      Love and Death in the Russian Short Story (860:322/195:356), satisfies Core Curriculum req.
      Russian Literature of the 19th Century (860:259), satisfies Core Curriculum req.
      Russian Novel in the 20th Century (860:328/195:352)
      Imperial Nations and Their Fictions (Honors Seminar, 090:251)
      Tolstoy (860:331), satisfies Core Curriculum req.
      Two Times Two Is Five: Rationality and Irrationality in Russian Literature (860:320/195:397)
      Honors in Russian (860:497)
       
   

Graduate

      Space and Place in Modern Theory and Fiction (16:195:608)
      Nation and Empire in British, Russian, and American 19th Century Fiction (16:195:604)
       
         
   

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