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Edyta Bojanowska
       
      Assistant Professor (Russian)
     
   

bojanows@rci.rutgers.edu

     
    Fall 2009 Office Hours:
Th 2-3 or by appt.
195 Coll Ave Rm 201 (2nd Floor)
 
 
 
 
       
  Education:
 
  • Ph.D., Harvard University
  • B.A., Barnard College
     
  Courses Taught at Rutgers:
 
  • Tolstoy's War and Peace (860:486/195:480)
  • Love and Death in the Russian Short Story (860:322/195:356)
  • Two Times Two Is Five: Rationality and Irrationality in Russian Literature (860:320/195:397)
  • Russian Novel in the 20th Century (860:328/195:352)
  • Imperial Nations and Their Fictions (Honors Seminar, 090:251)
  • Nation and Empire in British, Russian, and American 19th Century Fiction (graduate course, 16:195:604)
  • Tolstoy (to be offered Spring 2010, 860:331)
  • Russian Literature and Empire (to be offered Spring 2010, 860:334)
     
  Selected Publications
 
  • "Equivocal Praise and National-Imperial Conundrums: Gogol's 'A Few Words About Pushkin,'" Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des slavistes 51.2-3 (2009): 173-197.
  • Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism, Harvard University Press, January 2007.
  • "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. Reprint: Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 190. Detroit: Gale Research Co., August, 2004.
  • Polish translation of a chapter from Tom Wolfe´s The Bonfire of the Vanities published with an introductory note in Czas Kultury (a Polish cultural monthly) 22-23 (1990): 50-60.
     
  Research Interests
  Nineteenth-century Russian literature and cultural history, nationalism and imperialism, Russian journalism of the 19th. cent., reception studies, Central European literatures, especially Polish, literature and ideology, postcolonial theory
       
   
       
   

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