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Emily Van Buskirk
       
        Assistant Professor (Russian)
    evanbusk@rci.rutgers.edu
   

195 Coll Ave Rm 203

    Fall 2009 office hours: Wednesdays 3-4pm
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
  Education
 
  • A.B. Princeton University 1997
  • Ph.D. Harvard University 2008
     
  Selected Publications
 
   
  Works in Progress
 
  • Lydia Ginzburg, Prokhodiashchie kharaktery (Zapiski blokadnogo cheloveka. Proza voennykh let). Scholarly edition of Lydia Ginzburg’s blockade-related prose. Commentary, introductory article, co-editing together with Andrei Zorin. Moscow: Novoe izdatel’stvo.
  • Lydia Ginzburg’s Alternative Literary Identity. A volume of solicited articles and translations. Co-editor with Andrei Zorin. Peter Lang AG.
  • Article on Ginzburg’s Blockade prose for Slavic Review.
  • A book based on my dissertation, Reality in Search of Literature: Lydia Ginzburg’s In-between Prose.
   
  Research Interests
 

Russian and Czech prose of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Autobiography, in-between genres (documentary literature, semi-autobiographical fictions, essays); Lydia Ginzburg; narrative technique and narrative theory; intersections between literary theory and practice; the 1920s; representations of war and of the Leningrad blockade; Czech film; the culture of the thaw; gender and sexuality; memory and history; selfhood and ethics, theories of the self.

       
   
       
   

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