Sophie Pinkham

Professor of the Practice

Publications

  • “Fireball Over Siberia,” on Andy Bruno’s new history of the Tunguska Event of 1908, June 2023
  • “Lost in a Dark Wood”: reported feature on migrants crossing the forest on the Belarusian-Polish border, The Economist 1843 Magazine, March 2023
  • “Immune to Despair”: on Ukrainian writer and activist Serhiy Zhadan, New York Review of Books, September 2022
  • “The Thorny Politics of Translating a Belarusian Novel,” on Alhierd Bacharevic’s Alindarka’s Children and linguistic imperialism, New York Times, June 2022
  • “A Hotter Russia,” on Thane Gustafson’s Klimat, New York Review of Books, June 2022
  • “’They’re Willing to Risk Ruining Their Lives’: Putin’s War is Driving Russians Out,” reported guest essay, The New York Times, March 2022
  • “What Young Ukrainians Have Lost Overnight,” The New Yorker, March 2022
  • “Unlucky Stars: Portents of War in Ukraine,” on Yevgenia Belorusets’ Lucky Breaks, The Baffler, March 2022
  • “Can Volodymyr Zelensky Save Ukraine?” Analysis, New York Magazine, February 2022
  • “The Freedom of Historical Fiction,” on Russian Formalist critic Yury Tynianov’s novels Young Pushkin, Kuchlya, and The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, New York Review of Books, March 2022
  • “Searching for Freedom After the Cold War,” on Lea Ypi’s Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History, The New Republic, February 2022
  • Review of Ludmila Ulitskaya’s Just the Plague, Times Literary Supplement, December 2021
  • “Designs for Living,” on Yugoslav architect Svetlana Kana Radević, New York Review of Books, September 2021
  • “Yesterday Never Existed,” on Osip Mandelstam, Poetry, July 2021
  • HIV in Russia, dir. Yuri Dud’ (review), Slavic Review 80, Issue 2, Summer 2021.
  • “Ghosts of Borodino,” on Maria Stepanova, Harper’s, June 2021
  • “No More Mother-Saviors,” on Russian feminist poetry by Galina Rymbu, Lida Yusupova, and others, New York Review of Books, April 2021
  • “Something Resembling Normal Life,” on North Korean writer Park Nam-nyong’s novel Friend and the North Korean version of socialist realism, New York Review of Books, December 2020
  • “Funeral Rites,” on Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral, New Left Review/Sidecar, December 2020
  • “Nihilism for Oligarchs,” New Left Review 125, Sept-Oct 2020.
  • “A Beginner’s Guide to End Times,” on Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens’s How Everything Can Collapse, Bookforum, Sept/Oct/Nov 2020
  • “Normal is Over for Russia’s Hinterland,” Foreign Policy, August 2020
  • “Living by Lies,” on Joshua Yaffa’s Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia, New York Review of Books, August 2020
  • “Doing a Coup: The Many Lives of Catherine the Great,” The Nation, July 2020
  • “Realists of the Soviet Fantasy,” on Aleksandr Deineka and Aleksandr Samokhvalov, NYRB, May 2020
  • “The Playful Propaganda of ‘The History of Ukraine,’” The New Yorker online, February 2020
  • “Blood on the Ice,” on Bathsheba Demuth’s Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, NYRB, December 2019
  • “Ukraine’s New Leading Man,” on Volodymyr Zelensky, NYRB, June 2019
  • “The Chernobyl Syndrome,” on books by Kate Brown, Adam Higginbotham, and Serhii Plokhy, NYRB, April 2019
  • “The Collective Body,” on Anya Bernstein’s The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia, in The Nation, March 2020
  • “Vasily Grossman’s Lost Epic,” on Stalingrad, in The New Republic, Aug. 2019
  • “No Direction Home,” on post-Soviet nostalgia, The New Republic, May 2018
  • “Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision,” The Nation, May 2018
  • “The Candle of Memory,” on Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine, Dec. 2017
  • “Understanding Russia’s War Stories,” The New Republic, September 2017
  • “How a Russian Street Art Museum Defies Kremlin Censors,” The New Republic, July 2017
  • “What Caused the Russian Revolution?” The Nation, June 2017
  • “Ukraine’s Underground AIDS-Treatment Railroad,” Foreign Policy, Mar 2017
  • “Listening to Ordinary Russians by Drawing Them One by One,” on Victoria Lomasko’s Other Russias, The New Yorker online, February 2017
  • “Pure Imagination,” on Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Bookforum, Feb/Mar 2017
  • “When were you thinking of shooting yourself?” on Mayakovsky, London Review of Books, February 2017
  • “Zdesizdat and Discursive Rebellion: The Metropol Affair,” Ulbandus Review Vol. 17,  2016.
  • “Witness Tampering,” on Svetlana Alexievich, The New Republic, August 2016
  • “Teffi’s Memories and the Women of the Russian Revolution,” The New Yorker online, May 2016
  • “Letter from Belgorod,” on Victory Day, The Nation, August 2015
  • “Prattletraps,” on Sergei Dovlatov’s Pushkin Hills, London Review of Books, May 2015
  • “Watching the Ukrainian Oligarchs,” The New Yorker online, April 2015
  • “Eastern Promises,” on Emmanuel Carrère’s Limonov, Bookforum, Dec/Jan 2015
  • “Making Deals in the Paradise of Thieves: Leonid Utesov, Arkadii Severnyi, and Blatnaia Pesnia,” Ulbandus Review Vol. 16, 2014.
  • “Soviet Animation and the Thaw of the 1960s: Not Only for Children” (book review), The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, November 2014.
  • “Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense,” The New Yorker online, October 2014
  • “Pussy Riot in Translation,” Dissent, Summer 2014
  • “Waiting for the Unexpected,” on Gaito Gazdanov, LRB, March 2014
  • “The Museum of the Revolution,” on Victor Serge, The Nation, November 2013
  • “Oligarchs and Graphomaniacs,” on Russia’s Debut Prize, The Nation, April 2013
  • Additional publications in 1843 Magazine, BOMB, Dissent, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, The New York Times, n+1, The Paris Review Daily, and the Times Literary Supplement.

 

Klarman Hall
205 Klarman Hall
sp2357@cornell.edu

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Gavriel Shapiro

Emeritus Professor of Comparative and Russian Literature

Publications

Nikolai Gogol and the Baroque Cultural Heritage (1993)

 

Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading” (1998)

 

(Ed.) Nabokov at Cornell (2003)

 

The Sublime Artist’s Studio: Nabokov and Painting (2009)

 

The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord: Nabokov and His Father (2014)

 

 Thanksgiving All Year Round (2016)

 

Klarman Hall
gs33@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Nancy Pollak

Associate Professor

Publications

 

Mandelstam the Reader, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

“Purblind Doomsters.”  Letter, Sunday Book Review (New York Times), November 4, 2012.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/books/review/purblind-doomsters.html

“Pro O. R.” [“About O. R.”], Iz goroda Enn [From the Town of Ann], in Zvezda, 2014/7, 230-34  http://zvezdaspb.ru/index.php?page=8&nput=2333

“Love-for-the-Other,” translation of “Chuzheliubie,” in The Joy of Recognition: Selected Essays of Omry Ronen, Papers in Slavic Philology, 7, ed. Scherr, Barry and Michael Wachtel (Michigan Slavic Publications, 2015)

Klarman Hall
212 Klarman Hall
np27@cornell.edu
607/255-4155

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Anindita Banerjee

Associate Professor

Publications

BOOKS

We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity, Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Winner of the Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize from the University of California for “an outstanding scholarly monograph that explores the intersections between popular culture, particularly science fiction, and the discourses and cultures of technoscience.”

Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East, co-edited with Sonja Fritzsche, Oxford Peter Lang, 2018

Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader, Academic Studies Press, 2018

South of the Future: Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas, co-edited with Debra Castillo. SUNY Press, 2020

SPECIAL ISSUES

Comparative Literature Journal, "Socialist Anti-Racisms: connected Histories and Contested Legacies," co-edited with Gabriella Safran, 75.2 (2023)

Latin American Literary Review, "Border Environments," 48.96 (Summer 2021)

Science Fiction Studies, "Thinking through the Pandemic," co-edited with Sherryl Vint, 47.3 (November 2020)

Slavic and East European Journal, "Working Towards Equity in Slavic Studies," co-edited with Gabriella Safran, 64.4 (Winter 2020)

Slavic Review, “Geopoetics,” co-edited with Jenifer Presto, 75.2 (Summer 2016)

Slavic and East European Journal, “World Revolution,” co-edited with Jenifer Presto, 61.3 (Fall 2017)

Working Papers in Latin American Studies, “Gender, Violence, and Dislocation in South Asia and the Americas,” co-edited with Debra Castillo, Spring 2011

EDITED BOOK SERIES

Founding co-editor, Studies in Global Science Fiction at Palgrave MacMillan

EDITED JOURNAL

Former co-editor, Science Fiction Film and Television (SFFTV), Liverpool University Press

Klarman Hall
K216 Klarman Hall
ab425@cornell.edu
607/220-3421

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Science Fiction, Environment, Borders and Migration, Media and Politics

 

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