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Faculty | Zarankin

Julia Zarankin

Julia Zarankin

Assistant Professor of Russian
Education: PhD., 2004 in Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Office: 218D Strickland Hall
Phone: 882-2546
Email: zarankinj@missouri.edu

On Leave 2007-2008

Research

My research explores émigré literary production and writing in exile. I am currently writing a book entitled Literary Necrographies: The Imagination of Russian Émigré Memoirists. This book investigates a critical, but previously ignored subgenre of the literary memoir that permeates Russian émigré letters in 1920-40; I examine how writers and poets turn to the memoir form in order to recreate and revive their lost literary worlds and communities. My work tackles the tension between documentary evidence and literary craft in such threshold genres as autobiography, memoir, biography, diaries, and documentary film. I am also interested in the literary representations of cities, most specifically, St. Petersburg.

Teaching

I have taught the following courses at MU:

  • Russian 2130: Second year Russian language
  • Russian 2310: Russian Civilization (large lecture course)
  • Russian 3130: Russian Realism (undergraduate literature seminar)
  • Russian 3150: Russian Literature from 1930s-present (undergraduate literature seminar)
  • Russian 4440/7440: The Russian Novel: Tolstoy (advanced undergraduate/graduate seminar)
  • Russian 8002: Autobiographical Forms in Russian Literature (advanced undergraduate/graduate seminar)
  • Russian 8005: The Myth of St. Petersburg (graduate seminar)

Publications

Learning to See in Armenia forthcoming in 2008 International Congress of Slavists Conference Proceedings (to be published by Slavica, 2008).

Literaturnaya nekrografiya [Literary Necrography] in Novyi Zhurnal, 247 (2007), 145-56.

Review of Karin Grelz Beyond the Noise of Time in Slavic and East European Journal 51.1 (Spring 2007), 163-4.

Le Bonheur poétique dans la rencontre littéraire de Marina Cvetaeva et Mikhail Kuzmine in Modernités russes, (2007).

Rupture et conjointure: L’Enjambement dans Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot) in Oeuvres et Critiques 27 (2002), 221-39.

The Correspondence of Vyacheslav Ivanov and Charles Du Bos, with Michael Wachtel, in Archivio italo-russo, vol. 3, (Salerno, 2001), 497-540.