Teaching Faculty

Tatiana Venediktova

Professor and Chair

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Research and Teaching Interests:
West European and American literature and culture of XIX-XX centuries, literature as discourse, reception studies, history of the book

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Courses:
Introduction into Cultural Communication Theory
Pragmatics of Cultural Communication
Anthropology of Reading
The Making of 19th Century Literary Imagination
19th Century West European Literature: Romanticism

19th Century West European Literature: The Age of Realism
19th Century American Novel
American Poetry from the Puritans to Walt Whitman
Autobiography in America

Selected Publications

Books

• òÀÜConversation in AmericanòÀÝ: Discourse of Bargaining in the American Literary Tradition. Moscow: NLO, 2003.
• Finding the Voice. Poetic Tradition in America. Moscow University Press, 1994.
• Self Made Man as Image and Profile. The Experience of American Culture. Moscow: Mass Communications Institute, 1993.
• XX Century Poetry in America: Discovering the Modernity. Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1989.
• Poetry of Walt Whitman. Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1982.

Selected Recent Articles and Chapters

• òÀÜPoetic RenaissanceòÀÝ. Imagism. E.L.Masters. Vachel Lindsay. W.C.Williams. W. Stevens. òÀÓ History of American Literature. Moscow, Institute of World Literature, V. 6, 2010.
• Reading Differently as a Cultural Challenge in Russia: On Literature, National Unity, and the Promises of Pluralism.// Dilemmas of Diversity After the Cold War. Eds. M. Rivkin-Fish and E. Trubina Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington 2010.
• Walt Whitman. Emily Dickinson. òÀÓ History of American Literature. Moscow, Institute of World Literature, V. 5, 2009.
• PoeòÀÙs Prose and the Aesthetics of Advertising. - Moscow University School of Philology Bulletin. Issue 6, 2009.
• Art as Intermedium: Romantic Models of Creativity. - Liki Vremeni. Moscow University Press, 2009.
• WhitmanòÀÙs Project of Creative Democracy. òÀÓ Inostrannaya Literatura, 2009, n. 7.
• Radical of the Imagination. - Voprosi Literatury, 2009 n.6.
• òÀÜArtless ArtòÀÝ in the Market of Values. òÀÓ Translit, 2009, n.5.
• Silvia Plath: Poetry of Pain. òÀÓ S.Plath. Collected Poems. Moscow, AST, 2008.
• Contemporary Metaphors of Reading. òÀÓ New Literary Review, 2007, n.87.
• Emily DickinsonòÀÙs Journey from America to Russia. - Inostrannaya Literatura, 2007, n.10.
• Poetry of Consumption: Rhymes of the Cultural Revolution. òÀÓ Consumption and Communication: Russian and American Contexts. University of Saint-Petersburg Press, 2007.
• Reading Classics and Ourselves. In: Canonization of Literature. - International Forum on Research of Literature and the System of Humanities. Capital Normal University Beijing, 2007.
• òÀÜBody ElectricòÀÝ: Walt Whitman as a Cultural Construct. òÀÓ Inostrannaya Literatura, 2007, n.5.
• On Poetry and advertising. òÀÓ Counterpoint. Collection of articles in Honor of G. Belaya. Moscow, RSUH Press, 2005.
• WhitmanòÀÙs project of òÀÜCreative DemocracyòÀÝ. - Inostrannaya Literatura, 2009 n.7.
• Boston School. O.W. Holmes. J.R. Lowell. òÀÓ History of American Literature. Moscow, Institute of World Literature, v.3 2004.
• American Literature. -ˆà History of West European and American Literature in the XX Century. Moscow University Press, 2003.
• etween Language and Discourse: Russian Americanists in Search of Definition. - American Studies International. Feb. 2003, vol. XLI Communication òÀÜIn the Higher SenseòÀÝ: Young Thoreau and Young Dostoyevski. - American Studies International. Feb. 2003, vol. XLI òÀÜNew ManòÀÝ as New Writer and New Reader: Essays in Russian and American Radicalism. - (Mis)understanding Postmodernism and Fiction of Politics, Politics of Fiction, Univerzita Palackeho v Olomouci: Olomouc, 2003.
• Blueprints for Popular Culture (Mid-19th Century Discussions between America and Russia). - Rediscovering America. American Studies in the New Century. South Asian Publishers: New Delhi, 2001.
• Between language and Discourse: Crisis of Communication. òÀÓ New Literary Review., 2001, n.50.
• American Way of Speech as a Fictional Model; M. Bakhtin as a Transatlantic Traveller. - Predecessors. Intellectual Lineages in American Studies. Amsterdam, 1999.

Awards

• Alexander Pushkin State medal, 2003
• Fulbright scholarship, 1994 (Duke University)
• Kennedy Institute scholarship, 1997 (FU Berlin).
• International Forum for US Studies (IFSS) scholarship, 2000 (University of Iowa)
• Salzburg Seminar Fellowships

Associations, Advisory Boards, Editorial Boards:
Board Member, Administrative Board of Moscow University
Board Member, Administrative Board of the School of Philology, Moscow University
Board Member, Specialized Dissertation Board for West-European and Slavic Literatures, School of Philology, Moscow University
Board Member, Russian Association for American Studies (RAAS)
Board Member, European Association of American Studies (EAAS)
Member, Reception Study Society (RSS)
Member, Board of Rusian Fulbright Alumni Association Association (2001òÀÔ2011 òÀÔ President )
Member, Board of Editors, òÀÜNew Literary ReviewòÀÝ
Member, Board of Editors, òÀÜUSA-Canada. Economics, Politics, CultureòÀÝ
Member, Board of Editors, òÀÜInostrannaya LiteraturaòÀÝ
Member, Board of Editors, òÀÜVestnik MGU. Ser.9 PhilologyòÀÝ
Member, Board of Editors, òÀÜPhilology and HumanityòÀÝ (Barnaul)
Member, Board of Editors, òÀÜForum for World Literature StudiesòÀÝ (Shanghai)