Konstantine Klioutchkine

Associate Professor of German and Russian; Chair of German and Russian; Coordinator of the Russian Section
With Pomona Since: 2002
  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Konstantine Klioutchkine works in the fields of cultural history and media studies. He has published on Dostoevsky, on the culture of print, as well as on Post-Soviet culture and media. He is currently working on a book project titled The Rhetoric of the Intelligentsia Self, exploring the language of personality in intelligentsia discourse between 1840 and 1880.

    Areas of Expertise

    • Russian and East European Studies
    • Media and Cultural History
  • Work

    Work

    鈥淭丑别 Notion of the Intelligentsia in Russian Cultural History,鈥 The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature, Eds. Simon Franklin, Rebecca Reich and Emma Widdis (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Projected 2022).

    鈥淐hernyshevsky鈥檚 Vera Pavlovna as the Power Station for the Modern Cultural Economy,鈥 Energy Aesthetics: Force, Flow, and Entropy in Russian Culture, Eds. Jilian Porter and Maya Vinokour. Projected for 2022.

    鈥淩ealism in the Cultural Economy of Nineteenth-Century Press,鈥 Russkii realism XIX veka: Mimesis, politika, ekonomika: sbornik statei (Russian Realism in the Nineteenth Century), Eds. Aleksei Vdovin, Ilya Kliger et al. (Moscow: NLO, 2020), 378-407.

    鈥淲omen鈥檚 Prose in Russia鈥檚 Modernizing Cultural Economy,鈥 Skladchina: Sbornik Statei k 50-letiiu Mikhaila Makeeva (Festschrift for Moscow State University Professor Mikhail Makeev (Moscow: OGI, 2019), 98-121.

    鈥淟iteraturnye predpriiatiia Nekrasova 1840-kh godov i formirovanie diskursa rossiiskoi publichnoi sfery,鈥 [The Role of Nikolai Nekrasov鈥檚 Literary Enterprises in the Development of Russian Public Discourse] in Karabikha: Istoriko-literaturnyi almanakh. Vyp. 9. Yaroslavl, 2016.

    鈥淭丑别 Culture of Print,鈥 in Dostoevsky in Context, Eds. Deborah Martinsen and Olga Maiorova (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 221-227.

    鈥淎 Stutterer鈥檚 Mis-Steppe: Chekhov鈥檚 Writing in Institutional Context,鈥 The Bulletin of the North American Chekhov Society vol. XIX, No. 1 (Summer 2012), 22-35.

    鈥淭urning Tricks, Baring Devices: Vasilii Rozanov as Prostitute.鈥 Slavic and East European Journal vol. 54, no. 3 (2010), 415-432.

    鈥淏etween Ideology and Desire: The Rhetoric of the Self in the Works of Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Nikolai Dobroliubov.鈥 Slavic Review vol. 68 no. 2 (Summer 2009), 335-355.

    鈥溾橧 Smoke, Therefore I Am鈥: Smoking as Liberation in Russian Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture,鈥 in Smoking in Russian History. Eds. Matthew Romaniello and Patricia Starks. (New York, Routledge, 2009; Paperback 2011), 83-101.

    鈥淏etween Sacrifice and Indulgence: Nikolai Nekrasov as a Model for the Intelligentsia.鈥 Slavic Review 66.1 (Spring 2007), 45-62.

    鈥淭丑别 Rise of Crime and Punishment from the Air of the Media.鈥 Slavic Review 61.1 (Spring 2002), 405-422.

    鈥淪entimental'naia kommertsiia: Pis'ma russkogo puteshestvennika N.M. Karamzina鈥 [The Sentimental Commerce: N.M. Karamzin鈥檚 Letters of a Russian Traveler]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 25 (1997), 84-98.

    鈥淚van Goncharov鈥 Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire. Eds. John Merriman and Jay Winter. Detroit: Charles Scribner鈥檚 Sons, 2006.

    鈥淒raping the Mannequin in Late Capitalism: Language and Commodified Subjectivity in Mad Men,鈥 in Transcultural Studies, special issue 鈥淭丑别 Sense of Writing,鈥 (Brill: Leiden, Netherlands). 2016.

    鈥淶avetnyi mul鈥檛fil鈥檓: Prichiny populiarnosti 鈥楥heburashki鈥,鈥 in Veselye chelovechki: Kul鈥檛urnye geroi sovetskogo detstva. Eds., Il鈥檌a Kukulin, Mark Lipovetsky, Mariia Maiofis. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2008. 360-378.

    鈥淭丑别 Kamenskaia Television Series and the Conventions of Russian Television.鈥 Kinokultura 15 (January 2007). Online journal.

    鈥淔edor Mikhailovich Lucked Out with Vladimir Vladimirovich: The Idiot Television Series in the Context of Putin鈥檚 Culture.鈥 Kinokultura 9 (July 2005). Online journal.

    鈥淏oris Akunin: Biobibliographical Essay.鈥 Russian Writers Since 1980 (Dictionary of Literary Biography Series, vol. 285). Eds. Mark Lipovetsky and Marina Balina. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 3-10.

    鈥淧谤辞谤测惫 厂辞辫谤补苍辞鈥 (The Sopranos鈥 Breakthrough), Kriticheskaia massa 2003:3. Jointly with Sanja Lacan.

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D.
    University of California, Berkeley

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Animated Russia: Cartoons and the Language of Culture
    • Readings in Nineteenth Century Russian Literature
    • The Original Television Series from 'The Sopranos' to 'Mad Men鈥
    • Tolstoy: Writing Affect
    • Dostoevsky & Popular Culture
    • The TV Novel
  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    Appearance as panelist on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, a current-affairs and analysis program on TVOntario public television station.