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Books
Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood: Myths and Realities. Co-edited with Marina Balina and Anastasia Kostetskaya. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Russian Childrenās Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Marina Balina. Routledge, 2008, 2011.
Understanding Boris Pasternak. U of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Pasternak's Early Fiction and the Cultural Vanguard. Peter Lang, 1994.
Selected Articles
āIntroduction: The World of Russian Childhood.ā Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 1-19.
āFrom Socialist Realism to Mash-up Fiction: The Evolution of Arkadii Gaidarās Timur and His Team.ā Filoteknos: Childrenās Literature, Cultural Mediation, Anthropology of Childhood, vol. 12 (2022): 307-319.
āTransformative Vision and Abiding Traditionalism: Gender in the Canon of Soviet Childrenās Literature.ā Canon in Move: Ways and Subjects in Formation. Eds. Zofia Zasacka and Dorota MichuÅka. Forthcoming.
āFrom Nature to āSecond Natureā and Back.ā The Pedagogy of Imagery: Depicting Communism for Children. Eds. Marina Balina and Sergei Oushakine. University of Toronto Press, 2021.
āEmbracing Eccentricity: Cinderella and the Avant-Garde Imagination.ā Brill Companion to Soviet Childrenās Literature and Film. Ed. Olga Voronina. Brill, 2019, pp. 417-439.
āErich KƤstnerās Playful Characters in the Cultural Space of Stagnationā (Veselye syshiki Erikha Kestnera v kulāturnom prostranstve zastoia). Detskie chteniia/ Childrenās Readings: Studies in Childrenās Literature (Research Institute of Russian Literature/Russian Academy of Sciences) 15:1 (Fall 2019): pp. 127-144.
"The Second Congress of Soviet Writers and Boris Pasternak's Lyrical Poetry." The Second Congress of Soviet Writers. The Ideology of the Historical Transition and Transformation of Soviet Literature. 1954. (Vtoroi s''ezd sovetskikh pisatelei. Ideologiia istoricheskogo perekhoda i transformatsiia sovetskoi literatury. 1954). Eds. Konstantin Bogdanov and Valery Viugin. St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 2018. 596, pp. 270-288.
āStorying War Childhood in Albert Likhanovās Russian Boys.ā Filoteknos: Anthropology of Childhood 8 (2018): pp. 63-74.
āFictional and Historical Remembering of the Great Patriotic War and War Childhood: Events and Heroes Great and Small.ā Editorās Introduction to the cluster, āRussian and Eastern European War Childhood.ā Filoteknos: Anthropology of Childhood 8 (2018): pp. 7-12.
āNew Plots for the New German Child, or Mikhail Ilāinās āPoetry of Scienceā in East German Childrenās Literatureā/ āNovye siuzhety dlia novogo nemetskogo rebenka, ili āpoeziia naukiā Mikhaila Ilāina v detskoi literature GDR.ā Detskie chteniia/ Childrenās Readings: Studies in Childrenās Literature (Research Institute of Russian Literature/Russian Academy of Sciences) 13:1 (2018): pp. 141-152.
āāCross-Writingā and War Memory: Fridrikh Gorenshteinās Autobiographical Story, āThe House with a Turret.āā AvtobiografiŠÆ: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture 4 (2015): pp. 29-46.
āMasculinity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Children's literature: Transformation of Timur and his Team.ā (Maskulinnostā v sovetskoi i postsovetskoi detskoi literature: transformatsiia Timura i ego komandyā). Detskie chteniia/Childrenās Readings: Studies in Childrenās Literature 2:6 (2014): pp. 88-103.
āāWho is the Fairest of Them All?ā Beauty and Femininity in Contemporary Russian Adolescent Girl Fiction,ā The Russian Review 73:3 (July 2014): pp. 389-403.
Selected Review Essays and Book Reviews
āRussian Childrenās Literature and Childhood Research in the Post-Soviet Age: Past-Present-Future,ā with Marina Balina. The Russian Review 81:1 (January 2022): 122-132.
āIcons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911ā2011.ā (āStilā ikon: modnaia fotografiia, muzei i khudozhestvennoe znachenieā). With Hans JĆ¼rg Rindisbacher. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture/Teoriia mody 50 (Winter 2018-2019): 295-317.
āHow Fashion Constructed Soviet Identity.ā Review of Fashion, Consumption and Everyday Culture in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1985. Ed. Eva Hausbacher, Elena Huber, Julia HargaĆner. Teoriia mody/Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture 46 (Winter 2017-2018): 323-329.
With Hans JĆ¼rg Rindisbacher. The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms (Aug. 15, 2018).
āWhen Fashionable Men Reign: 300 Years of Dressing Men.ā Review Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear 1715-2015. LACMA April 10-August 21, 2016. With Hans J. Rindisbacher. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Teoriia mody: odezhda, telo, kulātura) 42 (Winter 2016-2017): 299-306.
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia zur MĆ¼hlen. Translated and edited by Jack Zipes. The European Legacy 27:7-8 (2022): 858-860
Moscow Has Ears Everywhere: New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya by Paolo Mancosu. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2019. Russian Review 79:1 (2020): 130-132.
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook by Sara Pankenier Weld. The Lion and the Unicorn 43:1 (2019): 136-139.
Russische Kinderliteratur im europƤischen Exil der Zwischenkriegszeit by Nadia Preindl. Slavic Review 77:1 (Spring 2018): 281-282.
Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject. By Constantin Parvulescu. Slavic Review 76:1 (May 2017): 232-234.
Fairy Tales and True Stories: The History of Russian Literature for Children and Yong People (1574-2010) by Ben Hellman. Detskie chteniia/Childrenās Readings: Studies in Childrenās Literature (Research Institute of Russian Literature/Russian Academy of Sciences) 11 (2017): 259-263. (In Russian)
Russiaās New Fin de SiĆØcle: Contemporary Culture Between Past and Present. Ed. Birgit Beumers. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2013. The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 22:1 (2017): 114-116.
Sowjetische Kindheit im Zweiten Weltkrieg: GenerationsentwĆ¼fe im Kontext nationaler Errinnerungskultur. By Oxane Leingang. Slavic Review75:3 (Fall 2016): 797-799.
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde by Sarah Pankenier Weld. International Research in Childrenās Literature Quarterly 9:2 (2016): 226-228.
Fashion, Consumption and Everyday Culture in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1985. Ed. Eva Hausbacher, Elena Huber, Julia HargaĆner. The Russian Review 74:4 (October 2015): 724-725.
Ben Hellman. Fairy Tales and True Stories: The History of Russian Literature for Children and Yong People (1574-2010). The Russian Review 73:3 (July 2014): 465-467.
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