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Leading Research Fellow of the Department of Modern European and American Literature at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMLI RAN), Doctor of Philological Sciences.
Education:
Graduated from the Romance and Germanic Philology Department of the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1987.
Completed her postgraduate studies at the Department of Foreign Literature History, Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1990.
In 1991, defended her Candidate of Sciences dissertation (PhD) at Lomonosov Moscow State University on the topic "The Work of Ralph Ellison and the Development of Negro Prose in the USA in the 1950s-80s" under the supervision of T.D. Venediktova.
In 2014, defended her Doctor of Sciences dissertation (Dr. hab.) at Lomonosov Moscow State University on "Negro Literature of the USA from the 18th to the Early 20th Century: Problems of History and Interpretation."
Employment:
Has been working at the Gorky Institute of World Literature (IMLI RAN) since 2010.
Teaching Activity:
Since 1991 – Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Literature History, Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Since 2003 – Associate Professor at the same department.
Research Interests:
20th-century American literature, African-American literature, ethnic literatures of the USA, American modernism, counterculture, Russian/Soviet-American literary connections, American-European cultural connections, poetry of French Symbolism.
Professional Memberships:
Member of the Russian Society for the Study of American Culture (ROISK)
Member of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
Member of the Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association (SSASAA)
Editorial Board Memberships:
Liki Vremeni. Pamyati L.G. Andreeva [Faces of Time. In Memory of L.G. Andreev] / Ed. by G.K. Kosikov, O.Yu. Panova, N.A. Solovyova. M.: Moscow University Press, 2009.
Literatura i voina. Vek XX [Literature and War. The 20th Century] / Ed. by O.Yu. Panova, V.M. Tolmachyov. M.: MAKS Press, 2013.
Selected Bibliography
Books:
"Tsvetnye miry": amerikanskaya literatura v poiskakh natsional'noy samobytnosti ["Colored Worlds": American Literature in Search of National Identity]. M.: Moscow University Press, 2014. – 264 p.
Literatura. 11 klass. Uchebnik dlya obscheobrazovatel'nykh uchrezhdeniy (bazovyy i profil'nyy urovni): v 3 ch. Ch.3 "Zarubezhnaya literatura" [Literature. Grade 11. Textbook for General Education Institutions (Basic and Specialized Levels): in 3 parts. Part 3 "Foreign Literature"]. Moscow, Mnemosina, 2011. - 464 p.
Articles, Scholarly Publications, Translations, Commentaries:
(A selection from the extensive list)
"Dreiser Looks at Russia": On the History of T. Dreiser's Book about the USSR (co-authored with S.I. Panov) // Vestnik of the University of the Russian Academy of Education. 2015. No. 4 (77). P. 61-67.
Urban / Rural Binary and the Black Cultural Identity in American Literature, 1830-1910 // Urban Dimensions of American Civilization. Moscow; Orlando, FL: RSUH-University of Central Florida, 2015. P. 224-232.
"And They All Exclaimed: 'Hallelujah!'": Ecstasy and Metanoia in American Spiritual Narratives and Criminal Confessions of the 18th – Early 19th Century // Vse vostorgi mira: ekstaz v literature i iskusstve [All the Raptures of the World: Ecstasy in Literature and Art]. SPb; Tver: Marina Batasova Publishing, 2015. P. 41-50.
"Moscow Speaking": The Soviet Union in the First Weeks of the War through the Eyes of American Journalists. Article. Caldwell E., Bourke-White M. Radio Broadcasts. Translation from English // Literaturnaya Gazeta. 2015. No. 24 (6513).
The Skeptical Pilgrim: Theodore Dreiser and the Russian Orthodox Church in 1927 // Vestnik of St. Tikhon's Orthodox University. Series II "History. History of the Russian Orthodox Church". 2015. No. 5 (66). P. 90-114.
Modeling the Image of the Black Race in American Culture and Literature at the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries // Gumanitarnye i sotsial'no-ekonomicheskie nauki [Humanities and Socio-Economic Sciences]. 2014. No. 1. P. 78-81.
The "Color Line": On the Representation of the Racial Boundary in US Literature // Problemy kul'turnogo pogranich'ya. Pamyati V.B. Zemskova (1940-2012) [Problems of the Cultural Borderland. In Memory of V.B. Zemskov (1940-2012)]. M.: IMLI RAN. 2014. P. 365-374.
US Literature of the Second Half of the 20th Century // Zarubezhnaya literatura XX veka: uchebnik dlya bakalavrov [Foreign Literature of the 20th Century: Textbook for Bachelors]. M.: Yurait. 2014. Vol.2. P. 135-174.
Postmodernism and the Work of U. Eco // Zarubezhnaya literatura XX veka: uchebnik dlya bakalavrov [Foreign Literature of the 20th Century: Textbook for Bachelors]. M.: Yurait, 2014. Vol.2. P. 317-342.
Literary Guide. "Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" // Inostrannaya Literatura [Foreign Literature]. 2013, No. 1, p. 203-264.
From Ekphrasis to Calligram: Metamorphoses of Ekphrastic Description in French Poetry at the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries // "Nevyrazimo vyrazimoe": ekfrasis i problemy reprezentatsii vizual'nogo v khudozhestvennom tekste ["The Inexpressibly Expressible": Ekphrasis and Problems of Representing the Visual in a Literary Text]. M.: Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye, 2013. P. 323-341.
Harlem Renaissance: "Negro Vaudeville" or Negro Capital? // Vestnik of Moscow University. Series 9. Philology. 2008, No. 5, p. 102-111.
Back to the Jungle: Echoes of the "Jazz Age" in the Poetry of American Modernism // Vestnik of Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series Philological Education, 2012, No. 1 (8), p. 51-59.
African American Literature // Istoriya literatury SShA. Literatura nachala XX v. [History of US Literature. Literature of the Early 20th Century]. Vol. V. Moscow, IMLI RAN, 2009, p. 800-868.
Sherwood Anderson's "Dark Laughter" of White America // Voprosy Literatury [Questions of Literature], 2009, No. 1, p. 221-240.
After Postmodernism. An Outline of Trends in Contemporary Anglo-American Prose. Article // Voprosy Filologii [Questions of Philology], No. 1, 2006, p. 217-222.
Bérard E. La vie tumultueuse d'Ilya Ehrenburg. Translation from French by O.Yu. Panova. Moscow, Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye, 2009 – 276 p.
Conference Participation in 2010-2015
International Conferences (Selected Topics and Events):
1. "From Subculture to Counterculture and Mass Culture: Consolidation, Flourishing and Disintegration of Rock Culture in the USSR/Russia" – Artistic Communities in the 20th Century. Russian-French Conference. IMLI RAN, Paris, 2010.
2. "Negro Dancers": Dance in the Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance – Free Verse and Free Dance. MSU, 2010.
3. "The American Modernism of the 1910s-1930s in Search of National Identity" – Americans in Search of National Identity/Identities. Zverev Readings. RSUH, 2011.
4. "Gay Harlem in American Literature of the 1920s" – City and Urbanism in American Culture. ROISK Conference, MSU, 2011.
5. "Arthur Rimbaud's Crossroads" – Decadence in Europe. St. Petersburg State University, 2014.
6. "Racial War and the Search for a Path to Reconciliation in American Literature and Journalism of the 1870s-1900s" – Imagining and Building Peace in American Culture. ROISK Conference, MSU, 2015.
7. "Theodore Dreiser, the USSR and the Jewish Question" (co-authored with S.I. Panov) – Literature as Autonomy. IMLI RAN, 2015.
8. "Classics in the Service of Ideology: The Stalinist Pushkin Jubilee of 1937 in the USA" – Faces of the 20th Century. Literature and Ideology. MSU, 2015.
Russian Conferences (Selected Topics and Events):
9. "The Child and the Primitive: The North American Variant" – Fictions about Childhood and for Children. IMLI RAN, 2010.
10. "The Racial Border and Racial Mixing in the Genesis of American Literature" – Civilizational-Cultural Borderland. IMLI RAN, 2012.
11. "The Negro as 'Child' and 'Primitive' in US Literature" – "Childhood" in Cultural Myths of Modernity. IMLI RAN, 2011.
12. "Postmodernism as Cultural Revenge: 'The Great Western Canon' and 'The School of Resentment'" – Postmodernism in Russian and American Culture. Vologda, 2012.
13. "The Afro-American 'Bestiary': The Topos of the 'Bestiality' of the Black Race in US Literature and Folklore" – Lomonosov Readings. MSU, 2013.
14. "Jazz Poetry of Chicago" – Music and Poetry in the Big City. Moscow Conservatory, 2013.
15. "From Ekphrasis to the Graphic Poem: Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé in Search of New Visuality" – The Era of Symbolism. State Institute of Art Studies, IMLI RAN, 2014.
