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93 total members
Schonle, Andreas
Position:
Professor of Russian
Department:
School of Modern Languages
Institution:
The University of Bristol
Highest Degree and Institution:
PhD Harvard University
Discipline:
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Current Research:
Structures of time
Imperial urbanism (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries)
Shershneva, Elizaveta
Position:
PhD student
Department:
Slavic & East European Languages & Cultures
Institution:
University of Toronto
Sizova, Veronika
Position:
PhD student
Department:
Department of Slavic & East European Languages & Cultures
Institution:
University of Toronto
Highest Degree and Institution:
MA in Slavic Literatures and Languages (University of Toronto)
Discipline:
Slavic Literatures and Languages
Specialization:
Marina Tsvetaeva; twentieth-century Russian poetry; modernist Russian and world literature; Russian writers in exile; comparative literature; queer literature.
Current Research:
Marina Tsvetaeva and Sophia Parnok shared a passionate romance in 1914-1916, leaving a legacy of love poems that remain underrepresented in scholarship on Russian literature. While Parnok did not become a modernist after the affair, the intertextuality of images, metaphors, and symbols between Parnok's and Tsvetaeva’s poems points to a deep literary bond that led to the creation of a shared language and the birth of lesbian-centred eroticism in Russian modernist poetry.
My current research explores the intertextual aspects of their poetry, including mirrored punctuation, rhetorical questions, and the erotic symbolism of hands. I argue that Parnok and Tsvetaeva’s poetic intertextuality became a modernist love language—the kind of literary romance only possible in the decadent atmosphere of the early twentieth century. My research reclaims the significance of Parnok’s and Tsvetaeva’s sapphic poetry and traces their influence on one another as poets.
I analyze how Tsvetaeva’s modernism clashed with Parnok’s romanticism and how their lyrical interaction transformed both poets. Parnok and Tsvetaeva’s love poems have not been studied through an intertextual lens, and my archival research helps uncover other layers of their intricate relationship. My goal is to show that, despite the past and current homophobic laws in Russia, same-sex love not only existed there but was also represented in verse.
Most scholarship on Parnok and Tsvetaeva leads to Diana Burgin and Sophia Polyakova, who discuss the parallels in their poetry, but do not comment on their shared poetic language. Rather than providing a one-dimensional overview of the intertextual parallels, I dissect the literary, social, creative, and cultural “interplay of texts” within each poem. Thus, given that my project is situated at the intersection of intimate and lyrical queer writing during social unrest in Russia, I use the frameworks of queer theory, intertextuality, translation theory, and comparative literature to conduct my research.
Smyrnova, Mariia
Position:
Master of Theology Student; Theology Program Coordinator
Department:
Theology
Institution:
University of Waterloo
Highest Degree and Institution:
PhD, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University (2016)
Discipline:
Linguistics
Specialization:
Theology, Religious studies, Philosophy, Slavic languages, Modern and Biblical Greek, Translation Studies, International relations
Current Research:
Post-Mariupol Theology; Religious Practices in occupied Ukraine; Ukrainian Mennonites; Pragmalinguistics of Orthodox sermons
Stanley, John
Highest Degree and Institution:
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Discipline:
History
Specialization:
Poland - 18th to 20th centuries
Belarus - 19th to 20th centuries
Current Research:
History of the Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-15
History of Homosexuality in Poland
Biography of Joachim Lelewel
Stebelsky, Ihor
Position:
Professor Emeritus
Department:
Political Science
Institution:
University of Windsor
Highest Degree and Institution:
PhD University of Washington
Discipline:
Geography
Specialization:
USSR, agricultural, historical, political geography
Current Research:
Political Geography of Ukraine
Sutcliffe, Benjamin
Position:
Professor of Russian
Department:
World Languages and Cultures
Institution:
Miami University
Highest Degree and Institution:
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Discipline:
Literature
Specialization:
Russophone prose
Current Research:
Russophone writers in Georgia
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