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Professor Cynthia Simmons Boston College |
SL 230 / EN 217 Russian Literature of the Fantastic (in English)
SL 239 / EN 152Women in Russian Literature
| Brown University, PhD. in Slavic Languages |
| Brown University, A.M. in Russian Language and Literature |
| Indiana University, A.B., Major: Russian |
| University of Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia) |
Publications
| Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (with Nina Perlina), University of Pittsburgh Press, Spring, 2002. |
| Their Father's Voice: Vassily Aksyonov, Venedikt Erofeev, Eduard Limonov, and Sasha Sokolov (New York: Peter Lang, 1993). |
| For Henry Kucera: Studies in Slavic Philology and Computational Linguistics, editor with Andrew Mackie and Tatyana McAuley (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Studies, 1992). |
| “The Culture of the Siege of Leningrad,” chapter in St. Petersburg in Russian National Consciousness, ed. Stephen Norris and Helena Goscilo, forthcoming from Indiana University Press |
| “Women’s Work and the Growth of Civil Society in Post-War Bosnia", Nationalities Papers 35 (2007): 171-185. |
| “Andrei Bitov on ‘Russian Wealth,’” International Fiction Review 34 (2007): 109-119. |
| "Bosnian War Literature (1992-1996) and the Prose of Alma Lazarevska," The South Slav Journal, 3-24 (2001): 56-69. |
| "Urbicide and the Myth of Sarajevo," Partisan Review, 4 (2001): 624-630. |
| "Ranko Marinkovic," Dictionary of Literary Biography: South Slavic Writers, (updated essay for revised edition, forthcoming). |
| "The City of Women: Leningrad (1941-1944)," Women and War I: Women's Discourse, War Discourses, Svetlana Slapsak, ed. (Ljubljana: Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, 2000): 69-99. |
| "Fly Me to the Moon: Modernism and the Soviet Space Program in Viktor Pelevin's Omon Ra," The Harriman Review, 4 (2000): 4-9. |
| "Baedeker Barbarism: Rebecca West's Balck Lamb and Grey Falcon and Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts," Human Rights Review, 1(2000): 109-124. |
| "Lifting the Siege: Women's Voices on Leningrad (1941-1944)," Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1-2(1998): 43-65. |
| "Vladan Desnica," Dictionary of Literary Biography: South Slavic Writers Since World War II, 181(1997): 54-58. |
| "Petar Segedin," Dictionary of Literary Biography: South Slavic Writers Since World II, 181(1997): 295-299. |
| "Personal Narratives of the Siege of Sarajevo," Balkan Studies Bulletin, 2(Winter, 1996): 1-6. |
| "The Poetic Autobiographies of Vasilij Aksenov," Slavic and East European Journal, 40(1996): 96-110. |
| "Ranko Marinkovic," Dictionary of Literary Biography: South Slavic Writers, 147(1995): 134-138. |
| "Vladimir Nazor," Dictionary of Literary Biography: South Slavic Writers, 147(1995): 156-161. |
| "Non-Authoritarian Discourse in Peterburg," Russian Literature, 23-24(1990): 483-502. |
| "An Alcoholic Narrative as 'Time-Out' and the Double in Moskva-Petushki," Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 24, No. 2(Summer, 1990): 155-68. |
| "An Autobiography for the Twentieth Century: Pasternak's Oxrannaja gramota," Russian Language Journal, 141-143(1988): 169-175. |
| "Incarnations of the Hero Archetype in School for Fools," in The Supernatural in Slavic and Baltic Literature: Essays in Honor of Victor Terras, edited by Amy Mandelker and Roberta Reeder, Columbus: Slavica, 1988: 275-289. |
| "Determining Textual Incoherence in Xlebnikov's Ka," Slavic and East European Journal, 3(Fall, 1987): 334-355. |
| "Cohesion and Coherence in Pathological Discourse and Its Literary Representation in School for Fools," International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 33(1986): 71-96. |
| "Croatian Moderna and Russian Modernism," Slavic and East European Journal, 28(1984): 363-374. |
| "Cohesion in Russian: A Model for Discourse Analysis," Slavic and East European Journal, 25(1981): 64-79. |
| "The 'Croatian Borgesians': A Review Article," Ulbandus Review, 2(1978): 157-161. |
| "Sofia Pavlovna Iur'eva," "Anna Nikitichna Shabanova," "Ivanova," "Lidiia Zakharova," in Margaret R. Higonnet, ed., Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I, (New York: Plume, 1999). |
| "Sabrina P. Ramet, ed., Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States, Slavic and East European Journal, 1(2001): 166-168. |
| Raoul Eshelman, Early Soviet Postmodernism and Mark Lipovetsky, Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 2-3(2001): 279-282. |
| David A. Norris, In the Wake of the Balkan Myth, Choice, 8(2000). |
| Karen L. Ryan-Hayes, Ed. Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow-Petushki: Critical Perspectives, Slavic Review, 1(1999): 269-270. |
| Elena Semeka-Pankratov, Ed., Studies in Poetics: Commemorative Volume, Krystyna Pomorska (1928-1986), Slavic and East European Journal, 4(1998): 775-777. |
| Slavenka Drakulic, Cafe Europa, Slavic and East European Journal, 2(1998): 345-347. |
| Dubravka Ugresic, Have a Nice Day, The Boston Globe, 13 August 1995. |
| Jane Gray Harris, ed. Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature, Russian Review, 52(1993): 421-423. |
| Thomas F. Magner, Introduction to the Croatian and Serbian Language, Revised Edition, The Modern Language Journal, 2(1992): 240-241. |
| Vjekoslav Boban and John Pheby, eds., The Oxford-Duden Pictorial Serbo-Croat-English Dictionary, Choice, (May, 1989): 58. |
| A. K. Zholkovskii, Iu. K. Shcheglov, Mir avtora i struktura teksta: stat'i o russkoi literature, Slavic and East European Journal, 32(April, 1988): 655-56. |
| Andrew Barratt, Between Two Worlds: A Critical Introduction to The Master and Margarita, Choice, (April, 1988): 211. |
| John E. Malmstad. editor, Andrey Bely: Spirit of Symbolism, Choice, (October, 1987): 221. |
| Milton Ehre, Isaac Babel, Choice, (May, 1987): 180. |
| E. M. Stepanova, S. N. Ievleva, L. B. Trusina, R. l. Baker, Russian for Everybody, Slavic and East European Journal, 31(1987): 295-298. |
| Zelimir Juricic, The Man and the Artist: Essays on Ivo Andric, Choice, (September, 1986): 271. |
| Miodrag Pavlovic, The Slavs Beneath Parnassus, Choice, (June, 1986): 197. |
| Celia Hawkesworth, Ivo Andric: Bridge between East and West, Choice, (December, 1985): 225. |
| Vasa Mihailovic and Mateja Matejic, A Comprehensive Bibliography of Yugoslav Literature in English (1593-1980), Choice, (December, 1985): 42. |
| Stjepan Cuic, Dnevnik po novomu kalendaru, World Literature Today (Winter, 1982): 144. |
| Predrag Cudic, Drug djavo, World Literature, (Winter, 1981): 143. |
| Miodrag Pavlovic, Bekstva po Srbiji, World Literature Today, (Winter, 1981): 142. |