Irina Shevelenko

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WORK IN PROGRESS:

Modernism as Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic in Russia

In this book-length study, I investigate the encounter of Modernist aesthetic agendas with the process of nationalist indoctrination in late Imperial Russia. I discuss the proliferation of archaistic aesthetics in a nationalist key in Modernist literary and artistic media as a fact of Russian intellectual history, focusing on the analysis of discursive strategies employed to justify “nationally-minded” artistic programs and practices. I argue that a peculiar bond between archaism and nationalism emerged in Russian Modernism as a means to construct an alternative “modern” aesthetic paradigm that would not appear dependent on an “alien,” westernized, cultural heritage, and that the resulting trend of cultural constructivism had lasting significance for modern Russian culture.

BOOKS & EDITED VOLUMES   

• Irina Shevelenko. Literaturnyi put’ Tsvetaevoi: Ideologiia—poetika—identichnost’ avtora v kontekste epokhi [=Tsvetaeva’s Literary Path: Author’s Ideology, Poetics, and Identity in the Context of Epoch]. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2002. 464 pp. Revised 2nd edition forthcoming.

• [Co-edited with E. B. Korkina.] Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak. “Dushi nachinaiut videt’”: Pis’ma 1922–1936 godov [= Letters 1922–1936]. Moscow: Vagrius, 2004. 720 pp. (Notes: pp. 565-707.); 2^nd edition: 2008.

• [Co-edited with E. B. Korkina.] Marina Tsvetaeva. Neizdannoe. Svodnye tetradi [= Unpublished. Notebooks]. Moscow: Ellis Lak, 1997. 640 pp. (Notes: pp. 559-626.)

• Irina Shevelenko. Materialy o russkoi emigratsii 1920–1930-kh gg. v sobranii baronessy M. D. Vrangel’ [=Materials on Russian Emigration of the 1920s and 1930s in the Baroness M. D. Wrangel Collection]. Stanford, 1995 (Stanford Slavic Studies, vol. 9). 185 pp., XLII (photos).

• [Co-edited with Konstantin Polivanov and Andrey Ustinov.] Themes and Variations: In Honor of Lazar Fleishman. Stanford, 1994 (Stanford Slavic Studies, vol. 8). 550 pp.

RECENT ARTICLES

(Russian titles are given in English translation; all publications originally in Russian)

• Forthcoming: Encyclopedia article on Marina Tsvetaeva in vol. 6 of Russkie pisateli, 1800-1917 [=Russian Writers, 1800-1917] (8,000 words); volume scheduled for publication by Rossiiskaia Entsiklopediia (Moscow) in 2013.

• “Representing the Empire and the Nation: Russia at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris,” in Alexander Etkind, Dirk Uffelmann, and Ilya Kukulin, eds., Tam, vnutri: Praktiki vnutrennei kolonizatsii v kul'turnoi istorii Rossii [= Over There, Within: Practices of Internal Colonization in Russian Cultural History]. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2012, 413-444.

• “Empire and Nation in the Imagination of Russian Modernism,” Ab Imperio 3 (2009), 171–206.

• “History and Creativity in the Pasternak—Tsvetaeva Dialogue,” The Real Life of Pierre Delalande. Studies in Russian and Comparative Literature to Honor Alexander Dolinin, Part I (Stanford, 2007) [Stanford Slavic Studies, vol. 33], 315–334.

• “The ‘Discovery’ of Old Russian Icon Painting in the Aesthetic Reflection of the 1910s,” Studia Russica Helsingiensia et Tartuensia X, part 2 (2006), 259–281.
  Accessible online at: http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/542093.html

• “Modernism as Archaism: Nationalism, Russian Style, and Archaizing Aesthetics in Russian Modernism,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 56 (2005 [actual: June 2006]), 141–183.
  Accessible online at http://periodika.digitale-sammlungen.de/wsa/Blatt_bsb00036140,00143.html

RECENT HONORS and AWARDS:

2012-2014: Vilas Associate Award, Graduate School, UW-Madison

2011-2012: Resident Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison

2010: Summer research award, Graduate School, UW-Madison

03/2005—08/2006: Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

2004: Diploma of the Federal Agency for Archives of the Russian Federation (competition of scholarly archival publications for the years 2003—2004) for scholarly/editorial work on the volume of Pasternak—Tsvetaeva correspondence (2004)