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Irina Shevelenko

Title: 
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature
Education: 
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998
E-mail: 
idshevelenko@wisc.edu
Phone: 
262-6759
Language: 
Russian
Research Interests: 
Russian modernist literature and art; Russian émigré literature; Russian poetry; Russian intellectual history; critical theory; sociology of literature; nationalism studies. Current Research Project: Modernism as Archaism: Nationalism and Archaizing Aesthetics in Russian Modernism
Courses Taught: 
Introduction to Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian Literature; 19th Century Russian Prose; Tolstoy; Women in Russian Literature; Tsvetaeva and Russian Modernism; Advanced Russian
Selected Publications: 

Books Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak. “Dushi nachinaiut videt’”: Pis’ma 1922–1936 godov [= Letters 1922–1936]. Co-edited with E. B. Korkina. Moscow: Vagrius, 2004. 720 pp. (Notes: pp. 565-707.) Irina Shevelenko. Literaturnyi put’ Tsvetaevoi: Ideologiia—poetika—identichnost’ avtora v kontekste epokhi [~ Tsvetaeva’s Life in Literature: Author’s Ideology, Poetics, and Identity in the Context of Epoch]. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2002. 464 pp. Marina Tsvetaeva. Neizdannoe. Svodnye tetradi [= Unpublished. Notebooks]. Co-edited with E. B. Korkina. Moscow: Ellis Lak, 1997. 640 pp. 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). Themes and Variations: In Honor of Lazar Fleishman. Co-edited with Konstantin Polivanov and Andrey Ustinov. Stanford, 1994 (Stanford Slavic Studies, vol. 8). 550 pp. Articles (Russian titles are given in English translation) “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). P. 315–334. “The ‘Discovery’ of Old Russian Icon Painting in the Aesthetic Reflection of the 1910s,” Studia Russica Helsingiensia et Tartuensia, X (2006). Part 2. P. 259–281. “Modernism as Archaism: Nationalism, Russian Style and Archaizing Aesthetics in Russian Modernism,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Bd. 56 (2005). S. 141–183. “Searching for the Genre: Tsvetaeva’s Prose of the Early 1920s,” Dni Mariny Tsvetaevoi—Vshenory 2000. Mezhdunarodnaia konferentsiia, 12-14 iiunia, Vshenory i Praga [= Days of Marina Tsvetaeva – Všenory 2000. International Conference, 12–14 June 2000, Všenory and Prague]. Prague, 2002. P. 225–234. “Byvaiut strannye sblizhen’ia: Pushkin in the Creative World of Tsvetaeva in the 1930s,” Pushkin i kul’tura russkogo zarubezh’ia [= Pushkin and the Culture of Russian Emigration]. Moscow: Russkii put’, 2000. P. 49–63. “Revolution in the Work of Tsvetaeva,” Borisogleb’e Mariny Tsvetaevoi: [Proceedings of the Sixth International Tsvetaeva Coference]. Moscow, 1999. P. 84–95. “Symbolist Archetypes in Tsvetaeva’s Self-Consciousness,” Marina Tsvetaeva: Un chant de vie. Actes du Colloque International de l’Université Paris IV, 19–25 Octobre 1992. Paris: YMCA-Press, 1996. P. 332–340. “Towards the History of the 1929 Split in Eurasianism,” Themes and Variations: In Honor of Lazar Fleishman. Stanford, 1994. (Stanford Slavic Studies, vol. 8). P. 376–416. “Beyond Poetics: Towards the Characterization of Tsvetaeva’s Aesthetic Views,” Zvezda 10 (1992) (special issue devoted to Tsvetaeva’s centenary). P. 151–161. “Marina Tsvetaeva in 1911–1913: Formation of the Author’s Identity,” Blokovskii Sbornik [The Blok Collection]. Vol. XI. Tartu, 1990. P. 50–66. “On Structural Peculiarities of M. Tsvetaeva’s Collection Evening Album,” Graduate Essays on Slavic Languages and Literatures. Vol. 3. Ed. Mark Altshuller. University of Pittsburgh, 1990. P. 81–93.