Keith Blasing
Status: ABD
Previous Education:
BA, University of Tennessee, 1998
MA, University of Wisconsin, 2001
Research Interests: Early Soviet Literature and Culture , Golden and Silver age Poetry , Pushkin and the Pushkin Myth
Hometown: Knoxville, TN via Madison, WI
Minor: Comparative Literature
Courses taught/positions held: First and Second Year Russian
Dissertation Topic: Andrei Platonov and the Soviet Family Debate of the 1920s
Languages: Russian Reading Knowledge: French, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian
Conference presentations:
"A Continuum of Artistic Autonomy: Viewing the Illustrations of Gogol's Dead Souls ," presented at AATSEEL-Wisconsin, October 2000
"Pushkin, the Prophet of Synthesis in Dostoevsky and Platonov," presented at AATSEEL-Wisconsin, October 2001
"Platonov Writes Platonov? How Autobiographical are the Works in the Epifanskie shliuzy Collection," presented at AATSEEL National Conference, Philadelphia, December 2004
"Platonov's Sokrovennyi chelovek and the Road to Chevengur, " presented at AATSEEL National Conference, Washington, DC, December 2005