University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  

graduate students

Inessa Gelfenboym


Contact Information

E-mail: gelfenbo@usc.edu

Education

  • BA Russian, Amherst College, 05/2009



Research


Summary Statement of Research Interests


  • My research interests include perception in modernism and its precursors, science in literature (especially physics), and everything to do with Petersburg by Andrei Bely.

Conference Presentations

  • California Slavic Colloquium , 4/2012

Other Presentations


  • ""Butterflies and Grandfathers: Andrei Bitov's Fotografia Pushkina (1799-2099) and the Tyranny of the Timestream"", California Slavic Colloquium , University of California, San Diego, Spring 2012   

Honors and Awards

  • Provost Fellowship, 9/2011-  
  • New England Society in the City of New York Scholar, 9/2005-5/2009  
  • Robert C. Byrd Scholarship, 9/2005-5/2009  
  • Amherst College Mikhail Schweitzer Memorial Book Award, Spring 2009   

Service to the Profession


Professional Memberships


  • The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), 2011-2012