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Elizaveta Dvortsova

Dornsife Fellow in General Education
Elizaveta Dvortsova
Email dvortsov@usc.edu

Education

  • MA Languages and Literature, University of Southern California, 2021
  • MA Communication, Moscow State Univ ‘M.V. Lomonosov’, 2018
  • BJ Print Journalism, Moscow State Univ ‘M.V. Lomonosov’, 2015

  • Research, Teaching, Practice, and Clinical Appointments

    • Assistant Lecturer/Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California, 01/2022-
    • Teaching Assistant, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 09/2016-01/2018

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    I am broadly interested in Russian literature and culture of the XX-XXI centuries. One of my particular interests is Soviet cultural politics after Stalin. My dissertation studies cultural regulation through the lens of literary journals published in the Soviet Union during the 1960s.
    Currently I am pursuing research on literary polemics between two major Soviet literary journals (Oktiabr’ and Novy Mir)in relation to cultural politics during Khruschev’s Thaw and early Brezhnev’s era.

    My interests also include theoretical poetics, specifically the structuralist approach to poetry, and the theory of intertextuality. My secondary project is dedicated to an explanation of iconic images (i.e. the ones in which form resembles the content) in literature on the material of Russian poetry and prose. I explain how certain themes gain iconic representations in an artistic work.

  • Conference Presentations

    • Nothing to Discuss: An Episode from 1960s Literary Polemics , California Slavic ColloquiumTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Online, Spring 2023
    • Poetic Pictures: Iconic Images in Russian Poetry , NeMLA ConventionTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Niagara Falls, NY, 03/23/2023 – 03/26/2023
    • “Historicity” of Literature and Temporal Uncertainties of Soviet Literary Criticism. , ASEEES ConventionTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Chicago, IL, 11/10/2022 – 11/13/2022
    • SLL110g: Russia in the Modern Era: The Thaw Guest lecture on the Soviet culture of the early 1960s for undergraduate students., Spring 2023
    • Gold Family Fellowship: Gold Family Fellows are chosen on the basis of extraordinary academic promise. Recipients of this prestigious fellowship receive a stipend to pursue research related to their dissertation. , 06/01/2024 – 08/15/2024

  • Professional Memberships

    • ASEEES, 2020 –
    • AATSEEL, 2019 –
    • NeMLA, 2022-2023
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