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Chloe Papadopoulos

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Chloe Papadopoulos
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email chloepap@usc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, 2023
  • M.Phil. Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, 2019
  • M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, 2015
  • B.A. Russian Language and Literature (Honors), University of Toronto, 2014

  • Research, Teaching, Practice, and Clinical Appointments

    • Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, 2023-07-01-2024-06-30
    • Lecturer, Dalhousie University, 2023-01-01-2023-06-30

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Chloe Papadopoulos is a scholar of 19th-century Russian literature and visual culture. Her research is motivated by the desire to get to the root of national myths, by a belief in the value of a horizontal methodological approach to cultural history, and by a commitment to interrogating not just the literary and artistic canon, but also popular discourse. She studies the manifold ways in which artistic production captured, translated, and (re)defined the historical past during the nineteenth century.

    Her current book project, Recasting the Past: Escapism, Conservatism, and Myths of the Russian Premodern (1856- 1875), considers why the past, particularly the medieval past, occupied such a prominent place in the cultural imaginary during the era of the Great Reforms. It asks how artistic production contributed to the formation of a premodern historical consciousness that, in turn, served as the basis for an emerging Russian national myth and demonstrates that a collective notion of the “premodern” was very much in flux during the reform era. At its core, this project is about how a conception of the premodern was constructed through modern media and artistic culture, and about why the afterlife of this nineteenth-century Russian myth of origins matters today.

    Papadopoulos is also a specialist in Dostoevsky studies and has developed a portfolio of research projects that consider Dostoevsky’s work outside of traditional Russian literary perspectives. She sits on the Executive Board as Communications Chair of the North American Dostoevsky Society. She is Editor of Bloggers Karamazov, the Society’s official blog.

    Research Keywords

    19th-century Russian prose and visual culture; Dostoevsky; Mark Antokol’skii; revivalism; conservatism; historical fiction; early Russian mass media

  • Book Chapters

    • Papadopoulos, C. S. (2024). “‘Too Dragged Out, Can’t Understand a Thing’: The Impatience of Youth in Demons”. Funny Dostoevsky: New Perspectives on the Dostoevskian Light Side pp. 149-170. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Publisher link.

    Journal Article

    • Papadopoulos, C. S. (2021). “Speaking Silently and Overnarrating in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Krotkaia'”. Dostoevsky Studies Journal. Vol. 24, pp. 17-40. Publisher link.

  • Editorships and Editorial Boards

    • Editor, Bloggers Karamazov, Official Blog of the North American Dostoevsky Society, 01/01/2025 –
    • Assistant Editor, Bloggers Karamazov, Official Blog of the North American Dostoevsky Society, 2023 – 12/31/2024

    Other Service to the Profession

    • Communications Chair, North American Dostoevsky Society , 01/01/2025 –
    • Member, Executive Board of the North American Dostoevsky Society, 01/01/2025 –
    • Member, Readers Advisory Board of the North American Dostoevsky Society, 2018 – 2024
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