Nikita Allgire
Biography
Education
- Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, 2023
- M.A. Comparative and World Literature, San Francisco State University, 2014
- B.A. Russian; English, Indiana University, 2011
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Other Employment
- Portals: a Journal in Comparative Litearature, Head Editor, San Francisco State University, 2013-2014
- Assistant to Professor Carla Kaplan, Northeastern University, 2013-2014
- Slavica Publishers, Technical Editor, Indiana University, 2009 – 2011
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
My scholarly interests revolve around literary modernism, Soviet culture, critical theory, and the poetics of sound symbolism in relation to philosophies of language and psychology–at the intersection between “nerve” and “word,” to use a formulation from the 1920s. My current book project examines the contact and interchange between classical psychoanalysis and Russian/Soviet thinking in the two decades before and after the Bolshevik Revolution. I am particularly interested in philosophical and artistic models of human subjectivity from this turbulent period in history, and my project argues that what allowed psychoanalysis to pass the break of 1917 and flourish in the 1920s was largely due to the concept of the “drives” (Triebe). Modernist literary experimentation is important in this regard, and I consider ways in which literature assumed the role of psychology within Russian intellectual history.
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- Pravic Magazine, Translation of Igor Rosokhovatsky’s “Encounter in the Desert”, 2013-2014