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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Elizaveta Dvortsova

Ph.D. Student
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

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

  • 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 literature (primarily poetry). I explain how certain themes gain iconic representations in an artistic work.

  • Conference Presentations

    • BASEES Conference , 4/2024
    • NeMLA Annual Convention , 3/2024
    • AATSEEL Annual Conference , 2/2024
    • ASEEES Annual Convention , 12/2023
    • California Slavic Colloquium , 4/2023
    • NeMLA Annual Convention , 3/2023
    • ASEEES Annual Convention , 11/2022
    • California Slavic Colloquium , 4/2022
    • AATSEEL Annual Conference , 2/2022
    • AATSEEL Annual Conference , 2/2021
    • (spring 2022) RUSS 220 60218. Intermediate Russian I
    • (fall 2022) SLL 330g. Russian Thought and Civilization
    • (spring 2023) SLL 110g. Russia in The Modern Era
    • (fall 2023) RUSS 250 60218. Intermediate Russian II
    • (fall 2024) IR 307. Contemporary International Politics
    • 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