Elizaveta Dvortsova

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 of the XX-XXI centuries as well as literary and critical theories developed during this period. One of my particular interests is Soviet literary criticism of the 1960s in its relation to official governmental policies towards literature and culture.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. I explain how certain themes gain iconic representations in an artistic work.

Conference Presentations

• 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

Professional Memberships

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