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Katia Dianina

Katia Dianina
Katia Dianina

Associate Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-6689
Personal Website

Address:
PO Box 400783
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Halsey Annex C, Room 109
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4783

Research Interests

  • Russian literature and the visual arts
  • 19th-century prose
  • Cultural and museum studies
  • Art and society
  • National culture and identity
  • The woman question
  • Contemporary literature
  • The story and the city

    • Education

    • Bachelor of Arts (BA), Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
    • Master of Arts (MA), Fordham University
    • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Harvard University

      • Selected Publications:

      • When Art Makes News: Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia, 1851-1900 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, forthcoming Fall 2012)
      • “The Firebird of the National Imaginary: The Myth of Russian Culture and its Discontents,” Journal of European Studies, forthcoming Summer 2012
      • “‘Our Berendeevka’: The Invented Tradition of Russian Modernity,” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 46 (forthcoming 2012)
      • “An Island of Antiquity: The Double Life of Talashkino in Russia and Beyond,” in Rites of Place: Public Commemoration and Celebration in Russia and Beyond, eds. Julie Buckler and Emily Johnson (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming)
      • “The Return of History: Museum, Heritage, and National Identity in Imperial Russia,” Journal of Eurasian Studies 1 (2010): 111-118
      • “Museum and Society in Imperial Russia: An Introduction,” Slavic Review 67, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 907-11
      • “Museum and Story,” This Century’s Review (January 2007)
      • “Art and Authority: The Hermitage of Catherine the Great,” The Russian Review 63 (October 2004): 630-54
      • “The Feuilleton: An Everyday Guide to Public Culture in the Age of the Great Reforms,” SEEJ 47, no. 2 (2003): 186-208
      • “Passage to Europe: Dostoevskii in the St. Petersburg Arcade,” Slavic Review 62, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 237-57
      • “The Museum and the Nation: The Imperial Hermitage in Russian Society,” in The Collections of the Romanovs: European Art from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (London: Merrell, 2003), 36-43
      • “Dostoevskii v Khrustal’nom dvortse,” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 57 (2002): 107-25