Margarita Nafpaktitis

Margarita Nafpaktitis

Assistant Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-3554

Address:
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
PO Box 400783
Cabell Hall, 109G
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4783

Research Interests

• Russian and East Central European Film
• Representations of America(ns) in Russian Literature and Culture
• Russian Modernism
• Contemporary Polish Literature
• Constructions of Space in Literature
• Photography and Literature

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of California System : Berkeley
• Master of Arts (MA), Ohio State University System : Columbus
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Michigan System : Ann Arbor

Publications

"Visual Materials in The House of Arts (Dom iskusstv) Journal,” Slavic & East European Information Resources, Vol. 11, No. 2/3 (2009).

"Multiple Exposures of the Photographic Motif in Vladislav Khodasevich's'Sorrentinskie fotografii'," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 52, No. 3 (2008): pp. 389-413.

With Kelly E. Miller. The Firebird and the Factory: The Modern Russian Children's Book, catalog accompanying exhibition at Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, 2006.

Narrative labels in exhibition catalog for Revolutionary Tides: The Art of the Political Poster, 1789-1989. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University and The Wolfsonian - Florida International University, Miami Beach: Skira, 2005.

"University and K12 Collaboration in Teaching about Russia and Eastern Europe: A Michigan Experience," News Net: News of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, v. 44, no. 2 (March 2004), pgs. 7-10.

Translations

Sale on Maps," by Darek Foks. Lyric Poetry Review, Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Poetry, Summer/Fall 2005. Reprinted in Poetry Ireland Review, No. 89, March 2007.

"Note from the End of the Year," "Hunting for the Kangaroo," "It's Cool. Nobody Knows Anything," and "Points to Hang Onto," by Krzysztof Sliwka
"The House's Weakness," "We," "39°," "Storm," "Conspiracy of Former Men," by Wojciech Bonowicz and
"The Works of Angels," "So Think, Why Not the Resurrection of Crayfish," "Journey," "I Am Coming Out of the Rain," and "Poster Boys," by Dariusz Suska.
Carnivorous Boy, Carnivorous Bird: Poetry from Poland. Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press, 2004.

"A Panoramic View: Art by Women, Feminine and Feminist Art in Poland After 1945," by Dorota Monkiewicz. Introductory essay in catalog for exhibition, Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women's Art in Poland, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, April 11-June 8, 2003.

Tales of Galicia, by Andrzej Stasiuk. Prague: Twisted Spoon, 2003. Includes translator's afterword and notes.

(with Kelly Miller) "Nothing Sadder, Nothing Lovelier" and "I Wanted So Much to Tell the Truth," by Jacek Napiorkowski. Periphery, vol. 8/9, 2002/03.

"Kosciejny" and "The Red-Haired Seargeant," by Andrzej Stasiuk. Przekladaniec, Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing, 2001.

"Janek" and "Place," by Andrzej Stasiuk. The Chicago Review , vol. 46, nos. 3 & 4, October 2000.

"The Absurdity of Beauty," by Ewa Lipska. 2B, no. 14, 1999.

"Newcomer," by Ewa Malachowska-Pasek. Periphery, vol. 3, no. 1/2, 1997.

"Reminder," by Piotr Stefanski. Periphery, vol. 3, no. 1/2, 1997.

"'Sinful Manipulations': The History of Art and the History of Medicine," by Stefan Chwin. Periphery, vol. 3, no. 1/2, 1997.