Tatiana Filimonova

Biography

Areas of Interest

In my research, I focus on twentieth- and twenty-first century Russian literature, particularly the cultural imagination of space, especially Eurasia and Siberia. I favor an interdisciplinary approach to literature, one which takes into account its connections with politics, geography, and society. My research explores the mutual influence between literature and political, social and historical thought in Russia, focusing on the idiosyncrasies of Russian postmodernism, Eurasianist imperialism, and neo-Orientalism in contemporary writing.

Courses Taught

While I particularly enjoy teaching courses grounded in my research, such as "Imagining Siberia" and "The Artist and the Tyrant: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature," I regularly teach Russian literature and culture of the nineteenth century, and film. I find it exciting to teach Russian language to a new group of enthusiastic students each year.

RUSS 101-299 Russian language at all levels
RUSS 210: Russian Civilization: Short Russian Masterpieces
RUSS 220: Russian Culture Through Film
RUSS 240: Imagining Siberia
RUSS 250: Men Writing Women: Russian Literature in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
RUSS 260: The Artist and the Tyrant: Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

Selected Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淧ost-Imperial Eurasia and Fragmented Europe in Sorokin鈥檚 Telluriia.鈥� Transnational Russian Studies, ed. Andy Byford, Connor Doak and Stephen Hutchings. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2020
鈥淚ntroduction. Twenty Years After Chapaev and the Void: Viktor Pelevin, Then and Now.鈥� Slavic and East European Journal 62:3, 2018. 462-465. (With Sofya Khagi). 2018
鈥淣ovye teksty Vladimira Sorokina: Rossiiskaia imperiia, kitaiskaia materiia.鈥� Vladimir Sorokin: antologiia [鈥淣ew Texts by Vladimir Sorokin: Russian Empire, Chinese Matter鈥� in Vladimir Sorokin: An Anthology], ed. Evgenii Dobrenko, Ilia Kalinin and Mark Lipovetsky. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2018. 253-278. 2018
鈥淐onstructing Happiness in Siberia: Happy People and the Ideological Potential of the Provinces,鈥� Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 10:2, 2016. 1-17.
鈥淓urasia as Discursive Literary Space at the Millennium.鈥� The Eurasian Project and Europe: Regional Discontinuities and Geopolitics, ed. David Lane and Vsevolod Samokhvalov (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
鈥淐hinese Russia: Imperial Consciousness in Vladimir Sorokin鈥檚 Writing,鈥� Region 3.2 (Summer 2014): 219-244.
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Film Reviews

Aleksandr Galibin: 70, 2020

Dmitrii Suvorov: 64, 2019

Daria Krylova, Andrei Maiover: 56, 2017

Sergei Mokritskii. 50, Oct 8, 2015

Emir Baigazin. 45, Jul 3, 2014

Selected Book Reviews

Mark Bassin and Gonzalo Pozo, eds. The Politics of Eurasianism: Identity, Popular Culture and Russia鈥檚 Foreign Policy. Slavic and East European Journal 62:4, 2018.

Mark Bassin, Sergey Glebov, and Marlene Laruelle, eds. Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism. Slavic and East European Journal 61:1, 2017. 159-160

Sanna Turoma and Maxim Waldstein, eds.鈥�Empire鈥疍e/Centered: New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union, Journal of Historical Geography鈥�47, 2015. 79

Tine Roesen and Dirk Uffelmann, eds. Vladimir Sorokin鈥檚 Languages, Slavic and East European Journal 58:4, 2014. 729-730.

Selected Literary Translations

Ostap Slyvynsky, selected poems (Ukrainian to English). In Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, ed. Oksana Maksymchuk and Maksym Popelysh-Rosochinsky. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017 (with Anton Tenser). 133-146.

1918 by Ostap Slyvynsky. . (with Anton Tenser).

Life on Mars, poems from the cycle by Tracy K. Smith (English to Russian). 42:2, 2014 (with Anton Tenser and Daniil Cherkassky).

Professional Affiliations

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

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