Sonia I. Ketchian

Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1975
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
617-923-3039
ketchian@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests
Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Current Projects
"War, Revolution, and Terror in the Life and Works of Anna Akhmatova"

Selected Publications
“’Cto v imeni tebe moem?’: Names As a Window into Puskin’s Evgenij Onegin,” Russian Literature, Vol. LX, No. II (August), 2006.

“The Word As Key in Pushkin’s ‘To the Bust of the Conqueror’ As Discovered by Charents,” Festschrift for Norman W. Ingham. Editor Christian Raffensperger. Russian History, Vol. 33, Nos. 2-3-4, 2006.

"Dostoevskij's Linguistically-based Ideational Polemic with Goncarov Through Raskol'nikov and Oblomov," Russian Literature, Vol. LI, No. IV (May), 2002.

C. Keats and the Russian Poets. Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, No. 33. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham, 2001.

The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova: A Conquest of Time and Space. Slavistische Beitrage, (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1986).

The Poetic Craft of Bella Akhmadulina. Penn State Press: University Park, PA: 1993. Nominated for the 1995 Vucinich Book Prize.

Anna Akhmatova, 1889-1989: Papers from the Akhmatova Centennial Conference, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, June 1989. Ed. Sonia I. Ketchian. Oakland: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1993.

In the Shadow of the Fortress: The Genocide Remembered by Bertha Nakshian Ketchian. Ed. Sonia I. Ketchian. (Cambridge, Mass.: Zoryan Institute, 1988).

Studies in Russian Literature in Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev. Eds. Julian W. Connolly and Sonia I. Ketchian. (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1986).