David Powelstock

Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Russian, Brandeis University
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
GREA, MS 024
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
617.736.3347
powelstock@brandeis.edu

Research Interests
Modern Russian and Czech literatures, literary ethics, phenomenology, literature and philosophy, cultural semiotics, narratology, history and theory of Russian poetry, romanticism, translation.

Current Projects
Inner Exile: Selfhood and Poetic Culture in Nicholas I's Russia, 1825-1845 (book); “Poetic Justice and Literary Vigilantism: Lermontov’s Response to Pushkin’s Death” (article); “Portrait of the Artist in a Complex Mirror: Narration & Authorship in Olesha’s Envy”
(article).

Selected Publications
Becoming Lermontov: The Ironies of Romantic Individualism in Nicholas I’s Russia (forthcoming, Northwestern University Press, 2004).

“My Enemy’s Enemy among the Soviet Generations: Revolutionizing Mikhail Lermontov in the Stalinist 1930s.” In: Kevin M. F. Platt and David Brandenberger, eds., Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda (forthcoming, TBA).

“Burying the Elegiac Corpse: Selfhood in Pushkin’s Late Lyrics.” The Pushkin Review / Pushkinskii vestnik 3 (2000), pp. 81-132.

“Bakhtin o poezii. Zametki” [“Bakhtin’s Views on Poetry”]. In: Bak, Dmitrii, et al (eds.). Russkii stikh: Metrika, Ritmika, Rifma, Strofika (Moscow: RGGU, 1996), pp. 221-228.