Lyudmila Parts
Professor
Professor,听MA and PhD (Columbia)
lyudmila.parts [at] mcgill.ca
Lyudmila Parts is the author of In Search of the True Russia. The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse (2018); The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic鈥� (2008) and the editor of Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century (with Ingrid Kleespies, 2021) and The Russian 20th Century Short Story: A Critical Companion (2009). Research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century literature, Chekhov, post-Soviet literature, cultural representations of nationalism, genre theory, the travelogue, and symbolic geography. She has published articles on the provincial myth and national identity, and on the micro-encounters and the narrator in the Russian travelogue. Her current research is on the cultural discourses that led to, and shape Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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Books:
In Search of the True Russia. The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2018.
Russian translation: 袙 锌芯懈褋泻邪褏 懈褋褌懈薪薪芯泄 袪芯褋褋懈懈. 袩褉芯胁懈薪褑懈褟 胁 褋芯胁褉械屑械薪薪芯屑 薪邪褑懈芯薪邪谢懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻芯屑 写懈褋泻褍褉褋械. 小褌-袩械褌械褉斜褍褉谐: 袗泻邪写械屑懈褔械褋泻懈泄 锌褉芯械泻褌, 2021.
The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2008.
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Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century. Edited and with an introduction, with Ingrid Kleespies. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021.
The Russian 20th Century Short Story: A Critical Companion. Edited and with an introduction. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2009.
Recent publications:
鈥淭he Short Story,鈥� in The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature. Ed. by Simon Franklin, Rebecca Reich and Emma Widdis. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
鈥淢aiakovskii Abroad in Colour and Sound: My Discovery of America.鈥� Canadian Slavonic Papers 64 (2022): 317-334.
鈥淟aughing all the way:鈥� Laughter and Identity in Karamzin鈥檚 Letters of a Russian Traveler. SEEJ 65:3 (2021): 399-416.
鈥淲ho are You Laughing at? Identity, Laughter, and Colonial Discourse in Goncharov鈥檚 Frigate Pallada.鈥� In Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021: 193-216.
鈥淜aramzin鈥檚 Traveler Meets the Locals: Micro-Encounters in Letters of a Russian Traveler.鈥� Russian Review, vol. 78, n. 4 (2019): 641-655.
鈥溾�橦ow is Voronezh not Paris?鈥� City Branding in the Russian Provinces.鈥� In Russia's Regional Identities: The Power of the Provinces. Ed. Edith Clowes, Gisela Erbsl枚h, and Ani Kokobobo. London, New York: Routledge, 2018: 120-140.
鈥淭he Russian Provinces as a Cultural Myth.鈥� Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 10:3 (2016): 200-205.
鈥淐丑别办丑辞惫'蝉 Seagull in Postmodern Times: Boris Akunin and Tennessee Williams.鈥� MLA Approaches to Teaching Chekhov. Ed. Michael Holquist, Michael Finke. New York: MLA, 2016: 106-113.
鈥淏oris Akunin鈥檚 Postmodern Chaika.鈥� Russian Literature 82 (2016): 37-47.
鈥淭opography of Post-Soviet Nationalism: the Provinces 鈥� the Capital 鈥� the West.鈥� Slavic Review, vol. 74, n. 3 (2015): 508-528.
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