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CURRICULUM VITAE

John Burt Foster, Jr.

2903 Saintsbury Plaza, #410; Fairfax VA 22031Phones: 703/993-2774 (O) 941/323-7006 (H)

E-mail: jfoster@gmu.edu

PERSONAL

Born: December 19, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois. United States citizen. Divorced. One child, Sophia Maria Foster-Dimino.

EDUCATION1963-67 Harvard University, B.A. (Russian and English), summa cum laude.1966, summer Middlebury Summer Language Institute (Russian).1967-71 Yale University, Comparative Literature (French, Russian, English,

German); M. Phil., l970.1971-72 University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany), Comparative Literature.1974 Yale University, Ph. D. in Comparative Literature.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS1969, 1970 Teaching Assistant (English), Yale University.1972-81 Assistant Professor, previously Acting Assistant Professor (English and

Comparative Literature), Stanford University.1982-92 Associate Professor (English and European Studies), George Mason

University.1982-83 Mellon Faculty Fellow (Comparative Literature), Harvard University.1986 (fall) Visiting Associate Professor (Comparative Literature), New York

University.1992-2007 Professor (English and Cultural Studies), George Mason University.1996-98, Research Scholar (Humanities), New College of Florida. 2004-052007- University Professor (English and Cultural Studies), George Mason

University.

PUBLICATIONS--BOOKSHeirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism. Princeton University

Press, 1981, 474 pp. Paperback, 1988.Nietzsche's writings were a major cultural force as modernism evolved from the 1890s to the 1940s. Not only did writers find his psychological, historical, and philosophical insights com-pelling in their own right, but Nietzsche also fascinated them with his stylistic experiments. After giving a fresh account of this Nietzschean legacy, the book shows how it helped inspire an interlocking series of works by Gide and Malraux in France, by Thomas Mann in Germany, and by D. H. Lawrence in England.

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PUBLICATIONS, continued.BOOKS

Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism. Princeton University Press, 1993, xviii + 260 pp.

Nabokov is a unique witness to international modernism. When he began writing fiction in the mid-1920s, he had the advantage of hindsight on the recent outpouring of modernist master-pieces throughout Europe; and as a Russian emigre living in England, Germany, and France, he could evaluate and synthesize tendencies in several literatures. Focusing on Nabokov up to Lolita, this book is a "cultural biography" emphasizing the centrality of memory in his fiction and autobiographical writings as well as in his responses to figures like Proust, Joyce, Push-kin, Freud, T. S. Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Baudelaire.

Thresholds of Western Culture: Identity, Postcoloniality, Transnationalism, ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. and Wayne J. Froman. London: Continuum International, 2003. 275 pp.

This topically-organized volume, featuring essays by 14 scholars from four continents, exam-ines three topics that combine to question received ideas about culture. It opens with two very different challenges to modern Western identity: the disenchantment with orthodox views of subjectivity and the cultural meltdown that accompanied fascism. Attention then turns to Afri-can examples that, while addressing another shadow side of modernity, bring out intricacies in the current postcolonial situation. The next unit, on post-Soviet Eastern Europe, touches on neglected postcolonial analogies in that region, but stresses the fragility of transnationalism, as shown both by ethnocentric conflict there and by East-West tensions within Europe. A final unit on the West in relation to East Asia gives a global twist to East-West confrontations while considering transnational options that are potentially more fruitful than Balkanization.

Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance, ed. Wayne J. Froman and John Burt Foster, Jr. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2008. 245 pp.

This four-part volume opens with Geoffrey Hartman's, John McGowan's, and Antony East-hope's critiques of the cultural turn in politics and scholarship. In Part II, David Halliburton, Oliver Marchart, and Elke Heckner stress the constitutive role of dramatic categories in cul-tural theory, political thought, and dialectical philosophy. Part III, in essays by P. Christopher Smith, Max Statkiewicz, and Gabriela Basterra, examines several key reconceptions of tra-gedy while recalling the genre's power to evoke culture's precariousness. In the last part, Christopher Braider, Catherine Liu, and Stephen Barker relate specific dramas to history and cultural theory. Throughout the book, plays by Aeschylus and Sophocles, Shakespeare and Molière, and Lorca and Heiner Müller enter into dialogue with theorists from Aristotle, Hegel, and Nietzsche to Heidegger, Kenneth Burke, and Derrida.

Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West and the World. New York / London: Blooms-bury, 2013. xiv + 248 pp. Chinese translation, 2015: 超越国界的托尔斯泰 [Chao Yue Guo Jie De Tuo Er Si Tai]

This book applies recent initiatives in comparative literary study to key works by Leo Tolstoy. Twelve chapters on Tolstoy's significance outside Russia relate War and Peace, Anna Karen-ina, and Hadji Murad in major new ways to fiction from Western Europe and the world. Featured comparisons include Goethe, Stendhal, Flaubert, and Dostoevsky among Tolstoy's predecessors and contemporaries; Proust, Malraux, Lampedusa, and Nabokov from his Western successors; and García Márquez, Rushdie, Premchand, and Mahfouz from elsewhere in the world. The book also addresses Tolstoy's own involvement with world literature, both in his treatise What is Art? and in his own fiction. It considers as well the “Zulu Tolstoy” con-troversy over his place in the Western tradition.

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EDITED JOURNALS AND FORUMS

The Comparatist 23 (May 1999), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. 204 pp.This issue featured ten articles organized into four units on "Cultural Transactions between Global Regions," "Inter-American Affiliations of Modern Fiction," "Contemporary Eastern Europe as a Postcolonial Space," and "New Directions in Narrative after the Cold War." The volume also included two review essays, ten reviews, and eight book-notes.

The Comparatist 24 (May 2000), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. 192 pp.This issue featured ten articles organized into four units on "Literary Canons after the Canon Wars," "Occluded Contexts for Two Masterworks" (Romeo and Juliet and Brothers Kara-mazov)," "Creolization as a Lens for Cross-Cultural Study," and "Interlingual Horizons for Apprentice Authors" (Milton and García Márquez). The volume also included four review articles, six reviews, and four book-notes.

The Comparatist 25 (May 2001), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. 208 pp.This issue featured seven articles organized into four units on "Classical Legacies in an Inter -arts Context," "Modern Fiction across the North-South Divide," "Novelizing Dictatorship," and "Interdiscursive Transactions: Fiction/Theory/Philosophy." The volume also included four review essays, ten reviews, four book-notes, and a topical bibliography of the over two hundred articles published during the journal's first twenty-five years.

The Comparatist 26 (May 2002), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. 188 pp.This issue featured eight articles organized into four units on "Global Filaments," "Interart Transactions," "Tracking the Avant Garde," and "Literature in Dialogue with History." The volume also included two review essays, thirteen reviews, and six book-notes.

Forum on "Slavic Identities: Inside, Outside, and In Between . . .," coedited with Edith W. Clowes. The Slavic and East European Journal 45.2 (Summer 2001): 195-299. This forum consisted of an introduction and seven interlocking essays on issues of Russian and Polish national/cultural identity by cultural theorists, literary scholars, and historians.

The Comparatist 27 (May 2003), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. 200 pp.This issue featured eight articles organized into four units on "Second Thoughts on the Western Canon," "Interdiscursive Transactions with Philosophy and Physics," "Traveling Theory Revisited," and "Modern Drama: Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives." The volume also included two review essays, eight reviews, and six book-notes.

The Comparatist 28 (May 2004), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. 176 pp.This issue featured eight articles organized into three units on "Comparative Perspectives on the Longer Lyric," "Verbal/Visual Interactions: Specific Instances and Theoretical Interven-tions," and "Comparatist Readings of Popular Icons." The volume also included two review essays, three reviews, and three book-notes.

Recherche littéraire/Literary Research 24 (Summer 2008), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. 140 pp.This issue included thirty-one review articles, reviews, book notes, and a forum presentation by scholars from fourteen countries and five continents, covering ten separate areas of com-parative research, ranging from literary history and intermediality to translation studies and world literature. It also featured reports on current trends in comparative literary study in France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.

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EDITED JOURNALS AND FORUMS, continuedRecherche littéraire/Literary Research 25 (Summer 2009), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. 140 pp.

This issue included thirty-four review articles, reviews, book notes, and forum presentations by scholars from fourteen countries and four continents, emphasizing world literature, literary theory, cross-cultural literary relations, and intermediality. It also featured reports current trends in comparative literary study in China, Italy, and Mexico.

Recherche littéraire/Literary Research 26 (Summer 2010), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr., 140 pp.This issue included thirty-six review articles, reviews, book notes, and forum presentations by scholars from twelve countries and four continents, emphasizing issues involving orality vs. literacy, translation studies, postcoloniality, world literature, postmodernism, and more global literary curricula. It also included reports on comparative literature in Britain, Syria, and India.

Recherche littéraire/Literary Research 27 (Fall 2011), ed. John Burt Foster, Jr. and Dorothy Figueira, 92 pp.This issue, for which I was responsible for three-fourths of the content, included a forum on “Triumphs of the Word,” featuring an essay by Nobel Laureate Herta Müller; essays on the distinctiveness of comparative literary study in India, Japan, and Europe; reports on conferences in three continents; and twelve other review articles, reviews, and book notes.

Forum on “Promoting the Study of Modern Literatures Worldwide: The MLA and its Conventions,” ed. John Burt Foster, Jr., Comparative Literature Studies 50.2 (Spring 2013): 191-243.This forum consisted of an introduction written by myself, followed by six position papers on regions like South Asia or Eastern Central Europe whose literatures are poorly represented or neglected given how the MLA currently organizes research presented at its annual conventions.

ARTICLES1985 1. “Dostoevsky versus Nietzsche in Modernist Fiction: Lawrence’s Kangaroo and

Malraux’s La Condition humaine,” Stanford Literature Review 2 (Spring): 47-83.1986 2. “Magic Realism in The White Hotel: Compensatory Vision and the Transforma-

tion of Classic Realism,” Southern Humanities Review 20.3 (Summer): 205-219. 1989 3. “Nabokov Before Proust: The Paradox of Anticipatory Memory,” Slavic and

East European Journal 33.1 (Spring): 78-94. 1991 4. “Not T. S. Eliot, but Proust: Nabokov’s Revisionary Modernism in Pale Fire,”

Comparative Literature Studies 28.1 (Spring): 51-67.1991 5. “Dostoevsky versus Nietzsche in the Work of Andrey Bely and Thomas

Mann,” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 24.2 (Spring): 109-29.

1993 6. “An Archeology of ‘Mademoiselle O’: Narrative between Art and Memory,” in A Small Alpine Form: Studies in Nabokov’s Short Fiction, Charles Nicol and Gennadi Barabtarlo, eds. (New York: Garland), pp. 111-135.

1994 7. “Starting with Dostoevsky’s Double: Bakhtin and Nabokov as Intertextualists,” in Intertextuality in Literature and Film: Selected Papers from the 13th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Elaine Cancalon and Antoine Spacagna, eds. (Tallahassee FL: Florida State U P), pp. 9-20.

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ARTICLES, continued.1994 8. “Bend Sinister,” in The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, ed. Vladimir

Alexandrov (New York: Garland), pp. 25-36.1994 9. “Nabokov and Kafka,” in The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, ed.

Vladimir Alexandrov, pp. 444-51.1994 10. “Nabokov and Proust,” in The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, ed.

Vladimir Alexandrov, pp. 472-81.1994 11. “Nabokov and Tolstoy,” in The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, ed.

Vladimir Alexandrov, pp. 518-28.1995 12. “Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism

Transformed in The White Hotel,” a revised, updated version of the 1986 essay in Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community, Lois Zamora and Wendy Faris, eds. (Durham: Duke U P), pp. 267-283.

1995 13. “Cultural Multiplicity in Two Modern Autobiographies: Friedländer’s When Memory Comes and Dinesen’s Out of Africa,” Southern Humanities Review 29.3 (Summer): 205-218.

1995 14. “Parody, Pastiche, and Periodization : Nabokov/Jameson,” Cycnos 12, 2 (Uni-versité de Nice, France) : 109-16.

1997 15. “Cultural Multiplicity in Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa,” in Contemporary Literary Criticism, ed. Brigham Narins and Deborah A. Stanley (Detroit: Gale), Vol. 95, 79-83. A 2500-word extract from the 1995 article.

1997 16. “Reading Nabokov with Jameson: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Inter-textual Litmus Test,” a reframed and revised version of the 1995 Cycnos essay, in the Southern Humanities Review 31.3 (Summer): 201-13.

1997 17. “Working with Nietzsche, Nabokov, and Tolstoy: Cultural Variables in the Literary Reception of Philosophy,” in REAL: Yearbook for Research in English and American Literature (Germany) 13: 201-18 (issue on literature and philosophy, edited by Herbert Grabes).

1998 18. “Why is Tadzio Polish? Kultur and Cultural Multiplicity in Death in Venice,” in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Naomi Ritter (Boston: Bedford), pp. 192-210. (An example of cultural critique set alongside essays illustrating reader-response, psychoanalytical, gender studies, and new historical approaches).

1999 19. “Beyond ‘Domestic’ and ‘Foreign’: Nietzsche and Nabokov as Transnational Authors,” in Comparative Literature Today: Theories and Practice / La Lit-térature 5auges5 aujourd’hui. Théories et 5auges5c5ons, eds. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Milan V. Dimic, with Irene Sywenky (Paris: Honoré Cham-pion), pp. 353-64.

1999 20. “Interpreting Nabokov in the Thirties: Problems of Cultural Multiplicity and Retrospective Insight,” in Nabokov-Sirine: Les années européennes (Paris: Institut d’Etudes slaves), ed. Nora Bukhs: 9-20.

1999 21. “Poshlust, Culture Criticism, Adorno, and Malraux,” in Nabokov and His Fic-tion: New Perspectives, ed. Julian W. Connolly (Cambridge UK: Cambridge UP), pp. 216-35.

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ARTICLES, continued.

2000 22. “Zarathustrian Millennialism Before the Millennium: From Bely to Yeats to Malraux,” in Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections On Drama, Culture, Politics, ed. Alan Schrift (Berkeley: U of California P), pp. 99-117.

2000 23. “Transnational Authorship on the German-Slavic Border: The Examples of Nietzsche and Nabokov,” in Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia, ed. Gennadi Alexis Barabtarlo (Providence RI: Berg6aug), pp. 212-24. A reframed, revised version of “Beyond ‘Domestic’ and ‘Foreign.’”

2001 24. “Nabokov Before Proust: The Paradox of Anticipatory Memory,” Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Linda Pavlovski (Detroit: Gale), Vol. 108: 104-12. Reprints the 1989 essay.

2001 25. “Reading Nabokov with Jameson: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Intertextual Litmus Test,” Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Linda Pavlovski (Detroit: Gale), Vol. 108: 173-78. Reprints the 1997 essay.

2001 26. “Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats,” in Nabokov’s World, Volume II: Reading Nabokov, ed. Jane Grayson, Arnold McMillian, and Priscilla Meyer (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan/Palgrave), pp. 141-55.

2002 27. “‘Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy’: A Russian Classic Between ‘First’ and ‘Third’ Worlds,” Forum on Slavic Identities, ed. Edith Clowes and John Foster, Slavic and East European Journal 45, 2 (Summer): 260-74.

2003 28. “Nabokov on Malraux’s La Condition humaine: A Franco-Russian Criss-cross,” in Nabokov at Cornell, ed. Gavriel Shapiro (Ithaca: Cornell UP), pp. 192-202.

2005 29. “Nabokov and Modernism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Vladimir Nabo-kov, ed. Julian Connolly (Cambridge: Cambridge U P), pp. 85-100.

2007 30. “Framing Nabokov: Modernism, Multiculturalism, World Literature,” Cycnos 24.1: 105-18.

2007 31. “Lidless Eyes, Stony Places, Vibrant Spectators: Nietzschean Tragedy in Yeats’s Lyric Poetry,” in Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic, ed. Mary Ann Frese Witt (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), pp. 104-25.

2009 32. “Cultural Encounters in Global Contexts: World Literature as a One-Semester General Education Course,” in Teaching World Literature, ed. David Damrosch (New York: Modern Language Association), pp. 155-64.

2009 33. “Three ‘Comparative’ Autobiographies: Cultural Multiplicity in Mary McCar-thy, Wole Soyinka, Edward Said,” in Beyond Binarism: Identities in Process, Essays in Comparative Literature, ed. Eduardo F. Coutinho (Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano), pp. 24-33.

2010 34. “Recollected Emotion in ‘Spring in Fialta,’” The Russian Twentieth-Century Short Story: A Critical Companion, ed. Lyudmila Parts (Brighton MA: Acad-emic Studies Press), pp. 97-116. A revised portion of Chapter 7 from Nabo-kov’s Art of Memory and European Modernism.

2010 35. “Comparative Scholarship/Worldly Teaching,” The Comparatist 34 (2010) 21-28.

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ARTICLES, concluded.

2010 36. “Memory in the Literary Memoir,” The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives, eds. Suzanne Nalbantian, Paul Matthews, and James L. McClelland (Cambridge: MIT Press), pp. 297-313.

2011 37. “Soyinka [Euripides, Nietzsche] Thomas Mann: Intertextual Dialogues across the Twentieth Century,” Theatres in the Round: Multi-ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama, eds. Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort (Bruxelles: Peter Lang), pp. 211-27.

2011 38. “Islamic Jihad in Tolstoy’s Khadzhi Murad: Ethnic Rivalries, Local Customs, Levels of Struggle,” From Ritual to Romance and Beyond: Essays in Compar-ative Literature and Comparative Religion, eds. Manfred Schmeling and Hans-Joachim Backe (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann), pp. 23-33.

2011 39. “Doubting the West: Negotiations with Eurocentrism in Dostoevsky’s The Gambler and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.” Old Margins and New Centers : The European Literary Heritage in an Age of Globalization / Anciennes Marges et Nouveaux Centres : L’héritage littéraire européen dans une ère de globalisa-tion, eds. Marc Maufort and Caroline de Wagter (Bruxelles : Peter Lang), pp. 97-110.

2011 40. “National Solidarity, Toxic Nationalism, European Inner Edges : Stendhal and Tolstoy in Malraux’s Les Noyers de l’Altenburg and Lampedusa’s Il Gatto-pardo.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 37.4: 318-37.

2013 41. “Introduction: Promoting the Study of Modern Literatures Worldwide: The MLA and its Conventions.” Comparative Literature Studies 50.2 (Spring): 191-98.

2013 42. “Yourcenar, Orwell, Nabokov: The Arrest-and-Execution Motif on the Eve of World War II,” Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature: Toward an Age of Tolerance, ed. Sung-Won Cho (Seoul: Chung-Ang U P), pp. 124-35.

2013 43. “From Tolstoy to Premchand: Fractured Narratives and the Paradox of Gandhi’s Militant Non-Violence,” Comparative Critical Studies Electronic (UK): 57-74.

2014 44. “Love across Borders in Hadji Murad: Variations on a Cross-Cultural Motif in Tolstoy, Stendhal, and D.H. Lawrence,” Partial Answers 12.2: 311-29.

2014 45. “Marginalising Rural Life: Tolstoy and the World Literature Anthologies,” in Discoursing Minority: In-Text and Co-Text, Anisur Rahman, Supriya Agarwal, and Bhumika Sharma, eds. (Jaipur, India: Rawat Publications), pp. 219-32.

2014 46. “Vengeance and Mercy in Anna Karenina: From Biblical Epigraph to Novel-istic Text,” Neohelicon (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11059-014-0279-0), published online 21 Sept 2014.

REVIEWS, REVIEW ESSAYS, INTRODUCTIONS

1983 1. Otto Bohlmann, Yeats and Nietzsche, South Atlantic Review 48.3 (Sept.): 90-92.

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REVIEWS, REVIEW ESSAYS, INTRODUCTIONS, continued.

1985 2. Psychological approaches to Lawrence’s fiction (Dervin, A ‘Strange Sapience’; Ruderman, D.H. Lawrence and the Devouring Mother; van der Veen, The Dev-elopment of D.H. Lawrence’s Prose Themes), Modern Fiction Studies 31.2 (Summer): 354-357.

1987 3. “Modernism Now: Recent Perspectives on Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture” (Chefdor, Quinones, and Wachtel, eds., Modernism: Challenges and Perspectives; Schwartz, The Matrix of Modernism; Cassedy, Selected Essays of Andrey Bely), Southern Humanities Review 21, 2 (Spring): 159-167.

1992 4. Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Comparatist 16: 152-54.

1993 5. Beryl Schlossman, The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion, Comparative Literature Studies, 30, 3 (Autumn): 304-308.

1994 6. Mario J. Valdés, Daniel Javitch, and A. Owen Aldridge, eds., Comparative Lit-erary History as Discourse: In Honor of Anna Balakian, The Comparatist 18: 195-96.

1995 7. Adeline R. Tintner, The Cosmopolitan World of Henry James: An Intertextual Study, Comparative Literature Studies, 32, 1 (Spring): 96-100.

1995 8. David Rampton, Vladimir Nabokov: Modern Novelist, Nabokov Studies 2:307-09.

1996 9. “Tolstoy, Cultural Difference, and Russian Imperialism,” introd. To Leo Tol-stoy, Hadji Murad, trans. Aylmer Maude (Washington DC: Orchises), pp. 7-14.

1996 10. Susan Bassnett, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction, The Comparatist 20: 209-210.

1996 11. “Faces of Rereading” (Matei Calinescu, Rereading), Poetics Today (Tel Aviv), 17, 2 (Summer): 253-61.

1997 12. “Postcolonial Studies and Comparative Literature” (Kosta Myrsiades and Jerry McGuire, eds., Order and Partialities: Theory, Pedagogy, and the “Post-colonial”), The Comparatist 21:149-52.

1999 13. Barry J. Scherr, D. H. Lawrence’s Response to Plato: A Bloomian Interpretation, D. H. Lawrence Review 27.2-3:340-42.

1999 14. “Comparative Literature on the Borders,” Editor’s Column, The Comparatist 23: 1-4.

2000 15. “Comparative Literature and Canonicity,” Editor’s Column, The Comparatist 24: 1-4.

2001 16. “Comparative Literature between the West and the World,” Editor’s Column, The Comparatist 25: 1-4.

2002 17. “Comparisons Within and Beyond a Single Language,” Editor’s Column, The Comparatist 26: 1-4.

2002 18. Co-Editor, with Edith Clowes, “Interrogating Slavic Identities,” Slavic and East European Journal, 45, 2 (Summer): 195-299.

2003 19. “Vectors of Comparison,” Editor’s Column, The Comparatist 27: 1-4.

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REVIEWS, REVIEW ESSAYS, INTRODUCTIONS, continued.

2003 20. Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia, MLQ: A Journal of Literary History 64.4 (December): 513-17.

2004 21. “The Comparatist in Transition,” Editor’s Column, The Comparatist 28: 1-4.2004 22. Leonid Litvak, How It Was Done in Paris: Russian Émigré Literature and

French Modernism, Slavic and East European Review 82, 3 (Summer): 729-31.2005 23. “Literature into Philosophy: The Russian Alternative” (Edith W. Clowes, Fic-

tion’s Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy), symploke 13.1-2: 308-14.

2006 24. Christopher Prendergast, ed., Debating World Literature, The Comparatist 30: 137-40.

2007 25. Alfred J. López, ed., Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire and Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman, Whitewash-ing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society, The Comparatist 31: 148-53.

2008 26. Franco Moretti, ed., The Novel, The Comparatist 32: 193-99.2008 27. “Présentation du Rédacteur / Editor’s Introduction, » Recherche littéraire /

Literary Research 24 : 1-4.2008 28. Michael Bell, Keith Cushman, Takeo Iida, and Hiro Tateishi, eds., D. H. Law-

rence: Literature, History, Culture, Recherche littéraire / Literary Research 24: 118-20.

2008 29. Nina Khrushcheva, Imagining Nabokov, The Russian Review 67.3 (July): 506.2009 30. “Présentation du Rédacteur / Editor’s Introduction,” Recherche littéraire /

Literary Research 25 : 1-4.2009 31. David G. Nicholls, ed., Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and

Literatures, third edition, Recherche littéraire / Literary Research 25: 121-22.2010 32. Priscilla Meyer, How the Russians Read the French, and Lyudmila Parts, The

Chekhovian Intertext, The Comparatist 34: 184-88.2010 33. “Présentation du Rédacteur / Editor’s Introduction,” Recherche littéraire /

Literary Research 26 : 1-2.2011 34. Françoise Lavocat and Anne Duprat, eds. Fiction et cultures, Recherche

littéraire / Literary Research 27 : 62-65.2011 35. “Présentation des Rédacteurs / Editors’ Introduction,” Recherche littéraire /

Literary Research 27 : 1-4 (with Dorothy Figueira).2012 36. Catherine Brown, The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare,

Recherche littéraire / Literary Research 28 (2012): 44-46. 2012 37. “Two Comparative Literature Meetings in India,” Recherche littéraire /

Literary Research 28 (2012): 71-76.2014 38. Gene H. Bell-Villada, On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind:

What the Russian-American Odd Pair Can Tell Us about Some Values, Myths and Manias Widely Held Most Dear, The Comparatist 38: 375-77.

2015 39. Gavriel Shapiro, The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord: Nabokov and His Father, The Russian Review 74.1 (January): 153-54.

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REVIEWS, REVIEW ESSAYS, INTRODUCTIONS, concluded.2015 40. Elena Gretchanaia. “Je vous parlerai la langue de l’Europe..” : La franco-

phonie en Russie (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles), Recherche littéraire / Literary Research 31 : 45-46.

2016 41. Irina Paperno. Who, What am I?: Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self, Recherche littéraire / Literary Research 32: 85-87.

2017 42. Journal of World Literature, Volumes I:1 “Inaugural Issue” and I:2, “The Chinese Scriptworld and World Literature,” Recherche littéraire / Literary Research 33: 249-54.

2017 43. Tatiana Kuzmic. Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel, The Russian Review 76.3 (October): xxx-yyy.

SCHOLARLY PAPERS1972 1. “Nietzsche and Women in Love,” Conference on Myth, Symbol, and Culture,

Stanford CA, November 15.1978 2. “Writing and the Will to Power,” Modern Thought and Literature Colloquium

on Nietzsche, Stanford CA, February 22.1981 3. “The Influence of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche in Modern Fiction,” Southern

Comparative Literature Association, Knoxville TN, February 13.1983 4. “New Twentieth-Century Writing: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Postmodernism,”

group presentation and discussion, Meeting of the Mellon Faculty Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, January 13.

1983 5. “Nabokov’s Developing Conception of the Image,” a presentation and discus-sion, Seminar on Images in Literature, the Visual Arts, and Philosophy, School of Criticism and Theory, Evanston IL, July 28.

1983 6. “Shifting Points of Reference for Nabokov’s Autobiographical Impulse,” Session on Autobiography and Modernism, Modern Language Association, New York NY, December 27.

1983 7. “Magic Realism, Felt History, and The White Hotel,” Special Session on Magic Realism, Modern Language Association, New York NY, December 30.

1984 8. “From the Diggers to the Dark God: Dostoevsky versus Nietzsche in Lawrence’s Kangaroo,” Section on Modern British Literature, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta GA, November 6.

1984 9. “Nabokov’s Revisionary Modernism and John Shade’s ‘Pale Fire,’” Session on Nabokov and Cultural Synthesis, Vladimir Nabokov Society, at the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages, Washing-ton DC, December 28.

1985 10. “Terrorist Reprisal in Bely’s Petersburg,” Special Session on Murder and Mimesis, Modern Language Association, Chicago IL, December 29.

1986 11. “Not Eliot, but Proust: Nabokov’s Revisionary Modernism in Pale Fire,” session on Canon Change, American Comparative Literature Association, Ann Arbor MI, March 21.

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS, continued.1986 12. “Nabokov’s Gift: The European Perspective,” Fiftieth Anniversary Panel on

Nabokov’s Gift, its Subtexts and Contexts; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans LA, November 21.

1987 13. “Nabokov before Proust: The Paradox of Anticipatory Memory,” Symposium on the Legacy of Vladimir Nabokov, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale Univer-sity, New Haven CT, February 15.

1987 14. “From Synesthesia to Mnemonic Images: Nabokov’s Self-Presentation as an Author,” Slavic Section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta GA, November 7.

1988 15. “Starting with Dostoevsky’s Double: Bakhtin and Nabokov as Intertextual-ists,” Conference on Literary and Cinematic Intertextuality, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, January 29.

1988 16. “Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: A European Perspective,” Wrap-up Panel, International Conference on Nietzsche and Emerging Soviet Culture, Fordham University, New York NY, June 3.

1989 17. “Nabokov’s Art of Memory: Narrative, Dialectic, Modernity,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Emory University, May 5.

1989 18. “Nabokov’s Eccentric Modernism,” Session on Centers and Margins, American Comparative Literature Association, at the Modern Language Association, Washington DC, December 29.

1990 19. “Modernism and Memory: The French Subtexts for Nabokov’s Speak, Mem-ory,” Section on French Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Tampa FL, November 16.

1990 20. “The Art of Retrospect: The Nabokovian Long Sentence in Speak, Memory,” Nabokov as an English Stylist, Vladimir Nabokov Society, at the Modern Language Association, Chicago IL, December 28.

1991 21. “Cultural Mobility and British Modernism: The European Nabokov on the Way to America,” The Political Emigrant’s Experience since World War II, Southern Comparative Literature Association, Charleston SC, October 4.

1992 22. “Poshlust and Culture Industry: Nabokov and Adorno on American Mass Cul-ture,” Nabokov’s Discovery of America, Vladimir Nabokov Society, Modern Language Association, New York NY, December 30.

1993 23. “Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ and Nabokov’s,” Session on Interlingual Intertextual-ity, American Comparative Literature Association, Bloomington IN, March 27.

1994 24. “Cultural Multiplicity in Two Modern Autobiographies: Friedländer’s When Memory Comes and Dinesen’s Out of Africa,” American Comparative Liter-ature Association – Borders, Exiles, and Diasporas, Claremont CA, March 4.

1994 25. “Beyond ‘Domestic’ and ‘Foreign’: Nietzsche and Nabokov as Transnational Authors,” International Comparative Literature Association – Literature and Diversity: Languages, Cultures, Societies; Edmonton, Alberta, August 16.

1995 26. “Realism and Post-Colonialism: The Case of Tolstoy’s Hadji Murat,” Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, University of Utah, April 22.

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS, continued.1995 27. “Parody and the Postmodern Turn: Nabokov/Jameson,” Second Nice Confer-

ence on Nabokov, Centre de Recherche sur les Ecritures de Langue Anglaise, University of Nice, Nice, France, June 24.

1995 28. “Can Nineteenth-Century Realism Transcend Imperialism? Said, Tolstoy, and Hadji Murat,” Southern Comparative Literature Association, Richmond VA, September 30.

1996 29. “On the Borders of Philosophy and Literature: Working with Nietzsche, Nabo-kov, Tolstoy,” Symposium on Literature and Philosophy, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Justus-Liebig-Univ., Giessen, Germany, June 7.

1996 30. “Interpreting Nabokov in the Thirties : Problems of Cultural Multiplicity and Retrospective Insight,” Colloquium on V. Nabokov-Sirine : les années euro-péennes, Centre de recherches sur les Littératures et Civilisations slaves de la Sorbonne ; Paris, France, November 28.

1997 31. “Transnational Authorship on the German-Slavic Border: Nietzsche and Nabokov as Examples,” German and Russian Cultural Juxtaposition: An International Symposium, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia MO, March 1.

1997 32. “Nation/Region/Border: From Stendhal and Tolstoy to Lampedusa and Mal-raux,” International Comparative Literature Association – Literature as Cultural Memory; Leiden, The Netherlands, August 18.

1997 33. ———. Also at a plenary session on “Liminal Cities, Regions and States: The Space of Cultural Invention,” Southern Comparative Literature Association – Literature and the Cultural Imagination; Athens, Georgia, September 25.

1998 34. “Tolstoy Between Realism and Modernism: From Anna Karenina to the Gar-nett and Maude Translations,” American Comparative Literature Association – Literary and Cultural Translation and Exchange; Austin, Texas, March 26.

1998 35. “‘Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy’: A Russian Classic Between ‘First’ and ‘Third’ Worlds,” Conference on Interrogating Images, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, U of California at Irvine, May 9.

1998 36. “Nabokov and Malraux: A Franco-Russian Criss-Cross,” Cornell Nabokov Centenary Festival, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, September 11.

1999 37. “Zarathustrian Millennialism as a Transnational Motif: Nietzsche, Bely, Yeats, Malraux, Kubrick,” Seminar on Posthumanism/Millennial Ethics, Conference on Comparative Literature and Cultural Transnationalisms: Past and Future, American Comparative Literature Association, Montreal, April 9.

1999 38. “Eccentric Modernism: Nabokov and Yeats,” Vladimir Nabokov International Centennial Conference, Jesus College, Cambridge UK, July 8.

1999 39. “Historical and Cultural Fatality in Khadzi Murat,” Session on Determinism in Tolstoy’s Fiction, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Stu-dies, St. Louis MO, November 19.

2001 40. “Eccentric Modernisms: Topologies of Center and Periphery in Yeats and Nabokov,” Topos/Chronos: Aesthetics for a New Millennium, American Com-parative Literature Association, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 20.

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS, continued.2002 41. “Birth or Twilight: Nietzsche’s Early and Late Theories of Tragedy in Yeats’s

Poetry,” Nietzschean Tragedy: Translations, Reconfigurations, Implementa-tions, American Comparative Literature Association, San Juan PR, April 12.

2003 42. “Yeats’s Birth of Tragedy: Lidless Eyes, Stony Places, Vibrant Spectators,” Conference on Writing Aesthetics, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Univ. of Leeds (UK), May 26.

2003 43. “Nabokov’s Intersecting Modernisms,” Conference on Going Global – The Futures of Comparative Literature, Southern Comparative Literature Associa-tion, University of Texas, Austin, September 19.

2004 44. “Over the Edge: Unworldliness in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Proust’s Recherche,” Triennial Congress of the Interna-tional Comparative Literature Association, Hong Kong, August 13.

2005 45. “Cultural Encounters in Global Contexts: Teaching World Literature in General Education English Courses,” session on Teaching World Literature, Modern Language Association; Washington DC, December 27.

2006 46. “Framing Nabokov: Modernism, Multiculturalism, World Literature,” Third Nice Conference on Nabokov, Centre de Recherche sur les Ecritures de Langue Anglaise, University of Nice; Nice, France, June 22.

2006 47. “Cultural Encounters: An NEH Workshop on Teaching World Literature,” Plenary Session with Joel Foreman and Alok Yadav, Conference on Possible Communities: World Literatures and the Sense of the Human, Southern Comparative Literature Association, University of Georgia, September 28.

2007 48. “Discordant Histories: Napoleonic Anniversaries in Tolstoy and Flaubert,” American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 22.

2007 49. “Three ‘Comparative’ Autobiographies: McCarthy, Soyinka, Said,” Triennial Conference of the International Comparative Literature Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2.

2007 50. “World Literature and Global History: Counterparts with a Difference,” Plenary Session, Southern Comparative Literature Association, North Carolina State University, September 27.

2007 51. “Memory in the Literary Memoir: Yeats, Nabokov, McCarthy,” Memory in Neuroscience and the Humanities, Banbury Center of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY, November 1.

2007 52. “Premchand and Lu Xun as Transnational Regionalists,” Session on Compara-tive Literature and Transnational Regionalism, Modern Language Association, Chicago IL, December 27.

2008 53. “Comparative Research / Worldly Teaching,” Comparative vs. World Liter-ature, American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, April 26.

2008 54. “Islamic Jihad in Tolstoy’s Khadzhi Murad,” Comparative Literature and Comparative Religious Studies, International Comparative Literature Associ-ation, Bremen, Germany, August 3.

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS, continued.2008 55. “Starting with Akutagawa: Introducing Critical Reading in a Lower-Level

World Literature Course,” Lessons from the George Mason World Literature Project, Southern Comparative Literature Association, Auburn AL, October 3.

2009 56. “Soyinka, Euripides, Nietzsche,” Multiple Voices: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives on Drama, American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 28.

2009 57. “Doubting the West: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as Critics of Eurocentrism,” Old Margins and New Centers: The Legacy of European Literatures in a Globalized Age, International Comparative Literature Association, Brussels, Belgium, August 27.

2009 58. “Criss-Crossed Texts: Devi’s ‘The Hunt’ and Shiva’s Ecofeminism,” Southern Comparative Literature Association, Arizona State University, Phoenix AZ, October 2.

2010 59. “‘Vengeance is Mine’: Stendhal’s Italy and Anna Karenina,” Hybrid Chrono-topes in Russian Literature, American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans LA, April 4, 2010.

2010 60. “Yourcenar, Orwell, Nabokov: Writing Conflict on the Eve of World War II,” Triennial Conference of the International Comparative Literature Association, Seoul, Republic of Korea, August 16.

2010 61. “Representing Tolstoy in World Literature: ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’: Pro and Contra,” Southern Comparative Literature Association, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA, October 22.

2011 62. ———. Also, Session on Tolstoy in the Long Twentieth Century, 1890-2010, Modern Language Association, Los Angeles CA, January 8.

2011 63. “Memories Re-Membered in the Modern Memoir,” Session on Memory Writing from the Perspective of Neuroscience, Modern Language Association, Los Angeles CA, January 9.

2011 64. “Reading Modernism/Reading World Literature: Some Comments from a Comparatist,” Washington Area Modernist Symposium: “Modernism, Reading, and Interpretation,” University of Maryland, College Park MD, March 5.

2011 65. “Intertexting Tolstoy from Outside the West: The Examples of Premchand and Mahfouz,” Mahfouz at 100: The Arabic Novel and the Changing World, Amer-ican Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver BC, April 2.

2011 66. “Questions of Philosophy in Tolstoy: The Example of Anna Karenina,” Crossing Boundaries: International Symposium on Comparative Literature, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan, June 11, 2011.

2011 67. “Looking Ahead to World Literature: Tolstoy’s What Is Art? and Hadji Murad,” Inaugural Conference of the World Literature Association, Peking University, Beijing, China, July 1.

2011 68. “Tolstoy, Gandhi, Premchand: Fractured Narratives and the Paradox of Militant Non-Violence,” Colloquium on Fractured, Transformed, Travelling Narratives in Writing, Performance and the Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, London UK, September 17.

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2011 69. ——. Also, Southern Comparative Literature Conference, Johnson C. Smith College, Charlotte NC, September 30.

2012 70. “Marginalizing Rural Life: Tolstoy and World Literature Anthologies,” Conference on Minority Discourses Across Cultures, Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh, India, February 27.

2012 71. “Before ‘Realism versus Modernism’: The Garnett and Maude Translations of Anna Karenina, Seminar on Translation, Ideology, and Politics in the 21st Century, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India, March 2.

2012 72. “Revenge at Last! Psychological Realism in extremis in Stendhal’s Charter-house and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina,” Rethinking Realisms, American Compar-ative Literature Association, Providence RI, March 31.

2012 73. “Love across Borders: Hadji Murad among Stendhal, D.H. Lawrence, and Tolstoy Himself,” Conference on the Novel and Theories of Love, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 19.

2012 74. “Taking Chances with Life: The German Casino-Spas in Dostoevsky, George Eliot and Tolstoy,” Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Las Vegas NV, October 27.

2013 75. “Love across Borders: Hadji Murad among Stendhal, D.H. Lawrence, and Tolstoy Himself,” American Comparative Literature Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, April 5.

2013 76. “Crises in the Colony: From Ladipo to Soyinka and Soyinka Again,” Interna-tional Comparative Literature Association, Session on Translation at the Borders, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, July 19.

2013 77. “Vengeance and Mercy in Anna Karenina,” International Comparative Literature Association, Session Organized by the Research Committee on Religion and Ethics, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, July 19.

2014 78. ——, Conference on Fault Lines of Modernity: New Contexts for Religion, Ethics, and Literature, San Francisco State University, June 3. A much enlarged and reconfigured version of the previous paper.

2014 79. “Novelizing ‘China’ in the Twenties: Malraux and Maugham,” Symposium on the Languages of Comparison, at the Fourth World Conference of Sinology, Renmin University, Beijing, September 5.

2015 80. “Response to Orwin, Nickell, and Schmuck,” Presidential Forum on my book Transnational Tolstoy, American Association for the Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Vancouver BC, January 10.

2015 81. “Fear of Fear: Heroisms of Weakness in Thomas Mann, Lermontov, and Ghosh,” Conference on Fear in/of Literature, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal, July 1.

2016 82. “World Literature in and for a Very Diverse Class,” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, March 19.

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2016 83. “Implementing a World Literature Initiative – Ten Years Later,” Teaching World Literature: Debates, Models, Pedagogies, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, October 21.

2016 84. “Other Worlds of World Literature,” Teaching World Literature, Simpson Center, University of Washington, October 22.

LECTURES AND OTHER PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

1982 1. “Comparative Literature and Cultural Biography,” Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta GA, January 22.

1983 2. “Comparative Literature in an Age of Theory,” Department of Comparative Lit-erature, State University of New York, Stony Brook NY, January 27.

1983 3. “Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Lawrence’s Dark God,” Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, February 4.

1984 4. “Vladimir Nabokov: Modernism and the Art of Memory,” Colloquia on Comparative Literature, New York University, New York NY, February 22.

1986 5. “Classic Realism Transformed: Magic Realism and the Motif of Felt History,” Curriculum in Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, February 6.

1987 6. “Modernity and the Resurgence of Memory: Nabokov, Baudelaire, Nietzsche,” Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, April 7.

1987 7. ——. Also Departments of Slavic and English and the Program in Compara-tive Literature, Stanford University, Stanford CA, April 9.

1987 8. ——. Also Dept. of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, New Bruns-wick NJ, October 21.

1988 9. ——. Also to the Humanities Division, New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota FL, January 20.

1988 10. ——. Also Departments of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Lan16auges and Literatures, Brown University, Providence RI, March 15.

1991 11. “From Turin to St. Petersburg and Beyond: Nietzsche as Philosopher of the Fin de Siècle,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, January 29.

1999 12. “Famous Beginnings: Anna Karenina,” for “What’s the Word?”, a series of programs produced by the Modern Language Association for National Public Radio; in a half-hour program with Pride and Prejudice and Moby-Dick.

2006 13. “Nietzsche and Yeats,” Seminar on Philosophy and Literature, Hall Center for the Humanities, Kansas University, Lawrence KS, March 27.

2006 14. “Hadji Murad: From Russian to Western and World Literature,” Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Kansas University, Lawrence KS, March 28.

2006 15. “Tolstoy, Goethe, and the Novel of Manners,” Plenary Address, Southern Comparative Literature Association, University of Georgia, September 29.

2008 16. “World Literature and Translation Studies,” Presentation and Discussion for the Comparative Literature seminar, Georgetown University, November 17.

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LECTURES AND OTHER PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, concluded2009 17. “Teaching Literature in an Age of Visual Imagery: A Round Table,” Southern

Comparative Literature Association, Arizona State University, Phoenix AZ, October 2.

2009 18. “Questions of Philosophy in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina,” Philosophy Depart-ment Colloquium, George Mason University, Fairfax VA, November 17.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“Nabokov and Paris,” Nabokov in Context, David Bethea and Siggy Frank, eds., essay in production with Cambridge University Press.

“Tolstoy,” for The Companion to World Literature, ed. Ken Seigneurie, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell.

“Contrasting Modes of Creativity: Artist Counterparts in Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Nabokov,” for a volume on creativity in neuroscience and the arts, edited by Suzanne Nalbantian and Paul Mathews, under contract with Oxford University Press.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Positions in Scholarly Organizations1987-91 Executive Board, Section on Modern British Literature, South Atlantic Modern

Language Association.1988-92 Executive Committee, Division on European Literary Relations, Modern

Language Association.1992-98 Book Review Editor, The Comparatist, Vols. 16-22 (7 review essays, 47 longer

reviews, and 47 shorter reviews commissioned and edited).1992-94 Vice President, International Nabokov Society. 1992-93, 1995-96, 2008-09

Nominating Committee, Southern Comparative Literature Association.1993-95, 2004-06

Advisory Board, Southern Comparative Literature Association.1994-96 President, International Nabokov Society.1996-98 Board Member, International Nabokov Society.1997 to 2004 Editorial Board, Nabokov Studies.1997 to 2004 Editor, The Comparatist, Vols. 23-28.1998-99 Advisory Board, American Comparative Literature Association.2006-08 President, Southern Comparative Literature Association (now the Society for

Comparative Literature and the Arts).2007-11 Editor, Recherche littéraire/Literary Research, the annual journal of the Inter-

national Comparative Literature Association.2008-13 Executive Committee, Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth Century

Literature, Modern Language Association.2009- Advisory Board, Nouvelle Poétique Comparatiste book series.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Positions in Scholarly Organizations, concluded2011-12 Nominations Committee, Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts.2011-16 English Secretary, International Comparative Literature Association.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Participation in Scholarly Panels1983 Chair, Session on Current Theory in Perspective, Colloquium on Contemporary

Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Binghamton NY, October 13.1989 Organizer and Chair, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern British Literature,

South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta GA, November 11.1989 Organizer and Chair, Session on Exiles and Emigrés: Varieties of Cultural Assi-

milation, Modern Language Association, Washington DC, December 28.1991 Organizer and Chair, Session on Vocabularies of Modernity, Modern Language

Association, San Francisco CA, December 29.1992 Organizer and Chair, Vladimir Nabokov: A General Session, Modern Language

Association, New York NY, December 29.1993 Organizer and Chair, Vladimir Nabokov: A General Session, Modern Language

Association, Toronto ON, December 29.1996 Joint Coordinator (with Wayne Froman), Conference on Dramas of Culture, In-

ternational Association for Philosophy and Literature, George Mason Univ., May 7-11. (280 participants from all over the US and 8 foreign countries)

1997 Chair, Seminar on Defining Postcolonialism; “New Worlds for Old,” American Comparative Literature Association, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, April 10-12.

1997 Organizer, Chair, and Respondent, “Russian Literature at the Margins of Philos-ophy”; “Marginal Regions/Textual Margins,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, U of South Alabama, Mobile AL, May 10.

1997 Respondent to Alexandrov, Cassedy, Holquist, “The Legacy of Slavic Literary Theory,” Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle WA, November 22.

1998 Chair, Seminar on Challenging Translation: Translating Challenges; “Literary and Cultural Translation and Exchange,” American Comparative Literature Association, Univ. of Texas at Austin, March 26-28.

1998 Co-organizer (with Edith Clowes), Invited Symposium on “Slavic Images Inside and Out: Stereotype and ‘Reality’ in Russian, Polish, and Czech Cultural Settings,” Conference on Interrogating Images, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Univ. of California at Irvine, May 9.

1999 Co-organizer (with Marcel Cornis-Pope), “Alternative Postmodern Topographies: Border Areas, Postcolonial Metropolises and Liminal Cities, Third-World Multicultural Zones”; Conference on Postmodern Sites, International Associ-ation for Philosophy and Literature, Trinity College, Hartford CT, May 13.

1999 Respondent to Blackwell, Byrd, Weir; “Nabokov and the Problem of Genre,” Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis MO, November 20.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Participation in Scholarly Panels, concluded.

2000 Co-organizer (with Edith Clowes), Session on “Russian Writing Culture and the West: Remapping the Boundaries of Philosophy and Literature,” Conference on Crossing Borders, International Assoc. for Philosophy and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY, May 12.

2001 Organizer, Session on “False Starts: Skewed, Disingenuous, and Hidden As-sumptions in the Politics of Culture and Tradition,” Conference on Begin-nings, International Assoc. for Philosophy and Literature, Spelman College, Atlanta GA, May 4.

2008 Chair, Session on Celebrating Chinua Achebe and African Writers, Fall for the Book, George Mason University, September 22.

2008 Respondent, Plenary Session on “Narrativized Ethics: Homer, Aeschylus, and Hiroshima,” a paper by Michael Palencia-Roth, Southern Comparative Litera-ture Association, Auburn AL, October 2.

2008 Organizer, Session on Lessons from the George Mason World Literature Project, Southern Comparative Literature Association, Auburn AL, October 3.

2009-10 Organizing Committee, American Comparative Literature Association Conference on “Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms,” New Orleans LA, April 1-4, 2010.

2011 Organizer and Chair, Session on “Tolstoy in the Long Twentieth Century, 1890-2010,” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles CA, January 9.

2012 Organizer and Chair, Session on “Comparing Modern Literatures Worldwide: Can It Be Done within the Current MLA Structure?” Modern Language Asso-ciation, Seattle WA, January 5.

2012 Chair, Session on “Hemispheric Americas, Transnational Crossings,” Modern Language Association, Seattle WA, January 6.

2013 Chair, Session on Translation and Literary Genres, International Comparative Literature Association, Paris, July 22.

2013 Chair, Session with the title “From the Translation to the Source,” International Comparative Literature Association, Paris, July 22.

2014 Chair, Session on “South Asian Literatures: Without English,” Modern Language Association, Chicago IL, January 12.

2016 Respondent to Byrd, Drozd, Stavis, Panel on Remembrance in Tolstoy’s Major Novels, Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasi-an Studies, Washington DC, November 20.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Consultancies.1982-87 Peer-Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities. 1982-91 Reader, Princeton Univ. Press.1984 Reader, Univ. of Wisconsin Press.1985- Article Evaluator: PMLA, The Comparatist, Nabokov Studies, Slavic Review,

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, South Atlantic Review, Papers in Language and Literature, Comparative Literature.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Consultancies, continued.

1988 Outside Dissertation Evaluator, English Dept., Univ. of Bangalore, India.1988 Referee for Tenure Case, Yale U.1989 Referee for Tenure Cases, U of Missouri, Cornell U.1993 Referee for Promotion Case, U. of Missouri.1993 Reader, SUNY Press.1994 Referee for Promotion Case, Cleveland State U.1994 Reader, U of Massachusetts Press.1996 Consultant, "The Western Literary Canon and its Readers: Some Backgrounds

and Prospects," NEH Focus Grant on Art and Audience, New College of U of South Florida, Sarasota FL, Jan. 19.

1996 Referee for Tenure Case, Stanford U.1996 Reader, U of Texas Press.1997 Referee for Promotion Case, Rutgers U.1998 Reader, Cornell UP, Harvard UP.1998 Presentation, “Nietzsche as Literature: Theory and Practice,” Interdisciplinary

Symposium on Nietzsche, Directed Studies Program, Yale U, April 22.1998 Outside Dissertation Evaluator, “Dostoevskii i Zapad” (Dostoevsky and the

West), Russian Dept., Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.1998 Referee for Promotion Case, U of Ottawa (Canada).1999 Referee for Promotion Cases, Dartmouth College, Cornell U.2000 Referee for Promotion Case, Hebrew U of Jerusalem.2000 Reader, University Press of Florida.2001 Reader, Humanity Press.2002 Referee for Promotion Case, United Arab Emirates University.2003-04 Consultant, Modern Language Association, for its Approaches to Teaching

World Literature Series.2004 Referee for Tenure Case, University of Texas.2005 Reader, Cornell University Press.2006 Referee for Tenure Case, University of Wisconsin.2006 Reader, Modern Language Association, Humanity Press.2007 Referee for Tenure Cases, Harvard and Carleton University (Canada).2008 Referee for Promotion Case, St. Lawrence University.2008 Reader, Ohio State University Press.2009 Referee for Promotion Cases, Case Western Reserve University and University

of Tennessee at Knoxville.2009 Reader, Palgrave Macmillan Press.2009 Referee for Tenure Case, Pennsylvania State University.2010 Reader, Blackwell Publishing.2010 Reader, Peter Lang Publishing.2011 Project Consultant, Blackwell Publishing.2011 Reader, Routledge Publishing.2011 Referee for Tenure Case, University of California, Riverside.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Consultancies, concluded.2011 Reader, Continuum Books.2011-12 Program Evaluator, United Arab Emirates U., Al-Ain, UAE.2012 Referee for Distinguished Professor Case, University of Virginia.2013 Wellek Prize Selection Committee, American Comparative Literature

Association.2013 Referee for Promotion Case, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.2013 Referee for Tenure Case, Pennsylvania State University.2013 Referee for Distinguished Professor Case, UCLA.2013 Selection Committee Member, Scaglione Prize in Slavic Languages and

Literatures (2011-12), Modern Language Association.2014 Peer-Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities.2014 Reader, John Benjamins Publishing.2014 Consultant on Book Series, Bloomsbury Publishing.2014 Reader, Peter Lang Publishing.2015 Chair of the Selection Committee, Scaglione Prize in Slavic Languages and

Literatures (2013-14), Modern Language Association.2017 Reader, Bloomsbury Publishing.

AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS1963-67 National Merit Scholar, Harvard University.1967 Bowdoin Prize, Sohier Prize (honorable mention), Phi Beta Kappa -- all at

Harvard University.1971-72 German Academic Exchange Fellowship.1975 Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty, Stanford University (three months).1981-82 American Council of Learned Societies Interdisciplinary Study Fellowship

(Intellectual history, with Paul Robinson, Stanford University). 1982-83 Mellon Faculty Fellowship (Comparative Literature), Harvard University.1983 Summer Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory, Northwestern Univ.,

Evanston IL (with WJT Mitchell).1986 Summer Research Fellowship, George Mason University, Fairfax VA.1987 Theodore C. Hoepfner Award, best essay in the Southern Humanities Review in

1986, Auburn University, Auburn AL.1987 Fellowship for College Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities.1989-90 Faculty Study Leave, George Mason University.1996-97 Faculty Study Leave, George Mason University.1996 Phoenix Prize for Distinguished Editorial Achievement, Council for the Editors

of Learned Journals (at the MLA Convention, Washington DC).1997-98 Fellowship for College Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities.2003- Who's Who in America.2004-05 Faculty Study Leave, George Mason University.2005-06 Co-Principal Investigator, World Literature Development Grant, National

Endowment for the Humanities.

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AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, concluded2011 Fall Semester: Faculty Study Leave, George Mason University.2012-13 Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities.2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2014, for Transnational Tolstoy.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Active Literary Knowledge -- French, German, Russian.Other Languages -- Classical Greek, Italian.

LONG-TERM EXPRIENCE ABROAD1971-72 Konstanz, Germany

1975-76 Rome, Italy1980-81 Tours, France

MAIN TEACHING AREASFiction since 1830: Continental European, Russian, British, General Surveys.World Literature since 1900, World Fiction since 1950, Literature in Translation.Modernism and Modernity in Western Fiction, Poetry, and Thought.Literary/Cultural Criticism and Theory, with a focus on Comparative and World Literature. Introduction to Graduate Study.Modern Autobiography.

SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCEStanford University, 1972-1981

Member, Committee in Charge, Humanities Honors Program.Member, Committee in Charge, Doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature.Acting Chair, Modern Thought and Literature (for six months).Undergraduate Advising: Comparative Literature, English.Graduate Admissions: Comparative Literature, Modern Thought and Literature, English.

SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCEGeorge Mason University, 1983-1994

1983-84 Member and Chair, English Department Council.1985 University Committee on International Programs.1986 Chair, Robinson Professor Search Committee, English Department.1986-88 Faculty, Program for an Alternate General Education. 1988- Chair, Comparative Literature Steering Committee.1988-92 Planning Committee, Ph. D. in Cultural Studies.1988-92 Graduate Committee, English Department.1991-93 Provost's Committee on General Education in the Humanities. 1992-95 Governing Committee, Ph. D. in Cultural Studies. 1992-94 Member, English Department Salary Committee.1992-94 Chair, Appointments Committee, English Department.

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SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE, concludedGeorge Mason University, 1993-present

1993-95 Co-Chair (with Marilyn Mobley), Cultural Studies Symposium Committee.1994-96 Graduate Committee, English Department.1994-95 Ad-Hoc Committee on Workload, Promotion Criteria, and Salary Evaluation,

English Department.1995-96 Student Affairs Committee, Ph. D. in Cultural Studies.1995-96 Chair, Concentration in 20th-Century Literature, English Department.1998-2000 Member, Appointments Committee, English Department.1998-2002 Faculty Matters Committee, Cultural Studies Doctoral Program.1985- Member and Chair of Numerous Tenure and Promotion Sub-Committees.2000-03 Chair, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, English Dept.2003-04 Member, English Department Salary Committee.2003-04 Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, English Department.2005-07 Chair, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, English Dept.2007-10 Member, Appointments Committee, English Department.2008-11 Member, Academic Program Review Assessment Team.2008-10 Member, Faculty Research and Development Awards Committee.2009- Member, University Professor Selection Committee.2010-12 Member, Salary Committee, English Department.2010 Chair, Professors' Promotion Subcommittee, English Department.2010-11 Graduate Committee, English Department.2013 Chair, Term Faculty Committee, English Department.2013- Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONSModern Language AssociationAmerican Comparative Literature AssociationInternational Comparative Literature AssociationSociety for Comparative Literature and the ArtsBritish Comparative Literature AssociationCanadian Comparative Literature AssociationAssociation for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesInternational Nabokov Society

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