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| Assistant Professor |
Department
of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street, 1618 University Hall
Chicago, IL 60607-7116
Phone: (312) 413-3058
Fax: (312) 996-0953
E-mail address: vaingurt@uic.edu |
| Education
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B.A., English, Grinnell College (1992)
M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Iowa (1994)
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
(2005) |
| Area of
Specialization |
| 20th-century Russian literature
and culture |
| Current
Research |
| Relationship between ethics and aesthetics;
love as a literary device in Russian 19th- and 20th-century
literature |
| Selected
Publications and Conference Papers |
| "Writing as Bodily Technology in Yevgeny
Zamyatin's We." "From America with Love: Red Pinkertons
and Americanization in Mass Culture of the 1920s," "Alien
Allure: The American Presence in Alexei Tolstoy's Aelita,"
"Base Superstructures and Technical Difficulties in
Mayakovsky's America" |
| Interests |
| Russian, European, and American modernism
and avant-garde, 18th century-Russian literature, 19th-century
Russian fiction, Russian-American cultural intersections,
modern Czech literature, literary theory, aesthetic
theory, film and contemporary art, Soviet and Post-Soviet
culture. |
| Dissertation |
"Wonderlands of the Russian Avant-Garde:
Technology and the Arts in the 1920s"
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