ISRA Affiliation Level
founding member

Country
Canada

Email
a.komaromi@utoronto.ca

Description
Dr. Ann Komaromi has her B.A. from Northwestern University, her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1997, 2001). She specialized in Russian and Polish literature. Her dissertation focused on Venedikt Erofeev's *Moskva-Petushki* and uncensored literary works of the late Soviet period in the USSR.

Komaromi has taught as Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, 2005 - present. She was Assistant Professor of Russian. Swarthmore College, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, 2001 - 2004.

Her interests have evolved to include uncensored culture and dissident history considered through the lens of French and Anglo-American theory. Her book manuscript is THE LATE SOVIET AUTHOR: UNCENSORED NOVELS BY VASILII AKSENOV, ANDREI BITOV AND VENEDIKT EROFEEV. In spring, 2006, Komaromi received a three- year research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada to work on Samizdat and Tamizdat. Projects include a catalogue of Soviet Samizdat periodicals and a history of Ardis Publishing.

Publications:

Entries on S. Paradzhanov, Ven. Erofeev, A. Tsvetkov, E. Bulatov, V. Iankilevsky, V. Kropivnitskaia, L.

Kropivnitsky, O. Rabin, the Lianozovo school, and “Mat” for The Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture . Ed. Karen Evans- Romaine, Helena Goscilo, Tatiana Smorodinskaya, London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2005.

“The Window to the West in Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House,” in A Casebook on Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House, edited by Ekaterina Sukhanova, pp. 78-102, forthcoming. Web-based casebook for the Dalkey Archive Press, http://www.centerforbookculture.org/casebooks/casebook_pushkinhouse/introduction_pushkin.html

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“The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat,” Slavic Review, 63, 3 (2004): 597-618.

Review of Bozena Shallcross, ed. Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self , in Slavic and East European Journal, 48, 1 (2004): 151-153.

“Shock Therapy for the Russian Language: The Use of Profanity in Post-Stalin Russian Literature,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 50 (2002): 313-329.

“Daniil Charms: Absurd Russian Prophet,” Russian Literature 52, 4 (2002): 419-437.

“Wyspianski’s Wesele: Poised on the Border,” Theatre Journal 54, 2 (2002): 187-202. Trans. as “ Wesele Wyspianskiego. W drodze na swiatowe sceny,” trans. Tomasz Kunz, in Polonistyka po amerykansku: Badania nad literatura polska w Ameryce Polnocnej (1990-2005). Ed. Halina
Filipowicz, Andrzej Karcz, and Tamara Trojanowska. Warszawa: Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, forthcoming 2005.

“Karnaval i to, chto za nim: strategii parodii v poeme Venedikta Erofeeva ‘Moskva-Petushki’,” in Iu.V. Domanskii (ed) Literaturnyi tekst: problemy i metody issledovaniia 7. Analiz odnogo proizvedeniia (“Moskva-Petushki” Ven. Erofeeva). Tver’, 2000, 45-55.

“Mekhanizm i smysl protivoironii v poeme Venedikta Erofeeva ‘ Moskva-Petushki’,” in Iu.V. Domanskii (ed) “Moskva-Petushki” Ven. Erofeeva. Materialy Tret’ei mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Literaturnyi tekst: problemy i metody issledovaniia”. Tver’, 2000, 69-74.

“The Aporia of Temporal Existence in Sep-Szarzynski’s Poetry,” Slavic and East European Journal 43, 1 (1999): 122-136.

“Unknown Force: Gothic Realism in Chekhov’s The Black Monk,” in Neil Cornwell (ed) The Gothic- Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature , Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999, 257-275.

"Venedikt Erofeev Performing the Death of the Author in *Moskva-Petushki*," submitted to SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW, February, 2006.

"The Field of Unofficial Late Soviet Culture," submitted to SLAVIC REVIEW, July 2006.