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J. Alexander Ogden
Russian Faculty
Assistant Professor

Phone: (803) 777-9573, (803) 777-4881 
Fax:     (803) 777-0454
E-mail: ogden@sc.edu

 Education
B.A.: Soviet and East European Studies; Yale University, 1990
M.A.: Russian; Stanford University, 1992
Ph.D.: Slavic Languages and Literatures; Stanford University, 1997
 
 Teaching Interests
Russian literature
Russian language (all levels)
Russian film
Cultural studies and literary theory
 
 Research Interests
Russian peasant poets
lyric persona and self-fashioning
Siberian literature and cultural history
 
 Selected Publications
BOOKS:
Russian Writers of the Silver Age, 1890-1925, co-editor (with Judith E. Kalb and the collaboration of Igor G. Vishnevetsky), Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 295 (Detroit: Gale, 2004).

Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, co-editor (with Judith E. Kalb), Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 238 (Detroit: Gale Research, 2001). 

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
"The Impossible Peasant Voice in Russian Culture: Stylization and Mimicry," Slavic Review 64.3 (Fall, 2005), forthcoming.

"The Woods of Childhood: Forest and Fairy Tale in Pavel Zasodimskii’s Nature Writing," Russian Review 64.2 (April, 2005), forthcoming.

"Siberia as Chronotope: Valentin Rasputin’s Creation of a Usable Past in Sibir’, Sibir’…," Ab Imperio 2 (2004), 647-664.

"Introduction" (with Judith E. Kalb), in Russian Writers of the Silver Age, 1890-1925, ed. Judith E. Kalb and J. Alexander Ogden, with the collaboration of Igor G. Vishnevetsky, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 295 (Detroit: Gale, 2004), xv-xxv.

"Overcoming the Destruction of Peasant Russia: The Epic Impulse in Nikolai Kliuev’s Late Poetry," Enemies of the People: The Destruction of Soviet Literary, Theater, and Film Arts in the 1930s, ed. Katherine Bliss Eaton (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2002) 53-74.

"Fashioning a Folk Identity: The Peasant-Poet Tradition in Russia," Intertexts 1 (2001): 32-45.


"Foucault and the Gulag," In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism 10.1 (2001): 45-52.

"Introduction" (with Judith E. Kalb), in Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 238 (Detroit: Gale, 2001) xvii-xxvii.

REFERENCE ARTICLES AND ENTRIES:
"Aleksandr Valentinovich Vampilov (A. Sanin)," in Russian Prose Writers After World War II, ed. Christine Rydel, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 302 (Detroit: Gale, 2005), 387-396
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"Nikolai Alekseevich Kliuev," in Russian Writers of the Silver Age, 1890-1925, ed. Judith E. Kalb and J. Alexander Ogden, with the collaboration of Igor G. Vishnevetsky, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 295 (Detroit: Gale, 2004), 231-238.

"Nikolai Kliuev," Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, ed. Derek Jones, volume 2 (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), 1340-1341.

"Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky," in Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 238 (Detroit: Gale, 2001) 380-388.

"Aleksandr Konstantinovich Sheller (A. Mikhailov)" (with Olga Shitareva), in Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 238 (Detroit: Gale, 2001) 293-300.

TRANSLATIONS:

Translator, "Sergei Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky," by N. A. Bogomolov, in Russian Writers of the Silver Age, 1890-1925, ed. Judith E. Kalb, J. Alexander Ogden, with the collaboration of Igor G. Vishnevetsky, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 295 (Detroit: Gale, 2004), 171-180.

Translator, "Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh," by Denis Akhapkin, in Russian Writers of the Silver Age, 1890-1925, ed. Judith E. Kalb, J. Alexander Ogden, with the collaboration of Igor G. Vishnevetsky, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 295 (Detroit: Gale, 2004), 239-245.

Translator, "Dmitrii Narkisovich Mamin (D. Sibiriak; also known as Mamin-Sibiriak)," by Liubov' Minochkina, in Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 238 (Detroit: Gale, 2001), 175-184.

Translator (with Judith E. Kalb), "Incredible but True," by Alex Levi, in In Place of Our Forebears (Atlanta: Congregation Shearith Israel, 1999), 53-57.

Editor and translator, From the Russian Idea to the Idea of a New Russia: How We Must Overcome a Crisis of Ideas, by Igor Chubais (Cambridge: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1998).

Translator, Russia and the Outside World: A New Agenda for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1998).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
"Study Abroad as Research Abroad: Fieldwork, Foxfire, and Research-Based Learning in an International Setting," NewsNet: The Newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 45.1 (January, 2005), forthcoming.

"Research-Based Learning at Baikal and Beyond: A New Paradigm for Study Abroad," NewsNet: The Newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 41.2 (March, 2001): 1-7.

"Honors Adventures in Siberia," The Scholar: The Parents' Newsletter of South Carolina Honors College, fall, 2000.

 

 
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