#  Publications 

 



**Books**:

*Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature*, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. Paperback edition – Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021.

*Impossible Project: The Story of Russian Ballet and Its Survival*, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

**Essays:**

"Action and Acting at Biograph Studio, 1908-1912," *Journal of e-Media Studies* 7:1 (2024). Co-author: Yuri Tsivian. Also available on the Web: [Action and Acting at Biograph Studio, 1908–1912 (dartmouth.edu)](https://pub.dartmouth.edu/journal-of-e-media-studies-vol-7-issue-1-early-cinema-compendium/action-and-acting-at-biograph-studio-19081912)

“Te zhe i Bowlt: nemoe kino i khudozhestvennyi byt” \[“Enter John Bowlt: Silent Film and Visual Art Environment,”\] in *A Blue Brick. Festschrift in Honour of John E. Bowlt on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday*, ed. by Yuri Leving (Saint-Petersburg: Chistyi list, 2024), 309-25. Co-author: Yuri Tsivian.

Balanchin pered ot’ezdom (po materialam arkhiva Slonimskogo) \[“Balanchine before His Departure \[from Russia\] (Researching Yuri Slonimsky’s Archive)”,\] in *Omnia Praeclara Rara* \[A collection of works dedicated to the memory of Natalia Dunaeva\], (Saint-Petersburg: Chistyi list, 2023), 129-38.

“Things Untimely: Death, Birth, and Poetry in Evgenii Baratynsky's ‘Nedonosok’,” *Slavic and East European Journal* 64:2, Summer 2020, 284-304.

“Dve stroki i tri soseda: konteksty odnogo pushkinskogo perevoda” \[“Two Lines and Three Neighbors: Some Contexts of Pushkin’s Previously Unrecognized Translation”\], in *Unacknowledged Legislators: Studies in Russian Literary History and Poetics in Honor of Michael Wachtel*, Stanford Slavic Studies 50, ed. by L. Fleishman, D.M. Bethea, I. Vinitsky (Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2020), 83-94.

“Reading and Readers of Poetry in the Golden Age, 1800-1830,” in *Reading Russia. A History of Reading in Modern Russia*, vol. 2, ed. by Damiano Rebecchini and Raffaella Vassena (Milano: di/segni, 2020), 13-55 \[this book chapter is a slightly reworked excerpt from my *Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature*, see above\].

“Introduction,” in Yuri Tynianov, *Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory, and Film*, ed. and trans. by Ainsley Morse and Philip Redko (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019), 1–24. Trans. by Maria Vassileva, with Ainsley Morse and Philip Redko. 2021 AATSEEL Best Scholarly Translation into English Award.

“Valentin Parnakh: genezis ‘vnezapnogo tantsa’” \[Valentin Parnakh: A Genesis of the “Sudden Dance”,\] in *Tynianovskii sbornik* 14 (2018), 139-54. Co-author: Yuri Tsivian.

“The Case of *The Dying Swan*: The Performative Evolution of a Dance,” in *Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action*, ed. by Julie A. Bucker, Julie A. Cassiday, and Boris Wolfson (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), 218-26.

„Exploring Cutting Structure in Film, with Applications to the Films of D. W. Griffith, Mack Sennett, and Charlie Chaplin,“ *Digital Scholarship in the Humanities* 32: 1 (April 2017), 1–16. Co-authors: Mike Baxter, Yuri Tsivian.

“A Numerate Film History? Cinemetrics Looks at Griffith, Griffith Looks at Cinemetrics,” *Mise au Point*, Vol.8 (8), 2016, [online](https://journals.openedition.org/map/2108).Co-authors: Mike Baxter, Yuri Tsivian.

„Nijinsky’s Afterimages in Eisenstein’s and Chaplin’s Eyes,“ *Russian Movement Culture of the 1920s and 1930s*, ed. by Lynn Garafola (Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2015), 80-88 [(pdf volume published on the Harriman Institute website](https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-xanj-5740)).

„Esche raz ob iskusstve finala“ \[On Finale of Gogol’s *Notes of a Madman*\], forthcoming in *Russko-frantsuzskii razgovornik ou Les Causeries du 7 Septembre*. Collection of Papers in Honour of Professor Vera Milchina (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2014).

“This Is No Longer Dance:” The Politics of Choreography in *The Steel Step* (1927), *Critical Inquiry* 40:3 (Spring 2014), 134-149.  
  
 «Siuzhet “Kino-Glaza”» \[On the Plot of Dziga Vertov’s *Kino-Eye* (1924)\], *Kinovedcheskie Zapiski* 104-105 (2013), 95-118.

  
“Konets fil’ma” \[The End: On Various Versions of Finale for Vasiliev Bros. *The Sleeping Beauty* (1930)\], *Istoriia literatury. Poetika. Kino: Sbornik v chest’ M.O. Chudakovoi*, ed. Oleg Lekmanov, Ekaterina Liamina, and Alexandr Ospovat (Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2012), 545-568. Co-author: Yuri Tsivian.

“Eisenstein’s Choreography in *Ivan the Terrible*,” *Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema* 5:1, 2011, 55-71. Italian translation: “La coreografia di *Ivan il Terribile*”, *Bianco e nero*, 569, 1/2011.  
  
“Ukazatel’ zhestov: Prodolzhenie” \[Index of Gestures: Continued\], *Ot slov k telu*. \[From Words to Body\], ed. Alexandr Lavrov, Alexandr Ospovat, and Roman Timenchik (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2010), 343-61 \[research paper about three 20th-century Russian poems on gestures and body movements: Vladislav Khodasevich's *Giselle*, Osip Mandelshtam's *Grand Piano*, and Joseph Brodsky's *To Mikhail Baryshnikov* ("The Classical Ballet is a Castle of the Beauty…")\].  
  
 “Illustratsiia v roli kommentariia: “Pikovaia Dama” Alexandra Benois” \[Illustration as Commentary: Alexandre Benois' *The Queen of Spades*\], *Con amore: Festschrift for Prof. Liubov’ Kiseleva*, eds. Roman Leibov, Andrey Nemzer, Alexandr Ospovat, et al. (Moscow: OGI, 2010), 619-38 \[in collaboration with Yuri Tsivian\].  
  
 “Stikhotvorenie Pushkina “Rifma, zvuchnaia podruga…”: genealogiia i semantika liricheskogo narrativa” \[Pushkin’s Poem “Rhyme, My Sonorous Friend...”: Genealogy and Semantics of a Lyrical Narrative\], *Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie,* 95 (2009), 81-126. Also available [on the web](https://magazines.gorky.media/nlo/2009/1/stihotvorenie-pushkina-rifma-zvuchnaya-podruga-8230-genealogiya-i-semantika-liricheskogo-narrativa.html).  
  
 “Pushkinskii nabrosok vozrazheniia Kuechelbeckeru” \[Pushkin’s Draft Critics of 1824 Kuechelbecker’s Essays in *Mnemozina*\], *Russian Literature and the West. A Tribute for David M. Bethea.* Stanford Slavic Studies 35, pt. I. (2008), 66-116. Co-author: Tatiana Krasnoborod’ko. Also published [on the web](http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/546273.html).  
  
 “Eshche raz o finale *Dvenadtsati*: opyt vizual’nogo kommentariia” \[The Visual Commentary to the Finale of Alexander Blok’s *The Twelve*\], *The Real Life of Pierre Delalande. Studies in Russian and Comparative Literature to Honor of Alexander Dolinin.* Stanford Slavic Studies 33, pt I (2007), 186-219.  
  
“(Ne)izvestnaia avtoepigramma Alexandra Pushkina: k interpretatsii odnoi strofy iz “Evgeniia Onegina” \[An \[Un\]known Auto-Epigram of Alexander Pushkin: Towards Interpretation of one Stanza from “Eugene Onegin”\], *Kirillitsa, ili Nebo v almazach*, ed. Roman Leibov (Tartu University), published [on the web](http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/539847.html).   
  
 “Oda kak madrigal: k opisaniiu odnogo stikhotvoreniia Baratynskogo” \[The Ode as a Madrigal: Towards Interpretation of “Eshche kak Patriarch ne dreven ia…” by Evgenii Baratynsky\], *Pushkinskie chteniia v Tartu* 4 (Tartu, 2007), 331-344. Also available [on the web](http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/543213.html).  
  
 “Kuzmin i smert’ tantsovshchitsy” \[Mikhail Kuzmin and the Death of the Dancer\], *Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie* 78 (2006), 241-270. Also available [on the web](https://magazines.gorky.media/nlo/2006/2/kuzmin-i-smert-tanczovshhiczy.html).  
  
 “Neizvestnyi stikh Baratynskogo” \[The Unknown Verse of Evgenii Baratynsky\], *Desyatye-Odinnadcatye-Dvenadcatye Tynianovskie chteniia* (Мoscow, 2006), 207-213.  
  
“Literaturnaia positsiia Baratynskogo i esteticheskie spory konca 1820-h gg”. \[Evgenii Baratynsky and the Discussions on Literary Aesthetics of the late 1820s\], *Pushkinskie chteniia v Tartu* 3 (Tartu, 2004), 149-180. Also available [on the web](http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/535133.html).  
  
“Poslanie *Bogdanovichu* i literaturnaia positsiia rannego Baratynskogo” \[The Epistle *To Bogdanovich* and the Literary Aesthetics of Evgenii Baratynsky in His Early Years\], *Lotmanovsky sbornik* 3, (Мoscow: OGI, 2004), 933-947.

**Book reviews:**

*Marius Petipa: The Emperor’s Ballet Master*, by Nadine Meisner, *Ballet Review* 47.3 & 47.4, Fall-Winter 2019, 91-5.

*Greetings, Pushkin! Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard*, by Jonathan Brooks Platt, *Slavic Review* 76:4, Winter 2017, 1140-1.

‘Bolshoi Confidential’ Peers Down the Centuries and Past the Pirouettes \[a review of *Bolshoi Confidential*:*Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today*, by Simon Morrison\], *New York Times*, Nov. 13, 2016, C4.

*Alla Osipenko: Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet*, by Joel Lobenthal, *Russian Review* 75:3, January-October 2016, 513-4.

*Swans of the Kremlin*, by Christine Ezrahi, *Slavic Review* 3:1, Spring 2014, 223-224.