Inspired by my work on the Women in Book History Bibliography, this presentation takes a different angle on discussions of women’s texts in digital archives. The WBHB collects secondary sources on women’s writing and labor over a broad range of languages, subjects, geographic locations, and time periods. Because we collect secondary sources, we…[Read more]

Soviet Journals Reconnected uses bibliographical data from the Soviet index of periodical contributions (Letopis’ zhurnal’nykh statei) to trace how
communities of shared aesthetic and ideological inclination took shape. The data has been cleaned and normalized. It is organized in a relational database that allows for targeted queries in light of…[Read more]

Book review of Denis Kozlov: The Readers of Novyi Mir.

Nearly a decade ago, Sean Latham and Robert Scholes ambitiously proclaimed “The Rise of Periodical Studies” in the PMLA, the premier publication that institutionalizes new trends in literary and cultural studies. Latham and Scholes proposed a seemingly radical reorientation in the philological scholarship of magazines and journals: treat them as…[Read more]

The Digital Émigré is a web-based resource for exploring the periodical literature of the 20th century Russian emigration. As an online repository of Russian journals and magazines it makes accessible a curated textual corpus in an archive accompanied by a database featuring article-level bibliographical information of these journals. Allowing f…[Read more]

This article regards the scandals of the “MetrOpol” almanac, Viktor Erofeev’s Russian Beauty and especially the perestroika films “Little Vera” and “Intergirl”. Through their performance of provocations, of­tentimes sexual, transgressors activate the suppressed desires of their audience, whose defensive reaction copies the performative m…[Read more]