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Karen L. Ryan

 

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information:

E-Mail: klr8p@virginia.edu

Mail:
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
PO Box 400783
Charlottesville VA 22904-4783

By Phone: (434) 924-3548

Office: 104 Halsey Annex

Education:

PhD, University of Michigan, 1986
MA, University of Michigan, 1982
BA, Cornell University, 1980

Current Research Interests:

20th-Century Russian satire, contemporary Russian literature

Recent Publications:

The Other Stalin: Images of the Dictator in Russian Satire [forthcoming 2009, University of Wisconsin Press]

"Laughing at the Hangman: Humorous Portraits of Stalin," in Reflective Laughter: Aspects of Humour in Russian Culture, Anthem, 2004. 157-165.

"The Devil You Know: Postmodern Reconsiderations of Stalin," Mosaic 36 (September 2003), pp. 87-111.

"Imagining America: Il'f and Petrov's Odnoetazhnaia Amerika and Ideological Alterity," Canadian Slavonic Papers 44 (2002) pp. 263-77.

"Aksenov's ptichii iazyk: Nonsense Reconsidered," Slavic and East European Journal 46 (2002), pp. 29-46.

"Sokolov's Palisandriia: The Art of History," in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: Proceedings of the V World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Macmillan, 2000. 215-27.