Contact Information:

E-Mail: dt8n@virginia.edu

By Post:

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

By Phone: (434) 924-4015

Office: 101 New Cabell Hall

Education:

PhD Harvard University
AM Harvard University
Magister (High Honors) University of Warsaw, Poland

Research Interests:

Russian and Polish Literature
literature and ideology
Soviet camp literature

Recent Publications:

Books
See No Evil: Literary Cover-ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999).

Books Edited
Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress (Charlottesville, Virginia: Leopolis Press, 2003).

Articles
"The Uses of Vulnerability: Literature and Ideology in Evgeniia Ginzburg's Memoir of the Gulag." forthcoming in Literature and History.

"Literature of the Gulag in the Context of Nazi Camp Literature: Towards a Poetics of Testimony," in The American Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists, Ljubljana 2003 (Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Studies, 2003)

"Polish Literataure in Transition," in Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress (Charlottesville, Virginia: Leopolis Press, 2003).

"Hunger of the Imagination: Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Tadeusz Borowski, and the Twentieth-Century House of the Dead," Literary Imagination (The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics) Fall 2001.

"Gulag i inzynierowie dusz" [The Gulag and the Engineers of Human Souls] Przeglad Wschodni 20 (2000).

"Coming to Terms: Ideology and Experience in Camp Literature," forthcoming in Karen L. Ryan and Barry Scherr (editors) Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and Eastern European Studies (London: Macmillan).

"The Anxiety of a Witness: Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle and the Rhetoric of Initiation," in The Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars vol. XXIX (1998).

"Who is Ivan Denisovich? Ethical Challenge and Narrative Ambiguity in Solzhenitsyn's Text," in Alexis Klimoff (editor), Critical Companion to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," [AATSEEL] (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997).

"Od Lubianki do Internetu (O pamieci literatury)," Gazeta Wyborcza, 12 August, 1997.

"Poetics and Politics," Partisan Review, Spring 1992.