Newly published in our winter issue: "Heretical Identities: Gender, Selfhood, and Power in Zamiatin's 'We'" by Kelly Gallagher (Ohio State University). Find the abstract and complete contents for SEEJ 69.4 on our website!
In our winter issue: "Literary Ventriloquism: A Dialogue Between Framing and Framed Narrative in Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's The History of A Town" by Byungsam Jung, Syracuse University. Find the abstract on our website!
In SEEJ 69.4: "Remembrance as Physiological Style in Early Tolstoy" by Gabriel Nussbaum, Princeton University. Find the abstract on our website!
From SEEJ 69.4 (Winter 2025): "Gothic Shadow Play in Plato's Cave: Nikolai Karamzin's 'The Island of Bornholm'" by
Jiyoung Hong, Yonsei University. Find the abstract on our website.
From our winter issue: "Writing Without Letters: Inscriptive Practices in Trans-Indigenous Arctic Literacy History" (Dmitry Arzyutov and Laura Siragusa, The Ohio State University). Find the abstract on our website!
Now available: SEEJ 69.4 (Winter 2025). Find the TOC on our website!
In SEEJ 69.3, Giuseppina Larocca examines and discusses the meaning and the profound relationship established between body and power in the short story “Devushka Roza” (“Young Rosa,” 1944) by Andrei Platonov.
In 69.3 Anne Eakin Moss calls attention to a neglected pioneer of cinematic innovation—puppet artist, animator, and director Sarra Mokil. Find the full abstract for all of the articles in the special cluster "Parallel Tracks: Women Filmmakers in Late-Imperial and Early Soviet Cinema" on our website.
In “'I Want to Make a Film About Women': The Story of Esfir Shub's Unrealized Feminist Manifesto", Anastasia Kostina reconstructs a history of the project 'Women', analyzing the script, and shedding light on what is arguably the most obscure and important period of Shub’s filmmaking career.
In 69.3, find the article "Bodies, Circus, and the Avant-garde in the Films of Ol´ga Preobrazhenskaia and Ivan Pravov" by Emma Widdis, part of our special cluster, Parallel Tracks: Women Filmmakers in Late-Imperial and Early Soviet Cinema.
In 69.3, Matthew Kendall suggests that the dilapidated state of Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko's archive at GARF can help explain why her efforts in "Battleship Potemkin" and other films have gone mostly unnoticed, mostly unnoted, and mostly forgotten.
In "Feminist Screenwriting in the Russian Empire: The Case of Ekaterina Vystavkina" (SEEJ 69.3) by Anna Kovalova and Alexandra Ustyuzhanina, the authors explore the life and career of Vystavkina, who was a writer, journalist, eminent feminist activist, and screenwriter.
We are pleased to announce the publication of our Fall 2025 issue!
SEEJ 69.3 features the forum, "Parallel Tracks: Women Filmmakers in Late-Imperial and Early Soviet Cinema," guest edited by Lilya Kaganovsky.
SEEJ 69.1 opens with "The Anesthesia of Native Speech" by Yuri Leving (Princeton), which introduces a special cluster devoted to contemporary Russophone Anti-War Poetry, “Language in a Coma.”
See the complete Table of Contents for our Spring 2025 issue of SEEJ here: seej.org/issues/69.1....
We are pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 Issue, which features the special forum: "Language in a Coma: Special Cluster Devoted to Contemporary Russophone Anti-War Poetry". Please find the complete table of contents on our website:
seej.org/issues/69.1....
In SEEJ 68.4, Tatiana Efremova examines the cinematic elements in Sergei Shnurov’s videos, revealing how the viral video language of Leningrad emerged as a result of deconstructing the appeal of Hollywood fantasies.
Complete abstracts for this special cluster on Leningrad are on our website.
In SEEJ 68.4, Maria Engström (Uppsala University) considers music videos of the band Leningrad shot between 2015–2018 (years of peak popularity for the group), as well interviews with Sergei Shnurov, within the discourse of the “civilizational turn” in Russian culture and politics of the 2010s.
In SEEJ 68.4, Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University) contextualizes Leningrad in relation to the Soviet tradition of cynicism with its gallery of trickster characters. Read the complete abstract on our website.
In SEEJ 68.4, Rita Safariants examines Leningrad’s engagement with the legacy and image of Viktor Tsoi, the icon of late-Soviet countercultural sincerity. Read the complete abstract on our website!
We are pleased to announce the publication of our Winter 2024 issue, SEEJ 68.4. This issue features a special forum: Sergei Shnurov, Leningrad, and the Ends of Irony, guest edited by Tatiana Efremova and Kevin M.F. Platt. You can find the complete table of contents for this issue on our website.