Olga Peters Hasty
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Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures |
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229 East Pyne |
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609-258-4734 |
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hasty@princeton.edu |
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PhD with distinction in Slavic Languages and Literatures (Yale University, 1980); MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures (Brown University, 1974) |
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profile: In my scholarly work, as in much of my teaching, I devote myself primarily to poets of the 19th century and the modernist period (e.g. Pushkin, Pavlova, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva). Compelling to me is the intensity with which poetic language can be made to signify and what this signification can tell us about the creative psychology of the poet, the social and cultural environments in which the poem arises and is subsequently received, and, perhaps most importantly, about language itself. This interest extends naturally to prose of writers like Gogol', Leskov, Belyi, Babel', and Nabokov whose heightened awareness of language is essentially "poetical." Two areas of long-standing interest that are reflected in my teaching and research are gender and temporality. More recently I have explored theories relating to translatability on two distinct, but interrelated levels: between genres (literature to film) and between cultures.
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courses: Undergraduate Courses taught:
Survey of Russian Poetry
Pushkin and his Time
Russian Drama
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian Fiction, Foreign Film
Graduate Courses taught:
Ornamentalist Prose
Tsvetaeva and Pasternak
The Acmeist Poets
Russian Futurism
Old Russian Literature
Dissertation Colloquium
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current project: How Women Must Write: Devising a Poetic Self, a book examining strategies of poetic self-presentation developed by 19th and 20th century Russian women poets and the cultural dynamics that shaped the images they devised for themselves. As I work on my current project, I am moving on to explore poetic performance in the Russian tradition.
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"Representing Ephemerality: Pasternak's «Гроза, моментальная навек»."
in Eternity's Hostage: Selected Papers from the Stanford International Conference on Boris Pasternak. Stanford Slavic Studies, 2006. Vol. 1: 116-132.
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"The Pushkin of Opportunity in the Harlem Renaissance."
in Pushkin and Blackness. Northwestern University Press, 2006. 226-247.
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"Tsvetaeva's Briusov, Mozart, and Salirei."
in Word, Music, History: A Festschrift for Caryl Emerson. Stanford Slavic Studies, 2005. 693-706.
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"Memory, Consciousness, and Time in Nabokov's Lolita."
in KronoScope. Vol. 4, No. 2 (2004): 225-238.
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"Valerii Briusov as Marina Tsvetaeva's Anti-Muse."
in Vieldeutiges Nicht-zu-Ende-Sprechen. Fichtenwalde: Frank Göpfert Verlag, 2002. 191-205.
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"Karolina Pavlova's Dvoinaia zhizn'."
in Essays on Karolina Pavlova. Northwestern University Press, 2001. 53-65.
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"Reading Suicide: Tsvetaeva on Esenin and Maiakovskii."
in Slavic Review. Vol. 50, No. 4 (1991): 836-846.
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"Poema vs. Cycle in the Context of Cvetaeva's Definition of Lyric Verse."
in Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 32, No. 3 (1988): 390-398.
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"Multiplicity of Perspective as Metaphor for Poetic Creation in Pasternak's 'Opredelenie poezii' and 'Opredelenie tvorcestva.'"
in International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics. Vol. 34 (1986): 113-121.
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"Cvetaeva's Onomastic Verse."
in Slavic Review. Vol. 45, No. 2 (l986): 245-256.
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