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Petre Petrov

position:  Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
location:  231 East Pyne
office hours:  On leave in 2009-2010
telephone:  809-258-1605
e-mail:  ppetrov@princeton.edu
education:  PhD in Russian Literature and Culture (University of Pittsburgh, 2006); MA in Russian Literature (University of Pittsburgh, 2001); MA in Bulgarian Philology (Sofia University "Kliment Okhridski," 1997)
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edited volumes:

  Mikhail Bakhtin
Special Issue of Studies in Slavic Cultures, IV (2003) (Co-edited with Seth Graham).
  Anna Karenina on Page and Screen
Special Issue of Studies in Slavic Cultures, II (2001) (Co-edited with Helena Goscilo).

selected articles:

"The Scars of History and the Balms of Melodrama in Soviet Thaw Cinema."
in Studia Filmoznawcze. Vol. 27. (forthcoming)
Review of Aesthetics of Alienation: Reassessment of Early Soviet Cultural Theories. Evgeny Dobrenko.
in Modern Language Review Vol. 2 (2007): 612-13.
"Mikhail Bakhtin."
in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. London: Routledge, 2006.
"Socialist Realism."
in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. London: Routledge, 2006.
"The Freeze of Historicity in Thaw Cinema."
in Kinokul'tura. April, 2005.
"Prostranstvo 'Amnazii'".
in Kurak: Kul’tura i iskusstvo Vol. 6 (2004): 59-60.
"The Birth of Theatre from the Spirit of the Game: The Structure of Play in Gogol's Gamblers."
in Essays in Poetics Vol. 29 (Autumn 2004): 134-44.
"The Truth of the Body: from War and Peace to Anna Karenina."
in Studies in Slavic Cultures. Vol 2 (2001): 30-62.


other projects:

Russian Film Symposium

For the past several years I have taken part in the organization of this one-of-a-kind event, which annually brings to Pittsburgh some of the most prominent students of Russian cinema, as well as some of its most distinguished artists.

web-development   Stalinka

I have collaborated with Helena Goscilo and Susan Corbesero on the development of this internet archive of materials related to I.V. Stalin.  The  archive currently contains over 400 visuals, including photographs, paintings, posters, etc.


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