Benjamin Musachio

Position
Ph.D Candidate
Education

B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures with Honors and Distinction, Stanford University (2017)

M.Phil. with Distinction in Modern Languages and Literatures (Russian), Lincoln College, University of Oxford (2019) – studies supported by the Clarendon-Polonsky Fund.

Selected Publications

Dissertation Title: 

Through the Looking-Glass: The Popularization of Soviet Russian Poets in 1960s America.

Articles

Benjamin Musachio. “The Contexts and American Epitext of Evgenii Evtushenko’s A Precocious Autobiography.” AvtobiografiЯ, No. 12, 2023: 187–220. 

Benjamin Joseph Musachio. “An Atlantis Discovered: Riga’s Moskovskii Forshtadt in the Russophone Interwar Imagination.” The Journal of Baltic Studies, February, 2024. 

Benjamin Musachio and Andrei Ustinov. “From GINKhUK to Warsaw to Bauhaus: Kazimir Malevich’s Tour of Europe.” Matica Srpska Journal of Slavic Studies (Зборник Матице српске за славистику), No. 104, 2023: 209–230. 

Benjamin Musachio. “Where Writers Were Made: The Soviet Writerly Family in Houses of Creativity.” The Russian Review, Vol. 81, No. 4, Oct. 2022: 705–723. 

 Benjamin Musachio. “Doctor Zhivago and Modern American Conservatism.” Novoe o Pasternakakh. Conference Proceedings for “Poetry and Politics in the 20th Century: Boris Pasternak, His Family, and His Novel Doctor Zhivago.” Ed. Lazar Fleishman, Moskva: Azbukovnik, 2017, 572–580. 

Reviews and Commentaries

 Benjamin Musachio. Review of Lewis H. Siegelbaum’s, Stuck on Communism: Memoir of a Russian Historian, (Ithaca: 2019), Slavic and East European Journal, 65.1 – Spring 2021: 194–95.

 Benjamin Musachio. “Pushkinalia III, 2020: ‘…Вновь я посетил…’ Pushkin in Transit.” Pushkin Review. Vol. 22-23. Ed. Joe Peschio and Igor Pilshchikov, Slavica: Bloomington, 2021, 179–187. 

 Bendzhamin Muzakkio. “Dubulti: k istorii latviiskogo LITFONDA i Doma tvorchestva pisatelei.” Rizhskii al'manakh. No. 10. Ed. Irina Tsigal'skaia, Riga: LORK, 2020, 134–147.