Valeria Sobol
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1913 S Harding Dr
Urbana, IL 61801
E-mail:vsobol@illinois.edu
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Haunted Empire: The Russian Literary Gothic and the Imperial Uncanny, 1790-1850 (In progress)
Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009). Finalist for the 2010 AATSEEL prize for best new book in Slavic literature/culture.
EDITED VOLUME
Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe, co-edited with Mark Steinberg (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011)
ARTICLES
On Mimicry and Ukrainians: The Imperial Gothic in Pogorelsky’s Monastyrka.” East/West Journal 16-17 (2013): 369-387. (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
Komu ot chuzhikh, a nam ot svoikh’: variazhskoe prizvanie v russkoi literature kontsa XVIII veka.” Tam, vnutri. Praktiki vnutrennei kolonizatsii v kul’turnoi istorii Rossii. Ed. Alexander Etkind, Dirk Uffelmann, and Ilya Kukulin. Moscow: NLO, 2012. 186-216.
"Internal Orientalism in Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.” Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 68.2 (2011): 241-269 (published in 2012).
The Uncanny Frontier of Russian Identity: Travel, Ethnography, and Empire in Lermontov’s ‘Taman’’.” Russian Review70 (January 2011): 65-79.
Pochemu zimoi ne byvaet groma?’ Gurov, Job, and Chekhovian Epistemology in ‘Dama s sobachkoi.’” Russian Literature 66 (2009): 217-233
In search of an Alternative Love Plot: Tolstoy, Science, and Post-Romantic Love Narratives.” Tolstoy Studies JournalXIX (2007): 54-74
Febris erotica: Aleksandr Herzen’s Post-Romantic Physiology.” Slavic Review 65. 3(Fall 2006): 502-22
Nerves, Brain, or Heart? The Physiology of Emotions and the Mind-Body Problem in Russian Sentimentalism.” Russian Review 65. 1 (January 2006) 1-14
Yes, We Are Scythians’: The Image of Russia in Josef Škvorecký’s The Cowards.” Slavic and East European Journal 49.1 (Spring 2005) 79-93
Reading the Invisible: The Mind, the Body, and the Medical Examiner in Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.” Goscilo, Helena, Petro Petrov, ed. Anna Karenina on Page and Screen. Studies in Slavic Cultures II. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2001. 9-29
"Shumom bala utomlennyi’: the Physiological Aspect of the Society Ball and the Subversion of Romantic Rhetoric.” Russian Literature XLIX (April 2001) 293-314
"Eskhatologicheskii mif kak osnova interpretatsii knigi Ie. A. Baratynskogo Sumerki” in: Rytual'no-mifolohichny pidkhid do interpretatsii khudozhn'oho tekstu. Kyiv: 1995. 112-127
