Marcus Levitt
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353
vox (213) 740-2736
fax (213) 740-8550
E-mail: levitt@usc.edu
Web pages: http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/ml_fset.htm
In Progress
- Monograph, Making Russia Visible: The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature and Culture (working title).
- Volume of collected essays on Sumarokov and eighteenth century Russian literature, to be published by St. Petersburg University Press (in Russian). Edited by P. E. Bukharkin.
- Full critical edition (7-9 volumes) of the works of Alexander Sumarokov (1717-1777), with N. Iu. Alekseeva and V. P. Stepanov (main editors). Print and electronic versions planned.
- Times of Trouble: Violence in Russian Literature and Culture, edited by Marcus C., Levitt and Tatyana Novikova. University of Wisconsin Press, Fall, 2007.
- “«Вечернее» и «Утреннее размышления о Божием величестве» Ломоносова Как физико-теологические произведения” [Lomonosov’s “Evening” and “Morning” Meditations as Physico-Theological Works], XVIII век [18th Century], 24 (St. Petersburg, 2006).
- “Virtue Must Advertise: Dashkova's 'Mon histoire' and the Problem of Self-Representation,” in Sue Ann Prince, ed., The Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin, and the Age of Enlightenment, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 96, Part 1. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2006. Pp.39-56.
- Chapter on “Evgenii Onegin” for The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin, Cambridge University Press. Editor, Andrew Kahn. Publication date 2006.
- Article, “The Barbarians Among Us, or Sumarokov’s Views on Orthography,” VII International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia - Conference Proceedings Volume (forthcoming, 2006).
- Article, “Sumarokov’s Sanctuary of Virtue (1759) as ‘the First Russian Ballet,’ Experiment / Эксперимент, 10 (2004): 51-84. Special issue devoted to “Performing Arts and the Avant-Garde.”
- Article, “Ода как откровение: О православном богословском контексте ломоносовских од” [The Ode as Revelation: On the Orthodox Theological Context of Lomonosov’s Odes] Slavianskii almanankh [Slavic Almanac] 2003 (Moscow, 2004), pp.368-84.
- Article, “Диалектика видения в Путешествии Радищева” [The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev’s Journey] in А. Н. Радищев: русское и европейское Просвещение: Материалы Международного симпосиума, 24 июля, 2002 г. [A. N. Radishchev: Russian and European Enlightenment, Materials of the International Symposium, June 24, 2002] (St. Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburgskiii tsentr Rossiiskoi akademii nauk, 2003), pp. 36-47.
- Article, “The ‘Obviousness’ of the Truth in Eighteenth-Century Russian Thought,” Filosofskii vek [The Age of Philosophy], 24: Istoriia filosofii kak filosofii, Chast’ 1 (St. Petersburg, 2003): 236-45.