Anthony Anemone, Jr.
Education:
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Slavic Languages & Literatures. Major in Russian Literature, minor in Polish Literature, 1985.
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, Slavic Languages & Literatures, with Distinction, 1979.
B.A., Columbia University. Major in Russian Language & Literature, 1976.
Additional Training:
IREX Exchange of Language Teachers in Moscow. Summer 1986.
Doctoral Dissertation Research at Leningrad State University. 1982-83.
Columbia University Russian Practicum. Summer 1980.
Middlebury College Russian School. Summer 1974.
Doctoral Dissertation:
"Konstantin Vaginov and the Leningrad Avant-Garde: 1921-1934." Director: Robert Hughes.
Employment:
Associate Professor, College of William and Mary, Fall 1992 to present.
Assistant Professor, Colby College, Fall 1985 to Spring 1992.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Spring 1989.
Acting Instructor, University of California at Berkeley, Spring 1985.
Teaching Assistant & Associate, University of California at Berkeley, 1980-1984.
Grants, Scholarships, and Prizes:
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (KIARS) Short-Term Research Grant, Summer 1998.
Summer Research Grant, The College of William and Mary, Summer 1997.
Alumni Fellowship Award, College of William & Mary, 1995.
Faculty Research Assignment, The College of William and Mary, 1995-96..
Summer Research Grant, The College of William and Mary, Summer 1994.
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Travel Grant, January 1994.
Summer Research Grant, The College of William and Mary, Summer 1993.
Colby College Sabbatical Research Leave, 1989-1990.
KIARS Research Fellowship, 1989.
IREX Grant for Short-Term Advanced Research in the USSR. 1988.
Colby College Humanities Travel and Research Grant, January 1987.
IREX/Fulbright-Hayes Fellowships for Research in the USSR, 1982-83.
George and Ludmilla Patrick Grant, Columbia Russian Practicum, 1980.
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships, 1978-1980.
Regents of New York State Scholarship, 1972-1976.
Columbia Association Scholarship, 1972-1976.
Languages:
Russian, near-native fluency: reading knowledge of Polish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek.
Publications:
with Ivan Martynov. "Ida Nappel'baum and Konstantin Vaginov." (Introduction to publication of "Pamiatka o poete" (memoir of K. Vaginov) by Ida Nappel'baum.) Forthcoming in Wiener Slawistischer Almanach .
"The Monsters of Peter the Great: The Culture of the St. Petersburg Kunstkamera in the 18th-Century." Forthcoming in The Slavic and East European Journal (December 2000) and in Le Mirage Russe, eds. Sergei Karop and Larry Wolff (Paris, 2001) as "Les Monstres de Pierre Le Grand: La culture de le Kunstkamera a Saint Petersbourg au XVIIIe siecle."
"Obsessive Collectors: Collecting Culture in the Novels of Konstantin Vaginov." The Russian Review, 59 (April 2000), 252-68.
"Carnival in Theory and Practice: Mikhail Bakhtin and Konstantin Vaginov." In The Contexts of Bakhtin: Philosophy, Authorship, Aesthetics, ed. David Shepherd (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998), pp. 57-69.
"K.K. Vaginov," "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (encyclopedia entries). In Reference Guide to Russian Literature, ed. Neil Cornwell (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998), pp. 786-87, 861-62.
"Des muses et des servantes: response a Mark von Hagen." Revue des Etudes Slaves LXVIII: 2 (1996), 303-6.
"Nabokov's Despair and the Criminal Imagination." In O Rus! Studia litteraria slavica in honorem Hugh McLean. ed. Simon Karlinsky, James Rice & Barry Scherr (Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1995), 421-31.
"Gender, Genre, and the Discourse of Imperialism in Tolstoy's Cossacks." In The Tolstoy Studies Journal 6 (1993), 47-63.
with Ivan Martynov, "The Islanders: Poetry and Polemics in Petrograd of the 1920s." In Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 29 (1992), 107-26.
"The Anti-World of Daniil Kharms: On the Significance of the Absurd." In Daniil Kharms and the Poetics of the Absurd. Ed. by Neil Cornwell (London: Macmillan, 1991), 71-93.
with Ivan Martynov. "Nikolaj Chukovskij and Konstantin Vaginov." (Introduction to publication of "Iz vospominanii" (memoir of K. Vaginov) by N. Chukovskii. In Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 24 (1989), 91-114.
"Konstantin Vaginov and the Death of Nikolai Gumilev." InThe Slavic Review 48.4 (1989), 631-36.
with Ivan Martynov, "A Ring of Poets": Towards the History of the Leningrad Avant-Garde." In Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 17 (1986), 131-48.
"Mark Twain's Russian Friend" (Correspondence of Twain and Stepniak-Kravchinskii in the University of California's Bancroft Library). Bancroftiana, August 1982, 7-8.
Book Reviews:
Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema, ed. By Birgit Beumers. Forthcoming in SEEJ (Spring 2001).
The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU – Fact, Fiction, Metafiction, by Graham Roberts. Forthcoming in Canadian-American Slavic Studies.
The Tower, by Konstantin Vaginov, trs. by Bejamin Sher. Forthcoming in Dialogism.
Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel, by Craig Brandist. The Russian Review, 57/1 (January 1998), 119-20.
Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-Garde and Cultural Experiment, ed. by John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich. In Canadian--American Slavic Studies 31:4 (Winter 1997), 471-72.
George Costakis: A Russian Life in Art by Peter Roberts. In Canadian--American Slavic Studies, 31/1 (Spring 1997), 105-7.
Shalamovskij sbornik. Vypusk 1. In The Slavic and East European Journal 40:4 (1996), 765-66.
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere. In The Russian Review 55: 4 (1996), 729-30.
Text Counter Text: Rereadings in Russian Literary History by Alexander Zholkovsky. Canadian Slavonic Papers 37:1-2 (1995), 264-65.
Toward a Philosophy of the Act by M. M. Bakhtin and Bakhtin: Carnival and Other Subjects ed. by David Shepherd. InThe Slavic Review 54:3 (1995), 739-40.
Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for Mortal Stakes by Darra Goldstein. InThe Slavic and East European Journal 39:2 (1995), 301-2.
Nikolaj Gumilev and Neoclassical Moderninsm by Raoul Eshelman, and Muza stranstvij Nikolaja Gumileva by Apollon Davidson. The Slavic Review 54:1 (1995), 232-34.
Beyond Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in Soviet Literature by David Shepherd. The Slavic and East European Journal, 38:1 (1994), 180-81.
Don-Kikhoty 20-x godov: "Pereval" i sud'ba ego idei by Galina Belaia. The Slavic and East European Journal, 37:1 (1993), 115-16.
Nikolai Gumilev: Zhizn' poeta po materialam domashnego arkhiva sem'i Luknitskikh ed. by Vera Luknitskaia. The Slavic Review, Winter 1992, 837-38.
The Communists: The Story of Power and Lost Illusions, 1948-1991 by Adam Ulam. The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1992, 98-99.
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd. The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1991, 92-93.
Kozlinaia pesn'. Trudy i dni Svistonova. Bambochada by Konstantin Vaginov. The Slavic Review, 50:4 (1991), 720-21.
Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope by Francine du Plessix Gray. The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1990, 93-94.
Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union by Timothy W. Ryback. The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1990, 104.
Innokentii Annenskii: lichnost' i tvorchestvo by A. Fedorov. The Slavic Review 48.4 (1989), 693-94.
Russkie poety nachala veka by D. Maksimov. The Slavic and East European Journal 32.3 (1988), 475-76.
Konstantin Vaginov. Sobranie stikhotvorenii ed. by L. Chertkov. The Russian Review, 43.3 (1984), 291-92.
Khodasevich: His Life and Art by David Bethea. The Slavic Review, Winter 1984, 732-33.
Russian Poetry for Children by Elena Sokol. University Press Books, Fall 1984.
Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics by Peter Steiner. University Press Books, Winter 1984.
Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
"Reading the Kunstkamera." Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland. July, 1999.
"Stanislaw Lem and Dostoevsky: On Ethical Utopias." Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Richmond, VA, March, 1999.
"The Culture of the St. Pertersburg Kunstkamera in the First Half of the Eighteenth-Century." Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, Hoddesdon, England, January 1999.
"The Future of Slavic Studies." Presidential Forum, National AATSEEL Conference, San Francisco, December 1998.
"From The Happy Guys to Taxi Blues: Popular Music and Dissent in Russian Cinema." Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998.
"Prisoner of the Caucasus, Then and Now." National AAASS Conference, Seattle, Nov. 1997.
"From Eisenstein to Oscar." Alumni Homecoming Lecture, College of William and Mary, Oct. 1997.
"The Monsters of Peter the Great." Department of Modern Languages Research Forum, College of William and Mary, October 1996; Modern Language Association Conference, Washington, D.C., December 1996; Washington and Lee University, Nov. 1997; University of Texas, Austin, Feb. 1998; Grinnell College, October 30, 1998.
"Spectacular Stalinism: Representing Political Charisma in Post-Soviet Cinema." National AAASS Conference, Washington, D.C., October 1995; Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, April, 1997.
"Profits vs. Prophets: Contemporary Russian Culture in Crisis." Town and Gown Lecture Series, College of William and Mary, September 1995.
"Culture and National Identity in Post-Soviet Russia: Back to the Future?" Reves Center, College of William and Mary, Oct 1994
"From Socialist Realism to Socialist Reality: Sex in the Russian Cinema." College of William & Mary, April 1994.
"Representing the Transcendent: The Problem of 'Cynical Realism' in Tolstoy's Father Sergius." Department of Modern Languages Research Forum, College of William and Mary, April 1994 and National AATSEEL Conference, San Diego, December 1994.
"Theorizing the Historical Avant-Garde." National AAASS Conference, Honalulu, November 1993.
"Mightier than the Sword? Art and Politics in Russia Today." International Studies Lecture Series, College of William & Mary, October 1993.
"Gender and Difference in Tolstoi's Caucasian Tales." Columbia University Seminar on Slavic History and Culture, April 1993.
"The Discourse of Imperialism in Tolstoy's Caucasian Tales." New England Regional Meeting of ATSEEL, Prividence, April 1993.
"The Arts in the Former Soviet Union: An Update." International Studies Lecture Series, College of William & Mary, February 1993.
"Nabokov's Despair and the Criminal Imagination." National AAASS Conference, Phoenix, November 1992.
"Anti-mir Daniila Kharmsa: K poetike absurda." Fourth International Alekseev Conference, Odessa, Ukraine, October 1992.
"Vaginov, OBERIU, Futurism: Towards a Poetics of the Absurd." Northwestern University, May 1992.
"Pushkin and Africa." Black Studies Colloquium, Colby College, February 1992.
"Obsessive Collectors: Cultural Fetishism in the Novels of Konstantin Vaginov." National AATSEEL Conference, San Francisco, December 1991.
"Carnival in Theory and Practice: Konstantin Vaginov and Mikhail Bakhtin." Fifth International Bakhtin Conference, Manchester University, United Kingdom, July 1991.
"The Long Goodbye: Literature and Reform in the Soviet Union." Comparative World Studies, Colby College, March 1991.
"Gender and Difference: The Case of Tolstoi's Cossacks." Women's Studies Colloquium, Colby College, November 1990.
"Tolstoi and Difference: Deconstructing The Cossacks." National AATSEEL and MLA Conferences, Washington, D. C., December 1989.
"Theory and Practice of the Novel in the 1920s." Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, December 1989.
"The Anti-World of Daniil Kharms: Directions for Further Study." National AATSEEL Conference, December 1988.
"Konstantin Vaginov and Mikhail Bakhtin." National AATSEEL Conference, New York, December 1986.
"Leed and Nakhimovsky's Beginning Russian: A Critique." Northern New England AATSEEL, October 1986.
"Chingas Aitmatov's Burannyi polustanok." University of California Slavic Dept. Lectures on Contemporary Soviet and East European Literatures. 1984.
"Critical Approaches to the Novels of Konstantin Vaginov." Western AATSEEL, October 1984.
"Konstantin Vaginov's "1925": History as Myth." Western AATSEEL, October 1984.
"Aleksandr Zinoviev's Svetloe budushchee." University of California Slavic Dept. Lectures on Contemporary Soviet and East European Literatures. 1983.
"Khodasevich's "Muzyka." UCLA--UCB Slavic Linguistics Conference, 1982.
"Pushkin: The Poet's Prose." Western AATSEEL, October 1980.
"The Non-Narrative Structure of Chekhov's "Arkhierei." UCLA--UCB Slavic Linguistics Conference, 1979.
"Nabokov's Despair: A Modernist Allegory." Southwest and Rocky Mountain AATSEEL, October 1979.
Additional Conference Participation:
Organized conference on "Reimagining Russia: Artistic and Cultural Transformation in Post-Soviet Russia." College of William & May, April 1998.
Discussant for "Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature" panel at Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998.
Discussant for "Soviet Culture as Child's Play" panel at National AAASS Conference, Seattle, Nov. 1997.
Chair and organizer of "Museums, Culture, and Museum Culture" panel at National MLA Conference, Washington, D.C., December 1996.
Chair of "Rediscovering Goncharov's Oblomov" panel at National AAASS Conference, Boston, November 1996.
Chair of "Reading Tolstoy's Shorter Fiction" panel at National AATSEEL Conference, San Diego, December 1994.
Chair of "The Cinderella Myth in Russian Literature" panel at National AAASS Conference, Philadelphia, November 1994.
Organizer of round-table discussion of topic "Theory and History: Writing Literary History in the 1990s" at National AAASS Conference, Honalulu, Nov. 1993.
Organizer and discussant for "Symbolic Geographies: The Travel Narrative in Russia" panel at National AAASS Conference, Phoenix, Nov. 1992.
Chair of "Literary Theory" panel, Fourth International Alekseev Readings, Odessa, Ukraine, October 1992.
Discussant for "Tolstoy Society" panel, National AATSEEL Conference, San Francisco, December 1991.
Chair of "Critical Theory" panel, National AATSEEL Conference, San Francisco, December 1991.
Discussant for "Leo Tolstoy and the West" panel, National AAASS Conference, Miami, November, 1991.
Participant in The English Institute, Harvard University, August 1991.
Chair of "Bakhtinian Readings" panels, Fifth International Bakhtin Conference, Manchester University, United Kingdom, July 1991.
Participant in Seventh International Conference of Translation, Barnard College, November 1990.
Chair of "The Narrative Poem in Russian and Soviet Literature," National AATSEEL Conference, Chicago, December 1985.
Monograph in Progress:
"The Monsters of Peter the First: The St. Petersburg Kunstkamera and Russian Culture"
Departmental and College Service, The College of William and Mary
Chair, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, 2000-05.
Chair, CFAC in Russian Studies, 1997-present.
Faculty Assembly, 1997-2000.
Educational Policy Committee, 1994-97.
Library Policy Committee, 1994-97: Chair, 1998.
College Lecture Committee, 1993-96.
Major and Minor Adviser, Russian Studies, European Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, 1992 to present.
Freshman Adviser, 1993-94, 1996-97.
MLL Library Committee, 1992-94.
MLL Policy Committee, 1992 to present.
MLL Professional Responsibilities Committee, 1992-93.
Russian Language Coordinator, 1992 to present.
MLL Hiring Committees, 1992, 1998, 2000.
MLL Departmental Recorder, 1992-93.
Russian Literature, Cinema, and Culture Courses Taught in English:
Surveys of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Major Works of Chekhov
Major Works of Dostoevsky
Major Works of Tolstoy.
Gogol and Turgenev
Russian Literature Since the Death of Stalin
Masterpieces of the Russian Cinema
Seminar: The Russian Revolution and Soviet Culture of the 1920s
Freshman Seminar, Introduction to Russian Culture
Freshman Seminar: Russian Popular Culture
Freshman Seminar: Folk and Fairy Tales
Courses in Comparative Literature:
Spectacular Stalinism: The Cult of Personality and Totalitarian Culture
Slavic Dreams & Nightmares: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction in Slavic Literatures.
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies: Vampires and Popular Culture
Courses taught in Russian:
Beginning Russian.
Intermediate Russian.
Advanced Russian.
Upper-Intermediate Russian Conversation.
Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation.
Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature.
The Russian and Soviet Short Story.
Seminar: Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Seminar: Major Works of Alexander Pushkin
Seminar: Turgenev's Fathers and Children and the Critics
Directed Honors Thesis:
Jenne Powers, International Studies, 1996-97; Katherine Knight, International Studies, 1998-99.
Outside Reader for Honors Theses:
Michael Zeldovich, Department of Government, 1996-97
Evan Parker, Department of Government, 1996-97.
Mathew Shepherd, History Department, 1997-98.
Adriana Tatum, Literary and Cultural Studies, 1997-98.
Professional Service:
Member, Program Committee, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Alexandria, VA, March, 2001.
Member, Executive Committee of Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 2000.
Program Chair, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Richmond, VA, March, 1999.
Owner and moderator of SLAVCIN-L, Electronic discussion list for scholars of Slavic Cinema.
Manuscript reviewer for Yale University Press, Harcourt Brace Publishers, Slavic Review, Russian Review, Tolstoy Studies Journal, The Slavic and East European Journal, Mosaic, Canadian Slavonic Papers.
Fellowship application review board for the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the City University of New York Research Awards Program.
Outside evaluator for tenure review: Anna Brodsky, Washington and Lee University
Professional Memberships:
Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
American Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
Association of Literary Scholars (ALS)
Society of Historians of Eastern European and Russian Art (SHERA)
Faculty Development at the College of William and Mary:
2000 May Seminar, Introduction toFilm Studies
1998-99 Teaching Enhancement Project, World Cinema
1997 May Seminar, Totalitarian Culture
1994 May Seminars, Comparative Literature, Oral Tradition.
Media Appearances:
Radio Dialogue: Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Nov. 1989 & May 1990. Conversations with George Liston Seay about Mikhail Bakhtin and Konstantin Vaginov.
References:
Associate Professor Eric Naiman, Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Professor Katerina Clark, Slavic Languages & Comparative Literature, Yale University
Professor Svetlana Boym, Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature, Harvard University