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Dr. Nepomnashchy is Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia College and
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Chair, Slavic Department at Barnard College. Her areas of study are Alexander Pushkin, Andrei Sinyavsky, 20th-century Russian literature and culture, Russian and women’s studies
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Russian Émigré
Artists in the Context of American Culture
October 22-26, 2008
at the University of Oklahoma
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This class will explore the contributions that Russian artists and writers have made to American culture over the course of the last century. Students will read and discuss texts by prominent émigré writers such as Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, Alexander Genis, and Gary Shteyngart. They also will learn about the work of the émigré artists Komar and Melamid, the choreographer George Balanchine, and, briefly, Russian film-makers in Hollywood.
Click here for syllabus
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
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Vladimir Nabokov. Pnin.
- Alexander Genis. Red Bread
- Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid’s Scientific Guide to Art.
- Gary Shteyngart. Absurdistan.
- Reading Packet/Electronic Reserves including:
Selected essays by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Selected Poems and Essays by Joseph Brodsky
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