Page Under Construction: Further links to Essays forthcoming
See also About the Artist: biographical note, artist statement, CV
Published Books
Book projects in process:
- Paris Palimpsest: Reading between Lines of Astonished Memory, Writing on the Walls & Execution of the Writer. Manuscript in advanced stages.
- New Navigators: ReVisionary Artists and Writers, Remapping Cultural Memory and Reorienting Cultural Discourse across Lusophone Cultures. Manuscript in early stages of development. (multiple related publications and presentations listed below)
- Pescadores/Pecadores. (Book projected to accompany the exhibition of a series of sketches, sculptural works, and photographs, to include essays, sketchbook segments, and images of work in the exhibit.)
Essays on Intersections within Visual and Verbal Arts:
- “The Scarred and Sutured Map: Re-mapping Cultural Memory/Re-membering the Map in Lusophone Literature and Art; Critical and Creative Reflections”, seminar on “Mapping Spaces, Moving Bodies: Control, Resistance, and Disorientations,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), NYU, March 2014.
- “Comparative Verbal and Visual Cartographies: Re-mappings of Cultural Memory in Contemporary Lusophone Literature and Art by Antunes, Agualusa, Jorge, Vieira da Silva, Geiger and Varejão,” atelier: “Géocritique, littérature comparée et au-delà,” International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA/AILC), Paris, July 2013. (Revised essay to be published in proceedings, forthcoming from Pulim publishers, 2014).
- “Reimag(in)ing Story & History, Documentary & Fiction: (Re)visionary Images in Contemporary Novels,” 7th International Conference of the Portuguese Comparative Literature Association (APLC), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, 2012.
Essays on Film:
- Lotman’s World/Lotmani maailm, Adne Nelk, review essay, Film and History, 43:1 (2013) 95-99.
- (Re)visionary Reflections: Khrzhanovsky’s A Room & a Half and Nelk’s Lotman’s World”/“Animated Film in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union,” Modern Language Association (MLA), Boston, Jan. 2013.
- “Transnational Cinema: Relocation, Re-casting, Reimag(in)ing of Cultural Memory,” seminar organizer & chair, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Harvard Un, Cambridge, March 2009.
- “Post-exilic Returns & Post-modern Revisions of E. Europe: Kieslowski, Akerman, Kogut,” ACLA, 2009.
- “Chantal Akerman’s Cinematic Transgressions: Transhistorical and Transcultural Transpositions, Translingualism, and the Transgendering of the Cinematic ” Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Post World War II Cinema. Ed. Marcelline Block. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
Essays on Literature:
- “Reimag(in)ing Story & History, Documentary & Fiction: (Re)visionary Images in Contemporary Novels.” Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada 17, 2014.
- “Recasting Authorship and Authority: Refractory Writers in Reflexive Russian and Lusophone Works,” atelier: “Raconter la théorie dans le roman,” ICLA/AILC, Sorbonne, Paris, July 2013.
- “Re-routing Cultural Memory in the Paris Metro,” seminar on “Mapping the City: Minority Narratives and the Multiethnic Metropolis,” ACLA, Toronto, April 2013.
- “Recasting the Republic Past/Present: Liudmila Ulitskaia & Lídia Jorge,” Iberoslavica, 2012; Portuguese version, Letras com Vida 4, 2012. Paper presented at COMPARES: 4th Intnt’l Conference of Iberian & Slavonic Cultures in Contact & Comparison: ResPublica(s), Un of Lisbon, May 2010.
- Invited discussant, “(Wo)manning the Can(n)on: Creation, Procreation, and Destruction,” Association for the Study of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Washington, DC, November 2011.
- “Tightropes: Transcultural Renegotiations of Portuguese Cultural Identity in Contemporary Literature,” upcoming presentation at the 7th International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA): Trans-Atlantic Exchanges, Brown University, October 2011.
- “Estar é Ser: Pessoa, Place, & Plural Authorsh” Invited response to Richard Zenith. Whose Words: Alternate Theories of Authorship in Portuguese and American Poetry in the 20th Century. Univ. of Lisbon, May 2010.
- “Transnational Reconfigurations of Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Literature,” Encontros do Instituto de Cultura Americana, Un of Lisbon, March 2010.
- “Dissent, Despair, & the Limits of Dialogue & Dialogism in Dos Passos’ Urban/e U.S.A.,” III Symposium John Dos Passos: Modernity and Intercultural Dialogues, Madeira, January (forthcoming in a collection of essays to be published by the Centro Cultural John Dos Passos).
- “Postmodern Portuguese and Russian Re-Mappings of Cultural Memory: Intertextual, Transhistorical, Transcultural Dialogue,” Cumplicidades Comparatistas: Origens, Influencias, Resistencias/VI Congresso Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, December 2008.
- “Navigating Past/Present: Modes of Mapping Cultural Memory in Contemporary Russian and Luso-Brazilian Literature”/“Kартографические дислокации культурной памяти в современной русской, португальской, и бразильской литературе,” American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists, Ohrid, 2008. 2: Literature. Ed. David Bethea. Bloomington: Slavica, 2008. 1-24.
- “Unorthodox Confession, Orthodox Conscience: Aesthetic Authority in the Underground,” Studies in East European Thought: Dostoevsky’s Significance for Philosophy and Theology, ed. R. Bird, 59: 1-2 (June 2007) 65-85.
- “Petrushevskaia and Ulitskaia: The Refusal of Nostalgia and Rewriting of History in Contemporary Russian Women’s Writing,” Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago, December 2007.
- “EccentriCities: Writing in the Margins of Modern St. Petersburg’s and Rio de Janeiro’s Scribblers,” International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Rio de Janeiro, July 2007.
- “The Deterritorialization of Underground Discour” International Dostoevsky Soc., Budapest, Aug. 2007.
- “The Wandering Portico: Classical Structures in Transnational Russian Fiction & Film—Brodsky, Tarkovsky, Makine, Ulitskaya,” AATSEEL, 2006.
- “Makine’s Testament: Transnationalism, Translation, and the Transformation of the Novel,” Review of Literatures of the European Union, Traduzione Tradizione? Paths in the European Polysystem, 4 (July 2006) 167-
- Hero, History, and Story” Panel Chair, AATSEEL, December 2006.
- “Metamorphosis across Cultural Margins: Translation, Transculturation, and the Transformation of Critical Discourse and Literary Form,” seminar organizer & chair, ACLA, Princeton University, March 2
- “Pathological Consciousness, Parasitic Prose, and the Metamorphosis of Narrative Fiction: From Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Machado de Assis to Lispector, Verrissimo, & Pelevin,” ACLA,
- “Mapping Petersburg, 1900–1920: Literary Publications: SIRIN and the Symbolist Press.” AATSEEL, Washington, DC, December
- “Laughter in Dostoevsky’s Early Fiction” MLA, Washington, DC, December 2005.
- “Four Short Takes: Brodsky, Tarkovsky, Pelevin, and Sokurov on Translation, Transposition, and Cultural Memoir” Conference of the American Association of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Salt Lake City, November 2005.
- “Hallucinated Cities on the Margins of European Modernism: from Bely’s Petersburg to Mário de Andrade’s São Paulo.” ACLA, Penn State, March 2005.
- “Eccentric Consciousness in Exile: Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia,” AATSEEL, Philadelphia, 2004.
- “Writing in the Margins: Lispector and Petrushevskaia, Lins and Pelevin,” Slavic Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, November 2004.
- “Writing in the Madhouse of Brazilian and Russian Literature: Lins and Pelevin,” APSA, Un of Maryland, October 2004.
- “From the Grotesque to the Sublime: Logos and the Purgatorial Landscape of Mertvie dushi and Master i Margarita,” Slavic and East European Journal, 47: 1 (Spring 2003) 45-
- “Underground Pessoa: Dialogues with Dostoevsky in Modern Luso-Brazilian Literature,” XIIth International Dostoevsky Society Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
- “Reflection/Refraction of the Dying Light: Narrative Vision in Nineteenth-century Russian and French Fiction,”Comparative Literature, 54: 1 (winter 2002) 2-22.
- “EccentriCities: Disease, Dissent, and Dialogue in the ‘Petersburg Text,” SEEJ panel, “Disease in Slavic Literatures,” MLA, San Diego, December 2002.
- Organizer and Chair of a Special Session: “Memory and Madness in the Eccentric Citytext: The Poetics of Petersburg, Rio and Prague,” MLA, New York, December 2002.
- “The Urban(e) Structure of Narrative Consciousness: Petersburg and Rio as Schizophrenic Subtexts in Fictions by Gogol and Machado de Assis,” MLA, New York, December 2002.
- “Petrushevskaia’s Vremia Noch’: Moscow Underground,” AATSEEL, New York, December 2002.
- “Schizophrenia and the Petersburg Text,” AATSEEL, December 2001.
- “Andreï Makine’s Testament: Re-membering the Novel,” annual conference of the Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA), Un of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, September 2001.
- “The Refractive Gaze Facing Death: Fantastical Visions in Russian and French Realist Fiction,” Conference on Slavic Literature, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February 2001.
- “Verbal Regeneration in Gogol’s Mertvie dushi & Bulgakov’s Master i Margarita,” Mid-At AAASS, 2000.
- “Liminal Laughter in Tolstoy’s Fictions,” AATSEEL, Chicago, December 2000.
- “The Poetics of Infernal Circling in Blok’s Vozmezdie, Echoes of Flaubert’s L’Éducation sentimentale,” AATSEEL, San Francisco, December 2000.
- “Generic Digressions in Gogol’s Revisor,” Princeton University, May 1998.
- “The Play of Light and Shadow in Tatiana Tolstaia’s Milaia Shura,” Princeton University, 1997.
- “Dispossessed Sons and Displaced Meaning in Faulkner’s Modern Cosmos,” Mississippi Quarterly, 50: 3 (Summer 1997) 427-443.
Reviews of scholarly literature:
- Val Vinokur’s The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas, Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, 52: 3-4 (Sept. 2010).
- Sarah Young’s Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative: Reading, Narrating, Scripting. Slavic and East European Journal, 51: 1 (2007) 151-153.
- Julian Graffy’s Gogol’s “The Overcoat,” Slavic and East European Journal, 46: 2 (Summer 2002) 392-
- Françoise Genevray’s George Sand et ses contemporains russes, Revue Canadienne de Littérature, 30 (2003).
- Michel Aucouturier’s Le Realisme socialiste, Slavic and East European Journal, 44 : 1 (Spring 2000) 140-
Published translations:
- Natalie Ferrand, “Toward a Database of Novelistic Topoi,” The Novel: Volume 2: Forms and Themes, ed. Franco Moretti, Princeton University Press, 324-45.
- Luiz Costa Lima, “The Novel and the Control of the Imagination,” The Novel: Volume 1. 37-
- José Luiz Passos, “Macunaíma,” in The Novel: Volume 2. 896-
- Roberto Schwarz, “Machado’s Turnabout: Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas,” in The Novel: Volume 1. 816-
- Sylvie Thorel Cailleteau, “La poésie de la médiocrité” and “Vénus décomposée, lecture de Nana,” in The Novel: Volume 2. 64-94, 541-