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Prof. Edith Clowes

Edith W. Clowes


Degree: Ph.D., Yale
Position: Professor; Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
Teaching interests: Late 19th- and 20th-c. Russian literature and culture, post-Soviet literature and culture, beginning Czech, introduction to Czech culture, Literature and Totalitarianism in Central Europe, Utopia and Modernity, Borders between Fiction and Philosophy, Biblical Themes in Modern Russian Literature
Research interests: Intersections between literature and philosophy, intellectual history, comparative literature (especially German and Russian), literary and cultural theory

Selected recent publications (since 2001)

  • 2007, chapter: “Groundlessness: Nietzsche and Russian Concepts of Tragic Philosophy.” Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic. Edited M. A. Frese. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 126–137.
  • 2007 book chapter: “Traditsiia ‘Vekh’ v pozdnee sovetskoe vremia.” Sbornik statei “Iz-pod glyb” A. I. Solzhenitsyna i esse G. S. Pomerantsa,” Sbornik “Vekhi” v kontekste russkoi kul’tury. Moscow: Nauka, 264–271.
  • 2006 book chapter: “Entwürfe der Erinnerung an den Holocaust: Evtushenkos und Kuznetsovs ‘Babij Jar’,” Zerstörer des Schweigens. Formen künstlerischer Erinnerung an die nationalsozialistische Rassen- und Vernichtungspolitik in Osteuropa, ed. F. Grüner, U. Heftrich, H-D. Löwe. Köln: Böhlau, 115–127.
  • 2005 article: “Remembering the Holocaust: The Ambiguous Figure of Babi Yar in Soviet Literature,” Partial Answers (Israel), 3:2, 154–182.
  • 2004 book: Fiction’s Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
  • 2004 encyclopedia article: “Kuprin, A. I.” Russian Writers of the Silver Age, vol. 295. Ed. Judith E. Kalb and J. Alexander Ogden. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 246–253.
  • 2003 article: “Berdiaev’s Samopoznanie: Philosophical Autobiography as Creative Act,” American Contributions to the World Congress of Slavists, Slavica, 1–10.
  • 2003 article: “The Argument against Philosophy and the Formation of Modern Russian Poetic Discourse,” The Comparatist, 41–55. 2003 chapter: “James and Vocabularies of Contemporary Russian Spirituality,” William James in Russian Culture, ed. J. Grossman and R. Rischin. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 211–223. 2003 chapter: “Vasilij Rozanov als philosophischer Nachkömmling von Solov’ev und Nietzsche,” Vladimir Solov’ev und Friedrich Nietzsche: Eine deutsch-russische kulturelle Jahrhundertbilanz, ed. U. Heftrich and G. Ressel. Trierer Anhandlungen zur Slavistik, vol. 1. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 413–423

    Editorial work

  • 2007 editorial collaboration: Sbornik “Vekhi” v kontekste russkoi kul’tury. Moscow: Nauka.
  • 2007 Russian trans. of editorial collaboration: Kupecheskaia Moskva: Obrazy ushedshei rossiiskoi burzhuazii. Moscow: ROSSPEN.
  • 2001 co-edited forum: with John Burt Foster, Jr., “Interrogating Slavic Identities – Inside, Outside, and in Between. . . ” Slavic and East European Journal, 45:2, 196–299.
  • Associate Editor, Russian Review
  • Editorial Board, Losevskie chteniia

    Selected grants

    External: ACLS, NEH Summer, NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, NEH Conference Grant, DAAD, IREX, Fulbright-Hays, Kennan Short-Term, ITT; Internal: Hall Center for the Humanities, GRF Summer Research

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    Physical location of office:
    2140 Wescoe Hall
    Mailing address:
    Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
    1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Rm. 2133
    Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA
    Tel.: (785) 864-2359
    E-mail: eclowes (at) ku.edu