Ani Kokobobo

2138 Wescoe Hall
785-864-2346
akokobobo @ku.edu
Curriculum vitæ: PDF

Degree: Ph.D., Columbia University

Position: Assistant Professor and Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies (Spring 2012)

Teaching interests: Nineteenth-century Russian literature, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin.

Research interests: Ani Kokobobo completed her Ph.D. dissertation on the grotesque and the body in late Russian realism. She specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature as well as Balkan modernism. In addition to working on individual authors like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Andrić, and Kadare, in her research she has also explored larger theoretical problems like representations of violence and the body in literature as well as the political significance of aesthetic styles and genres.

Selected recent publications and presentations

Forthcoming article: "Grotesknoe ostranenie v romane Tolstogo Voskresenie." Proceedings from the Seventh International Academic Conference "Leo Tolstoy and World Literature." Forthcoming.

2011 article: "Bureaucracy of Dreams – Surrealist Socialism and Surrealist Awakening in Ismail Kadare’s The Palace of Dreams." Slavic Review 70.3, Fall 2011.

2010 article: "'Curse' of the Blood – The Eastern Origins of Balkan Violence in Ismail Kadare's Three Elegies for Kosovo." Ulbandus, Vol. 13.

2008 article: "Authoring Christ – Novelistic Echoes in Tolstoy's Harmonization and Translation of the Four Gospels." Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. 20.

2008 article: "Portret Khrista v knige Tolstogo Soedinenie i perevod chetyrekh evangelii." Proceedings from the Fifth International Academic Conference "Leo Tolstoy and World Literature." Iasnaia Poliana: April

2007 article: "To Grieve or Not to Grieve? – The Unsteady Representation of Violence in Ivo Andrić's The Bridge On the Drina." Serbian Studies, vol. 23.