Mikhail Gronas
Associate Professor, Department of Russian Language and Literature
217 Reed Hall
(603) 646-3175
E-mail: Mikhail.Gronas@Dartmouth.edu
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2002
Courses Taught
- Introductory Russian
- Slavic Folklore
- Dostoevsky
- Modern Russian Literature
- Russian and Eastern European Film
- Russian Civilization
- Russian Literature of the Golden Age
- Old Church Slavonic
Research Interests
- Sociology of literary tastes
- Cognitive poetics
- Canon Theory
- New Economic Criticism
- Pushkin
- Poetry
- Historical Linguistics
Selected Publications
- 2010 Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory: Russian Literary Mnemonics. Routledge Press
- 2010 Why Did Free Verse Catch on in the West, but not in Russia? On the Social Uses of Memorized Poetry (pdf), Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 33, 168 - 214
- 2009 Just What Word Did Mandel’shtam Forget? A Mnemopoetic Solution to the Problem of Saussure’s Anagrams, Poetics Today, 30/2, 155-205
- 2008 Who Was the Author of the First Book About Pushkin? Pushkin Review, 11, 1-32
- 2006 “Pushkin’s Letters.” in: The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin, Cambridge University Press, 130-143
- 2006 “The Origin of Slavic Historical Imperative,” Russian Linguistics, vol 30, 1, 89-101
- 2004 "Strikusy Revisited: A New Interpretation of an Obscure Passage in Slovo o Polku," Speculum Slaviae Orientalis: Ruthenia, Muscovy and Lithuania in the Late Middle Ages. UCLA Slavic Studies, n.s., IV
- 2002 "On New Economic Criticism," New Literary Review 58 (in Russian)
- 2002 Dear Orphans [Dorogie Siroty]. Moscow: O.G.I.
- 2001 "The Unnamed Recognizable, or Canon under the Microscope," New Literary Review, 51 (in Russian)
- 2001 "Dissensus: The Canon Wars in American Academia in the 80s-90s," New Literary Review, 51 (in Russian)
- 2000 content developer in: Yuri Tsivian, Immaterial Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films [CD-ROM; the best interactive learning project award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts] USC
- 2000 "A Pure Gaze and Practical View: Pierre Bourdieu on Culture," New Literary Review, 45 (in Russian)
