Mikhail Gronas

Name: Mikhail Gronas (e-mail)
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Russian Language and Literature
Degree: Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2002
Address:

HB 6085
Reed Hall, Room 211B
Hanover, NH 03755-1801

Phone: (603) 646-3175
Fax: (603) 646-1557

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

• 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).