Irene Masing-Delic Professor, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
	Office	332 Cunz Hall
	Mailing address	232 Cunz Hall 1841 Millikin Road Columbus, OH 43210-1215
	Telephone	Personal Office (614) 292-4726 Departmental Office (614) 292-6733 Slavic Center (614)688-3107
	E-mail	delic.1@osu.edu

Curriculum vitae

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Education
Employment
Teaching
Grants, Awards, Appointments
Publications
Conference papers and public lectures
Professional Activites

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Education

Docent	Stockholm University, Sweden, 1974
Ph.D	Stockholm University, Filosofie doktor, 1971

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Employment

2000-present: Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures

1998-2000: Chair, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures

1997-1998: Interim Chair, The Department of Slavic and Eastern European Langaues and Literatures

1995-present: Director, The Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies at The Ohio State University

1992: Tenure at The Ohio State University

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Teaching

I have taught in several countries (Sweden, Australia, USA, Germany and the Republic of South Africa), and in several languages (Swedish, English, Russian, German).

Types of course taught:

	Modern Russian Grammar
	Russian Prose of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (survey monograph courses on Turgenev, Gogol', Dostoevskii and others), history of Soviet literature, the 1920's and other periods.
	Russian Poetry of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (survey courses, poetics, monograph courses on Blok, Pasternak, Maiakovskii and others)
	History of Russian Criticism
	Principles of Translation
	History of the Soviet Union (for International Studies)

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Grants, Awards, and Appointments

1996-1997: Visiting appointment at the university of Konstanz, Germany
1985-1986: Visiting appointment at the Univeversity of California, Berkeley
1969-1970: Exchange research grant (Australian National University, Moscow State University)

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Publications

Monographs,Edited Works:

Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth in Russian Twentieth Century Literature, Stanford University Press, Stanford 1992 (351 pp).

Slavic Symposium 2, Proceedings of the Symposium held at The University of the Witwatersrand in 1984 under the auspices of the Department of Russian Studies, Johannesburg, 1984.

Slavic Symposium 1, Proceedings of the Symposium held at The University of Witwatersrand in 1982 under the auspices of the Department of Russian Studies, Johannesburg, 1982.

A. Blok's 'The Snow Mask'. An Interpretation, Acta Universitas Stockholmiensis, Stockholm Slavic Studies 4, Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm, 1970.

Articles in Refereed Journals, Book Chapters:

"The Impotent Demon and Prurient Tamara: Parodies on Lermontov's 'Demon' in Dostoevskij's Besy," in Russian Literature, XLVIII, North-Holland, 2000 (pp. 263-288).

"Sansculotte Improvisors and Clouds in Trousers: Poetic Metamorphosis in Pushkin and Maiakovskii," in Metamorphoses in Russian Modernism, New York, Central University Press, 2000 (pp. 113-148).

"Riding Stolen Horses: The Pretender Motif in Aleksandr Pushkin's 'Boris Godunov' and Leonid Leonov's 'The Thief'," Russkie iazyk i literatura, Seoul, Korea, spring 2000 (pp. 16-24).

"Exchanged Roles: The Pygmalion Motif in Jane Austen's 'Emma' and Ivan Goncharov's 'Oblomov'," OSU-RGGU Conference Proceedings, Moscow 2000 (pp. 96-116).

"The Grusnickij Syndrome: Vladimir Lugovskoj's Life Creation," in Lebenskunst--Kunstleben; Ziznetvorcestvo v russkoj kul'ture XVIII-XX vv., ed. Schamma Schahadat, (series: Die Welt der Salven Sammelbande, eds. Peter Rehder, Igor Smirnov, vol. 3) Munich: Otto Sagner 1998 (pp. 211-223).

"Moscow in the Tropics: Exotica in Valerii Briusov's Early Urban Poetry," Slavonica, 4/1, 1997-1998 (pp. 7-28)

"Full of Mirth on the Edge of tthe Abyss: Pushkin in Gor'kij's Life Creation," Die Welt der Slaven, XLII, 1997 (pp. 111-136).

"The Tranfiguration of the Cannibals: Fedorov and the Avant-Garde," in Laboratory of Dreams, The Russian Avant-Garde and Cultural Experiment, eds. John E. Bowlt, Olga Matich, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996 (pp. 17-36, 282-285).

"Fedorovian Resurrecting in Gorky's 'The Cemetery'," in Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, 3 vols., vol. 3, Russian Literature in Modern Times, ed. by Boris Gasparov, Robert Huges, Irina Paperno,Olga Raevsky-Hughes, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995 (pp. 181-198).

"Nastavnichestvo Gor'kogo i 'metamorfoza' Zoshchenko," Literatunoe obozrenie, 1 1995 (pp. 39-44); translated and republished in Russian Studies in Literature, Studies of Mikhail Zoshchenko, Part II, spring 1997 (pp. 49-59, translated by M. E. Sharpe).

"The Ural Chapters in Doctor Zhivago as Pasternak's Faust II," in O Rus! Studia litteraria slavica in honorem Hugh McClean, ed. by Simon Karlinsky,  James L. Rice, Barry Scherr, Berkeley Slavic Specialties, Berkeley, 1995 (pp. 501-514).

"Bright Hopes and Dark Insights: Vision and Cognition in Babel's Red Cavalry,"in For SK, In Celebration of the Life and Career of Simon Karlinsky, Berkeley Slavic Specialties, Berkeley, 1994 (pp. 199-211).

"Creating the Living Work of Art: The Symbolist Pygmalion and His Antecedents," in Creating Life: An Aesthetic Symbolist Utopia, eds. Grossman, Joan and Paperno, Irina, Stanford Universiy Press 1994 (pp. 51-82, 242-50).

Pasternaks naturfilosofiska vandringsdikter fran Peredelkinocykeln," in Boris Pasternak och hans tid, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademin, Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1991 (pp. 27-38).

"Philosophy, Myth and Art in Turgenev's Sketches from a Hunter's Album," The Russian Review, 50, 4, 1991 (pp. 437-450).

(In co-authorship with Pandora King) "General Epanchin as Germann: A Travesty on Pushkin's 'Quenn of Spades' in Dostoevsky's The Idiot," Intertnational Dostoevsky Studies, 9, 1989 (pp. 171-91).

"The Symbolist Crisis Revisited: Blok's View," Issues inRussian Literature Before 1917, Selected Papers of the Third World Congress for Soviet and Eastern European Studies, ed. J. Douglas Clayton, Slavica Publishers, Columbus, Ohio, 1989 (pp. 216-227).

"Capitalist Bread and Socialist Spectacle: The Janus Face of 'Rome' in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago," in Boris Pasternak and His Times, Selected Papers from the Second International Symposium on Pasternak, ed. L. Fleishman, Berkeley Slavic Specialities, Berkeley, 1989 (pp. 372-385).

"The Metaphysics of Liberation. Insarov as Tristan," Die Welt der Slaven, XXXII, 1, 1987 (pp. 59-77). A shortened version of this paper was reprinted in Critical Essays on Ivan Turgenev, ed. David Lowe, . K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1989 (pp. 154-161).

"N S Gumilev," chapter in Histoire de la Litterature Russe, Le Vingtueme Siecle, L' age d'argent, Librairie Artheme Fayard, Paris, 1987 (pp. 520-533).

"The Chickens Also Want to Live: A Motif in Zabolockij's Columns," Slavic and East European Journal, 31, 3, 1987 (pp. 356-369).

"Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Music and Turgenev's Dvorjanskoe gnezdo," Die Welt der Slawen, XXXI, 1, 1986 (pp. 183-196).

"Barazov pered sfinksom: Forma i dissekcija v romane Turgeneva Otcy i deti," Revue des Etudes Slaves, 57, 3, Paris, 1985 (pp. 369-383).

"Zhivago's 'Christmas Star' as Homage to Blok," in Aleksandr Blok Centennial Conference, ed. W. Vickery, Slavica Publishers, Columbus, Ohio, 1984 (pp. 207-223).

"Zabolotsky's The Triumph of Agriculture: Satire or Utopia?," The Russian Review, 42, 4, Washington D.C. 1983 (pp. 360-376). The Gale Research Company requested and received permission to reprint (in abbreviated form).

"Bergsons 'Schopferische Entwicklung' und Pasternak's 'Doktor Zhivago'," in Literatur und Sprachtwicklung in Osteuropa im 20. Jahrhundert, Ausgewahlte Beitrage zum Aweiten Weltkongress fur Sowjet und Osteuropastudien, ed. E. Reissner, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1982 (pp. 112-131).

"The Time-Space Structure and Allusion Pattern in Gumilev's 'Zabliudivshiisia Tramvai'," Essays in Poetics, 7, 1, UK 1982 (pp. 62-83).

"Zhivago as Fedorovian Soldier," The Russian Review, 40, 3, 1981 (pp. 300-316).

"The Salvation Model of Blok's The Twelve," Slavic and East European Journal, 24, 2, 1980 (pp. 118-132).

"Biology, Intellect , and Literature in Zoscenko's Pered voschodom solnca," Russian Literature, VIII: 1, The Hague 1980 (pp. 77-101).

"Peredonov's 'Little Tear' -- Why is it Shed? (Sologub's Shabby Demon)," Scando-Slavica, XXIV, Copenhagen 1978 (pp. 107-124). Reprinted in: Fyodor Sologub, The Petty Demon, translated and introduced by S.D. Cioran, with an Appendix and Critical Articles, Ardis, Ann Arbor 1983 (pp. 333-343).

"Some Allusions to Besy in Doktor Zivago, International Dostoevsky Society Bulletin, 8, 1978 (pp. 31-41).

"Zabolockij's Occult Poem 'Carica mux'," Svantevit, III, 2, Aarhus 1977 (pp. 21-38).

"Some Alternating Opposites in the Zhivago Poems," The Russian Review, 36, 4, Stanford, 1977 (pp. 438-462). An abbreviated version was reprinted in the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Criticism, 18, Gale Research Company, Detroit 1978 (pp. 389-391).

"Death and the City of Life in Voronsky's Memoirs Za zivoj i mertvoj vodoj," Scando-Slavica XXII, Copenhagen 1976 (pp. 43-58).

"Limitation and Pain in Brjusov's and Blok's Poetry," Slavic and East European Journal, 19, 4, 1975 (pp. 388-402).

"Three Poems about Two Meetings," Russian Literature, 9, The Hague, 1975 (pp. 79-101).

"Some Themes and Motifs in N. Zabolockij's Stolbcy," Scando-Slavica XX, Copenhagen 1974 (pp. 13-25).

"The Mask Motif in A. Blok's Poetry," Russian Literature, 5, The Hague 1973 (pp. 79-101).

Selected Reviews, Editorials:

Hilary Fink, Bergson and Russian Modernism, 1900-1930, Studies in Russian Literature and Theory, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 1999, Slavic and East European Journal, 44, 1, 2000 (pp. 137-138).

Irina Marynaik, Spirit of the Totem: Religion and Myth in Soviet Fiction, 1964-1988, W.S. Maney and Son for the Modern Humanities Research Association, London 1995, Slavic Review, 57, 1, 1998 (pp. 232-233).

Mikhail Etkind, Sodom i Psikheia: Ocherki intellektual'noi istorii Serebrianogo veka, Moscow: "ITS"-Granat, 1996, The Russian Review, 57, 1, 1998 (pp. 118-119).

Nietzsche and Soviet Culture, edited by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 31, 1 (pp. 93-94).

From the Editor: "Gender Dialogue," The Russian Review, 56, 2, 1997.

Nikita Zabolotsky, The Life of Zabolotsky (ed. R.R. Milner-Gulland, tr. R.R. Milner-Gulland and C.G. Bearne), Slavonica, 2/2, 1995-96, Keele University Press, Keele, UK and Darra Goldstein, Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for mortal stakes, Slavonica, 2/2, 1995-96, Keele University Press, Keele (pp. 67-69).

Han Gunther, Der Sozialistische Ubermensch, SEEJ, 40, 1, 1996 (pp. 169-171).

Knigge, Armin, Maksim Gor'kij: Das literarische Werk, The Russian Review, 3, 1995.

Cathy Popkin, The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol', Slavic Review, 4, 1994.

"From the Editor," The Russian Review, 53, 1, 1994.

Aage Hansen-Love, Der Russische Symbolismus: System und Entfaltung der Poetischen Motive, vol. 1, Diabolischer Symbolismus, The Russian Review, 53, 1, 1994.

Erika Greber, Intertextualitat und Interpretierbarkeit des Texts: Zur fruhen Prosa Boris Pasternaks, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 27, 1-4, 1993.

Ayleen Teskey: Platonov and Fyodorov. The Influence of Christian Philosophy on a Soviet Writer, The Russian Review, 42, 4, 1993.

Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov: What Was Man Created For?, The Philosophy of the Common Task, Honeyglen Publishing 1990, SEEJ, Winter 1992.

Lazar Fleishman: Pasternak: The Poet and His Politics, World Literature Today, Norman Oklahoma, Summer 1991.

"Primi sobran'e pestryx glav," Slavistische und slavenkundliche Beitrage fur Peter Brang zum 65. Geburtag, ed. Carsten Goehrke, Robin Kemball, et alia, Slavica Helvetica, 33, Peter Lang Verlag 1989, March 1991, SEEJ, 35, 1, 1991.

The Supernatural in Slavic and Baltic Literature: Essays in Honor of Victor Terras, eds. Amy Mandelker and Roberta Reeder, Slavica Publishers, Columbus, Ohio, 1988. The Russian Review, 49, 3, 1990.

Critical Essays on Anton Chekhov, ed. Th. A, Eekman (Critical Essays on World Literature), G.K. Hall & Co, Boston, Mass 1989, The Russian Review, 49, 3, 1990.

Earl D. Sampson, Nikolay Gumilev, The Russian Review, 39, 1, 1980.

Pasternak: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. V. Erlich, Twentieth Century Views, The Russian Review, 38, 3, 1979.

Boris Pasternak-Essays, ed. N.A. Nilsson, The Russian Review, 37, 2, 1978.

P.A. Bodin, Nine Poems from Doktor Zivago, A Study of Christian Motifs in Boris Pasternak's Poetry, The Russian Review, 37, 2, 1978.

D E Maksimov, Poezija i proza Aleksander Bloka, The Russian Review, 36,1, 1977.

Reply to Ju. Levin's "Letter to the Editor" regarding my paper "Three Poems about Two Meeting", Russian Literature IV-11, The Hague 1976.

Lucy E. Vogel, Aleksander Blok: The Journey to Italy, Slavic and East European Journal, 17, 2, 1973.

Translations

Russian Writers and Society, by Ronald Hingley, translated into Swedish under the title De ryska forfattarna och samhallet, Aldus, Bonniers, Stockholm 1967.

Editorship

Interim Editor-in-chief of Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ), Fall 2000-Summer 2001.

Associate Editor of The Russian Review, Autumn 1991 until 1996; coeditor of the same journal: 1996-present.

Advising

Ph.D. Dissertations

The University of the Witwatersrand

Co-Supervisor of Judith Campbell Inggs' Dissertation The Role and Development of Soviet Children's Literature during Perestroika"; also acted as Internal Examiner (in both capacities per corepondence) for this dissertation (thesis in South African terminology); the dissertation (thesis) was passed in October 1997.

The Ohio State University

Carla Johnson, Dovid Knut: Biblical Imagist in Translation, March 2000.

Racquel G. Greene, Pushkin, the African Aristocrat, 1999.

Susan Walton: Jew, Gentile and Overman: Erenburg's Khulio Khurenito, March 1998.

Adonica Sendelbach, Mirroring and Identity: Chiastic Structures in Pasternak's My Sister--Life, May 1997.

Michael Kelly, 'Be Living and not Dead Souls': Gogol's Art of Transformation, Summer 1996.

Elena Duzs, Fragmentariness as Unity: Mikhail Kuzmin's Aesthetics, August 1996.

Luda Yevsukov, Pushkin's The Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin and The Little Tragedies: Unity in Two Keys, Spring 1996.

Todd Armstrong, Innokentii Annenskii's "The Cypress Chest": Contexts, Structures and Themes, Autumn 1993.

Susan Lohwater, The Great Sinner Redeemed: A Reinterpretation of Stavrogin, 1992.

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Conference papers and public lectures

Invited lectures were read at the following universities and colleges:

Amherst, Austin (Texas), Bloomington (Indiana), University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles (seven times), Cologne (Germany, twice), Copenhagen, Harvard (twice), Melbourne (Australia), Oberlin, Oxford (UK), Sorbonne, University of Southern California, Stanford University (twice), Stockholm University (twice), Uppsala University, Washington University (St. Louis), Williams College, Wooster College, Yale University.

Participated in the following major conferences:

AAASS, Denver Colorado (2000); title of talk: "The Writer (Almost) as Ruler: Cultural Mythologies around Gor'kii."

Negotiating Cultural Upheavals: Icons, Myths & Other Institutions of Cultural Memory in Modern Russia, 1900-2000 (Spring 2000); title of talk: "Gor'kii as Cultural Mediator: Success of Failure?"

Emigration and Exile from Eastern and Central Europe: An Interdisciplinary Conference (Winter 2000); title of talk: "The Survival of the Superfluous: Doubling and Mimicry in Nabokov's Glory."

Rethinking Russia and Modernity, Los Angeles, University of Southern California (October 1999).

AATSEEL Conference, San Francisco (December 1998); title of talk: "Parodies on Lermontov's Demon in Dostoevskii's The Devils."

AAASS National Convention, Seattle (November 1997); title of talk: "Emma and Ol'ga, or Galateas as Pygmalions in Austen's Emma and Goncharov's Oblomov."

"Spectacles of Death," University of California, Berkeley (1998) (as Commentator).

Guildford, Surrey, England (June 1996); title of talk: From Blok's to Bitov's Faina: Russia as Femme Fatale."

AAASS 27th National Convention, Washington (1995); title of talk: "Sansculotte Improvisors and Clouds in Trousers: Metamorphosis in Pushkin and Maiakovskii."

V World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Warsaw (1995): "To Enlighten with Feeling: Vsevolod Ivanov's View of Russia's Eurasian Mission."

The Phenomenon Zoshchenko, Moscow (1994): "Zoshchenko and Gor'kii's Mentorship."

Kongress Sootechestvennikov, Moscow (1993): "Reincarnation Cycles Gone Astray: A Motif in Akhmatova's and Georgii Ivanov's Poetry."

Pasternak Centennial Conference, Oxford (1990): "The Pani Katerina Motif in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago."

IV World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate (1990): "Philosophy, Myth and Art in Turgenev's Sketches from a Hunter's Album."

AAASSConference, Honolulu (1988): Round Table Discussion "Symbolist Life Creation."

III World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Washington D.C. (1985): "The Symbolist Crisis Revisited: Blok's Point of View."

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Pasternak (1984); "Capitalist Bread and Socialist Spectacle: The Janus Face of Rome in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago."

Alexander Blok Centennial Conference, University of North Carolina, (1980); title: "Zhivago's 'Christmas Star' as Homage to Blok."

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Languages

Swedish: excellent; English: excellent; German: excellent. French and Polish: reading ability.

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Professional Activities

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)

Dobro Slovo

Last updated: December, 2000.