Maria Soukhotina
Position:
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D in World Literatures (2004)
Contact information:
e-mail: soukhotina78@rambler.ru,
discours@philol.msu.ru
Research and Teaching Interests:
Contemporary literature, post-colonial writing studies, rhetoric of hybridity, narrative studies, sociology of literature, memory studies
Courses:
'Border Writing': Literature within the Context of Globalization.
Global Bestsellers: Texts between Cultures.
Literary Text after Publication.
Cultural Memory and Literary Text (team-taught course).
Selected Publications:
- From Literary History to Storytelling around Literature. The New York Review of Books // Cult as Part of Literary Process. Author, Text, Reader. - Moscow, 2011.
- 'Regional Flavor' and Guilty Feelings in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. - Voprosy Literatury No. 2, 2010.
- The Uses of Literature and Literary Criticism: The USA and the USSR. // Cultural Exchanges between Central / Eastern Europe and America. Proceedings for East-West American Studies Conference. – Frankfurt am Main: Goethe Universitдt, 2004.
- Canonical Text as a means of Cultural Legitimization // values, Canons, Prices. Text as Means of Cultural Exchange. - Moscow, 2004.
- Myth of a Democratic Elite in the New York Review of Books // Popular Literature. American and Russian Experience in Cultural Myth-Making. - Moscow, 2002.