From Pushkin to Popular Culture: Essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy

About Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy

Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy was Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian and Chair of the Slavic Department at Barnard College and Director of the Harriman Institute (2001-2009).  Her scholarly interests included Pushkin nineteenth-century journals Pasternak Solzhenitsyn Nabokov Russian ballet and literary and political developments in post-Soviet Russia. Emily D. Johnson is Brian and Sandra OBrien Presidential Professor of Russian at the University of Oklahoma. She works on twentieth and twenty-first century Russian culture. Most recently she co-edited the volume Rethinking the Gulag: Identities Sources Legacies (Indiana University Press 2022) with Alan Barenberg.Irina Reyfman is Professor of Russian Literature at Columbia University. The focus of her work is interaction of literature and culture. She is the author and editor of several books including How Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Tables of Rank (The University of Wisconsin Press: 2016; paperback 2021).Carol R. Ueland is Professor Emerita at Drew University. Her scholarly works are on Russian poetry and translation womens studies and biograpy.  Her most recent book is Literary Biographies in the Lives of Remarkable People Series co-edited with Ludmilla A. Trigos (Lexington Books 2022).