Anne Lounsbery

Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies

Education

B.A. 1986 Brown University; M.A. in Comparative Literature, 1995 Harvard University Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1999 Harvard University

Areas of Research/Interest

Nineteenth-century Russian prose; the rise of print culture; theories of the novel; Russian literature in comparative perspective; imaginary geographies.

External Affiliations

Modern Languages Association; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; American Studies Association; American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages

Publications

  • Life is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces
    Cornell University Press, 2019.
  • “On Cultivating One’s Own Garden with Other People’s Labor: Serfdom in Tolstoy’s ‘Landowner’s Morning.’” In Before They Were Titans: Early Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, ed. Elizabeth Cheresh Allen,
    Academic Studies Press, 2015.
  • “Dostoevsky’s Geography.” In Dostoevsky in Context, ed. Deborah Martinsen and Olga Maiorova.
    Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • “Rossiia i ‘mirovaia literatura’” (“Russia and ‘World Literature’”).
    In Voprosy Literatury, 2014.
    Chinese translation in Forum for World Literature Studies, Wuhan, China, 2015.
  • “‘The World on the Back of a Fish’: Mobility, Immobility and Economics in Oblomov.”
    Russian Review, January 2011.
    “Print Culture and Real Life in Dostoevsky’s Demons.” Dostoevsky Studies XI, 2007.
  • “Dostoevsky’s Geography: Centers, Peripheries, Networks.”
    Slavic Review, summer 2007.
  • "'Bound by Blood to the Race': Pushkin in African American Context." Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness. Ed. Nicole Svobodny, Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, and Ludmilla A. Trigos; intro. H. L. Gates.
    Northwestern University Press, 2006.
  • Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America.
    Harvard University Press, 2006.
  • "'No, this is not the provinces!': Provincialism, Authenticity and Russianness in Dead Souls."
    Russian Review, April 2005.