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Phone: 212.854.2037
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Sun Min
Director of Media Relations

Alyssa Vine
Associate Director of Media Relations

Rebecca Jane Stanton

Assistant Professor of Russian

Rebecca Stanton, assistant professor of Russian, joined the faculty of Barnard College in 2003. Her teaching duties at Barnard have included a number of first-year seminars, such as "Reacting to the Past," "Legacy of the Mediterranean," and "Women and Culture." She also teaches the senior seminar for Russian majors.

Professor Stanton works primarily on Russian literature of the Soviet period, focusing particularly on self-narratives and narratives of the city. Much of her work has centered on the literary myth of Odessa and its progenitors. She is especially interested in the fate of texts as they cross boundaries between genres, generations, historical eras, or national entities, and between performer and audience. Secondary interests include popular and mass culture, Slavic-Jewish cultural relations, Russian and German modernism, and choral music.

Professor Stanton's research and scholarship have been supported by a Combined Research and Language Training Fellowship (ACTR under U.S. Title VIII), a Davis Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University, and a Fulbright- Hays Fellowship for study in Russia.

Current projects include an exploration of magical discourses in Soviet literature (1917- 58), an article on the famous "Potemkin Steps" in Odessa as a site of cultural memory, and an article on the 2003 TV miniseries Battlestar Galactica as a text in the Vergilian tradition. She is also completing a book, Isaac Babel and the Self-Ishness of Odessan Modernism, which examines the way Odessa writers used self-narrative in their bid to shape and define early Soviet literature.

Professor Stanton serves as a translator and editor for the Russian Musical Arts Society of America and appears as a vocalist with a variety of ensembles.

Selected Publications

"Feminine Resurrections: Gendering Redemption in the Last Novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky," in Mapping the Feminine, ed. H. Hoogenboom, I. Reyfman, and C. T. Theimer Nepomnyashchy (Under contract at Slavica)

"Battlestar Canonical: Galactica and the Texts of Classical Antiquity," in Battlestar Galactica: The Book (working title) (Under contract at Macfarland Press)

"Talking Back to Nabokov: A Commentary on a Commentary," Ulbandus 10 (2007)

"Identity Crisis: The Literary Cult and Culture of Odessa in the Early Twentieth Century," Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Foreign Literatures 57 (2003)

"Interpreters on Shostakovich II: An Interview with Nikolai Kachanov," The DSCH Journal 19 (2003)

"Chichikov Dis-Coursed: Discursive Dominance and Narrative Momentum in Gogol's Dead Souls," The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 28 (2001, printed 2002)

"Isaac Babel's Great Credibility Caper," Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 15 (2001)

CONTACT:

Rebecca Stanton
Assistant Professor of Russian
Barnard College

212.854.3133

EDUCATION:

B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University