Jenya Mironava

Jenya Mironava

Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Russian language program)
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My research focuses on twentieth-century Russian and Czech literature and culture, with emphasis on questions of temporality, formal experimentation, and linguistic play. My work engages with the issues of memory, including ways of memorializing the past, textual transmission, and intertextuality. It addresses questions of embodiment and explores the book as a material object, and texts as performances. I study border crossings and threshold phenomena: émigré culture and exile; translatability between genres, media, cultures; poetic prose, synesthesia, and word/image relations.

These interests come together in my current project. Titled Dance - Image - Text: Aleksei Remizov’s Poetics of Rewriting, my first book examines Aleksei Remizov's verbal and visual art—texts, calligraphy, drawings, books and illustrated albums—as a peculiar archive of cultural memory that goes back to Old Rus’. My interdisciplinary analysis focuses on the performative ritual of rewriting as remembering. Recent work on archaic modernism, theories of intertextuality and intermediality, and the history of the book inform my argument that for Remizov, the embodied experience of drawing and copying texts by hand is inseparable from the act of creative rewriting as an intertextual practice. 

Education:
Ph.D. 2022 Harvard University
M.A. 2013 University of NC at Chapel Hill
B.A. 2011 University of NC at Chapel Hill

Open Scholar site: https://scholar.harvard.edu/mironava

Contact Information

Barker Center 370
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-6776

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