# Elizabeth Ransome PhD, May 2016 ![ransome-e.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/slavic/files/ransome-e_0.jpg?itok=6AkIQx8f) email #### **Dissertation Title:** “*Il Paradosso dello Spirito Russo*: Piero Gobetti and the Genius of Liberal Revolution” #### **Education:** MA Harvard University, 1992 (Slavic Languages and Literatures) *Maîtrise, langue et littérature russes*, Université de Paris IV- Sorbonne/Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1991 BA Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1988 (History and Literature of Russia) #### **Interests:** - Cultural history, around themes including the legacies of Romanticism, personal identity and practices of self-fashioning, literature as engagement, national identity, and Russian-Italian cultural exchange; - Translation #### **Publications:** - Translations of poetry and prose by five Russian authors, all women inmates of the GULAG. *The Saint Petersburg Review*, “White Nights,” Issue 1, 2007. - “*Zizn’ de Gospodina de Mol’era*: roman historique ou biographie littéraire?” *Revue des Etudes Slaves*, 63, 1991. #### **Conference presentations:** - “Bakunin’s Children: a Study in Displaced Identity,” Slavic Studies Graduate Colloquium conference, Brown University, April 2011. - “Piero Gobetti, Leonid Andreev and ‘The Abyss:’ Life-art in Interwar Turin,” “Interwar/International: Reading the 1920s and 1930s,” conference organized by the Comparative Literature Department, NYU, March 2011. - “Poetic Identity in the Verse of Zinaida Gippius,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies conference, Honolulu, November 1993. - “Time and Space in Anna Karenina: Towards a New Industrial Consciousness,” American Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages conference, New York City, December 1992. #### **Languages:** Russian, Italian, French - ## Alumni Taxonomy [2010-2019\_Alumni](/alumni-taxonomy/2010-2019alumni) - ## People [Alumni](/people-taxonomy/alumni)