Jason Cieply
Jason Cieply
Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Contact:
cieplyj@stanford.edu
BIO:
Current research:
- "Solitary ecstatic states": Enthusiasm and despair in Russian arts and society, 1905-1933"
- Silencing "Silentium!": Why Tiutchev’s verse disappeared from the drafts of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Stanford University, 2011.
Recent work:
- Russian lubki and the production of co-knowledge, Stanford University, 2012
- Dostoevsky’s phantom ideological limbs, Stanford University, 2012
- Nabokov’s monkish maneuvers: Hagiographic topoi as a depoliticizing device in The Life of Chernyshevsky, Stanford University, 2012
- Intonation patterns in monotone and melodic poetic readings of the Russian Silver Age, Stanford University, 2011
- Towards a postmodern aesthetics of the neutral: Sasha Sokolov’s Palisandriia and the topos of the hermaphrodite, Stanford University, 2011
- Staging the end of history: Mayakovsky, Kharms, and Platonov, Stanford University, 2010
- Bakhtin on silence, Stanford University, 2010
- Tactics for semiotic opposition: Pelevin, Barthes, de Certeau, Stanford University, 2010
- Living an adventure narrative: looking for models in Bakhtin, Auerbach, and Simmel, Stanford University, 2010
- Mayakovsky's "Ulichnoe," Stanford University, 2010
- Bakhtin and the spatio-temporal structure of the word, Stanford University, 2010.
- Language and (space-)time in Korolenko's Yakut stories, Stanford University, 2009.
- Eisenstein on Pushkin: the poet as montageur, Stanford University, 2009.
Conference papers:
- Nabokov’s Monkish Maneuvers: Nabokov’s monkish maneuvers: Hagiographic topoi as a depoliticizing device in “The Life of Chernyshevsky,” California Slavic Colloquium, University of California San Diego, 2012
- Staging the End of History: Mayakovsky and Kharm, California Slavic Colloquium, Stanford University, 2011
- Silence about "Silentium!", California Slavic Colloquium, New Takes on Old Texts, University of Southern California, 2010
- Nabokov and literary migration, Midwest Slavic Conference, Panel on Slavic Linguistics and Ideology, the Ohio State University, 2008.
- Understanding the Great Sinner in Dostoevskian salvation, Midwest Slavic Conference, the Ohio State University, 2007.
- The function of Gogolian Absurdity, Midwest Slavic Conference, the Ohio State University, 2006.
BA thesis in Russian literature:
- Sopostavlenie obrazov intelligenta i prostitutki v russkom literaturnom topose prostitutsii devatnadtsatogo veka: Dostoevskii i Chekhov, Kenyon College, 2007-2008.
BA thesis in English:
- Nabokov and literary migration, Kenyon College, 2008.
EDUCATION:
2008: B.A., Kenyon College, Magna Cum Laude, Highest Honors in Modern Languages and Literatures (Russian and French) and distinction in English