New Books on Women and Gender in Slavic Literatures and Cultures

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

What are the new frontiers in women and gender studies and Slavic literatures and cultures today? How does a focus on gender open new avenues of research and modes of thinking? This roundtable will engage these questions through discussion of five new and recent books from diverse perspectives in the field, nationally and internationally. Authors will introduce their books and survey the field of gender studies to evaluate their contribution and work still to be done. These books include: Lina Bernstein, Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile (Academic Studies Press); Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, ed., Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era and Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads (Rowman & Littlefield); by Katharina Wiedlack, Masha Godovannaya, and Saltanat Shoshanova, eds., Queer-Feminist Solidarity and the East-West Divide (Peter Lang); and Rachel Morley, Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema (I.B. Tauris).

Sub Unit

• Gender/LGBTQ Studies

Chair

• Anna A. Berman, McGill U (Canada)

Roundtable Members

• Lina Bernstein, Franklin and Marshall College

• Rachel Morley, U College London (UK)

• Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, Rochester Institute of Technology

• Saltanat Shoshanova, Freie U of Berlin (Germany)

• Maria Katharina Wiedlack, U of Vienna (Austria)

Session Manager

• Ellen Bleier, U of Notre Dame