Chloe  Papadopoulos

Chloe Papadopoulos is an Assistant Professor (LTA) of Russian at Dalhousie University. She received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University (2023). Her research interests include 19^th-century Russian literature and sculpture, historical fiction, Russian print culture and early mass media, and revivalist movements. Her dissertation, “Recasting the Past: Russian Literature, Drama, and the Plastic Arts in the Era of Reform,” considers why the past, particularly the medieval past, occupied such a prominent place in the cultural imaginary during the exceptionally modern historical moment of the Great Reforms. She serves on the Readers Advisory Board of the North American Dostoevsky Society and is Assistant Editor of Bloggers Karamazov, the official blog of the North American Dostoevsky Society.

Education

Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University (December 2023)
M.Phil., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University (January 2020)
M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto (December 2015)
B.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto (June 2014)
 

Recently-taught Courses

• Advanced Russian
• Dostoevsky and the Russian Idea
• Survey of Russian Literature I – Topic: “Writing Crime and Punishment: Prison Literature from the 19th Century to the Present”
• Intensive Advanced Russian
• Putin’s Russia

Representative Peer-reviewed Publications

• “‘Too dragged out, can’t understand a thing’: The Impatience of Youth in Demons” (forthcoming, spring 2024).
• “Speaking Silently and Overnarrating in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Krotkaia’.” Dostoevsky Studies 24 (2021): 17-40.

Representative Conference Presentations

• “‘Where Are Our Historical Novelists?’: Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya on A. K. Tolstoy’s Kniaz’ Serebrianyi and Representations of the Russian Past.” ASEEES, Chicago, IL. November 10-13, 2022.
• “The North American Dostoevsky Society: Rethinking Dostoevsky’s Short Fiction.” ASEEES NADS-Sponsored Roundtable. ASEEES, virtual. October 13-14, 2022.
• “Bednaia Varen’ka or Varvara the Despot?: Gender and Genre in Bednye liudi’s Critical Reception.” ASEEES, New Orleans, LA/virtual. December 1-3, 2021.
•  “‘Too dragged out, can’t understand a thing’: The Impatience of Youth in Demons.” Funny Dostoevsky, Dartmouth College, virtual. May 14-15, 2021.
• “‘Learning Russian will be a breeze, they said!’: Popular Discourse on the Difficulty of Russian Grammar for Foreign Language Learners.” Культура, политика, язык: преподавание иностранных языков и культур в эпоху радикальных перемен (Culture, Politics, Language: Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures in an Era of Radical Change), Department of Foreign Languages at the Russian State University for the Humanities’ Institute of Linguistics (RSUH/РГГУ), virtual. January 31, 2021.
• “Destabilizing History in Mark Antokol’skii’s Ivan Groznyi.” ASEEES, virtual. November 5-8, 14-15, 2020.
• “Speaking Silently in Fedor Dostoevskii’s “Krotkaia”,” on the North American Dostoevsky Society (NADS)-Sponsored Panel, AATSEEL, San Diego, CA. February 6-9, 2020.
• “(Re-)Reading Leonid Leonov’s Early Prose: “Bubnovyi valet,” “Valina kukla”, “Dereviannaia koroleva.” AATSEEL, New Orleans, LA. February 7-10, 2019.
• “Dostoevsky’s Podrostok.” ASEEES roundtable, Boston, MA. December 6-9, 2018. 
• “Narrative Potential in Mark Antokol’skii’s Ivan the Terrible,” in the seminar, “Varieties of Russian Realism: Medium, Genre, and Form in the 19^th-century Russian Arts,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). UCLA. March 29-April 1, 2018.
• “Narrative as Radical Intervention in Demons.” Revolutionary Dostoevsky: Rethinking Radicalism. University College London (UCL) School of Slavonic and East European Studies. 20-21 October, 2017.