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Seth Graham
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Office phone:
sbgraham @stanford.eduResearch Interests: Contemporary Russian literature, culture, and cinema; humor theory; cultural studies; folklore; Central Asian cinema.
Seth Graham received his Ph.D. in Russian Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. His dissertation, supervised by Nancy Condee, examines the genre of the oral joke in twentieth-century Russia, focusing on the links and contradictions between that genre and other constituent forms of Russo-Soviet culture. In 2003-2004 he taught at the University of Washington, Seattle where he was coordinator of the beginning- and intermediate-Russian programs. His publications include articles and reviews in Russian Review, Slavic and East European Journal, KinoForum, KinoKultura, Choice, Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Harper-Collins Encyclopedia of Women Authors, and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (forthcoming). Seth has also translated widely from the Russian, including Valeria Narbikova’s novel Day Equals Night, published by Ardis in 1999. At Pittsburgh he co-edited the journal Studies in Slavic Cultures for two years, and was active in planning the annual Russian Film Symposium, for which he edited the volume Necrorealism: Contexts, History, Interpretations in 2001.
Seth is currently writing a monograph based on his dissertation, co-editing an anthology of articles about post-censorship Russian satire, and researching Central Asian cinema.
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