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- Professor
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- Humanities
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- 217
- Bio
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Kirsten Lodge is a Professor of Humanities and English and the Coordinator of the Humanities Program. She has been at MSU since 2011. She has two doctoral degrees from Columbia University, one in Russian language and literature and one in Czech language and literature. She is also a literary translator, and since 2012 she has been translating Russian classics for Broadview Press, an independent academic publisher in Canada. She has extensive international experience, having lived in France, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, and Ukraine.
Other Positions
| Institution | Degree | Graduation Date |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | Ph.D., Russian and Czech Language and Literature | 2006 |
| University of Joensuu, Finland | Licentiate of Philosophy, Russian Literature | 1997 |
| Central European University, Prague | M.A., History and Philosophy of Art and Architecture | 1995 |
| Employer | Position | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montclair State University, NJ | Adjunct Faculty | 09/01/2010 | 05/01/2011 |
| Columbia University | Core Lecturer/Lecturer in Discipline | 09/01/2007 | 05/01/2011 |
| Drew University, NJ | Adjunct Faculty | 09/01/2007 | 05/01/2011 |
“Polyphemus and Postcolonialism: The Island of the Cyclopes in The Odyssey.”
“Polyphemus and Postcolonialism: The Island of the Cyclopes in The Odyssey.†Approaches to Teaching Homer’s Odyssey. Modern Language Association Approaches to Teaching World Literature, ed. Lilian Doherty, forthcoming (2025).
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, ed. and trans. from Russian, with a full scholarly apparatus. Nanaimo, Canada: Broadview Press, forthcoming (2024).
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy, ed. and trans. from Russian, with a full scholarly apparatus. Nanaimo, Canada: Broadview Press, 2023.
“Russian and Czech Decadence: The Fall of Rome and the Destruction of Sodom.”
“Russian and Czech Decadence: The Fall of Rome and the Destruction of Sodom.†Decadence: A Literary History, ed. Alex Murray. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020. 305-21.
We by Evgeny Zamyatin, ed. and trans. from Russian, with a full scholarly apparatus. Nanaimo, Canada: Broadview Press, 2020. 246 pp.
The Red Laugh and “The Abyss” by Leonid Andreyev, ed. and trans. from Russian, with a full scholarly apparatus. Nanaimo, Canada: Broadview Press, 2021, 132 pp.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, trans., with a scholarly introduction and background materials, also trans. from Russian. Nanaimo, Canada: Broadview Press, 2017. 184 pp.
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans., with a scholarly introduction and background materials, also trans. from Russian and French. Nanaimo, Canada: Broadview Press, 2014. 171 pp.
A Gothic Soul by Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, trans. from Czech, with a scholarly introduction. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2015. 141 pp.
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse, ed. and co-trans., with a scholarly introduction. Sawtry, Cambs, UK: Dedalus Books, 2007. Published as an e-book in August 2012. 346 pp.
Solitude, Vanity, Night: An Anthology of Czech Decadent Poetry, ed. and trans. from Czech, with a scholarly introduction. Prague: Charles University Press (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta), 2008. 102 pp.
“‘An Onslaught of Savages’: From Decadence to Futurism,” The Unlimited Gaze: Essays in Honour of Professor Natalia Baschmakoff. Helsinki: University of Helsinki Press, Aleksanteri Series 2 (2009). 111-41.
“Russian Decadence in the 1910s: Valery Briusov and the Collapse of Empire,” The Russian Review 69.2 (April 2010). 276-93.
“Mirrors in Russian Symbolism,” Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature 34.2 (Summer 2010). 207-32.
“The Insidious Poison of Degeneration: Vampires in Czech Decadence,” Slovo a smysl (Word and Sense) 23, forthcoming (May 2015).
“Russian and Czech Decadence: The Fall of Rome and the Destruction of Sodom.” Decadence: A Literary History, ed. Alex Murray. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020. 305-21.
“Decadence and Barbarism in the Czech Lands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Renato Poggioli: An Intellectual Biography. Florence: Olschki Publishers, 2012. 59-87.