Katherine Bowers
Associate Professor
Research Classification
Arts, Literature and Subjectivity
Arts and Cultural Traditions
Arts and Technologies
Arts and Literary Policies
Research Interests
Russian literature
Russian culture
literary culture
genre
narrative
imagined geography
the novel
Dostoevsky
gothic fiction
Relevant Degree Programs
Affiliations to Research Centres, Institutes & Clusters
Research Options
I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
Biography
Specialist in 19th-century Russian literature and culture. Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia.
Research Methodology
literary studies
Recruitment
Master's students
Doctoral students
Postdoctoral Fellows
Any time / year round
Russian literary studies; comparative literary studies; literary culture; genre; narrative
interest in literary studies; interest in Russian literature
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Publications
- Plotting the ending: generic expectation and the uncanny epilogue of Crime and Punishment (2020)
Canadian Slavonic Papers, 62 (2), 95--108 - Sofia Khvoshchinskaya: City Folk and Country Folk, translated by Nora Seligman Favorov; Iliazd: Rapture, translated by Thomas J. Kitson (2018)
Translation and Literature, 27 (2), 242--249 - 12. Experiencing Information: An Early Nineteenth-Century Stroll Along Nevskii Prospekt (2017)
Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850, , 369--408 - Haunted Ice, Fearful Sounds, and the Arctic Sublime: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Polar Gothic Space (2017)
Gothic Studies, 19 (2), 71--84 - Haunted Ice, Fearful Sounds, and the Arctic Sublime: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Polar Gothic Space (2017)
Gothic Studies, 19 (2), 71--84 - How do people know things? (2017)
- Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 (2017)
- Through the opaque veil: the Gothic and death in Russian realism (2017)
Manchester University Press, - Russian Writers and the Fin de Siècle (2015)
- Unpacking Viazemskii's Khalat: The Technologies of Dilettantism in Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Culture (2015)
Slavic Review, 74 (3), 529 - Introduction: New UK Research in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (2014)
Modern Languages Open, (1) - THE CITY THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY: USE OF THE GOTHIC IN EARLY RUSSIAN REALISM (2013)
The Modern Language Review, 108 (4), 1237
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