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Katherine Bowers
Associate Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
Arts, Literature and Subjectivity
Arts and Cultural Traditions
Arts and Technologies
Arts and Literary Policies
Dostoevsky
genre
gothic fiction
imagined geography
literary culture
narrative
Russian culture
Russian literature
the novel
Relevant Thesis-Based 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
Publications
- Digital Media Projects in the Dostoevsky Classroom (2022)
- Writing Fear (2022)
- Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity (2021)
- Dostoevsky at 200: The State of the Field (2021)
The Russian Review, 81 (1), 110--121 - Dostoevsky Studies in North America (2021)
Literature of the Americas, - Ghost Writers: Radcliffiana and the Russian Gothic Wave (2021)
Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, - Under the Floorboards, Over the Door: The Gothic Corpse and Writing Fear in The Idiot (2021)
- Plotting the ending: generic expectation and the uncanny epilogue of Crime and Punishment (2020)
Canadian Slavonic Papers, 62 (2), 95--108 - The Gothic Novel Reader Comes to Russia (2020)
- A Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts (2018)
- 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)
- The Fall of the House: Gothic Narrative and the Decline of the Russian Family (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) - New UK Research in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature [Special Section] (2014)
- 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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