Marsel Khamitov

Area(s) of Study: literature and empire, nationalism studies, late Soviet and Russian imperialism

About: Marsel received his BA and MA in Russian and Comparative Literature at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (Moscow, Russia). During his MA program, Marsel participated in the exchange program with the Ca’ Foscari University and spent a semester in Venice, Italy. His MA thesis addressed the post-revolutionary national imaginary in the Soviet travelogues of the 1920s (Victor Shklovsky, Ilya Ehrenburg, Alexei Tolstoy). Marsel’s current project is focused on the categories of ‘empire’ and ‘nation” in the late Soviet literary imagination. In particular, he is interested in alternative political communities as imagined in various forms of counter-official fiction in the 1970s–1980s and their echoes in the later period. In 2022, Marsel has begun teaching Russian language at UW Madison and is very excited about continuing both his research and teaching experience at UW.

Education:

– National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (Moscow, Russia) – BA and MA in Russian and Comparative Literature
– University of Wisconsin-Madison — MA in Slavic studies

Courses Taught:

– Third Semester Russian (Fall 2022)
– Fourth Semester Russian (Spring 2023)

Awards:

• J. Thomas Shaw Prize for outstanding paper at Wisconsin Slavic Conference — Honorable Mention (2021)
• J. Thomas Shaw Prize for outstanding paper at Wisconsin Slavic Conference (2023)

Publications:

• “«Mezhdu smert’ju i zhizn’ju» A.N. Apuhtina: reinkarnacionnyj sjuzhet kak problema narrativa.” Studia Litterarum, 2018, vol. 3, № 2, pp. 102-121 (IMLI RAN).
• “Sotvorenie literaturnogo mifa o Londone: «Holodnyj dom» Ch. Dikkensa” Littera Scripta 9. Sbornik nauchnyh trudov molodyh filologov. Izdatel’stvo Latvijskogo universiteta, 2017, pp. 92–99.
• “Razgovory v carstve mertvyh: «Bobok» F.M. Dostoevskogo.“ Dostoevskij. Materialy i issledovanija, vol. 21. Nestor-Istoriya, 2016, pp. 29-44 (IRLI RAN).