Nadya L Peterson

Biographic Data

ID1169488
NAMENadya L Peterson
GIVEN NAMESNadya L
FAMILY NAMEPeterson
SIGNATUREPETERSON N L
AFFILIATIONSAssociate Professor of Russian at Hunter College of the City University of New York and the Head of the Russian and Slavic Studies Program who is also on the faculty in the doctoral program of the Department of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • The Child in Chekhov

    Open AccessNadya L PetersonARTICLEThe Russian Review2014

    The focus of my research is on representation of childhood in Chekhov's stories. In this article I look at two stories (“Grisha” and “At Home”) published at the height of Chekhov's interest in children in the mid‐1880s. I have chosen this material because one of the stories appears on Leo Tolstoy's list of known favorites, both stories are written in the form of a dramatic sketch, and both narratives address two crucial stages in the development …

  • Gender Violence in Russia

    Nadya L PetersonARTICLERussian Journal of Communication2011

  • Modernization and Its Discontents

    Nadya L PetersonARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2006

    Nadya L. Peterson, Modernization and Its Discontents: Teaching Literature in the New Russian School, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1, Special Anniversary Issue (Spring, 2006), pp. 187-196

  • The Private "I" in the Works of Nina Berberova

    Open AccessNadya L PetersonARTICLESlavic Review2001References: 3

    This article aims to identify prevalent concerns and anxieties informing Berberova's works, whether designated as fiction, biography, fictionalized history, or autobiography; to observe what is hidden behind the public facade of the autobiographical self; and to determine how the fictional and the autobiographical are connected in the writer's narratives. Berberova's autobiography, as well as her fictional and biographical writings, provide a fer…

  • Subversive Imaginations

    Konstantin Kustanovich, Nadya L PetersonARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1998

  • Sophia Parnok

    Nadya L Peterson, Nadya Peterson et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1995Cited by: 1

  • Russian Village Prose

    Nadya L Peterson, Nadya Peterson et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1994

  • The Cambridge History of Russian Literature

    Nadya L Peterson, Nadya Peterson et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1991

    Preface 1. The literature of old Russia, 988-1730 Jostein Bortnes 2. The eighteenth century: neoclassicism and the Enlightenment 1730-90 Ilya Serman 3. The transition to the modern age: sentimentalism and preromanticism, 1790-1820 Mark Altshuller 4. The nineteenth century: romanticism, 1820-40 John Mersereau Jr 5. The nineteenth century: the natural school and its aftermath, 1840-55 Richard Peace 6. The nineteenth century: the age of realism, 185…

  • Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature

    Nadya L Peterson, Nadya Peterson et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1991

  • The Languages of "Darling"

    Nadya L Peterson, Nadya PetersonARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies1990

  • Istoriia russkoi literatury XX veka

    Nadya L Peterson, Nadya Peterson et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1990

  • Science Fiction and Fantasy

    Open AccessNadya L Peterson, Nadya PetersonARTICLESlavic Review1989

    When Chingiz Aitmatov's Plakha first appeared in Novyi mir in 1986 many readers here were astounded at the uncanny ability of this established author to ride the wave of the future. This sensational novel, with its stark portrayal of the drug trade, exploitation of the environment, and social alienation in the Soviet Union, was seen by many as the ultimate expression of newfound creative freedoms under Mikhail Gorbachev. For all its seeming novel…