Margarita Vaysman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5802611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margarita Vaysman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margarita |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaysman |
| SIGNATURE | VAYSMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and Head of Department at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where she teaches Russian and comparative literature. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4796-4523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Translating Historical Trans Life-Writing
This essay presents the authors’ reflections on translating historical trans life-writing into English as collaborative work. It is based on the authors’ conversations over the past three years, comparing their positionalities and skill sets as educators, activists (Cheryl), and scholars (Margarita). Specifically, they discuss their work on translating biographical narratives by and about a Russian-Ukrainian hero of the Napoleonic wars and celebr…
The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms
Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early pictorial art and epic oral narratives, through literature and visual arts, to film, music, and digital media. However, an understanding of what it means to “faithfully represent reality” is not universal; rather, it varies from culture to culture. The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms brings the diver…
A Woman's Lot
This article examines the issue of realist literary narration portrayed as male privilege in Russian women's writing of the 1860s, specifically in Avdot'ia Panaeva's novel A Woman's Lot ( Zhenskaia dolia ). A Women's Lot was published in 1862, under Panaeva's male pen name Nikolai Stanitskii, and, taking advantage of this indeterminacy of gender, Panaeva's narrator alternated between its male and a female narrative personas. I argue that Panaeva …
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A Woman's Lot
This article examines the issue of realist literary narration portrayed as male privilege in Russian women's writing of the 1860s, specifically in Avdot'ia Panaeva's novel A Woman's Lot ( Zhenskaia dolia ). A Women's Lot was published in 1862, under Panaeva's male pen name Nikolai Stanitskii, and, taking advantage of this indeterminacy of gender, Panaeva's narrator alternated between its male and a female narrative personas. I argue that Panaeva …
The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms
Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early pictorial art and epic oral narratives, through literature and visual arts, to film, music, and digital media. However, an understanding of what it means to “faithfully represent reality” is not universal; rather, it varies from culture to culture. The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms brings the diver…
Translating Historical Trans Life-Writing
This essay presents the authors’ reflections on translating historical trans life-writing into English as collaborative work. It is based on the authors’ conversations over the past three years, comparing their positionalities and skill sets as educators, activists (Cheryl), and scholars (Margarita). Specifically, they discuss their work on translating biographical narratives by and about a Russian-Ukrainian hero of the Napoleonic wars and celebr…
Narrative (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (1 work) · Canon (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Cultural History and Identity Formation (1 work) · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (1 work) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work)