Dr Natalia Skradol
Contact Details
Email: n.skradol@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
I came to Sheffield in July 2013 as a Research Associate on a four-year AHRC project, to work with Prof.Evgeny Dobrenko on post-WWII Eastern European literatures. The previous stations of my academic career included a two-year research grant in Berlin, Germany; research fellowship at the University of Sheffield; a post-doctoral project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; and a research stay at the Institut für die Wissenschaften in Vienna, Austria.
Research interests
I have published some 20 articles, most of which concern the production of meanings in various totalitarian regimes, be it Nazism, Stalinism, or Italian fascism. In addition to the AHRC project, I am currently researching humorous genres in Stalin’s Russia. I am also interested in various manifestations of prohibitions and states of exception across countries, languages and cultures.
Publications
1. “Stalinist Gnomes: Proverbs and Sayings in Stalin’s Russia.” Forthcoming in NLO (New Literary Review) [in Russian].
2. “Forbidden Zones and Zones of Prohibition: A Semiology of Prohibitions in Labor Camps.” NLO (New Literary Review) 119 (2013) [in Russian].
3. “Normative Satire: Sergei Mikhalkov’s Fables and the Shaping of an Ideal Soviet Citizen.” Forthcoming in the collected volume of essays on the culture of laughter in Russia, XVIII-XX centuries (Interdisciplinary approaches, problems, questions for future research). Cheliabinsk [In Russian]. Precise title and date of publication are to be confirmed. Confirmation of publication available.
4. “Funny Enemies: The Humorous Evolution of the Stalinist Master-Narrative.” Journal of Political Ideologies 18.3 (2012): 281-299.
5. ‘The Great Migration of Seriousness’: Dem’ian Bednyi and the Early Soviet Propaganda.” Russian Literature 73 (2013): 443-465.
6. “’Life Has Become Merrier’: The Stalinist Chastushka and the Production of the Soviet Peasant.” NLO (New Literary Review) 108 (Summer 2011) [in Russian].
7. “The Light Genre of Stalinism: Soviet Humour and Its Discontents.” Slavonica 17.1 (April 2011): 15-29.
8. “Fascism and Kitsch: The Nazi Anti-Kitsch Campaign.” German Studies Review 34.3 (October 2011): 595-612.
9. “’There is nothing funny about it’: Laughter at a Stalinist Party Plenum.” Slavic Review 70.2 (Summer 2011): 334-352.
10. “Carnival of Exception: Gabriele D’Annunzio, Giorgio Agamben and Mikhail Bakhtin.” Rhetorica 30.1 (2012): 74-93.
11. “Exilic Symptoms in the Wolf-Man’s Memoirs.” Life Writing 6.2 (2009): 241-256.
12. “Non-Working, Communism and Carnival. Reading Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur with Bakhtin.” SEER: Slavonic and Eastern European Review 87.4 (October 2009): 601-628.
13. “Homus Novus: The New Man as an Allegory.” Utopian Studies 20 (1) (2009): 41-74.
14. “Stalin: Mythopoetic Elements in Memories of the Soviet Dictator.” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 10.1 (2009): 19-41.
15. “Laughing with Comrade Stalin: Laughter of the Audience in the Great Kremlin Palace in 1939.” The Russian Review 68.1 (January 2009): 26-48.
16. (With Efraim Sicher). "A World Neither Brave Nor New: Reading Dystopia after 9-11." Partial Answers 4.1 (January 2006): 151-179.
17. (With Gerda Elata-Alster and Benjamin Maoz). "Narcissism and Creativity: The Function of Triangulation in Franz Rosenzweig's Life and Work: The Gritli Letters." In: Wolfdietrich SchmiedKowarzik (Hg.). Franz Rosenzweigs “neues Denken”. Internationaler Kongress Kassel 2004. Vol.2. Freiburg/München: Karl Alber, 2006: 1195-1222.
18. “Adaptation, 'adaptation' and Adaptation: Žižek and the Commonplace.” Film-Philosophy Vol.8.27 (August 2004). www.film-philosophy.com/vol.8-2004/n27skradol
19. “Figures and Figures of Speech in Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her. Multitudes (Paris), Vol.8 (1) (2003) (in French). Internet version: http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=111
20. “Peter Greenaway’s Pillow-Book and Walter Benjamin’s Passagenwerk: The Temptations of Montage.” Film and Philosophy 9 (2005): 94-112.
21. Book Review: A review of Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War by Emma Widdis. Utopian Studies 16.2 (Summer 2005): 287-290