Publications
ORCID: 0000-0002-4838-6454
Books
- Prosa als Form des Engagements: Eine politische Prosaik der Literatur [Prose as a Form of Commitment. A Political Prosaics of Literature]. Paderborn: Brill Fink, 2022.
- Das Schriftsteller-Notizbuch als Denkmedium in der russischen und deutschen Literatur [The Writerʼs Notebook as a Medium of Thinking in Russian and German Literature]. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018.
- “Sud’ba ne poterpit izmeny”: Poėziia Konstantina Vasil’eva [“Fate Won’t Tolerate Betrayal”: Poetry by Konstantin Vasiliev]. Moscow: Sovpadenie, 2016.
- Zapisnaia knizhka pisatelia: stenogramma Zhizni [The Writer’s Notebook: a Shorthand Record of Life]. Moscow: Sovpadenie, 2012.
Coedited Volumes
- (forthcoming, coedited with Marina Balina) The Politics of Text and Image in Children’s Culture: Contemporary Eastern Europe and Beyond (under consideration with Routledge’s Children’s Literature and Culture series).
- Sehen, Hören, Berühren: Multisensorische Perspektiven auf Medialität in Osteuropa [Seeing, Hearing, Touching: Multisensory Perspectives on Mediality in Eastern Europe]. Coedited with Philipp Kohl. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024 (a special volume of the Wiener Slavistischer Almanach).
- Prosa: Geschichte, Poetik, Theorie [Prose: History, Poetics, Theory]. Coedited with Michael Gamper. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2021. Print und Open Access: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110729085/html
Guest Editor in Journals
- Große Formen. Ästhetik und Epistemologie des extensiven Schreibens [Long Forms. Aesthetics and Epistemology of Extensive Writing]. Special issue of Zeitschrift für Germanistik, NF 30 (2020), no. 3. Coedited with Mark-Georg Dehrmann.
- Autor und Werk: Wechselwirkungen und Perspektiven [Author and Work: Correlations and Perspectives]. Special issue 3 (2, 2018) of Textpraxis. Digitales Journal für Philologie.
Open Access: https://www.textpraxis.net/sonderausgabe-3
Literary edition
- Konstantin Vasilʼev: “Chto bratʼ s berushcheĭ v dolg dushi?” Stikhotvoreniia. Perevody. Statʼi [“What is there to take from a borrowing soul?” Poems. Translations. Essays]. Compilation, foreword, biography, comments by Svetlana Efimova. Moscow: Sovpadenie, 2015.
Selected articles
- (forthcoming) “Individual Agency and Critical Thinking in Contemporary Belarusian and Russian Picturebooks,” in: The Politics of Text and Image in Children’s Culture: Contemporary Eastern Europe and Beyond. Ed. by Svetlana Efimova and Marina Balina.
- (forthcoming) “Therapeutic Writing Strategies in Contemporary Ukrainian Children’s Books about War and Refugee Experience,” in: Filoteknos. Children’s Literature – Cultural Mediation – Anthropology of Childhood 14, 2024.
- “Mutually Exclusive Narratives: Karel Čapek’s “The White Plague” at the Savoy Theatre and the Unique History of its Reception,” in: The Days After. Ethical Dilemmas of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society in 20th and 21st Century Theatre in the Light of Karel Čapek’s Plays R.U.R. and The White Plague. Ed. by Martina Pecková Černá, Hasan Zahirović. Prague: Arts and Theatre Institute, 2023, p. 40-46.
- “Sehen, hören, Krieg erleben: Drei Bilderbücher des ukrainischen Duos Agrafka” [To See, to Hear, to Experience War: Three Picturebooks by the Ukrainian Duo Agrafka], in: Sehen, Hören, Berühren: Multisensorische Perspektiven auf Medialität in Osteuropa. Ed. by Svetlana Efimova, Philipp Kohl. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024, p. 283–331.
- “KI-Textgenerierung und Autor:innenschaft am Beispiel von AI: When a Robot Writes a Play” [AI Text Generation and Authorship: The Case of AI: When a Robot Writes a Play (2021)] (2021), in: Autor:innenschaft und/als Arbeit. Zum Verhältnis von Praktiken, Inszenierung und Infrastrukturen. Ed. By Alena Heinritz, Julia Nantke. Paderborn: Brill Fink, 2024, p. 117–130. Print and Open Access. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846768471_009
- “Universalism and Particularism in Religious and Political Teaching of the Late Tolstoy: The Case of Islam”, in: Tolstoy Studies Journal 35 (2023), p. 85–89.
- “Zyklizität des Anthropozentrismus: Karel Čapek und der Anthropozän-Diskurs” [The Cyclicity of Anthropocentrism: Karel Čapek and the Discourse of the Anthropocene], in: Kulturen im Anthropozän / Cultures in the Anthropocene. Ed. by Nora Zapf, Teresa Millesi and Martin Coy. München: oekom, 2023, p. 397–413.
- “Künstliche Intelligenz 1921 & 2021: R.U.R. und AI: When a Robot Writes a Play” [Artificial Intelligence in 1921 & 2021: R.U.R. and AI: When a Robot Writes a Play], in: Ein Jahrhundert Roboter. Karel Čapeks „R.U.R.“ (1920/1921). Beiträge zum 13. Bohemicum Dresdense 02.07.2022. Ed. by Holger Kuße. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023, p. 67–81.
- “Anton Čechov e la Scuola di Berlino: Afternoon (2007) di Angela Schanelec” [Anton Chekhov and the Cinema of the Berlin School: Angela Schanelec’s Afternoon (2007)], in: Sulle orme di Čechov. Riletture, adattamenti, trasposizioni. Ed. by Donatella Di Leo, Giorgia Rimondi, Giulia Marcucci, Manuel Boschiero. Rome: WriteUp Books, 2022, p. 241–258.
- “Russkaia azbuka v kartinakh: iskusstvo, ėtnografiia, politika dorevoliutsionnogo vremeni” [Russian ABC-books with Pictures: Art, Ethnography and Politics of the Pre-Revolutionary Era], in: Uchebnik kak modelʼ mira i obshchestva: kollektivnaia monografiia. Ed. by T.V. Artemʼeva, M.I. Mikeshin. Sankt-Peterburg: SPb centr istorii ideĭ; Politekhnika Servis, 2021, p. 70–81.
- “The October Revolution as the Passion of Christ: Boris Pasternak’s Easter Narrative in Doctor Zhivago and Its Cultural Contexts”, in: Religions 12 (2021), no. 7, 461 (Special Issue “East-Slavic Religions and Religiosity: Mythologies, Literature and Folklore: A Reassessment”, ed. by Dennis Ioffe). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12070461
- “Prosa im Plural? Versuch einer Mereologie des Prosabegriffes” [Prose in the Plural? An Attempt of a Mereology of the Term Prose], in: Prosa: Geschichte, Poetik, Theorie. Ed. by Svetlana Efimova, Michael Gamper. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, p. 81–96.
- “Einleitung” [Introduction] (together with Michael Gamper), in: Prosa: Geschichte, Poetik, Theorie. Ed. by Svetlana Efimova, Michael Gamper. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, p. 1–13.
- “Das Werk als Entgrenzung. Werkkomplex und Dynamik des Gesamtwerks” [The Literary Work as Dissolution of Boundaries. Series of Works and Dynamics of the Oeuvre], in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, NF 31 (2021), no. 1, p. 139–154.
- “Grenzräume des liminalen Dichters Jakub Deml: topographische, sprachliche und existenzielle Identitätssuche” [Border Spaces of the Liminal Poet Jakub Deml: Topographical, Linguistic and Existential Search for Identity], in: Sarmatien – Germania Slavica – Mitteleuropa. Vom Grenzland im Osten über Bobrowskis Utopie zur Ästhetik des Grenzraums / Sarmatia – Germania Slavica – Central Europe. From the Borderland in the East and Johannes Bobrowski’s Utopia to a Border Aesthetics. Ed. by Sabine Egger, Stefan Hajduk and Britta C. Jung. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, p. 271–287.
- “Die Vermessung des Schreibens. Navid Kermanis Dein Name als Poetologie der Großform” [The Measuring of Writing. Navid Kermani’s Your Name as a Poetology of the Long Form], in: Große Formen. Ästhetik und Epistemologie des extensiven Schreibens. Ed. by Mark-Georg Dehrmann, Svetlana Efimova. Special issue of Zeitschrift für Germanistik, NF 30 (2020), no. 3, p. 561–576.
- “Große Formen. Ästhetik und Epistemologie des extensiven Schreibens. Vorwort” [Long Forms. Aesthetics and Epistemology of Extensive Writing. Introduction] (together with Mark-Georg Dehrmann), in: Große Formen. Ästhetik und Epistemologie des extensiven Schreibens. Ed. by Mark-Georg Dehrmann, Svetlana Efimova. Special issue of Zeitschrift für Germanistik, NF 30 (2020), no. 3, p. 535–539.
- “Vorobyshek na dreve Vselennoĭ: Ptitsa kak leĭtmotiv poėzii Veniamina Blazhennogo” [A Little Sparrow on the World Tree: The Bird as a Leitmotif of Veniamin Blazhennyĭ’s Poetry], in: Ptica kak obraz, simvol, koncept v literature, kulʼture i jazyke. Ed. by A. I. Smirnova. Moscow: Knigodel, 2019, p. 219–227.
- “Worlding-Praxis: Weltliteratur als Produkt moderner (Autor-)Strategien” [Worlding Practice: World Literature as a Product of Modern (Authors’) Strategies], in: Vergleichende Weltliteraturen / Comparative World Literatures. DFG-Symposion 2018. Ed. by Dieter Lamping, Galin Tihanov. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2019, p. 81–96.
- “Geschmack als Medium der Autobiographie. Ivan Šmelёvs Das Jahr des Herrn (1948)” [Sense of Taste as a Medium of Autobiography. Ivan Shmelёv’s The Year of the Lord (1948)], in: Gegessen? Essen und Erinnerung in den Literaturen der Welt. Ed. by Caspar Battegay, Lena Henningsen and Kai Wiegandt. Berlin: Neofelis, 2019, p. 183–208.
- “Chinovnik ili eretik? Problema ‘professii’ i zhiznetvorchestvo v publitsistike Evgeniia Zamiatina posle 1917 g.” [Clerk or Heretic? The Problem of ‘Profession’ and ‘Life-Creation’ in the Nonfiction of Evgeniĭ Zamiatin After 1917], in: Studi Slavistici XVI (2019, 1), p. 125–141, https://doi.org/10.13128/Studi_Slavis-22874
- “Einleitung. Autor und Werk: Dynamik eines (un-)problematischen Verhältnisses” [Introduction. The Author and the Work: Dynamics of an (Un)Problematic Relationship], in: Autor und Werk. Wechselwirkungen und Perspektiven. Ed. by Svetlana Efimova. Special issue 3 (2, 2018) of Textpraxis. Digitales Journal für Philologie, http://dx.doi.org/10.17879/77159531451
- “Russkaia filologicheskaia proza (20-21 vv.): vne zhanra, mezhdu zhanrami ili novyĭ zhanr?” [Russian philological prose (20th–21st c.): outside of genres, between genres, or a new genre?], in: Deutsche Beiträge zum 16. Internationalen Slavistenkongress, Belgrad 2018. Ed. by Sebastian Kempgen, Monika Wingender and Ludger Udolph. Wiesbaden 2018, p. 377–386.
- “Dichtertod und Himmelfahrt: Mystisch-religiöse Motive im Textkomplex um den Briefdialog zwischen Rilke und Marina Cvetaeva” [Poet’s Death and the Ascension: Mystical-Religious Motifs in the Group of Texts around the Epistolary Dialogue between Rilke and Marina Tsvetaeva], in: „Polytheismus der Einbildungskraft“. Wechselspiele von Literatur und Religion von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. by Tomas Sommadossi. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2018, p. 139–155.
- “‘Man hat hier alles in Bild und Schrift beisammen’: Wissenserzeugung in Theodor Fontanes Notizbüchern und Werk” [‘One Has Here Everything in Pictures and Writing Together’: Generating Knowledge in Theodor Fontane’s Notebooks and Work], in: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 4 (2017), p. 501–532.
- “Vorstudie und Formel: Zur Werkpolitik der frühen Erzählungen von Thomas Mann” [A Preliminary Study and a Formula: On the Work Politics of Thomas Mann’s Early Stories], in: Lectures des récits et nouvelles de jeunesse de Thomas Mann (1893-1912). Ed. by Frédéric Teinturier, Jean-François Laplénie. Paris: LʼHarmattan, 2017, p. 55–75.
- “Thomas Manns Notizbücher im Lichte narratologischer Theoriebildung” [Thomas Mann’s Notebooks in the Light of the Theory of Narration], in: Der Geist der Erzählung. Narratologische Studien zu Thomas Mann. Ed. by Jens Ewen, Tim Lörke, Regine Zeller. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2017, p. 65–86.
- “Das Spiel mit der räumlichen Materialität des Notizbuchs als Teil des Aufschreibeprozesses” [Playing with the Spatial Materiality of the Notebook as Part of the Writing Process], in: Spielräume und Raumspiele in der Literatur. Ed. by Julia Dettke, Elisabeth Heine. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2016, p. 263–277.
- “Das Notizbuch als ‚literarisches Faktum‘. Das auktoriale Selbstbild von Vladimir Majakovskij” [The Notebook as a ‚Literary Fact‘. The Authorial Self-Image of Vladimir Mayakovsky], in: Grenzräume – Grenzbewegungen. Ergebnisse der Arbeitstreffen des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft Basel 2013 / Frankfurt (Oder) und Słubice 2014. Ed. by Nina Frieß, Gunnar Lenz, Erik Martin. In 2 vol. Vol. 2. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag, 2016, p. 59–71.
- “Denkprozesse in den Notizbüchern von Lev Tolstoj, Thomas Mann und Bertolt Brecht” [Thinking Processes in the Notebooks of Lev Tolstoy, Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht], in: Narration and Reflection. Ed. by Stefano Ercolino and Christy Wampole. Special issue of Compar(a)ison. An International Journal of Comparative Literature. I-II 2010 [2015], p. 129–150.
- “Poeziia Konstantina Vasilʼeva v kontekste manifestov metarealizma i metametaforizma 1980-ch gg.” [Konstantin Vasiliev’s Poetry in the Context of Manifestos of Metarealism and Metametaphorism of the 1980s], in: Golosa russkoĭ provintsii: nauchno-chudozhestvennyĭ sbornik. Vyp. 9. Ed. by M.G. Ponomareva. Iaroslavlʼ: izd-vo JGPU, 2016, p. 135–143.
- “Problemy nauchnogo izdaniia zapisnykh knizhek pisateleĭ (XIX-XX vv.) v svete noveĭshikh editsionnykh proektov” [Problems of Academic Edition of Writers’ Notebooks (19th–20th c.) in the Light of the Latest Edition Projects], in: Tekstologiia i istoriko-literaturnyĭ protsess. Vyp. 3. Ed. by L.A. Novitskas, A.N. Pershkina, A.S. Fedotov. Moscow: Lider, 2015, p. 147–157.
- “Anekdot i ‚iazykovoe soprotivlenie‘ v russkom iazyke XX v. v zerkale zapisnykh knizhek E.I. Zamiatina, I.A. Ilʼfa i Ven. Erofeeva” [Joke and “Verbal Resistance” in the Russian Language of the 20th Century in the Mirror of the Notebooks of Evgeny Zamyatin, Ilya Ilʼf and Venedict Erofeev], in: Structures & Functions: Studies in Russian Linguistics, 3 (2014), p. 116–125.
- “O sinkretizme tvorcheskogo protsessa u M.Iu. Lermontova: rabochie tetradi i ʻstsena pisʼmaʼ” [On the Syncretism of the Writing Process of Mikhail Lermontov: His Workbooks and the Scene of Writing], in: „My pochti vsegda izviniaem to, chto ponimaem“. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, posviashchennykh 200-letnemu iubileiu M.Iu. Lermontova (Bibliotheca Slavica Savariensis. Tomus XIV). Ed. by Angelika Molnár, István Pozsgai. Szombathely 2014, p. 55–63.
- “Obraz zapisnoĭ knizhki v Pisʼmakh russkogo puteshestvennika N.M. Karamzina i statʼiach E.R. Dashkovoĭ” [Depiction of the Notebook in Letters of a Russian Traveler by Nikolai Karamzin and in Essays by Ekaterina Dashkova], in: Izvestiia Smolenskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 1 (25), 2014, p. 7–15.
- “,Chelovek s zapisnoĭ knizhkoĭ‘: Anton Chekhov, Tennesi Uilʼiams i Norman Levin” [“The Man with the Notebook”: Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams and Norman Levine], in: Molodye issledovateli Chekhova. Vyp. 7: Materialy mezhd. nauchno-prakt. konf. (Melikhovo, maĭ 2012). Ed. by E.D. Orlov. Moscow: Melikhovo, 2013, p. 172–184.
- “Duša i veter, putnik i ptitsa, smertʼ i son: ,strannye sblizhenʼia‘ v poezii Veniamina Blazhennogo i Konstantina Vasilʼeva” [The Soul and Wind, a Wanderer and a Bird, Death and a Dream: ‘Strange Proximities’ in the Poetry of Veniamin Blazhennyi and Konstantin Vasiliev], in: Po stupeniam sveta. K 90-letiiu Veniamina Blazhennogo. Ed. by U.Iu. Verina. Minsk: Pravo i ekonomika, 2012, p. 70–82.
- “Folʼklorno-mifologicheskie konstanty v poezii K. Vasilʼeva i V. Blazhennogo” [Folkloristic-Mythological Constants in the Poetry of Konstantin Vasiliev and Veniamin Blazhennyi], in: Folʼkloristicheskie issledovaniia. Kontekst. Tipologiia. Sviazi. Vyp. 9. Minsk: Pravo i ekonomika, 2012, p. 223–233.
- “Zapisnaia knizhka pisatelia i literatura postmodernizma: tochki sblizheniia” [The Writer’s Notebook and Postmodern Literature: Points of Convergence], in: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica 5 (2012), p. 100–110.
- “O Veniamine Blazhennom, ‘Minskoĭ shkole’ i Dniach Pamiati” [On Veniamin Blazhennyi, the “Minsk School” and the Days of Commemoration], in: Literaturnaia Ucheba 6 (2011), p. 144–151.
- “The Metrical and Stanzaic Forms of Konstantin Vasiliev”, in: Formal Methods in Poetics. A Collection of Scholarly Works Dedicated to the Memory of Professor M.A. Krasnoperova. Ed. by Barry P. Scherr, James Bailey, Evgeny V. Kazartsev. Lüdenscheid: RAM-Verlag, 2011, p. 171–190.
- “Posledniĭ iz minnezingerov, ili Novyĭ pisatelʼ Russkogo Severa” [The Last of the Minstrels, or a New Writer of the Russian North], in: Literaturnaia Ucheba 2 (2011), p. 30–36.
- “L.N. Tolstoĭ i F.M. Dostoevskiĭ v publitsistike Genrikha i Tomasa Mannov” [Lev Tolstoy and Fedor Dostoevsky in the Essays of Heinrich and Thomas Mann], in: Sravnitel’noe i obshchee literaturovedenie: Sbornik stateĭ molodych uchenych. Vypusk 3. Ed. by L.V. Chernec, N.A. Solovʼeva, N.Z. Kolʼcova. Moscow: MAKS Press, 2010, p. 52–61.
- “Zapisnye knizhki A.P. Chekhova: lichnostnoe nachalo, mirovozzrenie, literaturnyĭ kontekst” [Anton Chekhov’s Notebooks: Personal Origins, Worldview, and Literary Context], in: Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriia 9, Filologiia, 6 (2010), p. 134–145.
- “Stilʼ pisem Chekhova 1880 i 1888 gg. v kontekste tvorchestva i biografii pisatelia” [The Style of Chekhov’s Letters from 1880 and 1888 in the Context of His Work and Biography], in: Molodye issledovateli Chekhova. Vyp. 6: Materialy mezhd. nauchno-prakt. konf. (Moskva, maĭ 2008). Moscow: Melikhovo, 2009, p. 187–195.
- “Chetyre obraza mira i slovo v romane Sashi Sokolova Mezhdu sobakoĭ i volkom” [Four Images of the World and the Word in Sasha Sokolov’s Novel Between Dog and Wolf], in: Izvestiia Smolenskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 1 (2008), p. 42–50.