Katerina Clark

 

Katerina Clark is Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Her research interests include Russian culture of the twentieth century including the arts and linguistic and scientific thought, with an emphasis on the 20s, 30s, and the recent period.

Born in Australia, Clark received her B.A and M.A at Melbourne University and the Australian National University, respectively. She received her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Russian Literature at Yale University.

She has published a number of books seminal to Slavic studies.

bulletThe Soviet Novel: History as Ritual (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981) was reprinted in paperback with a new Afterword updating the account in 1985.
bulletPetersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995) also came out in paperback in 1998.
bulletwith Michael Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin, (Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press [Harvard University Press], 1984, 1985; paperback 1986), has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Portuguese.

Clark is currently working on a cultural history spanning the years 1925-1941, tentatively titled Moscow, the Fourth Rome.

The title of her paper at the Stanford Conference will be "The King Is Dead/Long Live the King: Intelligentsia Ideology in Transition."