Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva

Education:

Ph.D., Emory University - 1999 (Literature, Comparative)

Areas of Expertise:

Postmodern American literature, English and continental romanticisms, 20th-century East European literature, literary theory, cultural studies.

Books and Publications

"Spoken Revolutions: Discursive Resistance in Bulgarian Late Communist Culture." Poetics Today 30:1, Spring. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

"Toward a Meta Understanding of Reality: The Problem of Reference in Russian Metarealist Poetry." Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 30.2. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

"Reference, History and Memory in Russian Conceptualist Poetry." Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 59.1, Spring. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"They Will Die Last Night / We Have Lived Tomorrow: Traumatic Displacements of the Avant-garde in Bob Perelman's The Future of Memory." Studies in the Humanities 31.1: 1-24. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004

"Trauma, Media Technology and Psychic Restoration in the Contemporary British Novel: The Testimonies of J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition." College Language Association Journal XLV. 3: 388-404. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

"Testimonial Poetry in East European Post-Totalitarian Literature." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, March. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001

"Rethinking the Canon. Ulysses: Modernist? Postmodernist? Minor?" Journal X: A Journal in Culture & Criticism, Spring. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999

Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History, by M. Keith Booker and Dubravka Juraga. World Literature Today, Spring. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 1996

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Reclaiming Reference in Testimonial Writing: A Study of American Late Avant-garde Poetry." CUNY Junior Faculty Colloquium of the CUNY Academy for the Sciences and Humanities. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

"Reference Beyond Cognition, Language Before Thought: The 'Meaning' of Postmodernism's Nonsemantic Poetry." 107th Annual Conference of the PAMLA. San Francisco State University. Nov. 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Discursive Resistance in Bulgarian Late Communist Culture." Samizdat and Underground Culture in the Soviet Bloc Countries Penn Humanities Forum. University of Pennsylvania. April 6-7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"How to Make Sense: The Challenges of Teaching Postmodern Poetry." Teaching and Research Seminar. Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities. Brooklyn College. April 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

"After the Future: Poetic Testimonies to the Translocation of the Avant-garde in the Reality of Consumer Society." Poetry and Poetics panel, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Reed College. Portland, Ore., Nov. 5-7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

"Overtaking the Future: Eschatological Ruptures and Psychic Disfigurement in Russian Late Avant-Garde Poetry." The Sixth International Literature and Humanities Conference: Modern and Postmodern Artistic Avant-Gardes. Eastern Mediterranean University. Famagusta, North Cyprus, June 4-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

"Poets of the American Post-Avant-Garde: An Inquiry Into the Works of Bob Perelman." Works-in-Progress Seminar. Brooklyn College. September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

"They Will Die Last Night / We Have Lived Tomorrow?: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Bob Perelman's The Future of Memory." The American Literature Association Symposium: 20th-Century American Poetry: Developments and Definitions. Long Beach, Calif., March 13-15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

"Toward a Meta-Understanding of Reality: The Problem of Reference in Russian Metarealist Poetry." Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. New York, Dec. 27-30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002

"Discourse Networks: Friedrich Kittler on the Inscription Systems of 1800/1900." The Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001

"Reference, Trauma and History in American Postmodern Poetry: The Testimonies of Language Writing." Rethinking Center and Margin in American Poetry panel, Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 22-24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001

"Memory and History in Late Twentieth-Century Experimental Writing: The Case of American Poetry." Poetry and Poetics: Poetic Experimentation, Canonical Reconsiderations panel, PAMLA Conference. UCLA. Nov. 10-12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000

"Trauma, Media Technology and Psychic Restoration in the Contemporary British Novel: The Testimonies of J. G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition." Twentieth-Century English Literature: Trauma as Narrative in the Modern British Novel panel, Central New York Conference on Languages and Literatures. SUNY at Cortland. Oct. 28-31. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000

Presentation on the Poetry and Theoretic Writings of Charles Bernstein, Bob Perelman and Susan Howe. Works-in-Progress Seminar. Brooklyn College. Oct. 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000

"Catastrophe and the Limits of Representation." Violence and Representation Conference. Emory University. Atlanta, Feb. 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998

"Literature of Survival: Constructing a Life After the Future." Literature and Psychology: Trauma as Collective Cultural Phenomenon panel, 55th Annual Meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, Nov. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998

"Post-totalitarian Traumas, Post-modernist Testimonies: History, Reference and Memory in Post-1990 Bulgarian Poetry." Echoes of the Past in Post-1990 Bulgarian Culture panel, 30th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Boca Raton, Fla., Sept. 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998

"Referentiality in Postmodern Writing: The Poetry of Russian Conceptualism." University of Chicago SLAVIC FORUM, A Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Literatures. Chicago, April 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998