Irene Delić

Irene Masing-Delić
Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University, Research Professor, The University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill

Education

Docent, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1974
Ph.D. Stockholm University, Filosofie doktor, 1971
M.A. Stockholm University, 1965
B.A. Uppsala University, 1961

Intellectual Biography & Awards

My research areas are Russian literature of the fin-de-siecle (prose and poetry), early Soviet literature and two of the major classics of the 19th century: Turgenev and Dostoevsky. A recent interest is Vladimir Nabokov’s Russian novels. I hope to collect the 5-6 articles on him that I have written (and published) and combine them with some I am currently working on, hoping to eventually produce a book on the “Eurydice-theme” in his writing. I publish in a broad variety of journals both in the U.S. and in Europe. I was also given two awards during the AATSEEL conference in February 2020. One was: the 2019 Distinguished Service to AATSEEL Award; the other: the 2019 Slavic and East European Journal Award for Best Article Cluster.

Recent Publications

“Visiting Johannes von Guenther.” Skreshcheniia sudeb. Literarische und kulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Russland und dem Westen. A Festschrift for Fedor B. Poljakov. Edited by Lazar Fleishman, Stefan Michael Newerkla, and Michael Wachtel. Berlin: GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2019. (707-710)

“Bloodied Eyes, Dancing Dolls, and Other Hoffmannian Motifs in Nabokov’s King, Queen, Knave”
Nabokov Online Journal, Volume XII, 2018. http://www.nabokovonline.com/ (25pp.)

“The ‘Overcoat’ of Nabokov’s Luzhin. Defense as Self-Destruction. Partial Answers, vol. 17/1. 2017.

“Martin Edelweiss’s Quest for Glory, Guided by Prospero and Other Wizards.” Scando-Slavica: Tomus 60:1, 2014 (pp.28-54).

“Nabokov’s Mary as a Tragicomedy of Errors and Homage to Blok.” SEEJ: vol. 57, nr. 3, 2013 (pp. 424-449).

“Black Blood, White Roses: Apocalypse and Redemption in Blok’s Later Poetry,” chapter in Shapes of Apocalypse, Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought, edited by Andrea Oppo, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013 (pp. 134-153); also published in Italian: “Sangue Nero, Rose Bianche: Apocalisse e Redenzio nelle Ultime Poesie di Blok,” Figure dell’Apocalisse, Arte e Filosofia nel Pensiero Slavo, edited by Andrea Oppo, Cagliari: Pontificia Facolta Teologica della Sardegna, 2013 [book chapter].

“Wagner, Lang and Mythopoeic Muddle in Nabokov’s Pnin,” SEEJ, 56: 3, 2012.

“Replication or Recreation? The Eurydice Motif in Nabokov’s Russian Oeuvre,” Russian Literature, LXX-III, 2012 (pp. 391-415).

Additional Information

After five years as editor of The Slavic and East European Journal housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013-2017), I retired from that role. I regard it as the most important and rewarding service I have given to our field.