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Nina Gourianova (Gurianova), Assistant Professor of Russian, is a literature and art historian and has specialized in both Russian and European modernism, with a specific emphasis on twentieth-century avant-garde movements, and contemporary culture. She has PhDs in both Russian Literature (Columbia University) and Art History (Moscow Lomonosov University). She is the author of several books and albums on the art and literature of the Russian Avant-garde, published in Russia, Europe and United States. Before coming to Northwestern this year, she was teaching at Colgate (Fall 2003-Spring 2004). In 1998-2002 she was a Fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows. Professor Gourianova has lectured at major universities and museums throughout the world. She served as the primary curatorial consultant to the Museum of Modern Art on the exhibition of Russian Futurist and Constructivist books in 2002, and participated in the organization and catalogues of Amazons of the Avant-garde: A. Exter, N. Goncharova, L. Popova, O. Rozanova, V. Stepanova, N. Udaltsova (1998-99), and "Kazimir Malevich" (2002-2003) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Her current book aims to place Russian material, in all its originality, firmly within the context of European modernism, as well as to correlate it to twentieth-century theories and philosophies of art.
Recent courses taught:
Slavic 211-2: 20th Century Rrussian Literature
Slavic 359-2: Russian Prose
Slavic 369-0: 20th Century Russian Drama and Theater
Slavic 378-0 Visual Art in the Context of Russian Culture
Slavic 411-0 Proseminar- Graduate Seminar
Slavic 438: Studies in 20th Century Russian Literature-Graduate Seminar
Research Interests:
Nina Gourianova's interdisciplinary training intersects with the wide variety of methodological and historical issues that Russian literature, art and cinema of the twentieth century necessarily carry with them. Her research addresses the cultural and social collision of European and Russian modernisms while seeking to understand the twentieth century culture as both an artistic and literary phenomenon. Professor Gourianova' scholarly training and interests specifically encompass the analysis of major European pre-war movements, interrelations between art and politics, and contemporary cultural studies.
Projects:
"Aesthetics of Anarchy: Russian Avant-Garde," (under contract with University of California Press)
Selected Publications:
Books
Olga Rozanova i Russkii Avangard. Katalog-resonne. Moscow: Gileiia, 2002. 370 pp., ill.
Exploring Color: Olga Rozanova and Early Russian Avant-garde. London: Gordon and Breach, 2000. 247 pp., ill.
Iz literaturnogo naslediia Kruchenykh / Aleksei Kruchenykh: Unpublished Poetry, Prose, Critique. (In Russian) Edited, introduction and commentary by Nina Gurianova. Modern Russian Literature and Culture, Studies and Texts; vol. 41. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, Oakland, California., 1999. 498 pp.
Elena Guro: Writings from Archives. Introduction, commentaries, ed. together with Anna Lunggren. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 1995. 132 pp.
The Russian Futurists and their Books. (In English and French). Limited facsimile edition, 1000 copies. Paris: Le Hune, 1994. Selected Articles
"The Supremus OLaboratory-House: Reconstruction of an Avant-garde Journal," in Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism, exhibition catalogue, ed. By Matthew Drutt. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2003, p. 44-59
"A Game in Hell, Hard Work in Heaven: Deconstructing Canon in Russian Futurist Books," in Russian Futurist and Constructivist Books, exhibition catalogue, ed. by Deborah Whye. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002, p.24-32
"Futurism," (co-authored with Henryk Baran) in V. A. Keldysh, ed. Russkaia literatura rubezha vekov. 1890-e nachalo 1920-kh godov. Vol. 2. Institut Mirovoi Literatury Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Moscow: Nasledie, 2001.
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