Research:

* Program notes for Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra's Russian concerts (1995-6)
* Book Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World

Publications:

BOOKS:

A Double Garland: Poetry and Art-Song in Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia; Studies in Russian Literature and Theory (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2000).

Notes on Fishing, by Sergei Aksakov (translated, annotated and introduced by Thomas P. Hodge); Studies in Russian Literature and Theory (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997).

ARTICLES:

"Ivan Sergeevich Aksakov"; "Aleksei Nikolaevich Apukhtin." In The Dictionary of Literary Biography (Washington, D.C.: The Gale Group, 2002). In volume Russian Literature in the Age of Realism; in press.

"Gogol': Dead Souls"; "Pushkin: Selected Works." In The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999). Vol. 1, pp. 549-51; vol. 2, pp. 1127-31.

"Susanin, Two Glinkas, and Ryleev: History-Making in A Life for the Tsar"; in Intersections and Transpositions: Russian Music, Literature, Society, Studies in Russian Literature and Theory, edited by Andrew Wachtel (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998), pp. 3-19.

"Darkness Made Visible," Los Angeles Philharmonic Times, vol. 2, No. 3, 1995, pp. 1-4.

"‘Chin china pochitai’: Zhukovskii and Pushkin in the Russian Art-song Enterprise," in Themes and Variations: In Honor of Lazar Fleishman (Temy i variatsii: Sbornik statei i materialov k 50-letiiu Lazaria Fleishmana); Stanford Slavic Studies (Stanford, 1994), vol. 8, pp. 133-68.

"Elementy freidizma v Pered voskhodom solntsa Zoshchenko," in Iu. V. Tomashevskii, ed., Litso i maska Mikhaila Zoshchenko (Moscow: Olimp-PPP, 1994), pp. 254-78.

"‘Gde ty, moi brat?’: Poet i chinovnik Vasilii Aliab¢ev," Litsa (Biograficheskii al'manakh), vol. 2 (Moscow: Feniks-Atheneum, 1993), pp. 39-58.

"Mutatis Mutandis: Del'vig, Aljab'ev and ‘Solovej,’" Slavic and East European Arts, vol. 8, No. 1, Summer, 1993, pp. 18-48.

"Freudian Elements in Zoshchenko's Pered voskhodom solntsa," Slavonic and East European Review, January 1989, pp. 1-28.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Review of Richard Taruskin's Defining Russia Musically (1997); in Common Knowledge, vol. 7, no. 3 (Winter 1998), p. 178.

"The Icon and the Hacks," review article on Richard Taruskin's Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue (Princeton, 1993); in The New Republic, 8 August 1994, pp. 38-41.

PROGRAM NOTES:

Program notes on Musorgskii's St. John¹s Night on Bald Mountain, Songs and Dances of Death, scenes from Boris Godunov, and Skriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, for performances by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen in Los Angeles on 13, 14, 16, 17 December 1995. Performing Arts, vol. 29, no. 12 (December 1995), pp. P13-P16.

Program notes on Chaikovskii's opera Iolanta, commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic for Kirov Opera's concert performance of the piece under Valerii Gergiev in Los Angeles, 25-28 May 1995. Performing Arts, vol. 29, no. 5 (May 1995), pp. P14-P16.

Program notes on composers Valentin Silvestrov, Galina Ustvol'skaia, Alexandre Rabinovitch and Charles Ives for Los Angeles Philharmonic's New Music Concerts recital by pianist Alexei Lubimov (16 January 1995). The Green Umbrella: Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, pp. 2-5.

Selected Awards, Honors, Fellowships:

May 1998: My translation of Notes on Fishing was named one of two runners-up for the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club 1998 Translation of the Year

Summer 1993-present: Fellow/Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University

Jan. 1990-Jan. 1991: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) / American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in Russian and Soviet Studies

Selected Lectures and Conferences:

18 Nov. 1997: Gave lecture "The Rise of the Russian Fishing Treatise," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Annual Convention, Seattle

16 Nov. 1996: Chaired panel "He Who Pays the Fiddler: Russian Opera and Its Sponsors," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Annual Convention, Boston

22 Feb. 1996: Gave lecture "The Nightingale's Nest: Del'vig, Aliab'ev and ‘Solovei,’" at the Harvard Russian Research Center (Russian Literature Lecture Series)

28 Oct. 1995: Gave lecture "Permutations of Russian Nationalism in Glinka's Zhizn' za Tsaria," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

17 Nov. 1994: Gave lecture "The Russian Romance: Musical Roots of a Literary Genre," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Annual Convention, Philadelphia

29 Dec. 1993: Gave lecture "Follow the Lieder: Musical Translations of Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry" (lecture), American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada

30 Dec. 1988: Gave lecture, "On F. I. Tolstoy and Dolokhov," American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.

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