Allan Reid
Professor and Chair
Allan Reid has been Chair of Culture and Language Studies since its creation in 1999. He has published on a variety of subjects, including Soviet and Russian literary theory (Lotman and Bakhtin), various aspects of Russian literature (primarily 20th-century), and recently his focus has been on Soviet underground culture and literature from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, in particular, the poetry and life of Natalia Gorbanevskaia.
He has taught a large number of courses in Russian Language, Literature and Culture, World Literature, and Holocaust Literature.
He is also currently Chair of the AUNBT Grievance Committee.
- PhD, U of Alberta
- MA U of Alberta
- BA (hon) U of Sask
Selected Publications
(Co-Author with Marina Rojavin) A Guide to Russian Words and Expressions That Cause Difficulties. Studies in Slavic Language and Literature No. 23. Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 232 pp.
"Natalia Gorbanevskaia". Russian Poets of the Soviet Era. Ed. Karen Rosneck. Dictionary of Literary Biography, 359. 2011. 107-119
"Gorbanevskaia and Poland: From Pol'sha to Novaia Pol'sha". Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol 50, 1-2 (March-June 2008). 85-100
"От Бартока до Бутырки: о конфликте гражданского и лирического в ранней поэзии Натальи Горбаневской." Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 2008, No. 91. http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2008/91/ri13.html
AGorbanevskaia in Paris and Paris in the Poetry of Gorbanevskaia@. La Russia et le monde francophone. Ed Douglas Clayton. Ottawa: Le Groupe de recherche en etudes slaves de l’Universite d’Ottawa, 2007. 269-290
Selected Presentations
May 28, 2012 - "Natalia Gorbanevskaia: The Musical Connection" Can Ass’n of Slavists (CAS) Annual Mtg, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, U of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
Mar 20, 2012 - "Movement’ as Operative Principle in Gorbanevskaia’s Poetry and Life". Invited Lecture, Dep’t of Slavic Studies, Harvard U, Cambridge, Mass
Nov 18, 2011 - "Confronting and Constructing Memory: Henryk Grynberg’s Drohobycz, Drohobycz". American Society for East European and Eurasian Studies (ASSEEES) National Convention, Washington, DC
May 28, 2011 - "Henryk Grynberg’s Strategies in Drohobych, Drohobych and Pedagogical Challenges in Teaching the Holocaust". CAS Annual Mtg, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, UNB, Fredericton
Jan 7, 2011 - "Poetry and Action: The Contours of Gorbanevskaia's Moral Self, 1956-1991". 2011 MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA
May 28, 2010 - Round Table Panelist: "Research Problems and Career Strategies for Graduate Students in Slavic Studies". CAS Annual Mtg, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia U, Montreal
May 29, 2010 - "(Other) Views from Lenin Hills, 1953-1968". CAS Annual Mtg, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia U, Montreal
Feb 18, 2010 - "Apocalypse, Eschatology, and Belief: The Trajectory of Religious Motifs in Gorbanevskaia’s Poetry". Invited Lecture: CREECA Lecture Series, Centre for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia, U of Wisconsin, Madison
Nov 15, 2009 Round table Panelist: "The Underground of the 1950s and 1960s: Poets of "Mansarda" Circle and their Heirs". American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) National Convention, Boston, MA
Contact Information:
Professor and Chair- 1991
Office: 301 Carleton Hall
Phone: (506) 458-7714
