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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:

Allan Reid

Professor and Chair- 1991
Office: 301 Carleton Hall
Phone: (506) 458-7714