"Where the Dog is Buried: Reading Between the Lines of Cvetaeva's Prose Cycle," forthcoming in Canadian Slavonic Papers.
"Daphne's Tremor: Tsvetaeva and the Feminine in Classical Myth and Statuary," in Michael Finke and Stephen Blackwell, eds., special issue of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics dedicated to Vadim Liapunov, forthcoming.
"Marina Tsvetaeva," in Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer, eds., Women in World History (Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999-2001), forthcoming.
"Not Quite in the Name of the Lord: A Biblical Subtext in Marina Cvetaeva's Opus," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 1996), pp. 278-296.
"Reading For a Self: Self-Definition and Female Ancestry in Three Russian Poems," Russian Review, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January, 1996), pp. 21-36. (On Parnok, Tsvetaeva and Shkapskaia)
"Wooing the Other Woman: Gender in Women's Love Poetry in the Silver Age," in
Engendering Slavic Literatures, eds. Chester and Forrester (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1996), pp. 107-134. (On Gippius, Solov'eva/Allegro, Parnok and Tsvetaeva.) "Marina Tsvetaeva as Literary Critic and Critic of Literary Critics," in
Russian Writers on Russian Writers, ed. Faith Wigzell (Oxford/Providence: Berg
Publishers, 1994), pp. 81-98. "Bells and Cupolas: The Structuring Role of the Female Body in Marina Tsvetaeva's
Poetry," Slavic Review, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp. 232-246. "Where the Dog is Buried: Reading Between the Lines of Tsvetaeva's Prose Cycle,"
AAASS Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, November 1997. "Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva: Writing Out of Fascinating Lives," Bryn Mawr College
summer Russian Language Institute, June 1997. "Self-Orientalization and the Muse: From Rostopchina to Tsvetaeva,"
University of Pittsburgh, February, 1997. "Abusive Muses: Russian Women Poets and the Internalized Tradition," Duke
University, February, 1997. (On Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva) "Submission, Subversion, and Substance: Women Writers in the Russian Literary
Tradition," Bryn Mawr College (Russian Language Institute), June, 1996. "The Face over Her Shoulder: Real and Metaphorical Mirrors in Cvetaeva,"
AATSEEL Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, December 1995. "Abusive Muse: Marina Tsvetaeva and the Internalized Tradition," on panel
"The Erotics of Inspiration: Women Poets and the Male Muse," MLA Annual
Conference, Chicago, IL, December 1995. "Marina Cvetaeva's Poetic Vampires and Vampiric Poets," AATSEEL Annual
Conference, San Diego, December 1994. "Mythology and Classical Statuary in Cvetaeva," AATSEEL Annual Conference,
Toronto, December 1993. "Not Quite in the Name of the Lord. The Gospel and Marina Cvetaeva," The Ohio
State University, Columbus, February 1993. "Bearing the Word: The Gospel in Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva," University of
Colorado at Boulder, February 1993. "The Poet as Pretender: Poetic Legitimacy in Cvetaeva," AAASS Annual Conference,
November 1992, Phoenix, AZ. (An earlier version of the same paper was read at the Midwest
Slavic Conference, Columbus, OH, May 1992.) "The Biblical/Poetic Subtext of Names in Marina Cvetaeva's Opus," AATSEEL Annual
Conference, December 1991, San Francisco, CA. "Marina Cvetaeva as Literary Critic and Critic of Literary Critics," AAASS
Annual Conference, November 1991, Miami, FL. "The Bells and Cupolas of 1916: The Structuring Role of the Female Body in Marina
Cvetaeva's Poetry," AATSEEL Annual Conference, December 1990, Chicago, IL. "Marina Cvetaeva: The Poet as Witch," University of Nebraska Lincoln, January
1990. I received a post-doctoral fellowship from the SSRC in 1992-1994 partly for work on a large
investigation of body, language and gender in Tsvetaeva. The resulting monograph is almost
complete, after being on the back burner for too many years -- I'm hoping to finish it by
summer of 2002, enriched by the scholarship that has come out since the "boom" around Tsvetaeva's
centennial in 1992. Back to Sibelan Forrester's Professional Stuff. Back to Sibelan Forrester's Home Page.
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