Professor of Comparative Literature, and of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies, Slavic Department
451 College Street, Room 203, 432-0712
katerina.clark@yale.edu

Education
B.A. (Honors) 1963, Melbourne University, Australia; M.A. (Honors) 1967, Australian National University; M. Phil., 1967, Ph.D., 1971, Russian Literature, Yale University.

Interests
Russian culture of the twentieth century (literature, theater, film, art and architecture, opera, linguistics and scientific thought) with emphasis on the 1920s, the 1930s and the recent period.

Current Graduate Courses
Art and Ideology; The Myth of Petersburg in Russian Literature; Russian Literature and Culture of the 1920s and 1930s; The Performing Arts in Twentieth Century Russia; Post-Stalin Literature and Film (1953-present)

Books
The Soviet Novel: History As Ritual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Paperback edition with a new Afterword, University of Chicago Press, 1985. Third edition with new and updated Afterword, Indiana University Press, 2000.

Mikhail Bakhtin (with Michael Holquist). Cambridge: The Belknap Press [Harvard University Press], 1984, 1985; paperback 1986. Translations have appeared in Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese.

Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Paperback edition 1998.

Work in Progress
A book tentatively titled Moscow, the Fourth Rome (a cultural history spanning the years 1922-1941). (With Evgeny Dobrenko) Culture and Soviet Power (documents with extensive commentary), commissioned by Yale University Press for its Annals of Communism series.