Scholars@Duke
Daria Smirnova

Daria Smirnova

Instructor in the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Slavic & Eurasian Studies
daria.smirnova@duke.edu
413 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708
413 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

“Nikolai Dobroliubov’s Social and Political Theory Revisited"

Chapter · November 15, 2024 This volume is a collection of ten articles on the Russian Radicals by an international team of scholars. ... Cite

“The History of a Plot: Representation of the ‘Folk’ and Russian Radicals of the 1860.”

Chapter · November 15, 2024 This volume is a collection of ten articles on the Russian Radicals by an international team of scholars. ... Cite

“Tender Narrations”: Humanities Education in Times of Crisis

Journal Article Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities · November 23, 2023 In her 2018 Nobel Prize lecture, Olga Tokarczuk emphasizes the “massive significance” of storytelling as a means to “perceive the similarities and sameness” among people. “It is a way of looking,” she says, “that shows the world as […] interconnected.” Thi ... Full text Link to item Cite

“Soviet Schooling: The Case of Joseph Brodsky.”

Journal Article Sino-American Journal of Comparative Literature · January 1, 2021 This article examines Joseph Brodsky’s critique of the Soviet education system, as articulated in Less Than One, situating his reflections within the broader history of Soviet schooling and its politically driven curricular changes. Brodsky argues that Sov ... Cite