Carol Apollonio | Scholars@Duke

Carol Apollonio
Professor of the Practice of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Specialist in Russian literature, Russian and Japanese translation, and language pedagogy; have worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Government. My most recent books are Simply Chekhov (2020), a translation of Alisa Ganieva's Russian-Dagestani novel Bride and Groom (2018), and Chekhov's Letters , co-edited with Radislav Lapushin (2018). Currently translating Ganieva's latest novel, Offended Sensibilities and celebrating the Dostoevsky bicentennial. In the fall of 2019, I took a slow trip across Siberia, following in the footsteps of Russian writers from Moscow to Sakhalin Island, and reporting about it in the blog "Chekhov's Footprints" (https://sites.duke.edu/chekhovsfootprints/). For rants, see my Duke Chronicle columns,"Rants from the Podium" (https://www.dukechronicle.com/staff/carol-apollonio). Recently have been enjoying serving as President of the International Dostoevsky Society. Something is always happening in "The Bloggers Karamazov": https://bloggerskaramazov.com/. In times of trouble, take a break and read Chekhov.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of the Practice of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011

Contact Information

310 Languages Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
carol.apollonio@duke.edu (919) 451-0844
Chekhov's Footprints
Rants from the Podium

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 1987
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of the Practice of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1995 - 2011
- Assistant Professor of the Practice, Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989 - 1995
- Lecturer, University, Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1988 - 1989
Recognition
In the News
- NOV 17, 2022 Duke University Medium
  
  Carol Apollonio: A Letter to the Russian Ministry of Culture
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Russian Federation (Country)
- Research
  - Russian Federation (Country)
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Apollonio, Carol, and Radislav Lapushin. Chekhov's Letters Biography, Context, Poetics (Accepted). Lexington Books, 2018.
  - Apollonio, Carol. Simply Chekhov. 2018.
  - Ganieva, Alisa. Bride and Groom. Translated by C. Apollonio, Deep Vellum, 2018.
  - Ganieva, Alisa. The Mountain and the Wall. Deep Vellum Publishing, 2015.
  - Apollonio, C. The Maya Pill (Tabletka) by German Sadulaev. Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.
  - Apollonio, C., and A. Britlinger. Checkhov for the Twenty-First Century. Slavica, 2012.
  - Apollonio, C. The New Russian Dostoevsky: Readings for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by C. Apollonio, Translated by C. Apollonio, Slavica, 2010.
  - Apollonio, C. The New Russian Dostoevsky: Readings for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by C. Apollonio, Translated by C. Apollonio, Slavica, 2010.
  - Apollonio, C. Dostoevsky's Secrets: Reading Against the Grain. Northwestern University Press, 2009.
  - Lahusen, T., et al., editors. Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s. Translated by C. Flath (Apollonio), The New Press, 1995, pp. 394–394.
  - Andrews, E., et al. С месма б карьер: Leaping Into Russian. A Systematic Introduction to Contemporary Russian Grammar. Focus, 1993.
  - Kizaki, S. The Sunken Temple. Translated by C. Flath (Apollonio), Kodansha International Ltd., 1993.
- Academic Articles
  - Apollonio, Carol. “Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov’s Life and Writings by Michael C. Finke.” Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 100, no. 2, Project Muse, Apr. 2022, pp. 362–64. Crossref, doi:10.1353/see.2022.0021.
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  - Apollonio, Carol. “THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR.” Tls the Times Literary Supplement, no. 6097, 2020, pp. 6–7.
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  - Apollonio, Carol. “AND THE EARTH WILL SIT ON THE MOON Essential stories.” Tls the Times Literary Supplement, no. 6097, 2020, pp. 6–7.
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  - Belknap, R., and C. Apollonio. “Dostoevsky in the lives of remarkable people.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 60, no. 2, June 2016, pp. 241–51.
  - Apollonio, Carol. “Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature.” Russian Review, vol. 75, no. 2, 2016, pp. 316–17.
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  - Apollonio, Carol. “Antosha & Levitasha: The Shared Lives and Art of Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 60, no. 2, 2016, pp. 347–49.
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  - Apollonio, Carol. “ANNA KARENINA.” Tls the Times Literary Supplement, no. 5842, 2015, pp. 12–13.
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  - Apollonio, Carol. “ANNA KARENINA.” Tls the Times Literary Supplement, no. 5842, 2015, pp. 12–13.
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  - Apollonio, Carol. “Dostoevskii's Overcoat: Influence, Comparison, and Transposition.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 59, no. 1, 2015, pp. 127–28.
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  - Apollonio, C. “Толстой в переводах Констанц Гарнетт (In preparation).” Лев Толстой И Мировая Литература, 2013.
  - Apollonio, C. “Dostoevsky’s Religion: Words Images, and the Seed of Charity.” Dostoevsky Studies, edited by Susan McReynolds, vol. 12, 2009.
  - Apollonio, Carol. “Scenic Storytelling in Chekhov’s ’Grasshopper’.” The Bulletin of the North American Chekhov Society, vol. XLI, no. 1, 2009.
  - Apollonio, Carol. “Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 52, no. 3, 2008, pp. 455–56.
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  - Apollonio, C. “Demons of Translation: The Strange Path of Dostoevsky’s Novels into the English Tradition.” Dostoevsky Studies, vol. IX, 2005, pp. 45–52.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Anna Karenina: Translation, Literalism, and the Life of Art.” Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. XIV, 2002, pp. 108–15.
  - (Flath) Apollonio, C. “Chekhov’s Underground Man: ’An Attack of Nerves’.” Slavic and East European Journal (Seej), 2000, pp. 375–92.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “The Passion of Dmitrii Karamazov - A reply.” Slavic Review, vol. 59, no. 3, 2000, pp. 727–29.
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  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Art and Idleness in Chekhov’s ’House with a Mezzanine’.” Russian Review, July 1999, pp. 456–66.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Writing about Nothing: ’Ariadne’ and the Narcissistic Narrator.” Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 77, Apr. 1999, pp. 223–39.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “The Seagull: The Stage Mother, the Missing Father and the Origins of Art.” Modern Drama, vol. XLII, 1999, pp. 491–510.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “The Passion of Dmitrii Karamazov.” Slavic Review, 1999, pp. 584–99.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Poor Folk: An Allegory of Body and Mind.” Dostoevsky Studies, vol. 2, 1999.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Delineating the Territory of Cechov’s ’A Woman’s Kingdom’.” Russian Literature, vol. XLIV–IV, Nov. 1998, pp. 389–408.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “The Limits to the Flesh: Searching for the Soul in Chekhov’s ’A Boring Story’.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 2, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 1997, pp. 271–86.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Fear of Faith: The Hidden Religious Message of Notes From Underground.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 1993, pp. 510–29.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Seminary Heroes in Mid-Nineteenth Century Russian Literature.” Canadian American Slavic Studies, 1989.
  - Apollonio, C. “Prophecy in 'The Peasant Marei' (In preparation).” The Dostoevsky Studies, vol. 18.
  - Apollonio, C. “Notes from the Dead House: An Exercise in Spatial Reading or Three Crowd Scenes (In preparation).” Российский Гуманитарный Журнал, vol. 3, no. 5.
- Book Sections
  - Apollonio, C. “Dostoevsky: Translator and translated.” Dostoevsky in Context, 2016, pp. 236–43. Scopus, doi:10.1017/CBO9781139236867.028.
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  - Chekhov, C. “The Bride (Nevesta).” Anton Chekhov’s Selected Short Stores, edited by Cathy Popkin, translated by C. Apollonio, Norton Critical Edition, 2014.
  - Apollonio, C. “Gained in translation: Chekhov's "lady".” Chekhov for the 21st Century, 2012, pp. 281–98.
  - Stepanov, Andrei. “The Psychology of Chekhov’s Creative Method and Generative Poetics.” Chekhov for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Carol Apollonio and Angela Brintlinger, Slavica, 2012.
  - Apollonio, C. “The Idiot’s ‘Vertical Sanctuary’: The Holbein Christ and Ippolit’s Confession.” F.M. Dostoevsky in the Context of Cultural Dialogues, edited by K. Kroo and T. Szabo, ELTE: Russian Literature and Literary Studies, 2010.
  - Finke, Michael, and Julie de Sherbinin, editors. “Chekhov in the Afterworld: The Life of Translations: A Roundtable with Peter Constantine, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.” Chekhov the Immigrant: Translating a Cultural Icon, translated by C. Apollonio, Slavica, 2008.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Russian Documents: education and folk culture in the 19th century.” Russian Women: Experience and Expression, Historical and Literary Documents 1700-1917, edited by R. Bisha et al., Indian University Press, 2002.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Nikolai Gerasimovich Pomialovsky.” The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Literature in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, 2001.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Escape from Idyll: Chekhov and Pushkin.” Collected Essays in Honor of the Bicentennial of Alexander S. Pushkin’s Birth, edited by Juras T. Ryfa, Edwin Mellen Press, 2000, pp. 37–52.
  - Apollonio, C. “Does the Translation Matter? (Submitted)” Tolstoy 100 Years On, edited by J. Andrews.
  - Apollonio, C. “Dostoevsky Translations (In preparation).” Dostoevsky on Context, edited by D. Martinsem and O. Maiorova, Cambridge University Press.
  - Apollonio, C. “Paradoxes of Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the Dead (In preparation).” Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky, edited by S. Evdokimova.
  - Apollonio, C. “I Gotta be Мы: The Plot of the Egotistical Pronoun in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (In preparation).” Russian Collection of Dostoevsky’s Scholarship, edited by B. Tikhomirov and K. Stepanian, International DFostoevsky Society.
  - Apollonio, C. “Еще о проблеме коммуникации у Чехова: рассказ «Ванька»» (Accepted).” Чеховская Карта Мира.
- Other Articles
  - Chekhov, A. “Three Sisters.” The Russian Review, translated by C. Apollonio, vol. XX, Hackett Publishing, 2014.
  - Stepanov, A. “The Psychology of Chekhov's Creative Method and Generative Poetics.” Chekhov for the Twenty First Century, translated by C. Apollonio, 2012.
  - Sukhikh, I. The Death of the Hero in Chekhov’s World. Edited by Carol Apollonio and Angela Brintlinger, Translated by C. Apollonio, Slavica, 2012.
  - Sadulaev, G. “The Devil of Potatoes.” The Maya Pill, the Dirty Goat, translated by C. Apollonio, vol. Fall, 2011.
  - Apollonio, C. “A New Century, A New Chekhov.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 50, no. 3, 2006.
  - Ivanova, G. Labor-Camp Socialism: The GULAG in the Soviet Totalitarian System. Edited by Donald J. Raleigh and M. E. Sharpe, Translated by C. Flath (Apollonio), 2000.
  - Kizaki, S. The Phoenix Tree and Other Stories. Translated by C. Flath (Apollonio), Kodansha International Ltd., 1990.
  - Apollonio, C. “"Shapify".” Times Literary Supplement.
  - Chekhov, A. Late Blooming Flowers (In preparation). Translated by C. Apollonio.
- Book Reviews
  - Apollonio, C. “Review of Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky by Susanne Fusso.” Dostoevsky Studies, vol. 12, 2009.
  - Apollonio, C. “Review of Dostoevsky’s Unfinished Journey by Robert Feuer Miller.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 52, no. 3, 2008.
  - Apollonio, C. “Review of The Polemical Force of Chekhov’s Comedies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Chekhov's Comedies by John McKellor Reid.” The Russian Review, vol. 67, Wiley, 2007.
  - Apollonio, C. “Review of The Four Major Plays (of Anton Chekhov) translated by Curt Columbus.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 50, no. 2, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2006.
  - Apollonio, C. “Review of A New Word on the Brothers Karamazov edited by Robert Louis Jackson.” Dostoevsky Studies, vol. IX, 2005.
  - Apollonio, C. “Review of Moi Talisman: Selected Lyric Poetry of Alexander Pushkin" translated by J.H. Lowenfeld.” Pushkin Review, vol. 8, 2005, pp. 1–5.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Review of The Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin translated by Nancy K. Anderson.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 45, no. 3, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2001.
  - Flath (Apollonio), C. “Review of Performing without a Stage: The Art of Literary Translation by Robert Wechsler.” Cati Quarterly, 1999.
  - Apollonio, C. Review of Dostoevski's Overcoat: Influence, Comparison, and Transportation (In preparation). Edited by J. Andrew and R. Reid, Slavic and East European Journal.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
Advising & Mentoring
- I have been an active pre-major advisor at Duke for many years. Students in my translation class have had success in publishing their work. I am a passionate advocate for an apprentice model for teaching.
Available to mentor:
- Affiliate
- Masters
- PhD
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Presentations & Appearances
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Service to the Profession
- Editorial Board. Неизвестный Достоевский. 2014 2014
- External reviewer for promotion . 2014 2014
- Graduate Advising. SUNY Binghamton. May 2013 2013
- Editorial Board, Slavic and East European Journal . 2013 2013
- External reviewer for promotion. 2013 2013
- External reviewer for promotion. 2013 - 2014 2013 - 2014
- External reviewer for tenure. 2013 2013
- International member. Expert Council for Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, Law and Scholarship, Russian Fund for the Humanities. 2013 2013
- President. North American Dostoevsky Society. 2013 2013
- Consulting reviewer . Russian for Dummies, 2nd Edition . 2012 2012
- Editorial Board. Dostoevsky Studies. 2011 - 2015 2011 - 2015
- Program Committee: Chekhov on Stage and Page. December 2, 2010 - December 4, 2010 2010
- Member : SCSS Board. September 18, 2009 2009
- Executive Council. SCSS. 2006 - 2011 2006 - 2011
- External reviewer for tenure. 2006 2006
- Invited outside reviewer . Russian and East European Studies program . Wake Forest University . March 2005 2005
- Program Committee. SCSS. 2005 - 2006 2005 - 2006
- Editorial Board. North American Chekhov Society. 2004 - 2015 2004 - 2015
- Awards Committee. SCSS. 2002 - 2015 2002 - 2015
- Publications Committee. AATSEEL. 2002 - 2004 2002 - 2004
- Reader for ALTA Tranlation Prize. ALTA. 2002 2002
- Heldt Translation Prize Committee. AWSS. 2001 - 2004 2001 - 2004
- Reader. Northwestern University Press. 1999 - 2015 1999 - 2015
- President. Carolinas Chapter of AATSEEL. 1989 - 1990 1989 - 1990
Service to Duke
- President, North American Dostoevsky Society. December 13, 2012 2012
- Duke University. Committee on Early Undergraduate Engagement. 2012 - 2015 2012 - 2015

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Awards & Honors

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Research

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Other Articles

Book Reviews

Recent Courses

Advising & Mentoring

Available to mentor:

Presentations & Appearances

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Service to the Profession

Service to Duke