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Jennifer Flaherty

Assistant Professor of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Slavic & Eurasian Studies

Selected Publications


The Cry of the Heart: Russian and Ottoman Literary Enlightenments

Journal Article Comparative Critical Studies · February 1, 2025 This article examines the works of Alexander Radishchev and Namık Kemal to explore how Russian and Ottoman Enlightenments conceptualized emotion as integral to political subjectivity. Moving beyond conventional interpretations of these traditions as reacti ... Full text Open Access Cite

Gleb Uspensky’s Peasant Cycles and the Modernist Poetics of Labor

Journal Article Slavic Literatures · January 1, 2025 This paper argues that Gleb Uspensky’s Peasant Cycles of the 1880s (Vlast’ Zemli and Krest’ianin i krest’ianskii trud) develop a new literary style which is modeled on a concept of labor and characterized by a foregrounded narrative subject who is absorbed ... Full text Cite

In the Peasant's Place: Social Problems and Narrative Practice in Turgenev's Notes from a Hunter

Journal Article Russian Review · July 1, 2021 This article is concerned with the aesthetic and social tensions of the countryside in Ivan Turgenev's Notes from a Hunter (Zapiski okhotnika, 1847–52) as a site where two temporalities–history and immediacy–collide, producing shifts in narrative perspecti ... Full text Open Access Cite

THE NEW MAN AND THE PEOPLE: THE LYRICAL VOICE AND POETIC DEMOCRACY IN N. A. NEKRASOV

Journal Article Russkaia Literatura · January 1, 2021 This article analyzes the expression of individual limitation in Nekrasov’s poetry as a model of democratic pathos which departs from the 1860s standard of self-sacrifi ce. Who Lives Well in Russia is treated as a culminating expression of Nekrasov’s uniqu ... Full text Open Access Cite