Elaine Wilson

• Publications

  Academic & Peer-Reviewed

  • “Panic and Parody: Queer Performance, Laughter, and Liberation in The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf.” Forum for Modern Language Studies, Oxford University Press [forthcoming, 2026]
  • “Russian Exceptionalism: Mining and Rewriting Religious History.” Public Orthodoxy, A Project of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University [forthcoming, December 2024]
  • Review of No Heavenly Bodies: A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure by Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren. Slavic and East European Journal [forthcoming 2026]
  • Review of Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism by Marc Caplan. Journal of Jewish Identities [forthcoming Spring 2025]
  • “Ascent to Hell: The Poetics of Deconstruction in Peretz Markish and Andrei Platonov.” Comparative Literature [forthcoming, March 2026]
  • “Holy Warheads: Russian Orthodox Christianity as Weaponized Culture.” Canopy Forum, The Center for Law and Religion at Emory University, July 2024.
  • “God, Man, Machine: Spiritual Networks in Gladkov’s Cement.” Ulbandus Vol. XIX, 2022.
  • Review of Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny by Wladimir Velminski. Ulbandus Vol. XIX, 2022.
  • “Red Goes Green: A Contemporary Ecological Reading of a Soviet Classic.” The Jordan Center Blog,  NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, September 30, 2021.

  Translations

  • English translation of selected poems by Konstantin Shavlovsky, Ruthie Jenrbekova, and Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan in World Literature Today, March 2023.
  • “Four Dates.” English translation of Azamat Gabuev’s short story, “Chetyre svidaniia,” published in Hunger Mountain Review, February 2023.
  • “When this is all over…”, English translation of Anton Ovchinnikov’s poem “Kogda vse zakonchitsya,” published in Movement Research Performance Journal, No. 56.
  • “Son.” English translation of Azamat Gabuev’s short story, “Syn,” published in Another Chicago Magazine, November 2020.
  • “View from the Side,” English translation of Aleksander Genis’s essay "Vid sboku,” published with the Hunter College Baltic Transit Project: https://baltictransit.weebly.com/alexander-genis.html
• Research

  Research:

  • • • • Russophone Soviet literature
        • Eastern European Jewish history and culture
        • Soviet Yiddish poetry
        • Russian Christian Orthodoxy and nuclear power
        • Religious iconography and its use in political messaging
        • Queer and political theory