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University of Bergen : Faculty of Arts : Dept of Russian Studies

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Irina Sandomirskaja, b 1959, professor of cultural studies at the Baltic and East European Graduate School of the University College of South Stockholm (Södertörns högskola), Sweden. She holds a doctoral degree in theoretical linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, (Semantika emotivnykh glagolov so znacheniem povedeniia, 1991). During her postdoctoral research she was engaged in the project Language and Collective Cultural Identity, as well as a project in feminist theory which resulted in the only issue of IDIOMA, a Russian-American feminist publication in cultural critique (1991, New York). In co-authorship with Natalia Kozlova, she has worked on a project of anthropological reconstruction and linguo-critical interpretation of documents of “naïve writing” (Ia tak khochu nazvat’ kino. “Naivnoe pis’mo”: opyt lingvo-sotsiologicheskogo chteniia, Moscow 1996). In 2001, she published a study of the deconstruction and archeology of Russian and Soviet patriotic speech practices (Kniga o Rodine: Opyt analiza diskursivnykh praktik). Current projects: De patientia: Language, Violence, and Strategies of Subjectivity (a collection of essays in language, power and writing); A Story of O, or Between Technique and Catastrophe. Soviet deaf-blind education and related theories of language and consciousness.

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1991. Semantika emotivnykh glagolov so znacheniem povedeniia, Moscow.

1996. Ia tak khochu nazvat’ kino. “Naivnoe pis’mo”: opyt lingvo-sotsiologicheskogo chteniia, Moscow.

2001. Kniga o Rodine: Opyt analiza diskursivnykh praktik (Wiener slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 50), Vienna.

Edited books

(co-editor) 1992. The Heresies – Idioma: A Feminist Publication on art and Politics. The Heresies, Vol. 7, No. 26, New-York (a bilingual English – Russian edition).

(with Ulla Birgegård) 2004. In Search of an Order: Mutual Representations in Sweden and Russia During the Early Age of Reason. Södertörn Academic Studies 19, Stockholm.

Articles

1992. “Writing and the Magic of Power” The Heresies – Idioma. A Feminist Publication on Art and politics. The Heresies, vol. 7, No 26, (a bilingual English-Russian edition), New York.

1995. “Old Wives’ Tales: Notes on the Rhetoric of the Post-Soviet Intelligentsia”. In: Fiona Björling (ed). Intelligentsia in the Interim. Recent Experiences from Central and Eastern Europe. Slavica Lundensia 14.

1997. “Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Dairy: A Mission to the Margins of History”. In: Peter-Ulf Möller (ed). Reciprocal Images. Russian Culture in the Mirror of Travelers’ Accounts. Culture and History 14, Copenhagen.

1998. “Idiom and Culture: In Search of a Common Foundation”. Etnolingwistyka, No. 8, 1998. Lublin, Poland (in Russian).

1998. “Proletarian Tourism: Incorporated History and Incorporated Rhetoric”. In: Mette Bryld and Eric Kulavig (eds). Soviet Civilization Between Past and Present. Odense.
A shorter Russian version of the same paper published in: Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost’, No 4, 1996, Moscow.

1999. “Self-Critical Narcissus: On Language and Power in the Mode of Seduction”. In: Mika Larsson (ed). Shaking Hands and Making Conflicts (Catalogue), Partnership for Culture: Stockholm (in English and in Swedish).

1999. “Writing on the Wall: Remont, Restoration, and Identity”. In: Fiona Björling (ed). Through a Glass Darkly. Cultural Representation in the Dialogue Between Central, Eastern, and Western Europe. Slavica Lundensia 19.

“Der Politisch-ökonomische Aspekt der Russischen Geduld: Und fuer den Kefir ein Extra-Dankeschön an alle“. Podium, Literaturzeitschrift. No. 113/114 (Vienna).

2000. “Dressing, Undressing, Cross-Dressing”. In: The Memory of the Body. Underclothes During the Soviet Era. Moscow 2000 (exhibition catalogue, in Russian).

2000. ”IKEA in Moscow”. Essay, in Swedish. Moderna tider, an English version: Artmargins.

2000–2001. “Moscovia Felix An Obscene Discourse about an Abscene Place”. Year Book, Malmö Art Academy, (no pages given)

2001. “The Wall After After the Wall”: A review of ”After the Wall” art show, Artmargins.

2001. “Seduced by the Homeland: Commercial Language and the Simulation of “One’s Proper” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 54, pp. 399-401 (in Russian).

2001. “Blind, Mute, Dead, and Melancholy”. In: Bra mot melankoli – Remedy against Melancholy (ed. by Anders Kreuger). Edsvik konst och kultur, 2001, (exhibition catalogue, in Swedish and English)

2002. “And the Winner Is…” A review of Mikhail Berg’s “Literaturocracy”. Artmargins.

2002. ”Public Artist, Go Away”: Pathfinding in the Citadel of Necessity”. Ann Magnusson (ed) Konst på SöS (A collection of essays in connection with a project of public art intervention at one of Stockholm’s central hospitals). Stockholm, (in Swedish).

2003. „Der Heimatbegriff in der sowjetischen und postsowjetischen diskursiven Praxis“ Karl Kaser et al (Hrgs) Die Wieser Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens. Band 11. Europa und die Grenzen im Kopf. Klagenfurt.

2004. „Two Empires and the Sea: Change and Exchange in Search of an Order. Introduction”. In: In Search of an Order: Mutual representations in Sweden and Russian during the early age of reason. Ed by Ulla Birgegård and Irina Sandomirskaja. Södertörns Academic Studies 19. Södertörns högskola, pp. 7-20.

2004. “A Cosmopolitan in Search of a Fatherland: Admiral Shishkov and the Linguistic Myth of the Russian Empire”. In: In Search of an Order: Mutual representations in Sweden and Russian during the early age of reason. Ed by Ulla Birgegård and Irina Sandomirskaja. Södertörns Academic Studies 19. Södertörns högskola, pp. 155-172.

2006. Язык-Сталин: «Марксизм и вопросы языкознания» как лингвистический поворот во вселенной СССР, in Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia, (Slavica Bergensia 6) eds. I. Lunde & T. Roesen, Bergen, pp. 263–291.

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