Michael
Gorham is an Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the University
of Florida and teaches language, literature, and culture courses
at all levels. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures
from Stanford University. Gorham has published a number of articles
on the intersection of language, literature, and politics in Russia
in the 1920s and 1930s. His book on this topic, Speaking in
Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in
Revolutionary Russia (Northern Illinois University Press,
2003), was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Book”
by Choice Magazine and won the 2004 award for “Best Book
in Literary and Cultural Studies” from the American Association
of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). His
current research (with one article published in Russian Review)
explores related issues of language, politics, and national identity
in late- and post-Soviet Russia. External research grants and
fellowships have come from such institutions as the Social Science
Research Council, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies,
The American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) and The International
Research and Exchanges Board (IREX).
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Publications
Book
2003. Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and
the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia, DeKalb,
Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press. (recipient of the
2004 “Best Book in Literary and Cultural Studies”
award from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and
East European Languages [AATSEEL] and selected as Outstanding
Academic Book by Choice Magazine)
Articles
1997. Coming to Terms with the New Writing Citizen: Soviet
Language of State in The Diary of Kostia Riabtsev, East/West
Education 18:1: 6-21.
1996. From Charisma to Cant: Models of Public Speaking in Early
Soviet Russia, Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne
des slavistes 38, nos. 3-4 [printed December 1997]: 331-55.
1996. Tongue-tied Writers: The Rabsel'kor Movement and the
Voice of the 'New Intelligentsia' in Early Soviet Russia, Russian
Review 55:3: 412-29.
2000. Natsiia ili snikerizatsiia? [Nation or Snickerization?]
Identity and Perversion in the Language Debates of Late- and
Post-Soviet Russia., Russian Review 59: 614-29.
2000. Mastering the Perverse: State-building and Language ‘Purification'
in Early Soviet Russia, Slavic Review 58: 1: 133-53.
2005. Putin’s Language, Ab Imperio (Kazan,
Russia) 4: 381-401.
2006. Language Culture and National Identity in Post-Soviet
Russia, in Landslide
of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia,
(Slavica
Bergensia 6) eds. I. Lunde & T. Roesen, Bergen, pp.
18–30.
Forthcoming
2006. Vladimir Putin and the Rise of the New Russian Vulgate,
Groniek: Historisch Tijdschrift (Netherlands).