WCAS Department of German: People: Glazova

Anna Glazova earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University. She studied from 2005 to 2007 in the Comparative Literature Institute at the Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main and defended her dissertation, Counter-Quotation: The Defiance of Poetic Tradition in Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam, in May 2008. Her research interests focus on literary and aesthetic theory, literary translation, and modern poetry, in particular the intersection of German and Russian poetics in nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More specifically, she's working on questions of tradition, translation, and quotation in poetry and fiction.

Glazova has published articles on Celan's encounters with Mandelstam's poetry, including "Poetry of Bringing about Presence" (MLN, forthcoming in 2009), "Vozdushno-kamennii kristall. Celan i Mandelshtam" (NLO 63 [Moscow], 2003), and "Entwurf einer Dichtung" (Lectures d'une oeuvre, Nantes: Editions du temps, 2002). In addition to her research, she has translated into Russian works by two prominent figures of European modernism, Robert Walser and Unica Zürn. Glazova's first book of poetry (Moscow, 2003) was shortlisted for Andrei Beliy prize. Many of the poems from her second book, Petlia. Nevpolovinu (Moscow, 2008), will soon appear in English translation in a volume entitled Twice under the Sun (London, 2008).