Dr. Natalia Vygovskaia

Education

• Ph.D. in Slavic Studies, Brown University, 2024
  
  Recipient of Dr. Pranas A. Sveikauskas Award in Recognition of an Outstanding Dissertation (Departmental Award)
  
  Dissertation: Harming and Healing: Narrative Medical Ethics and the Possible in Doctors’ Case Histories, Memoirs, and Stories in Late Imperial Russia
  Advisor: Prof. Michal Oklot, Brown University
  Committee: Prof. Masako Fidler, Brown University; Prof. Angela Brintlinger (Chair), Ohio State University
  
  
• M.A. in Slavic Studies, Brown University, 2018
• B.A. in Philology, Minor in English, Summa cum laude, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Courses To Be Taught at Miami

• RUS 101 - Beginners’ Russian
• RUS 102 - Beginners’ Russian (second semester)
• RUS 137 - Magic and Power in Russian Folklore
• RUS 201 - Intermediate Russian
• RUS 202 - Intermediate Russian (second semester)
• RUS/ENG 255 - Love and Death in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
• RUS/ENG 256 - Empire and Utopia in Russian Literature
• RUS/ENG 257 - Communism and Catastrophe in Modern Russian Literature
• RUS 301 - Advanced Russian
• RUS 302 - Advanced Russian (second semester)
• RUS 311 - Readings in Russian

Publications

PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH

• Vygovskaia, N. (Co-editor, with Giulia Dossi). Epidemics, Contagion, and Moral Health in Slavic and East European Studies. Lexington Books, forthcoming. Includes authored chapter: “Vikenty Veresaev’s Roadless Terrain: When Silence Turns to Violence.”
• Motherhood: Apollonian and Dionysian Mothers in Veresaev’s Writings. Forthcoming in Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ).
• Female Homosexuality as a Psychiatric Case, or The Story of Confession and Compassion in the Journal Vrach (The Physician, 1898). The 2023 Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 89, 2022. 193–214.
• “Social Cataclysm through the Doctor's Eyes: Vikentii Veresaev’s The Deadlock as Diagnostic Narrative.” In The Russian Medical Humanities: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Melissa Miller and Konstantin Starikov. Lexington Books, 2021. 119–130.

PUBLICATIONS IN RUSSIAN

• Molodaia voennaia proza 1990–nachala 2000-kh godov: Imena i tendentsii (Contemporary War Prose 1990–2000: Names and Tendencies). Thesis, 2009.
• Ironiia kak universal’nyi avtorskij priem v romane Danilenko Dikopol’ (Irony as a Universal Literary Technique in Danilenko’s Dikopol’). Vestnik Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo gumanitarnogo universiteta (RSUH Bulletin), no. 1, Moscow: RSUH, 2009, 26–31.
• Sistema otnoshenii avtor–chitatel’ v khudozhestvennykh i nekhudozhestvennykh proizvedeniiakh o Chechenskoi voine vtoroi poloviny 1990–nachala 2000-kh godov (Author–Reader Relationship in Fiction and Non-fiction about the Chechen Wars of the Late 1990s and Early 2000s). Vestnik Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta (MSU Bulletin), no. 2, Moscow, 2007, 103–108.
• Osobennosti prozaicheskogo myshleniia voennykh pisatelei sovremennosti (2002–2004) (Modes of Prosaic Thinking in Contemporary War Writers (2002–2004)).* Kafedral’nye zapiski: Voprosy novoi i noveishei literatury, issue 2, Moscow State University: MAX Press, 2005, 168–172.
• Zhanrovye i tematicheskie osobennosti voennoi prozy (2002–2004) (Genre and Thematic Features in War Prose (2002–2004)).* Tri veka russkoi literatury: Aktual’nye aspekty izucheniia, issue 11, Moscow–Irkutsk: ISPU, 2005, 63–74.

PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW

• Cold War Disorders of the Self in American and Russian Novels: Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Tatiana Tolstaya’s The Slynx. Submitted for review to Studies in American Fiction, June 2025.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Alexander Etkind. Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied, SLAVIC and EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL 61 (1), 2017, 138-139
• Mikhail N. Epstein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka M. Vladiv-Glover. Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture, SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL 60 (3), 2016, 581-583
• Poems of Osip Mandelstam. Translated by Peter France, SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL 60 (2), 2016, 360-362

Presentations

• MEDSEEES Rountables Stream (ASEEES Convention 2024), presenter and organizer. Presentation “Dr. Haffkine: Scientist in Exile and Savior of Mankind” (ASEEES Convention 2023. MEDSEEES Roundtables Stream: Environment and Public Health: Margins and Centers). Co-organizer and presenter.
• Presentation “Veresaev’s Story Bez Doroghi (The Roadless Terrain): Medical Morality in the Cholera Epidemic of the 1890s” (The Symposium “Epidemics and Contagion in Slavic and East European Studies,” Hamilton College, March 2023). Conference co-organizer, panels chair, presenter.
• Presentation “Slavic Medical Humanities - Gathering Resources and Creating a Community’’ (ASEEES Virtual Convention.
• Roundtable: Slavic Medical Humanities: Theory and Practice, December 2021). Presenter and roundtable organizer.
• “Mad Affair: Female Homosexuality as a Psychiatric Case and an Ethical Dilemma in the Medical Journal Vrach (1898)" (Mad Fridays. Literature and Psychiatry in Late Imperial Russia. Virtual Symposium, March 5, 11, 19, 26 2021, organized by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Harvard University). Presenter.
• “The Ethics of Motherhood in Vikentii Veresaev’s Stories” (ASEEES Virtual Convention. Panel: Materi I deti: Motherhood, Childbirth, and Medicine in Late 19th-Early 20th Century Prose, November 2020). Presenter and panel co-organizer.
• “Library as a Place of Traumatic Memory in Postmodernist Literature: Elizarov’s The Librarian and Tolstaya’s The Slynx” (ASEEES Convention. Roundtable: Places of Memory and Memory of Place in 20th-century Russian Culture, San Francisco, November 2019)
• “The Significance of Manassein's journal "Vrach" (1880-1901) in the Development of the Russian Medical Discourse” (ASEEES Convention. Panel: Medical Discourse in Slavic Literatures: theEthics of Narrating Illness, San Francisco, November 2019)
• "Becoming the Doctor: Public and Personal in Nikolai Pirogov’s Questions of Life: Diary of an Old Physician and Vikenty Veresaev’s The Memoirs of a Physician (AATSEEL Convention. Panel: The Russian Medical Humanities (I), New Orleans, February 2019)
• “Transcendental Homelessness, Repressed Femininity, and the Spirit of Place in Veresaev's Novel Sisters (ASEEES Convention. Roundtable: Theorizing Space: Russian Literature and Film, Boston, December 2018)
• “Social Cataclysm through the Doctor’s Eyes: Vikenty Veresaev V tupike – as Diagnostic Narrative” (AATSEEL Convention. Panel: Art Under Duress: War, Death, and Trauma in Slavic Culture, Washington, February 2018)
• "Ivan Bunin's Cursed Days as the Narrative of Pain" (North East Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference. Panel: What Just Happened? Bunin, Babel, and Historical Memory in the 1920s, New York, April 2017)
• ''Warrior, Philosopher, Child: Who are Heroes of the Chechen Wars.'' (Midwest Slavic Conference. Panel: Nationalism and its Others, Ohio, April 2017) OSU Knowledge Bank: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/80656
• Chair of the panel ''History in Art, or the Truth of Fiction'' at the Midwest Slavic Conference, Ohio, April 2017.

Languages

• Russian
• Spanish

Reading knowledge:

• Ukrainian
• Czech
• Italian
• Old Church Slavonic