Associate Professor Millicent Vladiv-Glover
PhD (University of Melbourne), MA (University of Melbourne), BA, Hons (University of Melbourne)
Millicent Vladiv-Glover curriculum vitae [
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Biography
I studied Russian, French and German at the University of Melbourne for a BA Honours degree and went on to do research for an MA and a PhD in Russian literature, partly at Moscow University on an ANU Exchange scholarship. I am currently Coordinator of Slavic Studies, a research discipline which recruits postgraduates in diverse areas of Slavic literatures and cultures, and I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. My teaching covers European and East European literature, popular culture, literary Structuralism and semiotics, and post-structuralist thought in Eastern Europe and the West. I am Editor of two international refereed journals, “The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review” and “Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research.” Both are published by Charles Schlacks Jr.
I supervise in Slavic Studies, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.
Research interests
Comparative literature – poetics of realism, modernism, post-modernism
My research interest focuses on the poetics of various trans-national movements in major (European) and minor (Slavic) literatures: Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism. Narrative theory, philosophy of language (Wittgenstein) and psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Lacan, phenomenology of perception) underpin my studies of F M Dostoevsky's, L N Tolstoy's, C Dickens' and G Flaubert's novels, the drama of A Chekhov, S Beckett and A Strindberg, the excremental novels of V Sorokin and postmodern Russian cinema.
Adaptations of the literary canon in the mass media
The poetics of postmodernism has taken me into the exploration of popular culture genres, such as film and the detective novel. I am currently engaged in a pilot research project on the transformation of a Serbian poem into the cinematic medium (in partnership with a media studies ERC from RMIT) which will be the basis for a larger project on mass media adaptations, by East European directors and script writers, of 19th and 20th century Russian, Slavic and some non-Slavic literary texts. The theoretical framework for this research is Paul Carter's idea of creativity (in Dark Writing, Honolulu, 2009) in the context of Merab Mamardashvili's theory of consciousness and transformation.
Published articles
Selected publications
- Vladiv-Glover, S. (2008) “History as Pastiche in the Postmodern Detective: Eco’s The Name of the Rose,” in The European legacy, toward new paradigms: journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas. Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press.
- Vladiv-Glover, S. (2003) Postmodernizam od Kiša Do Danas. Beograd, Prosveta.
- Vladiv-Glover, S. (2001) Romani Dostojesvkog kao diskurs transgresije i požud. Belgrade, Prosveta.
- Genis, A., Epstein, M., Vladiv-Glover, S. (1998) Russian postmodernism : new perspectives on post-Soviet culture. Providence, RI, Berghahn Books.
Theatre and Film Reviews