Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ of Chicago
A.M., Univ of Chicago
A.B., Univ of Chicago
Carol Any taught at Trinity College from 1984 to 2025, training generations of students in the Russian language. Beyond language study, her first-year seminar on The Brothers Karamazov and her courses on War and Peace and Anna Karenina put students in dialogue with Russian literary giants Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Her research combines aesthetic theory, the relationship between the arts and ideology, and the lives and moral choices of writers living under political repression. She is the author of Boris Eikhenbaum: Voices of a Russian Formalist (Stanford University Press, 1994) and The Soviet Writers’ Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin (Northwestern University Press, 2020; winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies).
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Russian language
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Tolstoy
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Pushkin
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Literature and Revolution
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Russian Women's Culture
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St. Petersburg as city and myth
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Religion and ethics in literature
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Literary theory and poetics
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Literature and ideology
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Censorship
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Russian Formalism
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Writers and the Soviet State
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The Soviet Writers’ Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020.
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Boris Eikhenbaum: Voices of a Russian Formalist. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
- “Guiding Soviet Writers: Nurturing versus Browbeating in the Soviet Writers’ Union.” Acta Slavica Iaponica 46, no. 1 (2026).
- “Remaking the Literary Intelligentsia (1930s–1940s).” In The Intelligentsia in Russia: Myth, Mission, Metamorphosis. Ed. Sibelan Forrester and Olga Partan. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2025. Pp. 211-228.
- “‘Gruppovshchina’ and ‘Communitas’ in the Soviet Writers’ Union, 1932–1939.” In Codex Manuscriptus, vol. 5: Estetika kommunizma: teorii i literaturnye praktiki [Communist Aesthetics: Theories and Institutions]. Ed. D. S. Moskovskaia. Moscow: IMLI-RAN, 2024. Pp. 129–255. https://codex-manuscriptus.ru/ru/arkhiv/159-codex-manuscriptus-vyp-5-estetika-kommunizma-teorii-i-literaturnye-praktiki
- “Liberal’nye bol’sheviki o tvorcheskom masterstve” [Liberal Bolsheviks on Creative Writing]. Trans. Nina Stavrogina. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 183 (May 2023): 107-121. https://www.nlobooks.ru/upload/iblock/fcb/u0ks8suhus62yljyp5wlqqru8e41526y.pdf
- “The Red Pushkin and the Writers’ Union in 1937: Prescription and Taboo.” In Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretation. Ed. Alyssa Dinega Gillespie. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
- “Boris Eikhenbaum’s Unfinished Work on Tolstoy: A Dialogue with Soviet History.” PMLA 105 (March 1990): 233-244.
- “Boris Eikhenbaum in Opoiaz: Testing the Limits of the Work-Centered Poetics.” Slavic Review 49, no. 3 (Fall 1990): 409-426.
- “Teoriia iskusstva i emotsii v formalisticheskoi rabote Borisa Eikhenbauma.” [The Theory of Art and Emotion in the Formalist Work of Boris Eikhenbaum]. Revue des Etudes Slaves 57, no. 1 (1985): 137-144. Portuguese translation: “A teoria da arte e da emoção no trabalho formalista de Boris Eikhenbaum.” Trans. Raquel Siphone. Criação & Critica 34 (2022): 176-186. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i34p176-186
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- University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, 2021 (for The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
- Yale University Visiting Library fellowship, June 1997-May 1998
- Trinity College faculty research grant, Trinity College, 1994
- Social Science Research Council Fellow, 1986-1988
- St. Anthony Faculty Fellow, Trinity College, 1985
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, July 1983-July 1984
- International Research & Exchanges Board, dissertation research fellowship, Sept. 1980-June 1981
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