Jon Stone Associate Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Russian
Biography
My area of specialty is early Russian modernism, European Decadence, and the print
and material culture of the fin de si猫cle.
I am the author of The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature (Scarecrow Press, 2013), The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism (Northwestern University Press, 2017), and Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics
and Anxiety in the 1890s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
I have served on numerous College and professional committees and projects that have
worked to innovate the liberal arts curriculum, study and promote interdisciplinary
teaching and scholarship, and foster community engagement through the humanities.
Education
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of California, Berkeley)
Dissertation: 鈥淐onceptualizing 鈥楽ymbolism鈥�: Institutions, Publications, Readers, and the Russian Propagation of an Idea鈥�
M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of California, Berkeley)
B.A., Russian Literature (Columbia University)
Research
- Russian Symbolism and Decadence
- Modernist periodical studies
- Comparative theories of Decadence
- History and theory of the book
- Sociology of texts
Publications
Books
The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism (Northwestern University Press, 2017)
Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature (Scarecrow Press, 2013)
Translations
Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淎leksandr Blok as the Model Modernist鈥� in Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the Masses, eds. Carol Ueland and Ludmilla Trigos (Lexington Books, 2022).
鈥淥!?!?!: Reading and Readers in the Silver Age (1890s-1900s)鈥� in Reading Russia. A History of Reading in Modern Russia Vol. 2, Damiano Rebecchini and Raffaella Vassena, eds., (Milan: Di/Segni, 2020).
鈥淭he Journal as Archive: Vesy and the Russian Reader鈥檚 Encounter With Decadence鈥� 痴辞濒耻辫迟茅 3.1 Summer 2020 (special issue on the Decadent Archive, edited by Kirsten MacLeod)
鈥淒ecadent Style with a Symbolist Worldview: Andrei Bely, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii, and the Perils of Surfaces鈥� Modernism/Modernity 21:1 ( January 2014): 269-282.
"Aleksandr Blok and the Rise of Biographical Symbolism" Slavic and East European Journal 54:4 (Winter 2010): 626-642.
Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics
and Anxiety in the 1890s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism (Northwestern University Press, 2017)
Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature (Scarecrow Press, 2013)
Translations
The Symphonies by Andrei Bely (Columbia University Press, 2021).
鈥淭he Venetian Stanzas鈥� by Joseph Brodsky (fine press edition designed, illustrated,
and printed by Dmitrii Saenko, Nikodim Press, St. Petersburg, 2017).
Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淛ournals鈥� in The Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry, eds. Catherine Ciepiela, Luba Golburt, and Stephanie Sandler (Oxford University
Press, forthcoming in 2023).
鈥淎leksandr Blok as the Model Modernist鈥� in Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the Masses, eds. Carol Ueland and Ludmilla Trigos (Lexington Books, 2022).
鈥淥!?!?!: Reading and Readers in the Silver Age (1890s-1900s)鈥� in Reading Russia. A History of Reading in Modern Russia Vol. 2, Damiano Rebecchini and Raffaella Vassena, eds., (Milan: Di/Segni, 2020).
鈥淭he Journal as Archive: Vesy and the Russian Reader鈥檚 Encounter With Decadence鈥� 痴辞濒耻辫迟茅 3.1 Summer 2020 (special issue on the Decadent Archive, edited by Kirsten MacLeod)
鈥溞斝敌盒靶葱敌窖傃佇盒把� 袦械褌邪褎懈蟹懈泻邪: 袟懈薪邪懈写邪 袚懈锌锌懈褍褋, 袘褉褝屑 小褌芯泻械褉 懈 褌褉械胁芯卸薪邪褟 褝锌芯褏邪 Fin de si猫cle鈥�
in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (1/2018)
鈥溞曆壭� 褉邪蟹 芯 肖褍泻褋: 袩邪褉芯写懈褟 懈 锌芯写褉邪卸邪薪懈械 胁 褉邪薪薪械屑 褌胁芯褉褔械褋褌胁械 袙.携. 袘褉褞褋芯胁邪鈥� in 袘褉褞褋芯胁褋泻懈械 褔褌械薪懈褟 2013. (Yerevan/Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2014).
鈥淢aking the Symbolist Book/Fashioning the Symbolist Reader: The Case of Aleksandr
Dobroliubov's Collected Verses鈥� in Reading in Russia. Literary Communication and Practices of Reading, 1760-1930, Damiano Rebecchini and Raffaella Vassena, eds. (Milan: Di/Segni, 2014).
鈥淒ecadent Style with a Symbolist Worldview: Andrei Bely, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii, and the Perils of Surfaces鈥� Modernism/Modernity 21:1 ( January 2014): 269-282.
"Aleksandr Blok and the Rise of Biographical Symbolism" Slavic and East European Journal 54:4 (Winter 2010): 626-642.
鈥淭he Literal Symbolist: Solov鈥檈v, Briusov, and the Reader of Early Russian Symbolism鈥�
The Russian Review 67:3 (July 2008): 373-386.
鈥淧olyphony and the Atomic Age: Bakhtin鈥檚 Assimilation of an Einsteinian Universe鈥�
PMLA 123:2 (March 2008): 405-421.
鈥淧alitra simvolistov i ottenki Belogo: Estetika tsveta v rannei poetike A. Belogo鈥�
in Andrei Belyiizmeniaiushchemsia mire: k 125-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia. Moscow: Nauka, 2008: 508-514.
Courses Taught
Russian Language, Literature, and Culture
- Elementary Russian language
- Intermediate Russian language
- Third-year Russian language
- Nabokov/Platonov: Revolution, Exile, and Artistic Genius in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
- Monsters, Loose and Tight: Russia鈥檚 Great Books
- Business in Today鈥檚 Russia: Culture, Society & Capitalism (cross-listed with Business, Organizations, and Society Dept.)
- Russia鈥檚 Literary Titans: Major Works of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
- Intermediate Russian Language Maintenance through Readings in Russian Culture
- Nabokov/Platonov: Literature, Revolution, and Exile in 20th-Century Russia
- Language and Culture of Contemporary Russian Business
- Readings in Russian Literature of the City
- Cold War Cultures (Cross listed with American Studies Dept.)
- From Tsars to Commissars: An Introduction to Russian Culture (summer travel course)
- World Literatures: Introduction to Comparative Literary Studies
- Literary Degenerates: Decadence and Turn of the Century
- European Literature: Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian and American Years
- Good Books/Bad Deeds: Murder, Magic, and Mayhem in Russian Literature (a First-Year Seminar)
- Russian Realities and Realisms (a Connections 1 course)
- Banned Books and Jailed Writers (a Connections 2 course)