Jon Stone
Assistant Professor of Russian and Russian Studies
717-358-5891
Office: KEI-217
Office Hours: M 9:30-10:30; Th 10-11:20
Education
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2007
University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: “Conceptualizing ‘Symbolism’: Institutions, Publications, Readers, and the Russian Propagation of an Idea”
M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2001
University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Russian Literature, 1999
Columbia University
Research Interests
Russian Symbolism and Decadence
Symbolist journals and almanacs
Theories of Decadence
Modernist views of reality
Medieval Slavic culture
Late Russian Realism
Orthodox theology
Russian religious thought
Grants & Awards
Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award (UC Berkeley)
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies
Phi Beta Kappa Society
National Slavic Honor Society, Dobro Slovo
Publications
Books
The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature (Scarecrow Press; expected completion in 2012)
Articles
"Aleksandr Blok and the Rise of Biographical Symbolism" Slavic and East European Journal 54:4 (Winter 2010): 626-642.
“The Literal Symbolist: Solov’ev, Briusov, and the Reader of Early Russian Symbolism” The
Russian Review 67:3 (July 2008): 373-386.
“Polyphony and the Atomic Age: Bakhtin’s Assimilation of an Einsteinian Universe” PMLA 123:2
(March 2008): 405-421.
“Palitra simvolistov i ottenki Belogo: Estetika tsveta v rannei poetike A. Belogo” in Andrei Belyi
izmeniaiushchemsia mire: k 125-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia. Moscow: Nauka, 2008: 508-514.
“A Symbolist Palette: The Aesthetics of Andrei Bely’s Zoloto v lazuri” Institute of Slavic, East
European, and Eurasian Studies Newsletter. Berkeley: ISEEES, Summer 2005.
“Exploring the Body Shameful: Solov’ev, Sologub, and Original Sin” Studies in Slavic Cultures III
Ed. Helena Goscilo and Seth Graham. Pittsburgh, PA: Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures and Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2002.
Reviews & Letters
“Forum” contribution. PMLA (October 2008).
Review of Dramatised Narration: The Development of Joyce’s Narrative Technique from Stephen Hero
to Ulysses by Kalina Filipova. The James Joyce Literary Supplement 22:2 (Fall 2008).
Review of The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy by Galina Rylkova.
Slavic and East European Journal 52:4 (Winter 2008).
Review of Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe by Gábor
Klaniczay. Slavic and East European Journal 50:2 (Summer 2006), 379-380.
Course Information
RUS 101: Elementary Russian I
RUS 102: Elementary Russian II
RUS/LIT 172: Nabokov/Platonov: Revolution, Exile, and Artistic Genius in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
RUS 173 (FYS): Good Books, Bad Deeds: Murder, Mayhem, and Magic in Russian Literature
RUS/LIT 272: Monsters, Loose and Tight: Exploring Russia’s Great Books
RUS/BOS 274: Business in Today’s Russia: Culture, Society, and Capitalism
RUS 301: Introduction to Literary Texts
RUS 391: Directed Reading in the Language and Culture of Contemporary Russian Business
LIT 271: Tutorial in Decadence and Degernation in Turn-of-the-Century European Literature
LIT 274: Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian and American Years
