Svetlana Rukhelman

Svetlana

Rukhelman

Library Assistant

Staff

Expands access to archival and special collections held by the Davis Center library: engages in collection processing; creates metadata, online catalog records, and archival finding aids; works on digital collections and other web projects.

Before becoming a Davis Center library assistant in 2014, Svetlana received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and taught Russian literature and language at Harvard and Macalester College. Her courses covered such topics as Soviet-era satire and science fiction. When not patrolling the Fung Library reading room she still works on scholarly research.

Expertise:

Library: archival processing;

cataloging. Scholarship: literature and cinema;

narratology;

deception narratives;

irony and satire;

cognitive approaches;

the concept of fate in Russian culture; Gogol;

Nabokov;

Flannery O’Connor; the cinema of David Mamet and the Coen brothers.

Current Project:

A Certain Future: Fate and Narrative in Russian Culture

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Education

Ph.D.

, Comparative Literature

, Harvard University

Selected Publications:

“The Laughter of Gods and Devils: Edith Wharton and the Coen Brothers on Deception, Disappointment, and Cosmic Irony.” In Comedy in Comparative Literature: Dante, Hoffmann, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010).

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