Julie Cassiday
Julie Cassiday | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Education | Stanford University (PhD) Grinnell College (BA) |
| Thesis | The Theater of the World and the Theater of State: Drama and the Show Trial in Early Soviet Russia (1995) |
| Gregory Freidin | |
Other advisors | Lazar Fleishman Marjorie Perloff Andrew Wachtel Edward J. Brown |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | literary scholar |
Sub-discipline | comparative literature |
| Institutions | Williams College |
Julie A. Cassiday is an American literary scholar and Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian at Williams College.[1][2] She is known for her expertise in comparative literature. Cassiday is a former president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.[3]
In 2024, her book Russian Style! Performing Gender in Putin’s Russia was shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, [4] and won The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies prize by AATSEEL.[5]
Select publications
- Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action. Co-edited with Julie A. Buckler and Boris Wolfson, University of Wisconsin Press, 2018
- The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen, Northern Illinois University Press 2000 (Russian translation, Academic Studies Press 2021)
- Russian Style! Performing Gender in Putin’s Russia, University of Wisconsin Press, 2024
References
- ↑ "Julie A. Cassiday". Stanford University Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015.
- ↑ "Julie A Cassiday". ICCEES 10th World Congress - Bridging National and Global Perspectives. Archived from the original on April 23, 2025.
- ↑ "Julie A. Cassiday". Williams College. Retrieved June 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Julie A. Cassiday's 'Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power and Putinism' Shortlisted for Pushkin House Book Prize". The Moscow Times. June 12, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
- ↑ "Book Prize Winners for 2024". American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). AATSEEL. 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
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