Stuart Goldberg
Professor of Russian
- School of Modern Languages
Overview
Stuart H. Goldberg received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2003. His expertise lies in Russian and Polish literature and culture, with a focus on Russian poetry. His book, An Indwelling Voice: Sincerities and Authenticies in Russian Poetry was supported by an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship and has recently been released by the Univerity of Toronto Press. It analyzes through historically contextualized close readings the rhetorical structures, pragmatic framings and poetic devices which have allowed a sincere voice to be inscribed in poetry. Taken together, the readings trace how, at critical junctures in the development of Russian verse, the understanding of the nature of sincerity, as well as the means by which it is written into poetry, have changed.
Dr. Goldberg’s previous book, Mandelstam, Blok and the Boundaries of Mythopoetic Symbolism, published in 2011 by Ohio State University Press, explores the influence of the younger generation of Russian Symbolists on the Osip Mandelstam and Mandelstam's play with distance and immediacy in his assimilation of the Symbolist heritage. It was chosen by the journal Choice for their selective list of "Outstanding Academic Titles, 2012." An authorized translation by Vlad Tretyakov was released by the publishing house Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie in 2020. Dr. Goldberg has published articles in journals such as Russian Review, Slavic Review, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, Russian Literature (Amsterdam), Slavonic and East European Review, and Slavic and East European Journal. An article exploring the possible influence of Jewish Kabbalah on one of the masterpieces of Polish Romantic theater was translated into Polish and republished in a collection printed by the Polish Academy of Sciences ("Konrad i Jakub: Hipotetyczny podtekst kabalistyczny w III czesci Dziadów Adama Mickiewicza," in Polonistyka po amerykansku: Badania nad literatura polska w Ameryce Pólnocnej (1990-2005) [Warszawa: Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2006]). In 2005-2006, Dr. Goldberg was recipient of a Fulbright grant, funding eleven months of library and archival research in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Dr. Goldberg offers courses on Russian literature, film, and culture in translation and in Russian, for undergraduates and in Georgia Tech's new M.S. program in Global Media and Cultures. He has taught all levels of Russian language and designed and directs Georgia Tech's intensive summer immersion program in Riga, Latvia. He also conceived and directed the US Department of Education funded Georgia Tech Critical Languages Song Project, an innovative curricular development project which brought together faculty designers in Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Russian and graduate student programmers in Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction. The resulting materials for advanced study of language and culture through the prism of song are available at clsp.gatech.edu.
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
- B.A., Williams College
Interests
- Russian
Focuses:
- Asia (North) / Eurasia
- Digital Humanities
- Film History and Theory
- Intercultural Issues
- Language Acquisition
- Literary Theory
- Literature
- Performance
- Poetry
Courses
- LCC-3823: Special Topics Lit/Cult
- LMC-3202: Studies in Fiction
- LMC-3823: Special Topics Lit/Cult
- RUSS-1001: Elementary Russian I
- RUSS-1692: Intens Element Russ II
- RUSS-2001: Intermediate Russian I
- RUSS-2002: Intermediate Russian II
- RUSS-2691: Intens Interm Russian I
- RUSS-2692: Intens Interm Russian II
- RUSS-2813: Special Topics
- RUSS-3001: Advanced Russian I
- RUSS-3002: Advanced Russian II
- RUSS-3005: Russian for Herit Spkrs
- RUSS-3222: Russ 20th Cent Lit&Film
- RUSS-3691: Intensive Adv Russian
- RUSS-3692: Read&Comp:Bus,Sci & Tech
- RUSS-3695: Contemporary Russia
- RUSS-4360: Russ Cult Through Song
- RUSS-4500: Intercultural Seminar
- RUSS-4692: Intens Adv Russian II
- RUSS-4693: Intens Adv Russian III
- RUSS-4695: Russian Internship
- RUSS-6360: Russ Cult Through Songs
- RUSS-6500: Intercultural Seminar
- RUSS-6510: Language Practicum
Publications
Selected Publications
Books
- Mandelstam, Blok and the Boundaries of Mythopoetic Symbolism
Date: 2011
Ohio State University Press, 2011
Journal Articles
- The Poetic Device and the Problem of Sincerity in Gavrila Derzhavin’s Verse
Date: 2017
Slavonic and East European Review 95.2 (2017), 221-251.
- Your Mistress or Mine? Briusov, Blok and the Boundaries of Poetic 'Propriety'
Date: 2016
Slavic and East European Journal 60.4 (2016).
Chapters
- Creating the Sincere Voice: One Poetic Device in Pushkin’s Lyrics of the 1830s
Date: 2017
A/Z: Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky. Ed. Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Levitt, Joe Peschio and Igor Pilshchikov. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017. 206-224.
All Publications
Books
- Мандельштам, Блок и границы мифопоэтического символизма / Mandel'shtam, Blok i granitsy mifopoeticheskogo simvolizma
In: 2020
Date: February 2020
- Mandelstam, Blok and the Boundaries of Mythopoetic Symbolism
Date: 2011
Ohio State University Press, 2011
Journal Articles
- Из истории публикации русской классики. Статья вторая. Упрощение Оленина (рисунки к оде Державина) [From the History of Publication of the Russian Classics. Article Two. The Simplification of Olenin (Drawings for an Ode by Derzhavin)]
In: Новое литературное обозрение (New Literary Observer, Moscow)
Date: September 2022
- Из истории публикации русской классики. Статья первая. Поддельный Пушкин [From the History of Publication of the Russian Classics. Article One. A Forged Pushkin]
In: Новое литературное обозрение (New Literary Observer, Moscow)
Date: July 2022
- The Poetic Device and the Problem of Sincerity in Gavrila Derzhavin’s Verse
Date: 2017
Slavonic and East European Review 95.2 (2017), 221-251.
- Your Mistress or Mine? Briusov, Blok and the Boundaries of Poetic 'Propriety'
Date: 2016
Slavic and East European Journal 60.4 (2016).
- 'To Anaxagoras' in the Velvet Night: New Considerations on the Role of Blok in Mandelstam's 'V Peterburge my soidemsia snova.'
Date: 2010
Russian Review 69 (April 2010): 294-314.
- Original Sincerity: Some Thoughts on the Poetry of Boris Ryžij.
Date: 2010
Russian Literature 67.1 (February 2010): 67-83.
- The Shade of Gumilev in Mandel΄shtam’s Kamen΄ (Stikhotvoreniia [1928])
Date: 2009
Slavonic and East European Review 87.1 (2009): 39-52.
- Christianity and Romanticism in Tjutčev’s ‘Pevučest’ est’ v morskix volnax.’
Date: 2008
Russian Literature 54.2 (2008): 177-200.
- Blok’s Living Rampa: On the Spatial and Conceptual Structuring of the Theater Poems
Date: 2005
Slavic and East European Journal 49.3 (2005): 474-89.
- Bedside with the Symbolist Hero: Blok in Mandel’shtam’s ‘Pust’ v dushnoi komnate.’
Date: 2004
Slavic Review 63.1 (Spring 2004): 26-42.
- Konrad and Jacob: A Hypothetical Kabbalistic Subtext in Adam Mickiewicz's Forefathers' Eve, Part III
Date: 2001
Slavic and East European Journal 45.4 (2001): 695-715.
- The Poetics of Return in Osip Mandel’štam’s ‘Solominka.’
Date: 1999
Russian Literature 45.2 (1999): 131-47.
Chapters
- Language and Cultural Learning through Song: Three Complementary Contexts. (With Karen Evans-Romaine, Susan Kresin and Vicki Galloway)
In: The Art of Teaching Russian
Date: 2020
The Art of Teaching Russian: Research, Pedagogy, and Practice. Bloomington: Slavica. Forthcoming, 2018.
- Creating the Sincere Voice: One Poetic Device in Pushkin’s Lyrics of the 1830s
Date: 2017
A/Z: Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky. Ed. Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Levitt, Joe Peschio and Igor Pilshchikov. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017. 206-224.
- Sootnoshenie podlinnosti-iskrennosti v poetike Mandel’shtama i Bloka
Date: 2009
Miry Osipa Mandel’shtama. IV Mandel’shtamovskie chteniia: materialy mezhdunarodnogo nauchnogo seminara, 31 maia – 4 iiunia 2009 g. Perm’ – Cherdyn’. Perm: Izd. PGPU, 2009. 271-85.
- 'Kak trudno rany vrachevat'…': Mandelstam's 'Prescient' Evasions of Bloom
Date: 2008
Russian Literature and the West: A Tribute to David M. Bethea. Part II. Ed. Alexander Dolinin, Lazar Fleishman and Leonid Livak (Stanford Slavic Studies. Vol. 36). Stanford: Stanford UP, 2008. 27-43.
- Preodolevaiushchii simvolizm: Stikhi 1912 g. vo vtorom izdanii ‘Kamnia’ (1916)
Date: 2008
“Sokhrani moiu rech’…” 4/2. Moscow: RGGU, 2008. 487-512
- Konrad i Jakub: Hipotetyczny podtekst kabalistyczny w III części Dziadów Adama Mickiewicza
Date: 2006
Polonistyka po amerykańsku: Badania nad literaturą polską w Ameryce Północnej (1990-2005). Ed. Halina Filipowicz, Andrzej Karcz, and Tamara Trojanowska. Warsaw, Poland: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2006. 56-76.
Other Publications
- Courseware: Сritical Languages Song Project: Russkaia kul’tura v dvadtsati odnoi pesne
Date: 2013
Georgia Tech Critical Languages Song Project