Olga Partan

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Articles & Book Chapters

In my articles and book chapters, I examine Russian literature, theater history, and the performing arts, with particular emphasis on cross-cultural literary exchange and the movement of aesthetic forms across national traditions.

  • “Михаил Чехов – русский тамплиер в изгнании?” [Michael Chekhov – a Russian Knight Templar in Exile?] Russian Emigration on the Waves of Freedom. The Proceedings of the International Conference. May 2-3, 2022. The New Review and Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2023. 103-113.
 
  • “Анна Нетребко – оперная дива в эпоху глобализации, цифровых технологий и социальных сетей” [Anna Netrebko – an Operatic Diva of the Era of Globalization, Digital Technology and Social Media]. Музыка и сцена. Сборник статей по материалам международной конференции «Бахрушинские чтения – 2021. Музыка и сцена» [Music and stage. The collection of essays for International conference Bakhrushin Readings – 2021]. Moscow: Teatral’nyi muzei Bakhrushina, 2022. 90-95.
 
  • “Evgenii Vakhtangov’s Fantastic Realism: Evolving Interpretation of a Term.” Special Issue of Arti dello Spettacolo/Performing arts, N7, 2021. WORD><STAGE Stage Words: Intersemiotic and inter-linguistic translation of dramaturgic, literary and theatre theory texts. Edited by Donatella Gavrilovich and Gabriella Elina Imposti. UNIVERSITALIA: Rome, 2021. 45-55.
 
  • “Дело «Ордена Света» 1930-х годов и близкое окружение Марины Цветаевой” [The Order of Light Case of 1930s and Marina Tsvetaeva’s Close Surrounding]. The Collection of Essays for XXI-XXII International Conferences. Marina Tsvetaeva Museum and Cultural Center: Moscow, 2021. 151-160.
  • “Russifying Phaedra: A Mythological Framework in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Poetic Imagination.” Donne del Mediterraneo: Donne e memoria. A cura di Marco Marino e Giovanni Spani. QuadManet: Holden, Mass., 2020. 143-162.
  • “Марина Цветаева и театр” [Marina Tsvetaeva and Theater]. Collection of Essays for XX International Conference. Marina Tsvetaeva Museum and Cultural Center: Moscow, 2020. 66-78.

 

 

  • “Русская Федра: Традиции и инновации в неоклассической драматургии Марины Цветаевой” [Russian Phaedra: Tradition and Innovation in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Neoclassical Tragedies]. Collection of Essays for XIX International Conference. Marina Tsvetaeva Museum and Cultural Center: Moscow, 2017. 244-254.

 

  • “Не суждено, чтобы сильный с сильным: О несостоявшемся творческом союзе 4 Марины Цветаевой и Евгения Вахтангова” [Marina Tsvetaeva and Yevgeny Vakhtangov’s Unrealized Artistic Union]. Collection of Essays for International Conference “Current Tsvetaeva – 2014.” Marina Tsvetaeva Museum and Cultural Center: Moscow, 2016. 224-239.

 

  • “Alla: The Jester-Queen of Russian Pop Culture,” The Russian Review, July 2007. 481-500.

 

  • “Shinel’ – Polichinelle – Pulcinella: The Italian Ancestry of Akaky Bashmachkin,” Slavic and East European Journal, Volume 49, Number 4 Winter 2005. 549-569.

 

  • “Aleksandr Vertinsky,” Russian Emigré Writers in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Maria Rubins, 2005. 320-328.

Featured Article from The Conversation:

Why it’s such a big deal that Alla Pugacheva, ‘the tsarina of Russian pop,’ came out against the war in Ukraine

Russian pop icon Alla Pugacheva publicly denounced the war in Ukraine in 2022, a striking move given her immense influence and broad audience across Russian society. Long known for weaving subtle political commentary into her work, she directly criticized the conflict in solidarity with her husband Maxim Galkin, who had been labeled a “foreign agent,” and implicitly challenged the leadership of Vladimir Putin. Her statement drew both praise and backlash, and she soon left Russia, raising questions about her impact on public opinion.

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Book Chapters
  • “Introduction: The Intelligentsia in Russia: Shifting Terms, History, and Scholarly Approaches”, Introductory Chapter co-written with Sibelan Forrester, Intelligentsia in Russia: Myth, Mission, Metamorphosis. Co-edited with Sibelan Forrester. Forthcoming in Academic Studies Press, February 2025, pp.ix-xxxiii.

 

  • “The Russian Knights Templar: A Secret Mystical Order and Its Legacy,” Intelligentsia in Russia: Myth, Mission, Metamorphosis. Co-edited with Sibelan Forrester. Forthcoming in Academic Studies Press, February 2025 pp.188-210.

 

  • “Reinventing Chekhov for the American Screen: Michael Mayer’s The Seagull (2018),” Film Adaptations of Russian Classics: Dialogism and Authorship. Edited by Alexandra Smith and Olga Sobolev. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 165-182.

 

  • Ты права, Филумена! Об истинных вахтанговцах “[You Were Right, Filumena! About Vakhtangov’s Followers] five-chapter book fragment. Znamya (Russian monthly literary journal). November, 2011. 100-135. (Under the name Olga Simonova-Partan). http://magazines.russ.ru/znamia/2011/11/os6.html
  • “Cvetaeva and Theater” book chapter in A Companion to Marina Cvetaeva. Edited by Sibelan Forrester. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2017.

 

  • “Feminism a la Russe? Pugacheva-Orbakaite’s Celebrity Construction Through Family Bonds,” book chapter in Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: Shocking Chic. Edited by Helena Goscilo and Vlad Strukov. London and New York: Routledge, 2011. 173-94.

 

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