Chloë Kitzinger

Chloë Kitzinger’s research and teaching focus on the Russian, European, and American novel, in both theory and practice. She is the author of Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel  (Northwestern U.P., 2021) and a co-editor of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Russian Symbolist Criticism: A Reader  (Amherst College Press, forthcoming). She has also published essays on Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bely, Zora Neale Hurston, Bakhtinian novel theory, seriality, and “AI” writing, among other topics. Her current book project is Dostoevsky’s Afterlives: Visions in Translation, a study of Dostoevsky’s global reception and legacies.

“Bakhtin’s Untranslatables,” in “Heteroglossia” (Cluster). Edited by Marta Figlerowicz and Kent Puckett. Narrative, forthcoming.

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Russian Symbolist Criticism: A Reader. Edited by Lindsay Ceballos, Brian Kim, and Chloë Kitzinger (Amherst College Press, November 2026). https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.13414083

“The Weird Russian 19th Century” (Cluster). Edited by Chloë Kitzinger and Arpi Movsesian. Slavic and East European Journal, Fall 2026.

“Modernism in Motion: Viacheslav Ivanov’s ‘Symbolist Life,’” The Russian Review. 2026: 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.70165 . [Featured Review]

“In Search of Lost Timelessness: Reframing the Russian Canon,” Slavic Review 84.2 (Summer 2025), pp. 398–394. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2025.10157 . [Review Essay]

“Narrative Realism and Television” (co-authored with Lisa Jacobson), The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, ed. Katherine Bowers and Margarita Vaysman (Oxford University Press). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197610640.013.13

“Open AI’s Pharmacy?: On the Phaedrus Analogy for Large Language Models,” Critical AI 2:1 (April 2024). https://doi-org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/10.1215/2834703X-11205203

“Disrupted Lines: Illegitimately Born Narrators in Dostoevsky and Hurston.” Narrative 31:2 (May 2023): 138–158. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2023.0009. James Phelan Prize for Best Essay in Narrative (2024).

“The Edges of Fiction: Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and the Birth of Novel Theory.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 56.1 (May 2023): 39–61. DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251226

“Tolstoy’s Oeuvre,” Tolstoy in Context, ed. Anna Berman (Cambridge University Press, November 2022), pp. 129–35.

“Mapping the Networks of Crime and Punishment,” Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, ed. Michael Katz and Alexander Burry (Modern Language Association of America, 2022), pp. 158–63.

Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel (Northwestern University Press, 2021). Available at https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81502

“‘A Variety of Forms’: Reading Bodies in Nabokov,” Nabokov Studies 14 (2016), pp. 1–30. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/nab.2016.0002

 “‘This Ancient, Fragile Vessel’: Degeneration in Bely’s Petersburg,” Slavic and East European Journal 57:3 (Fall 2013), pp. 403–424.  JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43857535.