Zachary J. Deming
Biography
Education:
M.Phil. Columbia University, Slavic Languages, 2023.
M.A. Columbia University, Slavic Languages, 2021.
Thesis: “‘Pelted with Cherries’: Cruelty as Device in the Work of Aleksandr Pushkin, 1825-1832.”
B.A. Hamilton College, Literature and Russian Studies, 2020.
Thesis: “Caressing the Detail: Desire à la française in First-Wave Émigré Prose.”
Research interests:
Russian literature and culture of the nineteenth century. Narrative theory, linguistics, and semiotics. Russian and European Romanticism. A. S. Pushkin and his contemporaries. Lyric, plot, and pragmatics.
Selected conference presentations:
“Romantic Pragmatics: Dialogism and Emplotment in E. A. Baratynskii’s Early Lyric,” AATSEEL 2024, 15-18 February, Las Vegas.
“Eros and Elision: Narrative Identity, Destrudo, and Pushkin’s Povesti Belkina,” ASEEES 2023, 30 November - 4 December, Philadelphia.
“‘Pelted With Cherries: Cruelty as Device in the Verse of A.S. Pushkin,” ASEEES 2022, 10-13November, Chicago.
“In the Beginning There Was the Word: Lyric, Logos, and Dialogism as Communion in the Mandel’shtamian Image,” AATSEEL 2022, 17-20 February, Philadelphia.
Courses taught:
First-Year Russian (Fall 2022 – Spring 2024).
Literature and Revolution (assistant to Prof. Erica Drennan, Spring 2022).
Slavic Cultures (assistant to Prof. Jessica Merrill and Dr. Christopher Harwood, Fall 2021).