Vladislava Reznik
Vladislava Reznik holds a PhD in Russian Linguistics from the
University of Exeter. In 2005 she conducted post-doctoral research
at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, as a fellow of the
Swiss National Science Foundation. She has also taught at the
University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow, London School of
Slavonic and East European Studies and, most recently, at Durham
University.
Her research interests include Russian intellectual and cultural
history, linguistic historiography and epistemology,
sociolinguistics and the politics of language. Her other main area
of research is concerned with East European travel writing and,
specifically, with Ukrainian travel writing and the construction of
Ukraine's European identity in travel texts.
She is currently working on her first monograph on the evolution of
Saussureanism in Russia, due to be published by Peter Lang in
2009.
Her most recent publications are:
‘Succession or Subversion: Professional Strategies of Soviet
Cultural Revolution: The Case of Nikolai Marr’, Slavonica,
13: 2 (2007), 150-167.
‘A Long Rendezvous: Aleksandr Romm’s Unpublished Works on
Saussure’, Slavonic and East European Review, 86: 1
(2008), 1-25.
‘Re-socializing Saussure: Alexandr Romm’s Unpublished Review of
Marxism and the Philosophy of Language’, in Langue et
penseé: Union Soviétique, anneé 1920-1930, ed. by Patrick
Seriot and Janette Friedrich, Cahiers de l'ILSL, no. 24, 2008, pp.
179-90.
Bibliography of Ukrainian travel writing, in East Looks West: A
Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on European Identities
and Divisions 1600-2000, ed. by Wendy Bracewell and Alex
Drace-Francis (Budapest: CEU Press, 2008), v. 3, pp. 471-86.
