Dr Andrea Gullotta

Lecturer in Russian (School of Modern Languages and Cultures)

telephone: 0141 330 5590
email: Andrea.Gullotta@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

My main research area is Gulag literature. I have published extensively on the topic: my first book explores the works written by the poets and writers kept in the Solovki prison camp and publishing activity within it between 1923 and 1930. I've also explored questions such as the genre status of Gulag literature, Gulag poetry, oral poetry composed within the Soviet camps, trauma and form in Gulag literature, humour in the Gulag, autobiographical issues related to camp writing, and articles devoted to authors such as F. Dostoevskii, V. Grossman, G. Herling-Grudzinski, V. Shalamov, A. Solzhenitsyn, and N. Zabolotskii. I'm fascinated by the relationship between State power and literature. This has inspired me in my research on samizdat literature, contemporary Russian literature and on the "Zhivago affair". Together with Claudia Criveller (University of Padua), I founded the international peer-reviewed journal «AvtobiografiЯ. Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture» (www.avtobiografija.com).

Supervision

Areas of supervision

Any topic related to Russian Literature but particularly:

Gulag Literature
Cultural history of the Gulag
History of the Gulag and/or Soviet Repression
Twentieth Century Russian Poetry
Samizdat
Contemporary Russian Literature
Auto/biography in Russian Literature and Culture

Teaching

Office hours: Thursday 12.00-1.00 pm (during teaching semester)

Please send me an email for meetings outside of the teaching semester period

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Core courses:

Russian 1 (Grammar)

Russian 2 (Grammar&Culture)

Russian Level 3 (Writing&Grammar)

Other courses:

Comparative Literature 1C: Heroism in Slavonic Cultures

Comparative Literature 2C: Frontiers in Slavonic Cinema

Honours

Core Courses:

Russian Poetry, Drama & Shorter Prose

The Russian Novel

Russian Literature and State Power

Other Courses:

Classic European Cinema East and West

Additional Information

Academic Collaborations with Peer-Reviewed Journals and Editorial Boards

Editor of the journal «AvtobiografiЯ. Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture»

Member of the advisory board of the journal «LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente» (2017-current)

Member of the advisory board of the Series “Vospominaniia solovetskikh uznikov 1923-1939” (2013-current)

Peer reviewer for the journal «EstOvest» (2016-current)

Peer reviewer for the journal «Australian Slavonic and East European Studies» (2016-current)

Peer reviewer for the journal «Ricognizioni» (2015-current)

Peer reviewer for the journal «LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente» (2016-current)

Academic Collaborations with Groups and Research Projects, Academic Memberships

Member of the BASEES Committee (2017-current)

Member of the BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, 2012-current)

Member of the AISUK (Association of Italian Scientists in the UK, 2016-current)

Member of the Duns Scotus Research Network (2015-current)

Member of the MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015-current)

Member of the Strategy Group of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum (2014-current)

Representative of “Memorial Italia” at the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum (2013-current)

Member of the editorial board of the academic web portal «Pecob: News about Central Eastern Europe and the Balkan Countries» (2013-current)

Member of the AIS (Associazione Italiana degli Slavisti, 2012-current)

Member of the academic association “Memorial Italia” (2011-current)

Collaborator with the Scientific and Information Center “Memorial” of Saint Petersburg (2007-current)

Member of the research group on autobiography in Russian culture of the research project “Refractions of the Self: Forms and Genres of Autobiographies and Memoirs in Russian Culture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” (2011-2012)

Member of the research group on Samizdat of the research project “Between Memory and Utopia: Samizdat as a Symbol of European Culture History, Boundaries, Perspectives” (2009-2011)

Member of the academic association “Compalit” [Italian Association for the Study of the Theory and History of Comparative Literature](2008-current)

Member of the study group “Giovani Europei” [Young Europeans] of the University of Padua (2008-current)

Member of the association “NUBE – Nuova Biblioteca Europea” [New European Library] (2008-current)

Member of the research group on Stalinism of the International project “You Share-Youth Sharing Memories of Stalinism and its Victims” (2010)

Publications

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Jump to: 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007

Number of items: 57.

2018

Gullotta, A. (2018) Stalin’s Meteorologist by Olivier Rolin. Translated by Ros Schwartz. Forum: Magazine of The Scotland-Russia Forum, 39, p. 11. [Book Review]

Gullotta, A. (2018) Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki 1923-1930: The Paris of the Northern Concentration Camps. Legenda. ISBN 9781909662452

2017

Gullotta, A. (2017) O gulag e a literatura de gulag: um balanço das pesquisas. Estudos Avançados, 31(91), pp. 41-54.

Gullotta, A. and Criveller, C. (2017) Ot redaktorov zhurnala "Avtobiografiia": Russkie avtobiograficheskie teksty: vzgliad s Zapada (neskolko primerov iz opyta raboty zhurnala "Avtobiografiia"). In: Zaretsky, Y. (ed.) Avtobiograficheskie sochineniia v mezhdistsiplinarnom issledovatelskom prostranstve: liudi, teksty, praktyki. Aleteia: St Petersburg, pp. 385-406.

Gullotta, A. (2017) Literaturnyi avangard russkogo Parizha 1920-1926. Istoriia, khronika, antologiia, dokumenty. Slavonica, 22(1-2), pp. 121-123. (doi:10.1080/13617427.2017.1405592) [Book Review]

2016

Gullotta, A. and Criveller, C. (2016) L’Open Access tra Europa e Russia: il caso di «Avtobiografiя». In: Scalco, L. (ed.) Open Access e scienze umane. Note su diffusione e percezione delle riviste di area umanistica. Ledizioni: Milan, pp. 75-79. ISBN 9788867055326

Gullotta, A. (2016) Intelligencija 2.0. Il web e la tvorčeskaja intelligencija. In: Banjanin, L., Jaworska, K. and Maurizio, M. (eds.) Disappartenenze: figure del distacco e altre solitudini nelle letterature dell'Europa centro-orientale. Stilo: Bari, pp. 35-62. ISBN 9788864791654

Gullotta, A. (2016) Gulag poetry: an almost unexplored field of research. In: Fischer von Weikersthal, F. and Thaidigsmann, K. (eds.) (Hi-)Stories of the Gulag: Fiction and Reality. Series: Akademiekonferenzen (21). Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg: Heidelberg, pp. 175-192. ISBN 9783825365349

Gullotta, A. (2016) Andrej Platonov, Čevengur. L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, [Book Review]

Gullotta, A. (2016) Solovetskaia byl' A.D. Bulygina. In: Umniagin, V. (ed.) Vospominaniia solovetskikh uznikov. Series: Vospominaniia solovetskikh uznikov 1923-1939. Series: Vospominaniia solovetskikh uznikov. Series: Vospominaniia solovetskikh uznikov 1923-1939 (4). Izdanie Solovet︠s︡kogo monastyri︠a︡: Solovki, pp. 64-67. ISBN 9785919420385

Criveller, C. and Gullotta, A. (2016) Introduction. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2016(5), pp. 5-8.

Gullotta, A. (2016) B. Ronchetti, Caleidoscopio russo: studi di lettera- tura contemporanea, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2014, 322 p.: ill. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2016(5), pp. 203-206. [Book Review]

2015

Criveller, C. and Gullotta, A. (2015) Introduction. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2015(4), pp. 5-6.

Gullotta, A. (2015) An interview with Rosamund Bartlett about her book Tolstoy: A Russian Life. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2015(4), 359 -365.

Gullotta, A. (2015) L’Europa e il gulag, il gulag e l'Europa. In: Dall’‘Europa illegale’ all’Europa unita. Gustaw Herling Grudziñski: l’uomo, lo scrittore, l’opera. accademia polacca delle scienze biblioteca e centro di studi a Roma, Rome, Italy, 1-2 Dec 2014, pp. 17-29.

Gullotta, A. (2015) Julie Draskoczy, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin's Gulag. Modern Language Review, 110(4), pp. 1183-1184. (doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.110.4.1183) [Book Review]

Gullotta, A. (2015) La nourriture dans la prose des camps: l'example du Pain de Chalamov. Revue Russe, 44, pp. 153-164.

2014

Apostoli, S., Gullotta, A. and Lazzarin, F. (2014) Introduction. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2014(3), pp. 217-221.

Criveller, C. and Gullotta, A. (2014) Introduction. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2014(3), pp. 5-10.

Gullotta, A. (2014) Gulag humour: some observations on its history, evolution, and contemporary resonance. In: Hansen, J. and Rogachevskii, A. (eds.) Punishment As a Crime: Perspectives on Prison Experience in Russian Culture. Series: Uppsala studies on Eastern Europe (5). Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, pp. 89-109. ISBN 9789155490645

Gullotta, A. (2014) I nodi vengono al pettine: i neoesodati. Roars: Return On Academic Research, Oct 27.

Gullotta, A. (2014) Valentina Parisi, Il Lettore Eccedente: Edizioni Periodiche del Samizdat Sovietico, 1956-1990. Russica Romana, 21, pp. 187-189. [Book Review]

2013

Criveller, C. and Gullotta, A. (2013) Introduction. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2013(2), pp. 9-11.

Criveller, C. and Gullotta, A. (2013) Introduction to the discussion section. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2013(2), p. 171.

Gullotta, A. (2013) Beyond the subject? Considerations on the 2013 IABA Europe conference. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2013(2), pp. 175-176.

Gullotta, A. (2013) Ivan Čistjakov, Diario di un guardiano del Gulag, con un saggio di Marcello Flores, postfazione di Irina Scherbakova, traduzione e cura di Francesca Gori, Mondadori, Milano 2012, pp. 236; Aleksandr Wat, Il mio secolo: Memorie e discorsi con Czesław Miłosz, prefazione di Czesław Miłosz, a cura di Luigi Marinelli, Sellerio Palermo 2013. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2013(2), pp. 183-184. [Book Review]

Gullotta, A. (2013) Pietro Antonio Zveteremich e Il caso Pasternak: un documento inedito dagli archivi russi = [Pietro A. Zveteremich and ehe Pasternak affair: an unpublished document from Russian archives]. eSamizdat, 9, pp. 55-62.

Gullotta, A. (2013) Vopominani V.O. Rubinstein = [V.O. Rubinshtein Introduction]. In: Umniagin, V. (ed.) Vospominaniia solovetskikh uznikov. Series: Vospominaniia solovetskikh uznikov 1923-1939. Izdanie Solovet︠s︡kogo monastyri︠a︡: Solovki, pp. 180-183. ISBN 9785919420224

2012

Criveller, C. and Gullotta, A. (2012) Autobiografiia [Journal editor and founder]. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture,

Criveller, C. and [Translator] Gullotta, A. (2012) Introduzione = [Introduction]. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2012(1), pp. 7-9.

Gullotta, A. (2012) Trauma and self in the Soviet context: remarks on Gulag writings. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2012(1), pp. 73-87.

Kriveller, K. and [Translator] Gullotta, A. (2012) Введение = [Introduction]. Avtobiografiia: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture, 2012(1), pp. 15-17.

2011

Gullotta, A. and Lazzarin, F. (Eds.) (2011) Scritture dell’io: Percorsi tra i generi autobiografici della letteratura europea contemporanea = [Self Writings: Studies on Autobiographical Genres in Contemporary] European Literature. I libri di Emil: Bologna. ISBN 9788896026908

Chandler, R. and [Translator] Gullotta, A. (2011) Tutto scorre...: il dono della storia. In: Tosco, P. (ed.) L’umano Nell’uomo: Vasilij Grossman Tra Ideologie E Domande Eterne. Series: Saggi.Filologia e critica letteraria (0261). Rubbettino: Soveria Mannelli, pp. 37-44. ISBN 9788849828382

Chlevnjuk, A. and [Translator] Gullotta, A. (2011) La dittatura staliniana: priorità politiche e risultati = [Stalin’s dictatorship: political priorities and results]. In: Piffer, T., Zubok, V.M. and Zaslavsky, V. (eds.) Società Totalitarie E Transizione Alla Democrazia: Saggi In Memoria Di Victor Zaslavsky. Series: Percorsi. Il mulino: Bologna, pp. 197-216. ISBN 9788815233967

Ellis, F. and [Translator] Gullotta, A. (2011) L’idea Russa, Lenin e le origini dello stato totalitario in Tutto scorre... In: Tosco, P. (ed.) L’umano Nell’uomo: Vasilij Grossman Tra Ideologie E Domande Eterne. Series: Saggi.Filologia e critica letteraria (0261). Rubbettino: Soveria Mannelli, pp. 45-76. ISBN 9788849828382

Garrard, A., Garrard, C. and [Translator] Gullotta, A. (2011) La Madonna Sistina: la risposta di Grossman alle domande eterne. In: Tosco, P. (ed.) L’umano Nell’uomo: Vasilij Grossman Tra Ideologie E Domande Eterne. Series: Saggi.Filologia e critica letteraria (0261). Rubbettino: Soveria Mannelli, pp. 411-428. ISBN 9788849828382

Graybosch, A. and [Translator] Gullotta, A. (2011) Una telefonata da Stalin. In: Tosco, P. (ed.) L’umano Nell’uomo: Vasilij Grossman Tra Ideologie E Domande Eterne. Series: Saggi.Filologia e critica letteraria (0261). Rubbettino: Soveria Mannelli, pp. 215-230. ISBN 9788849828382

Gullotta, A. (2011) I prodromi della lagernaja literatura: Zapiski iz mërtvogo doma di Dostoevskij a confronto con la letteratura di Gulag = [The prodromes of lagernaia literatura: a confrontation between Dostoevsky’s Zapiski iz mertvogo doma and Gulag Literature]. In: Ferrazzi, M., Mingati, A., Cavaion, D. and Claudia, C. (eds.) Uomini Opere e Idee tra Occidente e Mondo Slavo: Scritti Offerti a Marialuisa Ferrazzi. Series: Labirinti (137). Università degli studi di Trento: Trento, pp. 355-372. ISBN 9788884433947

Gullotta, A. (2011) Il samizdat e il tema della repressione sovietica: una ricostruzione storica tra criticità e punti di domanda = [Samizdat and Soviet repression: A historical review between complexities and open questions]. eSamizdat, 8, pp. 239-246.

Gullotta, A. (2011) Io, spazio e generazioni a confronto: considerazioni a margine della prosa di Il’ja Stogov e Sergej Šargunov = [Self, space and generations: remarks on Ilya Stogov and Sergey Shargunov’s writing]. In: Gullotta, A. and Lazzarin, F. (eds.) Scritture Dell’io: Percorsi tra i Generi Autobiografici Della Letteratura Europea Contemporanea. I libri di Emil: Bologna, pp. 45-65. ISBN 9788896026908

Gullotta, A. (2011) La scrittura era una questione di esistenza: una conversazione sulla poesia russa con Michail Ajzenberg = [Writing was a matter of existence: a conversation on Russian poetry with Mikhail Aizenberg]. Hebenon, 7-8, pp. 105-116.

Gullotta, A. (2011) P. Tosco (a cura di), L’umano nell’uomo. Vasilij Grossman tra ideologie e domande eterne. Studi Slavistici, 8, pp. 377-379. [Book Review]

Gullotta, A. (2011) Rinascite occidentali della 'lagernaja literature'. Between, 1(2), pp. 1-12.

Gullotta, A. (2011) A new perspective for Gulag literature studies: the Gulag Press. Studi Slavistici, 8, pp. 95-111.

2010

Gullotta, A. (2010) Culture As Resistance: The Case Of The Solovki Prison Camp And Of Its Inmates. Project Report. Institute for Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe.

Gullotta, A. (2010) La scrittura epistolare ai tempi del terrore staliniano = [Letter writing during Stalin’s great terror]. In: Cottone, M. and Chiavetta, E. (eds.) La Scrittura Epistolare In Europa Dal Medioevo Ai Nostri Giorni: Generi, Modelli E Trasformazioni. Series: Percorsi diversi (9). Bonanno: Acireale, pp. 333-347. ISBN 9788877966100

Gullotta, A. (2010) Le molteplici interpretazioni della temporalità in Odin den’ Ivana Denisovic di Aleksandr Solženicyn = [The many interpretations of time dimension in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Odin Den’ Ivana Denisovicha]. In: Tosco, P. (ed.) Immagini Di Tempo: Studi Di Slavistica. QuiEdit: Verona, pp. 978-977. ISBN 9788864640693

Gullotta, A. (2010) Philippe Daverio: lo stalinismo ha il volto buono = [Philippe Daverio: Stalinism has the face of a good man]. Gariwo: Gardens For The Righteous Of The World, Jul 10.

Gullotta, A. (2010) You Share: Youth Sharing Memories of Stalinism and its Victims. Project Report. Institute for Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe.

Gullotta, A. (2010) The 'cultural village' of the Solovki Prison Camp: a case of alternative culture? Studies in Slavic Cultures, 9, pp. 9-25.