Julie A. Cassiday

Scholarship/Creative Work

Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism. Forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press, November 2023.

“The Kitsch of Corruption.” Op-ed in The Moscow Times (January 26, 2021) at https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/26/the-kitsch-of-corruption-a72731.

Враг на скамье подсудимых: ранние советские суды в театре и кино, trans. Andrei Andreev. Russian translation of The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen forthcoming from Academic Studies Press, 2021.

“A World Without Safe-Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies (March 30, 2020) at http://www.jprstudies.org/2020/03/a-world-without-safe-words-fifty-shades-of-russian-grey/.

“Introduction to the special issue ‘Romance Fiction in the International Marketplace’,” co-written and co-edited with Emily D. Johnson. Journal of Popular Romance Studies (March 30, 2020) at http://www.jprstudies.org/2020/03/introduction-to-the-special-issue-romance-fiction-in-the-international-marketplace/.

“Sacrifice and Self in Everybody Dies But Me.” The ‘Other’ Martyrs: Women and the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death in World Literatures, ed. Alireza Korangy and Leyla Rouhi (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019), 23-37.

“Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro, Frog-Princess of Neoacademism.” The Russian Review 78 (April 2019): 221-44.

“Introduction” to “The Allure of Retro: Neoacademism After the Fall.” Co-authored with Helena Goscilo and Jonathan Brooks Platt. The Russian Review 78 (April 2019): 183-200.

“La heroíca alcahueta dormía la siesta: La Celestina’s Presence in La Regenta.” Co-authored with Leyla Rouhi. Decimonónica 16/1 (Winter 2019) at http://www.decimononica.org/rouhi-cassiday/.

“Presidential Performances.” ASEEES NewsNet 59/1 (2019): 1-5 at https://www.aseees.org/sites/default/files/downloads/january%202019.pdf.

Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action. Coeditor with Julie A. Buckler and Boris Wolfson (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). Winner of the 2020 AATSEEL Book Prize for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume.

“Glamazons en travesti: Drag Queens in Putin’s Russia.” Essay to Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action, co-edited with Julie A. Buckler and Boris Wolfson (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), 272-281.

“Persian Cargo on a Russian Ark: The Role of Iran in Sokurov’s Russian Ark.” Article co-written with Leyla Rouhi. International Journal of Persian Literature 2:1 (2017): 57-86.

“Kool-Aid,” “Popsicle,” and “Sitophilia.” Entries in The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, ed. Darra Goldstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 384-385, 551, and 614-615.

“Why Stalinist Cinema Had No Detective Films, or How Three Becomes Two in Engineer Kochin’s Mistake.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 31, no. 1 (Jan. 2014): 56-73.

“Post-Soviet Pop Goes Gay:  Russia’s Trajectory to Eurovision Victory.”  The Russian Review 73:1 (Jan. 2014):  1-23.

“A Personality Cult for the Post-modern Age:  Reading Vladimir Putin’s Public Persona.”  Chapter co-authored with Emily Johnson in Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Icon, edited by Helena Goscilo (London:  Routledge, 2012), 37-64.

“The Rise of the Actress in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia.”  Chapter in Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia:  Lives and Culture, edited by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra (Cambridge:  Open Book Publishers, 2012), 137-159.

“Vladimir Putin and Russia’s New Cult of Personality.”  Article co-authored with Emily Johnson.  Slavonic and East European Review 88, no. 4 (Oct. 2010):  681-707.  Reprinted in Post-Soviet Politics, ed. Stephen White and Cerwyn Moore, Sage Publications.

“Of Dandies, Flirts, and Cockatoos: Shakhovskoi’s Antitheatrical Lesson to Coquettes.” The Russian Review 65, no. 3 (July 2006): 393-416.

“Kirov and Death in The Great Citizen: The Fatal Consequences of Linguistic Mediation.” Slavic Review 64, no. 4 (Winter 2005): 799-822.

“Alcohol is Our Enemy! Soviet Temperance Melodramas of the 1920s.” In Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, eds., Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002).

The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.

“Northern Poetry for a Northern People:  Text and Context in Ozerov’s Fingal.” Slavonic and East European Review 78 (April 2000):  1-27.

“From Nevskii Prospekt to Zoia’s Apartment:  Trials of the Russian Procuress.”  Article co-authored with Leyla Rouhi.  The Russian Review 58 (July 1999):  413-31.

“Marble Columns and Jupiter Lights:  Theatrical and Cinematic Modeling of the Soviet Show Trial in the 1920s.”  Slavic and East European Journal 42, no. 4 (Winter 1998):  640-60.  Reprinted in Marit Paasche and Judy Radul, eds., A Thousand Eyes:  Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics (Berlin:  Sternberg Press, 2011).

“Flash Floods, Bedbugs, and Saunas:  Social Hygiene in Maiakovskii’s Theatrical Satires of the Twenties.”  The Slavonic and East European Review 76, no. 4 (October 1998):  643-57.  Reprinted in Janet G. Tucker, ed., Against the Grain:  Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian Literature (Bloomington:  Slavica, 2002).