Lusia Zaitseva


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Publications & Research





Academic writing



Faiz, Faiz Ahmed. “Dagestan.” Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature, edited by Naomi Caffee and Gabriel McGuire, translated by Lusia Zaitseva and Umar Anjum (forthcoming in Palgrave Macmillan).


“‘Airing our Dirty Linen in Public’: Lidiia Chukovskaia, Nadezhda Mandelstam, & Competing Visions of a Liberal Soviet Public Sphere” (forthcoming in Slavic Review​, spring 2021).


“Gained in Translation: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Soviet Travels.” Comparative Literature Journal, vol. 73, no. 1, Mar. 2021.


“‘Living Together Like Children’: Submission, Fidelity, and Defiance in the Memoirs of Nadezhda Mandel’shtam.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 64, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 92–114. (LINK)


“Cold War Literary Itineraries in Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Friendships of Months and Years: Recollections (1979)”.” Publications of the Modern Language Association, vol. 136, no. 1, Jan. 2021.


“Golyi korol’ i poet: detskost’ v ‘epigramme na Stalina’ Osipa Mandel’shtama i intertekst s ‘Tarakanischem’ Korneia Chukovskogo.” Russkaia literatura v innostranoi auditorii: sbornik nauchnykh statei, no. 5 (2015): 272–77.


“Too Far and Back Again: The Text and the Making of the Medieval Hero in La Chanson De Roland, Le Charroi de Nîmes, and La Vie De Saint Alexis.” Romance Sphere (2013): Web.



Works in progress



I am currently working on an article based on archival discoveries regarding the children's writer Kornei Chukovskii's relationship to Soviet power during the Second World War and the second. Another article treats the children's writer Matvei Bronshtein. My book manuscript is titled Stalin’s Children: Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, and the Soviet Cult of Childhood.



Other writing



“Issue 12 / The Strange Reflections of Alain Laboile.” Od Review. Trans. Lusia A. Zaitseva. Od Review, 28 Oct. 2016.

Web. 03 Nov. 2016. (LINK)


“The Importance of Uncertain Somethings.” Colloquy, Summer 2015. (LINK)


“Migration.” Antioch Review 72, no. 3 (2014): 583-4. (LINK)