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Katerina Clark (1941-2024) was an Australian scholar.

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Katerina Clark was born on 20 June 1941 at Mosgiel Private Hospital in Surrey Hills, Victoria, daughter of historian Manning Clark and linguist Dymphna Clark.[1] The family moved due to her father's new jobs: first to Croydon, Victoria after he moved to Melbourne University, where she was educated at Croydon State School, and later to the United Kingdom, after he began his sabbatical at Balliol College, Oxford doing work for A History of Australia and where she was educated at nearby Oxford High School.[1]

When the family returned to Australia, she went to Canberra High School, where she was their athletics champion, and at Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne, where she got her BA with honours in 1963 while a Russian major.[1][2] She later moved to Australian National University, where she got her MA with honours in 1967.[2] She obtained her PhD from Yale University in 1971;[2] her dissertation was supervised by Michael Holquist.[1] She spent several periods during her postgraduate career in Soviet Russia, including a brief stay at Moscow State University while at ANU and several visits to Moscow as part of her PhD.[1]

She then starting working as a professor of Russian and Slavic studies, particularly as Assistant Professor of Russian at the University at Buffalo (1970-1972) and at Wesleyan University (1972-1976).[2] She later worked as Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Texas at Austin (1976-1980) and Indiana University Bloomington (1981-1983), during which Holquist also led their Slavic studies departments.[2][1] In 1983, she was promoted to Associate Professor, and in 1986 she returned to her alma mater Yale and became Associate Professor of Comparative Literature.[2] In May 2019, she was named the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures.[3]

In 1981, she published the book The Soviet Novel, which Vera Sandomirsky Dunham called "a brave and intelligent study of the Soviet novel";[4] it was also Evgeny Dobrenko's first English-to-Russian book translation, which he did while a doctoral candidate.[5] In 1986, she and her husband co-authored Mikhail Bakhtin, a study of the Russian scholar of the same name.[6] In 1986, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of the intellectual life of Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad, 1913-1931";[7][2] this later became her 1998 book Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution.[8] She also won the 1996 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize.[9]

She and Evgeny Dobrenko were co-editors of Soviet Culture and Power, a 2005 volume in Yale University Press' Annals of Communism Series.[10] She was awarded the 2008 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship.[11] By the 2010s, her research had shifted towards the Soviet regime's interwar approach towards Eurasianism.[1] She was given the honorable mention for the Association for Women in Slavic Studies' 2012 Heldt Prize Best Book by a Woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies for her book Moscow, the Fourth Rome, which focuses on the intellectual life of 1930s Moscow.[12][13] She won the 2021 Matei Calinescu Prize for her book Eurasia without Borders.[14]

She married Holquist in 1974, and they had two sons.[1] In addition to their home in Hamden, Connecticut, where they moved when she became a Yale professor, they also owned another home near Wapengo Lake in Bega Valley Shire.[1] Her son Nicholas recalled that she was a regular bicycle rider "just about everywhere in the New Haven, Connecticut area" and would often go to Vermont to hike with her family.[1] The couple later divorced in 2010, before remarrying afterwards.[1]

She was also a friend of fellow Soviet studies scholar Sheila Fitzpatrick.[15]

Clark died on 1 February 2024, after a year and a half of suffering from lymphoma, aged 82.[1] Her younger brother Andrew wrote her The Sydney Morning Herald obituary.[1]

While a student at Oxford High School, she befriended future actress Miriam Margolyes, also an Oxford High student.[1] Margolyes later came out as lesbian in a letter she wrote to Clark, and they reunited in 1968 during a trip to Europe, where Clark introduced Margolyes to Heather Sutherland, Clark's friend from Canberra High and later Margolyes' partner.[16][1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Clark, Andrew (18 February 2024). "Brilliant scholar of Soviet literature quietly made her own history". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1986. p. 20.
  3. ^ "Katerina Clark designated the Bensinger Professor". YaleNews. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  4. ^ a b Dunham, Vera S. (1982). "Review of The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual". Slavic Review. 41 (3): 583–584. doi:10.2307/2497066. ISSN 0037-6779 – via JSTOR.
  5. ^ Dobrenko, Evgeny (2024). "Katerina Clark (1941–2024): Literary History as a Device". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 25 (3): 668–675. ISSN 1538-5000 – via Project Muse.
  6. ^ "Mikhail Bakhtin". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Katerina Clark". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
  8. ^ Clark, Katerina (1995). Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution. Harvard University Press. p. 365.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ "Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize". Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  10. ^ "Soviet Culture and Power". Yale University Press. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  11. ^ "AATSEEL Awards for Teaching, Service, and Scholarship". American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  12. ^ "Past Recipients". Association For Women in Slavic Studies. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  13. ^ "Moscow, the Fourth Rome". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  14. ^ "Matei Calinescu Prize Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  15. ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (25 March 2024). "'Portrait of a friendship: In memoriam Katerina Clark (20 June 1941–1 February 2024)' by Sheila Fitzpatrick". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  16. ^ Debelle, Penelope (11 April 2014). "Miriam Margolyes is heading to Adelaide for a comedy about hope, death... and pets". The Advertiser. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  17. ^ McLean, Hugh (1982). "Review of The Soviet Novel: History As Ritual". The Russian Review. 41 (1): 108–109. doi:10.2307/129594. ISSN 0036-0341 – via JSTOR.
  18. ^ Nicholson, M. (1983). "Review of The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual". The Slavonic and East European Review. 61 (2): 275–277. ISSN 0037-6795 – via JSTOR.
  19. ^ Freedman, John (1985). "Review of Mikhail Bakhtin". Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 39 (4): 281–282. doi:10.2307/1347473. ISSN 0361-1299 – via JSTOR.
  20. ^ Gossman, Lionel (1986). "Review of Mikhail Bakhtin". Comparative Literature. 38 (4): 337–349. doi:10.2307/1770394. ISSN 0010-4124 – via JSTOR.
  21. ^ Howes, Craig (1986). "Review of Mikhail Bakhtin". Biography. 9 (2): 180–183. ISSN 0162-4962 – via JSTOR.
  22. ^ Perlina, Nina (1986). "Review of Mikhail Bakhtin". The Russian Review. 45 (4): 435–437. doi:10.2307/130480. ISSN 0036-0341 – via JSTOR.
  23. ^ Sprinker, Michael (1986). "Boundless Context: Problems in Bakhtin's Linguistics". Poetics Today. 7 (1): 117–128. doi:10.2307/1772092. ISSN 0333-5372 – via JSTOR.
  24. ^ Terras, Victor (1985). "Review of Mikhail Bakhtin". Slavic Review. 44 (4): 769–770. doi:10.2307/2498599. ISSN 0037-6779 – via JSTOR.
  25. ^ Titunik, I. R. (1986). "The Baxtin Problem: Concerning Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist's Mikhail Bakhtin". The Slavic and East European Journal. 30 (1): 91–95. doi:10.2307/307282. ISSN 0037-6752 – via JSTOR.
  26. ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1996). "Review of Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution". Slavic Review. 55 (3): 691–693. doi:10.2307/2502028. ISSN 0037-6779 – via JSTOR.
  27. ^ Mally, Lynn (1997). "Review of Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution". The American Historical Review. 102 (3): 852–853. doi:10.2307/2171608. ISSN 0002-8762 – via JSTOR.
  28. ^ Sartorti, Rosalinde (1997). "Review of Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution". The Russian Review. 56 (4): 601–603. doi:10.2307/131579. ISSN 0036-0341 – via JSTOR.
  29. ^ Stone, Daniel (1996). "Review of Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution". Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine. 25 (1): 70–71. ISSN 0703-0428 – via JSTOR.
  30. ^ Woll, Josephine (1996). "Review of Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution". The Slavic and East European Journal. 40 (3): 566–567. doi:10.2307/310156. ISSN 0037-6752 – via JSTOR.
  31. ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (2008). "Review of Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953". Slavic Review. 67 (2): 437–440. ISSN 0037-6779 – via JSTOR.
  32. ^ Smith, Susan N. (2008). "Review of Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953. Annals of Communism". The Russian Review. 67 (3): 526–526. ISSN 0036-0341 – via JSTOR.
  33. ^ Brooks, Jeffrey (2012). "Review of Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931—1941". The American Historical Review. 117 (5): 1697–1698. ISSN 0002-8762 – via JSTOR.
  34. ^ Nesbet, Anne (2013). "Review of Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941". Slavic Review. 72 (2): 364–367. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.72.2.0364. ISSN 0037-6779 – via JSTOR.


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