Recent Publications

2014 Syntactic Idioms across Languages: Corpus Evidence from Russian and English. Russian linguistics. 2014. Vol. 38. No. 2, p. 187-203.

2012 The "Russian" attitude to time. In Space and Time in Languages and Cultures. Language, culture, and cognition. Filipović, Luna and Kasia M. Jaszczolt (eds.) John Benjamins, p. 103-120.

2016 Russian verbs ischeznut' 'to disappear' and propast' 'to vanish': polysemy and semantic motivation. In Dialogue'2016. Computer Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies (in print).

2015 Concession: the mechanisms of derivation and interaction of complex meanings (book). Languages of Slavic Cultures, Moscow. 286 p.

2014 Tut 'here', zdes' 'here' and sejchas 'now'. On temporal meanings of spatial deictic markers. Russian Language in Scientific Perspective. № 27. p. 9-41.

“Intelligentsia Conceptions: Duty and Obshchestvennost ́in War and Revolution,” in Russia's Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-22, Book 3: National Disintegration and Reintegration, ed. Christopher Read, Peter Waldron, and Adele Lindenmeyr (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2018), p.267-95.

“Nikolai Berdiaev and the Philosophical Tasks of the Emigration,” in Gary M. Hamburg and Randall A. Poole, eds., A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830-1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 346-62.

On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007).

“An Intensification of Vigilance:  Recent Perspectives on the Institutional History of the Soviet Security Apparatus in the 1920s,” Kritika 5, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 299-320.

“Organizovannaia professura i universitetskaia reforma v Sovetskoi Rossii (1918-1922)” [The Organized Professoriate and University Reform in Soviet Russia, 1918-22]. In Vlast’ i nauka, uchenye i vlast’: 1880-e – nachalo 1920-kh godov. St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2003.

"Language Loss as Language Use and Language Change: A Theoretical Framework for Further Research," in Festschrift to Honor Zoya Yureva , M Sendich (ed.), (1988) 175-180.

"A Psychological Approach to Interpreting," Meta , 26:3 (1981) 244-254.

Books

The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

              *Winner, W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, 2020, ASEEES

              *Winner, Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize, 2021

              *Paperback edition, 2020

              *Reviewed in The Russian Review, Slavic Review, and Orientalia Christiana Periodica.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

'Revolution, Raskol, and Rock 'n' Roll: The 1,020th Anniversary of the Day of the Baptism of Rus'. Forthcoming in The Russian Review (April 2021).

'Putin's Medieval Weapons in the War against Ukraine'. Studies in Medievalism, v. 29. Karl Fugelso (ed.). Suffolk, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2020, pp. 13-21.

'Евхаристический подтекст мученичества князей Бориса и Глеба'. Вестник Санкт-Петербургского Университета. История, v. 65 (no. 1). St Petersburg: St Petersburg University Press, 2020, pp. 5-18.

'Аки деньица предъ слн҃цмь: литургические истоки изображения княгини Ольги в Повести временных лет'. Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики, no. 1 (79). Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020, pp. 96-109.

'Византийская литургия и создание Повести временных лет'. Ruthenica, v. 15. Kiev: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2019, pp. 7-44.

'Rus'. Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Fourth edition. Andrew Louth (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

'V. V. Rozanov'. Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Megan Swift (ed.).
London: Routledge, 2018.

'Le baptême d'Ol'ga dans le Récit des temps passés ou le palimpseste liturgique'. Ecrire et reécrire l'histoire russe, d'Ivan Terrible à V.O Kliuchevskii. Pierre Gonneau (ed.). Paris: Institut d'études slaves, 2013, pp. 159-168.

2015 Y.-F. Luo, A. Rumshisky, M. Gronas. Catching the Red Priest: Using Historical Editions of Encyclopedia Britannica to Track the Evolution of Reputations. The 9th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. ACL-IJCNLP 2015.

2010 Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory: Russian Literary Mnemonics. Routledge Press

2009 Just What Word Did Mandel’shtam Forget? A Mnemopoetic Solution to the Problem of Saussure’s Anagrams, Poetics Today, 30/2, 155-205

2006 “Pushkin’s Letters.” in: The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin, Cambridge University Press, 130-143

2004 "Strikusy Revisited: A New Interpretation of an Obscure Passage in Slovo o Polku," Speculum Slaviae Orientalis: Ruthenia, Muscovy and Lithuania in the Late Middle Ages. UCLA Slavic Studies, n.s., IV

2002 "On New Economic Criticism," New Literary Review 58 (in Russian)

2001 "The Unnamed Recognizable, or Canon under the Microscope," New Literary Review, 51 (in Russian)

2000 content developer in: Yuri Tsivian, Immaterial Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films [CD-ROM; the best interactive learning project award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts] USC

Book  Sharing Our Knowledge: the Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors. University of Nebraska Press. 2015.

http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Sharing-Our-Knowledge,675970.aspx

Book  Symbolic Immortality: the Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century.   Second Edition (Revised and expanded).  University of Washington Press. 2015.

[1990 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award].

Edited Volume and Journal  A collection of paper entitled “Individuals and Groups of Mixed Russian-Native     Parentage in Siberia, Russian America, and Alaska.” Ethnohistory 60 (3).  2013.

Book  Lev Shternberg, Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2009.

http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Lev-Shternberg,673329.aspx

Article. 2016. (Co-authored with Dmitry Arzyutov) Bernhard J. Stern (1894-1960) and the Saga of Publishing Lewis Henry Morgan's Collected Works in pre-World War II Soviet Russia. PP. 149-220 In Histories of Anthropology Annual, vol. 10. Ed. by Regna Darnell and Frederick Gleach. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2016

Article  2015.  The Falling Out Between Alexander Goldenweiser and Robert Lowie: Two Prsonalities, Two VIsions of Anthropology.  Pp. 1-31 In  From Corridor Talk to Culture History. History of Anthropology Annual, vol. 9.  Ed. by Regna Darnell and Frederick Gleach.

University of Washington Press.

Article   2009  Alexander Goldenweiser’s Politics.  Pp. 182-199 In Histories of Anthropology Annual.  Vol. 5.  Ed. by Regna Darnell and Frederick Gleach.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.                                       

Article  2006  “My Old Friend in a Dead-end of Skepticism and Empiricism”: Boas, Bogoras, and the Politics of Soviet Anthropology of the late 1920s-early 1930s.  Pp. 32-68 In Histories of Anthropology Annual.  Vol. 2.  Ed. by Regna Darnell and Frederick Gleach.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 

Article  2004 It's Only Half a Mile from Savagery to Civilization: American Tourists and Southeastern Alaska Natives in the Late Nineteenth Century. Pp. 201-220 In Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions and Visions.  Marie Mauzé, Michael Harkin, and Sergei Kan, eds.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 

Article  1996 Clan Mothers and Godmothers: Tlingit Women and Russian Orthodox Christianity, 1840-1940.  Native American Women's Responses to Christianity.  Special Issue of Ethnohistory, vol. 43(4): 613-641.  Ed. by Michael Harkin and Sergei Kan.

Article  1989 Cohorts, Generations, and Their Culture: the Tlingit Potlatch in the 1980s.  Anthropos 84:405-422.

Article  1986 The Nineteenth-century Tlingit Potlatch: a New Perspective.  American Ethnologist  13 (2):191-212.  [American Society for Ethnohistory 1987 Robert F. Heizer Prize for the Best Article in the Field]. 

Article  2018 Was Lev Shternberg Just Another Classical Evolutionist. Pp. 267-279 In Jochelson, Bogoras and Shternberg: A Scientific Exploration of the Russian Far East and the Shaping of Soviet Ethnography. Ed. by Erich Kasten. Verlag der Kulturschiftung Sibirien. Furstenberg/Havel, Germany.

Article  2019  Raymond D. Fogelson's "The Ethnohistory of Events and Non-Events."  Ethnohistory 66 (1): 170-177. 

Electronic article. 2020. “True Heirs to a Heroic Russian Past” or “Russians in Name Only”:

     Sitka Creoles as Seen by the Late Nineteenth Century Russian Orthodox Clergy. Journal of Frontier Studies 5 (4): 12-37.

Apollon Bezobrazov.  By Boris Poplavsky.  Trans., introd., and ed. by John Kopper.  Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2015.

"Фланер как функция в романе Бориса Поплавского Аполлон Безобразов," Russkaia literatura 2014.1.

 “Less Matter, More Art: Tolstoy, Briefly,” in Tolstoy’s Short Fiction, ed. Michael Katz (NY: Norton Critical Edition, 2008), 347–357.

“Surrealism under Fire: The Prose of Boris Poplavskii,” The Russian Review , 55 (1996) 245-264.

·Permanent Evolution: The Collected Theoretical Works of Yuri Tynianov(ed. and trans. AM, with Philip Redko) (Academic Studies Press, 2019)

·Andrey Egunov-Nikolev, Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral, translated AM (Academic Studies Press, 2019)

· “‘The Dictionary as a Toy Collection’: Interactions between the Childlike Avant-Garde Aesthetic and Soviet Children’s Literature,” in Olga Voronina, ed., The Brill Companion to Soviet Children’s Literature and Film (Brill, 2019)

·“Balagan is Theater Too: Performance and Accessibility in Daniil Kharms and Vsevolod Nekrasov,” Russian Review 78 (January 2019), 28-44

· “Between Summer and Winter: Late Soviet Children's Literature and Unofficial Poetry,” in Russian Literature 96 (May-June 2018), 105-135

· “‘For some reason I really want to go to Leningrad”: The Petersburg Text in Vsevolod Nekrasov’s ‘Leningrad Poems’” (SEEJ 61.3, Fall 2017), 573-592

·Dmitri Prigov, Soviet Texts, translated by Simon Schuchat, with AM (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019)

·“Global Congress of Post-Prostitution,” play/performance piece by Keti Chukhrov, contemporary artist, poet and playwright – translation with the author (2019)

·Linor Goralik, FOUND LIFE: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview (co-edited, with Maria Vassileva and Maya Vinokour) (Columbia University Press, 2017)

·Igor Kholin, Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems, translated with Bela Shayevich (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017)

 “Remembering ‘The Terrorism:’ Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky’s Underground Russia ” Slavic Review vol. 68 no. 4 (Winter, 2009)

“The Byronic Terrorist: Boris Savinkov’s Literary Self-Mythologization” in Tony Anemone ed. Just Assassins? The Culture of Russian Terrorism Northwestern University Press, 2010.

“The Age of Terrorism in the Age of Literature,” in Randall Law ed. The Routledge History of Terrorism  (Routledge, 2015). 

"On Disappointment in Terrorism, War, and Revolution: Boris Savinkov's What Didn't Happen and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace" (The Russian Review, January 2018).

“Terrorism and Provocation in Bely’s Petersburg,” in Leonid Livak ed.  A Reader’s Guide to Andrei Bely’s Petersburg  (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019)

Intercultural Communication in the Russian Language Classroom in the USA. "East-West: Crossing Cultures." II World Congress in Real and Virtual Mode at Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan. October, 2019

Student Presentations in the Russian Language Classroom. In: Cross-Cultural Studies: Education and Science  http://j-ccses.org Vol. IV, Issue 4, March 2019, pp. 129-134.

Color and Culture in the Russian Language Classroom. In: Cross- Cultural Studies: Education and Science (CCS&ES) ISSN -2470-1262. Volume 3, September 2018.

Teaching Russian to American Students Through Language Work on Films and Stories About Women. In: Cross-Cultural Studies: Education and Science. Volume 1. 2017. 

Developing Conversational Russian Using Voice Tread Outside of Class. In:Socio-Cultural and Philological Aspects of Teaching and Research. Kyoto University, Japan, 2014. pp. 507-511.

Learning While Watching. Paper. NEMLA Convention, Boston, MA, March 2013

"By the Numbers: Notes on Analyzing Russian Verse Rhythm." In Unacknowledged Legislators: Studies in Russian Literary History and Poetics in Honor of Michael Wachtel. Ed. Lazar Fleishman, David M. Bether, and Ilya VInitsky.  (Stanford Slavic Studies, 50). Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020. Pp. 11-29.

"Novatorstvo Gor´kogo v p´ese Fal´shivaia moneta" [The originality of Gorky's play, The Counterfeit Coin]. In Mirovoe znachenie M. Gor´kogo. M. Gor´kii: Materialy i issledovaniia, vol. 15.  Ed. L. A. Spiridonova.  Moscow:  IMLI RAN, 2020.  Pp. 62-79.

Quantitative Approaches to Versification.  Ed. Petr Plecháč, Barry P. Scherr et al. Prague: Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2019. Pp. 275. Includes Barry P. Scherr, "The Russian Quintain,"  pp. 219-36.

"A Shadow Career:  The Covert Poetry Of Vladimir Lifshits." Russian Literature, 99 (2018), 91-134.

"Seeing the Forest through the Trees:  The Underlying Structure of Gumilev's 'Les'." In A/Z: Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky.  Ed. Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Levitt, Joe Peschio, and Igor Pilshchikov.  Boston:  Academic Studies Press, 2018.  Pp. 465-78.

"Analyzing Stanza Rhythm:  A Brief History and Future Directions."  In M. L. Gasparovu— Stikhovedu: In Memoriam.  Ed. Marina Akimova and Marina Tarlinskaja.   Moscow: Iazyki slavianskoi kul´tury, 2017.  Pp. 117-37. 

"To Separate or Not to Separate:  Stanza Boundaries and Poetic Structure." Studia metrica et poetica, 3 (2016), no. 2, 32-49.  
 

The Joy of Recognition:  Selected Essays of Omry Ronen.  Ed. Barry P. Scherr and Michael Wachtel. Ann Arbor:  Michigan Slavic Publications, 2015. Pp. lxi + 501.    Includes Barry P. Scherr, "The Critical Heritage of Omry Ronen," pp. xv-xliv. A Russian version of this essay, "Nauchnoe nasledie Omri Ronena," appeared in Zvezda, 2014, no. 3, 223-34.

Poetry and Poetics:  A Centennial Tribute to Kiril Taranovsky.  Edited by Barry P. Scherr, James Bailey and Vida T. Johnson.   Bloomington, IN:  Slavica, 2014.  Pp. xiii + 425. Includes the article: Barry Scherr, "Taranovsky's Laws: Further Observations from a Comparative Perspective," pp. 343-63.

 "The Topography of Terror:  The Real and Imagined City in Dostoevsky's Besy" Dostoevsky Studies, 18 (2014), 59-85.

"Reshaping the Past:  Gorky's Reminiscences of Korolenko."  The Russian Review, 73 (2014), no. 4, 532-49.

 "Mikropolimetriia Eleny Shvarts" [The Micro-Polymetrical Verse of Elena Shvarts].  In Slavianskii stikh, IX. Ed. T. V. Skulacheva et al.  Moscow:  Rukopisnye pamiatniki Drevnei Rusi, 2012.  Pp. 105–16.

 "An Odessa Odyssey:  Vladimir Jabotinsky's The Five."  Slavic Review, 70 (2011), no. 1, 94–115.

Formal Methods in Poetics:  A Collection of Scholarly Works Dedicated to the Memory of Professor M. A. Krasnoperova.  Edited by Barry P. Scherr, James Bailey and Evgeny V. Kazartsev.  Lüdenscheid, Germany:  RAM-Verlag, 2011.  Pp. xi + 315.  Includes the article: Barry Scherr,"Tarkovskii's Sonnets,"  pp. 124-43.

"Čukovskij's Whitmans," Russian Literature, 66 (2009), no. 1, 65-98.

The Shining World: Exploring Aleksandr Grin's "Grinlandia", by Barry P. Scherr and Nicholas Luker, with the collaboration of Simon Ellis.  Nottingham:  Astra Press, 2007. xviii + 189 pp.

Eisenstein at 100:  A Reconsideration.  Edited by Al LaValley and Barry P. Scherr.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press, 2001. ix + 318 pp. Includes the article: Barry Scherr, "Alexander Nevsky:  Film without a Hero,"  pp. 207-26.

Maksim Gorky:  Selected Letters.  Edited, translated, and commentary by Andrew Barratt and Barry P. Scherr.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1997.  xxvi + 391 pp.

Russian Poetry:  Meter, Rhythm, and Rhyme.  Berkeley:  University of Cali­fornia Press, 1986.  xvi + 366 pp.

The Imperative of Reliability: Russian Prose on the Eve of the Novel, 1820s-1850s. Northwestern University Press, 2015.

“Alexander Veselovsky’s Historical Poetics vs. Cultural Poetics: Remembering the Future.” Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov, eds., Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics, Fordham University Press, 2015.

“Four is Not Fourteen: Tongue Twister Patterns and the Unmastery of Language.” Western Folklore 73:2/3 (Spring 2014), pp. 195-215. 

“On the Metahistorical Roots of the Fairytale.” Western Folklore 61 (2002): 277-294.

Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America’s Musical Life (Oxford University Press, 2011).

“William Schuman, World War II, and the Pulitzer Prize,” Musical Quarterly 89, nos. 2-3 (Summer-Fall 2006): 273-320.

“So Much ‘More’: The Music of Dick Tracy ,” American Music 22, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 50-63.

“Sondheim’s Piano Sonata,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 127 (2002): 258-304.

Wohlforth, W.C. “Realism and Great Power Subversion,” International Relations 34: 4  (December 2020)

Paci., S., Sambanis, N., & W.C. Wohlforth,  “Status-Seeking and Nation-Building: The ‘Piedmont Principle’ Revisited”  Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 51, No. 1, Summer 2020, pp. 65-95.

Torkunov, A. V., W. C. Wohlforth and B. F. Martynov, eds., History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century (2 vols.) (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020)

Norrlöf, C, & W.C. Wohlforth,  “Is US Grand Strategy Self Defeating? Deep Engagement, Military Spending and Sovereign Debt,”   Conflict Management and Peace Science  Vol. 36(3) (2019): 227–247 

Gheciu, Alexandra and W.C. Wohlforth,  eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Security (Oxford University Press, 2018). 

Wohlforth,  W.C.,  & V. Zubok, “An Abiding Antagonism: Realism, Idealism, and the Mirage of US-Russian Partnership in the End of the Cold War” International Politics, 2017, 54(4): 405-419

Sambanis, N., S. Skaperdas W.C. Wohlforth,  “Nation Building Through War,” American Political Science Review Vol. 109, No. 2 May 2015, 279-296. .