Associate Professor Millicent Vladiv-Glover

Slobodanka Millicent Vladiv-Glover's research covers the following areas:

1. The Poetics of Lyrical Dramatic Genres
2. Literature and Phenomenology (De Sade, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky)
3. Realism and the Novel (Dickens, Dostoevsky, Flaubert)
4. The Critique of Popular Culture (the Russian detective novel, Umberto Eco)
5. The theory of the sign in semiotic and psychoanalytic theory (C S Peirce, R Barthes, J Lacan, J Derrida, Deleuze & Guattari)
6. Russian avant-garde & postmodern cinema

She is editor-in-chief of The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review (2000 -), co-editor and initiator of Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research, and a member of editorial board of Kritika - Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.

Associate Professor Vladiv-Glover has been guest editor of special issues of:

1. Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
2. Australian Slavonic Studies
3. South-Eastern Europe
4. New Zealand Slavonic Journal
5. Australian Slavonic and East European Studies

She is a member of the Franco-German Philosophical Colloquium at Evian, the Australian Society for Continental Philosophy, the Australian Cultural Studies Association, and the ANZSA. She is on the Executive of the International Dostoevsky Society (National Representative for Australia), is an elected member of the Yugoslav PEN International and of the Executive Board of the North American Society for Serbian Studies.

Associate Professor Vladiv-Glover has given lectures in Comparative and Slavic literature at FUB, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, the University of Konstanz, the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Nurberg-Erlangen, the Nehru University in New Delhi and the University of St. Petersburg.

Academic Offices

Monash University

• Coordinator – Slavic Studies Research Discipline, Monash University (2002, 2003-)
  
  
• Chair, SLCL International Committee – (2007 - )
  
  
• Undergraduate Coordinator – CCLCS (SLCL) (2007-)
  
  
• Chair - Faculty of Arts Equity and Diversity Committee

International

• IMRN (International Mamardashvili Research Network) – Elected Academic Secretary (2005 - )
  
  
• International Dostoevsky Society – Regional Coordinator for Australia (1996 - )
  
  
• North American Society for Serbian Studies - Executive Board Member (2000 – )
  
  
• Serbian Writers Union (Belgrade) – Honorary Member (1992 -)
  
  
• Serbian PEN International – Elected Member (1994 -)
  
  
• Australasian Association for the Study of Communist and Post-Communist Societies - Member of Executive (2007-)

Transcultures and the IMRN (International Mamardashvili Research Network) (2004- )

Vladiv-Glover is an inaugural member of an international research team, which includes participants from the Sorbonne, Radbout University of Nijmegen, University of Helsinki, University of Turin and universities in Canada and Russia. An inaugural meeting was held in Paris, January 2005, which has led to publications in SEET (2006) and a joint ARC Discovery 2008 application.

Teaching in 2009

CLS2100/CLS3100 Reading the Canon: Critical Approaches

This unit explores texts with roots in ancient Greek literature (in translation) and examines how the classical material is transformed in the modern European canon. Read the unit outline.

CLS2025/CLS3025 19th Century Fiction: Realism, Capitalism and Psychoanalysis

Selected 19th century literary texts, by French, Russian and English authors will be studied in the context of the poetics of Realism, with its reliance on observation of national manners and mores, and the representation of ‘typical’ characters. Read the unit outline.

Graduate Supervision Topics (MA, PhD)

• The Genealogy of Postmodernism's Ethical Aesthetics (PhD completed 2006)
  
  
• "Bridging the Gap. Examining the Response of the International Community to Complex Emergencies: The Experience of Central Bosnia 1992-2001." (MA completed 2007)
  
  
• “The Genesis of Russian Postmodernism: Yuri Dombrowski’s Archeological Novels” (MA complted 2006 H1)
  
  
• “Polish avant-garde art and the art market in Poland in the Post-Communist Transition” (PhD complted 2003)
  
  
• “Mysticism as Form and Indeterminism in the Art and Literature of Italian Futurism” (MA completed 2001 H1)
  
  
• “Soseki and Murakami: The Modernisation of Japan through Modernist and Postmodern Prose (PhD completed 2004)
  
  
• “Genealogy of History: The Representation of the King in the Spanish Comedia” (PhD completion 2007)
  
  
• “Aesthetic Values in the Prose of Contemporary Russian Women-Writers” (MA commenced 2006)
  
  
• “Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s Short Novel Sonechka: Translation and Commentary” (MA commenced 2006)
  
  
• “Receptions and Perceptions of Contemporary Popular Culture and National Identity in Slovakia” (PhD completion in 2007)
  
  
• “The Archives of Yuri Domrovsky and the Stalinist Experience of the Russian Writer” (PhD commenced 2007)
  
  
• “Structures of Postmodern Narratives: Vladimir Sorokin and the Italian Canon” (MA commenced 2006)
  
  
• TRANSLATION STUDIES: “Technical Translation in the Age of Globalisation” (Russian, MA in TS, commenced 2007)
  
  
• “Dr Ksenija Atanasijevic: Aspects and Analysis of a ‘Philosophy of Humanism’” (Serbian/Serbo-Croatian, MA in TS, completed 2004)

Selected Publications

Monographs

• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2003a), Postmodernism from Kis to the Present . (Belgrade, Prosveta), 272 pp.
  
  
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Romani Dostojesvkog kao Diskurs Transgresije i Pozude [Dostoevsky's Novels as Discourse of Transgression and Desire],(Prosveta, Belgrade, 2001) 215 pp.
  
• Slobodanka M Vladiv-Glover, Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture, (Providence, Rhode Island:Berghahn Books, 1999), 528 pp. (With Mikhail Epstein and Alexander Genis).
  
• S Vladiv-Glover, Lirska drama slovenskog modernizma [Lyrical Drama of Slavic Modernism]. ("Prosveta": Belgrade, 1997), 165 pp (In Serbo-Croatian).
• S Vladiv, Narrative Principles in Dostoevsky's Besy [Devils]: A Structural Analysis, (Berne:Peter Lang, 1979), 182 pp.
  

Edited Journals and Special Issues

• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, (2005a), TransCultures Vol. 1 (2005). Co-Editor. (New journal, forthcoming, c.200 pp).
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, (2004), The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review Vol. 5 (2004). Chief Editor, 150 pp.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, (2005a), The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review Vol. 6 (in preparation).
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, (2002-2003b), The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review Vol. 3-4 (2002-2003). Chief Editor, 228 pp.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002a) Proceedings - AASCPCS/ANZSA International Conference, University of Melbourne, July 1998, in: Soviet & Post-Soviet Review Vol. 28, Nos. 1-2 (2001) (2002). - Editor of Special Issue, pp. 1 - 231.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002b) Russian Modernism and Postmodernism, in:Soviet & Post-Soviet Review Vol. 28, No. 3 (2001) (2002). Editor of Special Issue, pp. 232 - 362.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002c) Aleksandra Marinina: A Confluence of Circumstances, in: Soviet & Post-Soviet Review Vol. 29, Nos. 1-2 (2002). Editor of Special Issue, pp. 1-220.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002d) Post-Communist Popular Culture and the detektiv Novel Genre, in: Soviet & Post-Soviet Review Vol. 29, No.3 (2002). Editor of Special Issue, pp. 221-311.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002e) Lyrical Drama, Slavic Modernism: Anton Chekhov, Milutin Bojic, Momcilo Nastasijevic. Edited, translated and with three introductory essays by Slobodanka M Vladiv-Glover. Southeastern Europe/ L'Europe Sud-Est Vol. 18, 1992 (2002). Editor of Special Issue, 220 pp.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Chief Editor (2001b), The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review Vol. 2 (2001). Chief Editor, 152 pp. (Abstracts in English by Chief Editor).
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, (2000a), The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review Vol. 1 (2000). Chief Editor, 166 pp.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (1990a), Proceedings 300th Anniversary of the Great Serbian Migrations Conference at Monash University, August 1990, Guest Editor, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies (ASEES), Vol 4, Nos. 1-2 (1990): pp. 177 - 244.
• Slobodanka Vladiv (1988a), Serbo-Croatian Colloquium Papers: 10 Years of Serbo-Croatian at Monash. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, Part I (1988). Guest Editor, 99 pp.
• Slobodanka Vladiv (1980a), Dostoevsky Commemorative Issue. Melbourne Slavonic Studies, Vol 14 (1980). Guest Editor, 100 pp.

Recent articles and chapters in books

Chapters in Books

• “Freud’s Dostoevsky Paper versus a Freudian Reading of The Brothers Karamazov,” invited article for Festschrift for Dyula Kiraly (Budapest University). (2007) (forthcoming)
• “A Genealogy of Post-Communist Ethics: Re-appraisals of the Past and Future in Russian Postmodern Culture,” AULLA 39 U of Sydney Refereed Conference Papers (forthcoming 2007)
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, (2005) “Is Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘Hapbitus’ Interpretable as Meaningful Practice in Charles Sanders Peirce’s Sense?” Intersubjectivité et Pratique: Contributions a l’edtude des pragmatisms dans la philosophie contemporaine. Ed. by Georg Bertram et al. (Paris, Budapest, Torino: L’Harmattan, 2005), pp. 247-256.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, (2005), "The Dream Structure of Kis's Novel 'Hourglass' ", In Memory of Danilo Kis. On the Seventieth Anniversary of his Birth, ed. by Predrag Palavestra. (Beograd: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Special Editions, Vol. DCLX, Department of Language and Literature, Book 57, 2005), pp. 207-213.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2004b), "The Novel as a Mass Culture Genre: an Arab (N. Mahfouz) and a Russian (A. Marinina) Case Comparison" Border Crossings: Interpreting Popular, Mass and Global Culture, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover and Ana Deumert (eds.) (in preparation).
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2004c), "Is Pierre Bourdieu's 'habitus' interpretable as meaningful practice in Charles Sanders Peirce's sense?" in Intersubjektivitt und Praxis: Beitrge zu Pragmatismen in der Gegenwartsphilosophie (Publikation des 7. und 8. internationalen franzsisch-deutschen Philosophie-Kolloquiums 2001 und 2002), Georg W. Bertram (ed.) (Harmattan, Paris), pp. 235-244.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2004), “History as Archaeology in the Prose of Vida Ognjenovic” in Festschrift fur Dagmar Burkhart (Frankfurt/Main, Bern, Brüssel, Berlin, N.Y. usw.: Lang-Verlag), pp. 315-332.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2004), “Peter Greenaway’s The Belly of an Architect and the Culture of the Simulacrum” in Dialektik des Verstehens: Studien zur interkulturellen Litertur-, Sprach- und Institutionengeschichte, Festschrift für Walter Veit (Frankfurt: Peter Lang), pp. 413-424.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2001c), "The Object in Voznesensky's Oza and the Reclamation of the avant-garde," in:Literarische Avantgarde: Festschrift fur Rudolf Neuhauser, ed. Horst-Jurgen Gerigk. (Heidelberg: Mattes Verlag), pp. 253-285.
• Slobodanka M Vladiv-Glover (2001d), "The Occult and the Profane in Kis's Post-Holocaust Poetics," in: Entgrenzte Reprasentationen/gebrochene Realitaten. Danilo Kis im Spannungsfeld von Ethik, Literature und Politik. Welt der Slaven. Sammelbande/Sborniki. General Editor: Peter Rehder. (Munchen: Verlag Sagner), pp 127-56.
• Slobodanka M Vladiv-Glover (2001e), "Danilo Ki's Post-Holocaust Poetics and the Ethics of Schizopsychology," in: Dorothee Gelhard (ed.), Ethics and Literature. (Glienicke/Berlin,Cambridge, Massachusetts: Galda + Wilch Verlag), pp. 206-228.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (1999b), "Vladimir Sorokin's Post-avant-garde Prose and Kant's Analytic of the Sublime." In: Poetik der Metadiskursivitat: Zum postmodernen Prosa-, Film- und Dramenwerk Sorokins. Ed. by Dagmar Burkhart. "Die Welt der Slawen," Sammelbande-Sborniki, Band 6 (Munchen:Otto Sagner), pp. 21-35.

Journal Articles

Refereed Journals

• “The Poetics Of Pastiche In Eco’s Postmodern Detective Novel,” The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms (Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas [ISSEI], (2007) (accepted).
• “The Structure of Belief and Subjectivity in Zamyatin’s WE,” Utopian Studies (2007) (submitted)
• “From Bread Dolls to Prostitutes: A Cultural Diagnosis of post-Soviet Russia,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (Issue 8.1, 2006): 87-94. Invited article.
• Vladiv-Glover, “Russian Postmodernism” invited article in On Line Opinion November 2006 at: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/display.asp?page=contributors
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, “What is Classical and Non-Classical Knowledge?” Studies in East European Thought (2006) 58:205-238 (Springer 2006). DOI 10.1007/s11212-006-9004-5). Invited paper for Kluwer (now Springer) journal.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, (2005), “Tolstoy's Mikhailov, The Painter Of Anna's Portrait,  And Constantin Guys, Baudelaire's Painter Of Modern Life”, Facta Universitatis Series Linguistics And Literature, Vol. 3, No 2, 2005, Vol.3, No 2, 2005 pp. 151 - 160 UDC 821.161.1.09
• "The Conspirators in Dostoevsky's Possessed and the Modern Terrorists: a Case of Failed Existentialism?," The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review, Vol 4, 2004, forthcoming.
• "Bakhtin and Tolstoy's models of Popular Culture," In:TransCultures Vol. 1, 2005 (submitted).
• "Tolstoy's Mikhailov, the Painter of Anna's Portrait, and Constantin Guys, Baudelaire's Painter of Modern Life," In: Australian Slavonic and East European Studies Vol. 18, 2004 (submitted).
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2003c) "Speech as the Sacred in The Brothers Karamazov ," in: The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review, Vol 3-4 (2002-2003), pp. 93-112.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002f), "Popular Culture vs. Mass Culture: Tolstoy's What is art? as a Test for the Russian detektiv," in: Post-Communist Popular Culture and the detektiv Novel Genre,Soviet & Post-Soviet Review Vol. 29, No.3 (2002), pp. 291-311.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002g), "Trial by Letter of Andric and Crnjanski in Serbian Postmodern Prose: Milisav Savic's Scars of Silence," in: Refereed Proceedings - AASCPCS/ANZSA International Conference, University of Melbourne, July 1998, Soviet & Post-Soviet Review Vol. 28, Nos. 1-2 (2001) (2002), pp. 225-231.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002h), "Excremental Poetics of Russian Postmodernism: The Phenomenon of Vladimir Sorokin," Soviet & Post-Soviet Review Vol. 28, No. 3 (2001) (2002), pp.313-332.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002i) "Wagner, Decadence and Schopenhauer in the Lyrical Drama of European Modernism," Southeastern Europe/ L'Europe Sud-Est, Vol. 18, 1992 (2002), pp. 1-19.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002j) "Desire and Love-Death in Slavic Drama:The Autumn of the King," Southeastern Europe/ L'Europe Sud-Est, Vol. 18, 1992 (2002), pp. 21-36.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2002k) "The Sexual Poetics of Native Melody: At 'The Eternal Tap'," Southeastern Europe/ L'Europe Sud-Est, Vol. 18, 1992 (2002), pp. 37-63.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (2000b), "Russia's Political Unconscious in Dostoevsky's The Possessed," The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review, New Series, Vol.1, No.1 (2000): 31-45.
• Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (1999c), "Sakral'noe v Brat'jakh Karamazovykh: veroispovedanie ili teorija soznanija [The Sacred in The Brothers Karamazov]," Dostoevskij v Mirovaja Kul'ture, Al'manakh, no. 12 (1999), Moscow: 7-12.

Edited Journals

• Vladiv-Glover, S. M. (ed), 2006, The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review, Charles Schlacks, Jr, Idyllwild, California, USA.
• Vladiv-Glover, (Editor of Special Issue), 2006, Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research, Charles Schlacks Jr, Idyllwuild, CA, USA.

Organisation of Conference Panels

• “(Not)Telling of the Past: Commemoration of War in Serbian Arts since the 1990s.” Panel accepted for 39th Annual Convention of the AAASS, New Orleans, 15 – 18 November 2007.
• "New and Old Russian Utopias: Reading the Future through the Past." Panel accepted for 39th Annual Convention of the AAASS, New Orleans, 15 – 18 November 2007.
• Literature and Culture Section, 7 Panels (21 presenters), 8th Biennial AASCPCS Conference, U of Melbourne, 29-30 January 2007.

Selected Conference Papers

2007

• “Representations of ‘New Sectarianism’ in Russian post-Soviet Literature and Cinema,” 39th Annual Convention of the AAASS, New Orleans, 15 – 18 November 2007.
• “Memory of the Past in ‘post-war’ (1990s onwards) Serbian Literature and Cinema,” 39th Annual Convention of the AAASS, New Orleans, 15 – 18 November 2007.

2006

• Trauma, Historicity, Philosophy. AASC (Australiasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference, July 12-14 2006. Deakin University, Waterfront Campus, Geelong. Paper presented: “Trauma as the Space of Confession and Repentance: the Orthodox Church’s hidden Dialogue with Psychoanalysis.”
• My Place in the Sun: Levinas Today Conference, The University of Queensland, 30 June – 1 July 2006, The Powerhouse, Brisbane: Paper presented: “Levinas’ Ethical Sensibility and Sensuality in Mass Culture.”

2005

• Imagining The Future: Utopia, Dystopia And Science Fiction, 6-7 December 2005 Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Clayton Campus Melbourne, Australia. Paper presenter: “Russian Dystopias: Zamyatin’s We and the Structure of Modern Subjectivity.”
• Australiasian Society for Continental Philosophy: Politics of Being Conference 15-17 June, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia. Paper presenter:“ Living Thought” in the Philosophy of Merab Mamardashvili.”

2004

• Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies: Blanchot Conference 2004. Paper presented: “Blanchot’s récit as phenomenological reduction.”