Anna Krylova
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office Location: | 209 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 684 3871 |
| Email Address: | krylova@duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday 2 pm - 4 pm
Education
- PhD Johns Hopkins University, 2001
- MA in History The Johns Hopkins University, 1998
- MA in Political Science The Johns Hopkins University, 1995
Research Interests
Anna Krylova is Hunt Assistant Professor of Modern Russian History. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Russian and gender history, World War II and mechanization of warfare violence, Marxism, and problematics of historical interpretation in American Russian Studies. It also engages with cultural, gender, and queer theory. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Women in Combat: Writing Shared History of Violence on the Eastern Front, 1930s-1980s. Women in Combat offers the first historical account of how a cohort of Soviet young women came to think about themselves as combatants in the 1930s Stalinist Russia, volunteered to the front, got mobilized, and fought in the trenches of World War II together with men for four long war years. Reaching across the scholarly fields of Gender History, Modern Russian History, and Military History, the story about Soviet female combatants directly speaks to critical questions of current academic and popular debates about the mutability and variability of gender roles, the persistent enigma of individual life under Stalinism, and about women’s compatibility with military service and performance in modern combat. Most recently, she is the author of “Identity, Agency, and the First Soviet Generation” in Stephen Lovell (ed.), Generations in 20th Century Europe (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and of “Stalinist Identity from the Viewpoint of Gender: Rearing a Generation of Professionally Violent Women Soldiers in 1930s Stalinist Russia” in the November 2004 issue of Gender and History. She has also published articles in The Journal of Modern History, Slavic Review, and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. She is a coordinator of the Triangle Intellectual History Program (Duke, NCSU at Raleigh, UNC at Chapel Hill). She was a fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 2005-2006 and a visiting professor at the Institute fuer Osteuropaeische Geschichte, Tuebingen University in 2002. Recent Talks and Presentations “Women in Combat: “Rethinking Nature/Nurture Debate in Early Bolshevik Thought, 1890s-1910s” and participation in roundtable “Stalinism and Ideology,” National Convention, 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, 16-19 November, 2006. “Organic Bolshevism, 1880s-1917,” International Conference “The Circulation of Knowledge and the History of Human Sciences in Russia and Soviet Union,” Centre d’Études des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et Centre-Européen, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 26-27 May, 2006. “Front Line Fighting as a Two-Gender-Affair: Female Combatants Remembering the War,” National Convention, 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, 3-6 November, 2005. “A Generation of Soviet Women-Fighters, 1930s-1970,”International Conference “Generations in European History,” New College, “Anti-Democratic, Anti-American, Anti-Market: The Radical Left and the Limits to Russian Democracy After Yeltsin,” a public lecture in “Transitions to Democracy” Lecture Series sponsored by the Duke University History Department and the Duke Alumni Association, 21 March 2005. Awards and Honors Named The Hunt Family Assistant Professor of History, Duke University, 2006-2010. Post-doctoral Fellowship, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 2005-2006. IREX Short Travel Summer Grant, July-August 2001. The Stulman Graduate Student, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, August 1999. Social Science Research Council Dissertation Write-up Grant, July 1998-April 1999. IREX Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Fellowship, September 1997-June 1998 Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Award, Association for Women in Slavic Studies, 1997-98.
- HISTORY 103.05, Lectures special topics
Synopsis
- Carr 240, WF 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
- HISTORY 372.01, Research seminar
- Carr 229, Th 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
Representative Publications
Papers Published- A. Krylova. "Identity, Agency, and the First Soviet Generation." Stephen Lovell (ed.), Generations in 20th Century Europe (2007).
- A. Krylova. "Stalinist Identity from the Viewpoint of Gender: Rearing a Generation of Professionally Violent Women Soldiers in 1930s Stalinist Russia." Gender and History (November, 2004). [pdf]
- A. Krylova. "’Dancing on the Graves of the Dead’ or Building a World War II Memorial in Post-Soviet Russia." Memory and The Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space (2004).
- "Beyond the Spontaneity-Consciousness Paradigm: 'Class Instinct' as a Promising Category of Historical Analysis." Slavic Review (Spring, 2003). [pdf]
- "In Their Own Words? Autobiographies of Women Writers, 1930-1946." Russian Women Writers (2002).
- "'Healers of Wounded Souls': The Crisis of Private Life in Soviet Literature and Society, 1944-46." Journal of Modern History (June, 2001). [pdf]
- "The Tenacious Liberal Subject in Soviet Studies." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 1:1 (Winter, 2000). [pdf]