Liliya Dashevski

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Liliya Dashevski

liliya.dashevski@yale.edu

Dissertation:

“Materializing Russian Childhood”

Interests:

  • Russian literature and culture of the long 19th century
  • Russian children’s literature from the 19th century to the present
  • Russian visual art from the 19th century to the present
  • Material culture
  • Childhood studies
  • Toy studies
  • Emigration studies
  • The Russophone world in contemporary Israel

Education:

Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, 2018 – Present

Minor field: Jewish and Israeli studies.

M.Phil. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, 2022

M.A.  University of Haifa, Israel. Art History. 

B.A.  University of Haifa, Israel. Joint degree in Art History and Hebrew and Comparative Literature.

Peer-reviewed articles:

“Zoya Cherkassky’s Collection Judaica: Immigration and the “Making Strange” of Jewish Art.” East European Jewish Affairs 51 (1), 2021: 86-105.  

“The Phenomenon of the ‘New Barbizon’ in Israeli Art.” In: Israel: Languages, Society, Culture. Ed. Elena Nosenko-Stein and Dennis Sobolev, 333-365. Moscow: The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020.

“Between Illustration and Icon: The Works by Mikhail Vrubel.” Studii mystetstvoznavchi (The Studies of the History of Art, the journal is published by the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore Studies and Ethnology of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences), 4 no. 56 (2016): 58-69. http://sm.etnolog.org.ua/download/pdf/sm_2016_4.pdf.

Recent Conference Presentations:

“Paper Children in Paper Theatre: Exploring Paper Theatres in 19th century Russian Culture,” Panel: Russian Poetry, NeMLA, March 2023.

“Toying with Peasants: Maria Mamontova’s Children’s Education Shop,” Symposium on Yale Ph.D. Research in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Yale, March, 2023.

“Can Israel put the gall into Chekhov’s Seagull?”, Panel: “Russian-Israeli Cultural Encounters,” ASEEES, October 2022.

Telling Herstory: The Metropolitan Russian Rag Doll from Natalia Shabel’skaia’s Collection,” AATSEEL, February 2022.

“When the Wonderful Cat Landed in Israel: Hebrew Translations of Daniil Kharms,” ASEEES November 2020.

 “The Phenomenon of the New Barbizon: The Aesthetics of Socialist Realism (?) in Israel,” Panel: Re-Imagining Socialist Aesthetics and Poetics, co-organized with Liana Battsaligova, AATSEEL February 2020.

“Fantastic Elements in Early Realism: How Cards, Shadows, and Mannequins Conquered Humans,”, NESEEES, NYU Jordan Center For the Advanced Study of Russia, March 2019.

 “A Byzantine Influence on Mikahil Vrubel’s Art,” Panelist at a Conference for Young Scholars of Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University, June 2016.

“Between an Illustration and an Icon: Mikhail Vrubel’s Literature Inspired Works,” Panelist at a Colloquium at the University of Haifa, April 2016.

“The Composite Model in Mikhail Vrubel’s Literature Inspired Works,” Roundtable: on Russian culture, organized by the Cummings Center in Tel Aviv University, March 2016.

Teaching Fellow, Yale University. Fall 2020 – Spring 2022

Intensive Russian- Intermediate level, Spring 2022.

Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Fall 2021.

Russian and Soviet Art (online), Fall 2020.

Museum+ Exhibition work:

Curatorial Assistant for “Welcome to the Doll House,” Bard Graduate Center, New York, Summer 2023.

Graduate Research Assistant at the Yale Center for British Art, Fall 2022.

Assistant Curator for “Subjects and Objects: Slavic Collections at Yale, 1896–2022,” 2021-2022.

Tour guide at the Haifa Museums: Mané Katz museum, Haifa City Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of the City of Haifa, Hermann Struck Museum, Israel, 2011-2017.

Fellowships and Awards:

YGI (Yale Graduate Impact Fellowship), Yale Office of Career Strategy, Summer 2023.

Russian Studies Dissertation Fellowship 2022, Yale Program in Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Summer 2022.

MacMillan Center International Conference Travel Grant Yale University, 2020.  

European Studies Council Travel Conference Award, Yale University, 2020.

Russian Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Grant, Yale University, 2019.

Dean of the Faculty of Humanities summa cum laude award, 2014.

A pre thesis grant awarded by the University of Haifa, 2014.

Stipend for an advanced French course, the French embassy in Israel, 2012.

Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Haifa summa cum laude award, 2012.

The Dean of Students Prizes for excellence from both the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature and the Department of History of Art, University of Haifa, 2012.

Summa cum laude scholarship from the Dean of Students, University of Haifa, 2011.

Summa cum laude scholarship from the Dean of Students, University of Haifa, 2010.