Publications

2018 Naomi Caffee and Gabriel McGuire, editors. Abai Qunanbaiuli and Kazakh Culture: Past, Present, and Future. Special issue in Journal of Central Eurasian Studies 9.

2018 Naomi Caffee, How Tatiana’s Voice Rang Across the Steppe: Russian Literature in the Life and  Legend of Abai. In Journal of Central Eurasian Studies 9. 

2018 McGuire, Gabriel. Aqyn agha? Abai Zholy as socialist realism and as literary history. Journal of Eurasian Studies 9.1: 2-11.

2019 Fort, Christopher James. Inhabiting Socialist Realism: Soviet Literature from the Edge of Empire. PhD diss., University of Michigan.

2019 Fort, Christopher. An Introduction to Cho’lpon and His Night and Day. In Night and Day, 1–43. Boston: Academic Studies Press.

2019 Ali Iğmen, Between Empire and the Nation-State, between Humanism and Communism: Nazim Hikmet’s Noble Struggle with Modernity. In The Arc of Revolution, Socialist Subjectivity in Transnational Perspective, a volume in the edited compilation, Choi Chatterjee, editor, Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922: The Centenary Reappraisal, Bloomington: Slavica Press. 

2020 Naomi Caffee, Between First, Second, and Third Worlds: Olzhas Suleimenov and Soviet Postcolonialism, 1961-1973. Russian Literature 111-112.  Featured in the NYU Jordan Center’s “Resources on Topics of Race and Racism  in Russian Studies.” Reviewed in Central Asian Analytical Network, June 4, 2020.

2020 Naomi Caffee, Notes on Eternal Return: Diana Kudaibergenova’s Rewriting the Nation in
Modern Kazakh Literature. Book review in Central Asian Affairs 7.2. 

2022 Naomi Caffee and Nina Friess, editors. ‘Not only Russian’: Explorations in Contemporary Russophone Literature and Culture. Special issue in Russian Literature 127 (2022). 

2020 Ali Iğmen, ed. Making Culture in (Post) Socialist Central Asia, co-edited with Ananda Breed an Eva-Marie Dubuisson. London: Palgrave Pivot, Palgrave McMillan Book Series, 20202022 Fort, Christopher. Parody of Past and Present in Chapaev and the Void. In Companion to Victor Pelevin, edited by Sofya Khagi, 53–74. Boston: Academic Studies Press.

2022 McGuire, Gabriel Vertin. Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture. Journal of American Folklore 135.537: 281-304.

2023 Fort, Christopher. The Socialist Realist Novel on the Margins -- The Soviet Central Asian Republics. In The Oxford Companion on Realisms. Forthcoming in 2023.

2023 Naomi Caffee and Gabriel McGuire, eds. Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature. Translated by Lusia Zaitseva and Umar Anjum. (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)