Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigrant; her most resonant book, The Future of Nostalgia, was deeply rooted in that experience. Even after The Future of Nostalgia carried her fame beyond academic circles, few readers were aware of all of her creative personas. She was simply too prolific, and her work migrated across most people's disciplinary boundaries-from literary and cultural studies through film, visual, and material culture studies, performance, intermedia, and new media.The Svetlana Boym Reader presents a comprehensive view of Boym's singularly creative work in all its aspects. It includes Boym's classic essays, carefully chosen excerpts from her five books, and journalistic gems. Showcasing her roles both as curator and curated, the reader includes interviews and excerpts from exhibition catalogues as well as samples of intermedial works like Hydrant Immigrants. It also features autobiographical pieces that shed light on the genealogy of her scholarly work and rarities like an excerpt from Boym's first graduate school essay on Russian literature, complete with marginalia by her mentor Donald Fanger. Last but not least, the reader includes late pieces that Boym did not live to see through publication, as well as transcripts of her memorable last lectures and performances.

List of PlatesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsLuminosities: An Introduction Tamar Abramov, Nicole G. Burgoyne, Julia Chadaga, Jacob Emery, Julia Vaingurt, and Cristina VatulescuI. The Theater of the Self (1984-1991) Julia Vaingurt (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)1. Osip Mandel'shtam and the Drama of Writing2. Petersburg Influenza: Notes on The Egyptian Stamp by Osip Mandel'shtam3. The Death of the Revolutionary Poet: Vladimir Maiakovskii and Suicide as Literary Fact4. Marina Tsvetaeva and the Cultural Mask of the Poetess5. Public Personas and Private Selves of Cultural CriticsII. Living in Common Places and Rethinking What Matters (1992-1995) Julia Chadaga (Macalester College, USA)6. The Poetics of Banality: Tat'iana Tolstaia, Lana Gogoberidze, and Larisa Zvezdochetova7. Common Places8. Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin's Fairy-Tale to Molotov's Lacquer-BoxIII. That Historical Emotion (1996-2001) Jacob Emery (Indiana University, USA)9. On Diasporic Intimacy: Ilya Kabakov's Ilstallations and Immigrant Homes10. The Future of Nostalgia11. Conspiracy Theories and Literary Ethics: Umberto Eco, Danilo KiS and The Protocols of Zion12. KosmosIV. Freedom, Subjectivity, and the Gulag (2002-2010) Cristina Vatulescu (New York University, USA)13. My Grandmother's First Love14. How Is "Soviet subjectivity" Made?15. "Banality of Evil," Mimicry, and the Soviet Subject: Varlam Shalamov and Hannah Arendt16. Freedom as Co-creationV. The Off-Modern (2008-2016) Tamar Abramov (Mandel Foundation, Israel)17. The Off Modern18. Scenography of Friendship19. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Victor Shklovsky and Osip Mandel'shtam20. Cryptoarchitecture: Corbusier at 50, A Tour with Svetlana BoymVI. Afterimages: Svetlana Boym's Irrepressible Co-creations Cristina Vatulescu (New York University, USA)21. Touching Writing (Homage to Jacques Derrida, October 8, 2004)22. Immigrant Hydrants23. Framing the Family Album24. Nostalgic Technology25. Cities in Transit26. Phantom Limbs27. Remembering Forgetting: Tale of a Refugee CampSourcesBibliography: Svetlana Boym's PublicationsIndex