Publications On-line

Article, "The Polemic with Rousseau over Gender and Sociability in E. S. Urusova's Polion (1774)," forthcoming in Russian Review (October 2007).  View proofs in PDF.

Article, “«Vechernee» i «Utrennee razmyshleniia o Bozhiem velichestve» Lomonosova

Kak fiziko-teologicheskie proizvedeniia” [Lomonosov’s “Evening” and “Morning” Meditations as Physico-Theological Works], XVIII vek [18th Century], 24 (St. Petersburg, forthcoming).  View as Word file.

Article, “Oda kak otkrovenie: O pravoslavnom bogoslovskom kontekste lomonosovskikh od” [The Ode as Revelation: On the Orthodox Theological Context of Lomonosov’s Odes] Slavianskii almanankh [Slavic Almanac] 2003 (Moscow, 2004), pp.368-84.  View in PDF.

Chapter, “Evgenii Onegin,” in The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin, ed. Andrew Kahn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 41-56.  View proofs in PDF.

Article, “Dialektika videniia v Puteshestvii Radishcheva” [The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev’s Journey] in ?. N. Radshchev: russkoe i evropeiskoe Prosveshchenie: Materialy Mezhdunarodnogo simposiuma, 24 iiulia, 2002 g. [A. N. Radishchev: Russian and European Enlightenment, Materials of the International Symposium, June 24, 2002] (St. Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburgskiii tsentr Rossiiskoi akademii nauk, 2003), pp. 36-47.  View as PDF.

Article, “The ‘Obviousness’ of the Truth in Eighteenth-Century Russian Thought,” Filosofskii vek [The Age of Philosophy], 24: Istoriia filosofii kak filosofii, Chast’ 1 (St. Petersburg, 2003): 236-45.  View as PDF. Also available on-line at:  http://ideashistory.org.ru/pdfs/27levitt.pdf

Article, “Sumarokov and the Unified Poetry Book: Ody torzestvennyia and Elegii ljiubovnyja Through the Prism of Tradition,” Russian Literature (North Holland). Special Issue: Eighteenth Century Russian Literature.  LII: I/II/III (1 July – 15 August – 1 October 2002), pp. 111-139.  View as PDF.

Article, “Notes on a Joint Russian-American Expedition to the Semeiskii Old Believers of Transbaikal,” with photographs.  Journal of  the Slavic and East European Folklore Association (SEEFA) 6:2 (Fall 2001): 11-27. View as PDF. Also available on-line via: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/SEEFA/archive.HTM

Article, “The Dance of Love in Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (The ‘Maiden’s Song’),” in Collected Essays in Honor of  the Bicentennial of Alexander S. Pushkin's Birth, ed. Juras T. Ryfa.  Slavic Studies, Vol. 4.   (Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 75-91.  View as PDF.

Article,  "Paskvil', polemika, kritika: «Pis'mo... pisannoe ot prijatelia k prijateliu» (1750 g.) Trediakovskogo i problema sozdaniia russkoi literaturnoi kritiki" [Slander, Polemic, Criticism: Trediakovsky’s ‘Letter… Written from a Friend to a Friend’ of 1750 and the Problem of Creating Russian Literary Criticism] XVIII vek [The 18th Century], 21. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1999, pp. 62-72. View as PDF.

Article, "Barkoviana and Russian Classicism." Eros i pornografiia v russkoi kul'ture / Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture., ed. M. Levitt and A. Toporkov. In the series: Russkaia potaennaia literatura. Moscow: Ladomir, 1999, pp. 219-36. View as PDF.

Article, "The Illegal Staging of Sumarokov's Sinav i Truvor in 1770 and the problem of Authorial Status in Eighteenth-Century Russia," The Slavic and East European Journal 43: 2 (Summer 1999): 299-323. View as PDF.

Article, "Catherine the Great," and translation, "Selections from Odds and Ends," in Russian Women Writers, vol. 1. Ed. Christine Tomei. New York: Garland, 1999. Pp. 3-10 and 10-27. This publication was awarded the Heldt Prize of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies for "the Best Book in Slavic Women's Studies" for 1999. View as PDF.

Article, "Was Sumarokov a Lockean Sensualist? On Locke's Reception in Eighteenth-Century Russia," A Window on Russia: Proceedings of the V International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, Gargano, 1994, ed. Maria Di Salvo and Lindsey Hughes. Rome: La Fenice Edizioni, 1996, pp. 219-227. View as PDF.

Article,"Sumarokov - chitatel' Peterburgskoi biblioteki Akademii nauk" [Sumarokov as Reader at the Academy of Sciences Library]  XVIII vek [The 18th Century]19. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1995, pp. 43-59. View as PDF.

"Introduction" and "Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov," in Early Modern Russian Writers, Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ed. Marcus C. Levitt. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 150. Detroit, New York, London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, and Gale Research, Inc., 1995, pp. ix-xviii and 370-381. Available on line via: http://www.galenet.com/ (you must be a subscriber).

Article,  "K istorii teksta «Dvukh epistol» A. P. Sumarokova" [Toward the Textual History of Sumarokov’s ‘Two Epistles”] In Marginalii russkikh pisatelei XVIII veka [Marginalia of 18th Century Russian Writers], ed. N. D. Kochetkova. Studiorum Slavicorum Monumenta, 6. St. etersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 1994, pp. 16-32. View as PDF.

Article, "Sumarokov's Russianized 'Hamlet': Texts and Contexts," The Slavic and East European Journal 38: 2 (Summer 1994): 319-341. View as PDF.

Article, "Drama Sumarokova «Pustynnik»: k voprosu o zhanrovykh i idejnykh istochnikakh russkogo klassicizma " [Sumarokov’s Drama ‘The Hermit’: On the Generic and Intellectual Sources of Russian Classicism] XVIII vek [The 18th Century], 18. St. Petersburg, 1993, pp. 59-74. View as PDF.

Article, "Puškin Pro Semiosis: The Dialectic of the Sign in Canto One of 'Eugene Onegin.'" Russian Literature [North Holland] 34 (November 1993): 439-450.  View as PDF.

Article, "Siniavskii's Alternative Autobiography A Voice from the Chorus."  Canadian Slavonic Papers 33:1 (March 1991): 46-61.  View as PDF.