Slavic Studies

Christy Monet earned a dual Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Political Science (theory) from the University of Chicago. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on underexamined phenomena in Russian intellectual history and cultural production, including the family novel’s links to early liberal political thought in the Russian Empire and emergent engagement with Black feminist/womanist thought in contemporary Russian literature. Her first book manuscript, The Literary Lives of Russian Liberalism, is under contract with Princeton University Press. Additionally, her research and review articles have been published in Slavic Review, Ab Imperio, and the Journal of Russian American Studies. Her method of research is heavily archival, and she has spent significant time in Vladivostok, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. In Moscow, she also worked as an editorial assistant and translator for the publishing house Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (NLO). Before coming to Brown, Monet taught at the University of Chicago (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Political Science), New York University (Political Science), and the University of South Carolina Upstate (Philosophy, Politics, and History).

PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
Monet, Christy. “The Afterlife of Soviet Russia’s ‘Refusal to Be White’: A Du Boisian Lens on Post-Soviet
Russian-US Relations.” Slavic Review 80, no. 2 (2021): 316–26. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2021.88.

Wengle, Susanne, Christy Monet, and Evgenia Olimpieva. “Russia’s Post-Soviet Ideological Terrain:
Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan and Debates on Authority, Agency, and Authenticity.” Slavic Review 77, no. 4
(2018): 998–1024.

Reviews:
“Derek Offord, Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins of an Icon of the American Right (
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). 130 pp. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-350-28394-7.”
Ab Imperio, no. 4, 2024, pp. 255-260.

“Amanda Brickell Bellows, American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation
Imagination, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020, xiii. 304pp. Index. $29.95, Paper.”
Journal of Russian American Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2021, pp. 203-205.

BACKGROUND
2023 PhD, University of Chicago
2016 MA, University of Chicago
2009 BA, St. Mary’s College of Maryland