Hilde Hoogenboom
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Phone: 480-965-4576
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851 S. Cady Mall DH 406C SILC, CLAS, ASU PO Box 870202 Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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A literary historian and expert on Catherine the Great, Hoogenboom was the Jesse Ball DuPont Fellow at the National Humanities Center and postdoctoral fellow in the Eurasia Program of the Social Sciences Research Council for her book, Noble Sentiments and the Rise of Russian Novels: A European Literary History (University of Toronto Press, 2023), which pairs novels by men and women, all of whom were nobles, to trace how they adapted the European war of duties to Russia's unique noble service culture. She was a resident associate 2017–18 at the National Humanities Center for her new project "Noble Rot: Corruption, Civil Society, and Literary Elites in Russia." Co-editor of two collections of essays on Russian women writers, she has written numerous articles on women, including on sentimental novels, Pushkin and Sophie Cottin; Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia; George Sand in Russia; bio-bibliographic compilations of women in Europe; and on Vera Figner and Russian populist revolutionary autobiographies. Her introduction (2017) to Sofia Khvoshchinskaia’s "City Folk and Country Folk" (1863) is in the Russian Library series at Columbia University Press. Her research interests include the Khvoshchinskaya sisters, Catherine the Great, noble culture, civil society, corruption, gender, and digital humanities. Besides 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature, she teaches intellectual history, civilization, and theater. "Memoirs of Catherine the Great," a new translation of Catherine the Great’s memoirs from French with a substantial introduction and commentary (Modern Library, Penguin Random House, 2005), has sold over 16,000 copies and is the first for which the translators consulted the original manuscripts in her own hand. Catherine’s final memoir (1794) is a political thriller about survival in the succession struggle at the Russian court, and a unique Enlightenment document. Meant for general and specialist readers alike, this book is supported by a grant from the National Humanities Center for research and teaching in the undergraduate classroom.
- Ph.D. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University 1996. Minors: Russian Intellectual History and Women’s Studies. Harriman Center Certificate in Russian Area Studies. Dissertation:“A Two-Part Invention:The Russian Woman Writer and Her Heroines from 1860 to 1917”
- IREX/ACTR research scholar, Gorky Institute for World Literature, Moscow 1992-1995
- M.Phil. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University 1992
- Moscow State University, Moscow, IREX for Teachers of Russian 1991
- Harriman Institute Certificate in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Columbia University 1991
- M.A. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University 1989. Essay: Childhood in Autobiographical Essays by Pasternak and Brodsky: Womb or Tomb?
- Leningrad State University, Leningrad, CIEE 1984-1985
- Leningrad State University, Leningrad, CIEE 1982
- Middlebury College, Advanced Russian Program 1981
- B.A., Williams College, Russian and English Literatures 1981 (Williams College Tyng Scholar 1977-88)
- Universitæt Freiburg im Breisgau, German and Russian translation with Frau Svetlana Geier 1980
