Elizabeth H. Stern

Slavist & dance historian (PhD, Princeton).
Freelance editor & translator.
Ex bunhead.

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@jpsteichen @OUPAcademic Just started listening :) Wondering what the dance-world chatter has been about it, too!

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@ZJAyres I took 3+ months away, with the support of my v. understanding supervisor, to help take care of a sick family member. It took me another couple months after that to get totally back into the diss.-writing rhythm. Finished the PhD & now work as an academic editor.

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@jpsteichen As a young person and dancer (pre-uni), definitely the doc Dancing for Mr. B (watched it countless times on VHS) and the Taper biography.

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@jpsteichen @NorthwesternU @jenniesuedance dang, would love to be there! Is there any chance the panel/talk will be recorded?

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@joshshepperd Some 1, but also I graduated from college in 08; financial crisis & fear about having health insurance also fueled my going into & staying in grad school. Increasingly 2 the longer I was in & saw the system up close. Now, after finishing the phd, I'm not going in academia. :P

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@AcademicChatter This is the Peps. He frequently slept on the job, stared pensively out the window, or tried to distract me, but he was the best co-worker this dissertator could have asked for. He made sure to get me out of the house and to engage in silly play multiple times a day. #PhdPets

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

Well worth a read: a moving and powerful discussion of the work of Shalamov and the perils of translation. The Forced Conversion of Varlam Shalamov https://t.co/POKYXtXc4E

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

agreed. This ballet is ridiculous, as are a lot of the "classics" if we look at the subject matter/story alone. The orientalism angle is more useful for understanding this hot mess; same goes for a number of Ballets Russes works imho. ABT could use a better program writer.

[Jim Steichen @jpsteichen]

@MarinaHarss Interesting - though the more straightforward explanation would be the Edward Said orientalism angle: that the ballet says more about western fantasies about an imagined “orient” than anything about real culture or history.

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

Two days after defending my PhD diss., was already looking at late 1920s Soviet satirical journals. Some snaps from the fantastic journal Chudak. #Soviet #Russia #USSR #satire #ballet #politics #academictwitter #twitterstorians #archives #communism

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@MarinaHarss @simonm1 @Princeton thank you!!!

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@simonm1 @Princeton Thank you @simonm1! (& sorry for seeing this so late!--was off twitter for a bit.) I couldn't have asked for a more supportive and brilliant supervisor! Grateful and relieved to be done, though I already miss researching. :)

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Soviet police dance. Excerpt from "Only You" musical film directed by Evgeny Sherstobitov, 1972

[Dr Brianne Dolce @bri_dolce]

A wonderful reminder for all of us: you don't have to undo the work of the scholars that came before you to make a new contribution. Add new windows to the frame they built, and don't burn it down.

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@ehh_ptr The loss of library privileges/remote access upon completing my PhD is devastating to me, esp b/c I'm not going into academia "proper." I would've lost these privileges over a yr ago (before completing PhD) had my amazing adviser not petitioned on my behalf to keep them.

[Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd]

This is the quit-lit barn-burner to end all quit-lit barn-burners. The decline of the academic job market transformed into literature. With a few of my Twitter friends cast with well-sketched character cameos. https://t.co/TOGuwszkm1

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@DrRadchenko Thank you for sharing parts of these documents & your thoughts on them! I absolutely love these types of verbatim transcripts--relied on them a lot for my diss. on Soviet/GDR cultural politics. What archive are these docs from and they let you take pics?! nice.

[Melvyn Madigan @myaskofiev]

4 May 1926, Monte Carlo: Ballets Russes premiere of 'Romeo and Juliet'. Music, Constant Lambert (who was terrified of Diaghilev). Choreography, Nijinska. When the lovers (Lifar and Karsavina) were supposed to die, they did nothing of the sort, but eloped in an aeroplane instead..

[Marina Harss @MarinaHarss]

A lot of Cunningham coming up! (If you don't have a ticket, don't miss the "Night of 100 Solos" livestream) https://t.co/HN5GI7I7dx

[Elizabeth H. Stern @ehstern]

@sovietvisuals Amazing! Are there more clips from the Spartakiad somewhere?!