Lonny Harrison
@lonnyharrison.bsky.social
Slavicist specializing in the shadows of Russian literature from Dostoevsky to revolutionary terrorism and Soviet authoritarianism. Growing obsession with Polish lit & history. Husband, runner, dog person, audiophile. https://lonnyharrisonresearch.uta.edu/
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Lonny Harrison
@lonnyharrison.bsky.social
· Jun 16
Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution
Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm is a panoramic history of the Russian intelligentsia and an analysis of the langu…
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📚 Storm, flood, and harvest metaphors are ubiquitous in Russian literature. My book, “Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm,” looks at how they are emblematic of revolution before and after 1917. #LexingtonBooks; tinyurl.com/23v7pmmb
Some view writing as a solitary act. However, as an author, your voice is created in relation to your reader. Finding your audience in that space is both liberating and demanding.
August 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Some view writing as a solitary act. However, as an author, your voice is created in relation to your reader. Finding your audience in that space is both liberating and demanding.
A writer’s wish: If, in all my works and days, I’ve written a few good sentences, a good paragraph or two, or if I even dare to hope—a few good pages, then I can rest easy and say my goal is accomplished.
August 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
A writer’s wish: If, in all my works and days, I’ve written a few good sentences, a good paragraph or two, or if I even dare to hope—a few good pages, then I can rest easy and say my goal is accomplished.
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
Slightly diminish a band:
Okay with Being Dead
Okay with Being Dead
Slightly diminish a band: Grey Sabbath
Jane's Bad Habit
August 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Okay with Being Dead
Okay with Being Dead
you had me at post-apocalyptic scholarship
post-apocalyptic scholarship would have so many gaps in the literature
August 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
you had me at post-apocalyptic scholarship
"Reading Dostoevsky is like the endless scroll many of us get sucked into" -- who can relate? ✋
This author interview on Dostoevsky criticism and the lost art of reading faithfully is a must for anyone interested in Dostoevsky and the Silver Age.
This author interview on Dostoevsky criticism and the lost art of reading faithfully is a must for anyone interested in Dostoevsky and the Silver Age.
What does it mean to read faithfully? Today on the blog, Fiona Bell chats with Lindsay Ceballos about affective approaches to reading and interpreting, and her new book, Reading Faithfully: Russian Modernist Criticism and the Making of Dostoevsky, 1881–1917.
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A Chat with Lindsay Ceballos about Reading Faithfully
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. Today Fiona …
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August 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Reading Dostoevsky is like the endless scroll many of us get sucked into" -- who can relate? ✋
This author interview on Dostoevsky criticism and the lost art of reading faithfully is a must for anyone interested in Dostoevsky and the Silver Age.
This author interview on Dostoevsky criticism and the lost art of reading faithfully is a must for anyone interested in Dostoevsky and the Silver Age.
Brian Whitmore’s latest assessments on Ukraine. For more, listen to The Power Vertical podcast. www.powervertical.org
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News Nation Appearance
July 29, 2025
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July 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Brian Whitmore’s latest assessments on Ukraine. For more, listen to The Power Vertical podcast. www.powervertical.org
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My recent talk on #Dylan and #Dostoevsky at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 is now posted on Substack:
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‘I Fought with My Twin’: Bob Dylan’s Artistic Symmetries with Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is an edited transcript of a presentation I gave at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 Conference at The University of Tulsa Institute for Bob Dylan Studies, July 24-27, 2025.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
My recent talk on #Dylan and #Dostoevsky at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 is now posted on Substack:
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Add: liberating. Dreyer’s English hands you the keys to your own voice and says go on take it for a spin, the road is yours.
It's a fun book! I promise!
😄 I’ll have to buy your book next.
July 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Add: liberating. Dreyer’s English hands you the keys to your own voice and says go on take it for a spin, the road is yours.
Ah but how the time stands still until those two paragraphs get teased out and leave you breathless.
Writing is hiding in your house from the heat wave, reading digitized hundred-year-old newspapers and 75yo biographies and other primary material for two whole days, so that you can write two paragraphs with three juicy quotations.
July 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Ah but how the time stands still until those two paragraphs get teased out and leave you breathless.
Cool to see a poster like this ‘in the wild’. There was a talk about Bob in the USSR at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 conference in Tulsa this week.
Bob Dylan concert poster in the Vasileostrovsky district of Leningrad in May 1989.📷Andrey Usov
July 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Cool to see a poster like this ‘in the wild’. There was a talk about Bob in the USSR at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 conference in Tulsa this week.
It's been such a privilege to see the amazing presentations this week at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 conference and tour the sensational @bobdylancenter.bsky.social. In my talk tomorrow I'll be drawing some parallels between #Dylan and #Dostoevsky. dylan.utulsa.edu/wobd25/
Welcome to the World of Bob Dylan 2025
The World of Bob Dylan returns to Tulsa from July 24-27, 2025. Coinciding with the Bob Dylan Center's new exhibit, Tulsa will celebrate the sixtieth
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July 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It's been such a privilege to see the amazing presentations this week at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 conference and tour the sensational @bobdylancenter.bsky.social. In my talk tomorrow I'll be drawing some parallels between #Dylan and #Dostoevsky. dylan.utulsa.edu/wobd25/
Best post ever
Standinge on the cornir
Suit case yn myne hande
Jack ys yn hys car, sayeth to Jane, who ys yn her veste
And me, Ich am yn a rocke and rolle bande
Suit case yn myne hande
Jack ys yn hys car, sayeth to Jane, who ys yn her veste
And me, Ich am yn a rocke and rolle bande
July 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Best post ever
Love this! Congrats on the fascinating publication!
The first article from @fyodor76.bsky.social and my #DigitalDostoevsky project has been published in the latest issue of Slavic Review! It's open access, so everyone can read - yay! So happy that this work is finally out in the world: doi.org/10.1017/slr....
The Failure of Form: Reading Liminality Computationally in Dostoevskii’s The Double | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core
The Failure of Form: Reading Liminality Computationally in Dostoevskii’s The Double - Volume 84 Issue 1
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July 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Love this! Congrats on the fascinating publication!
"I Fought with My Twin" Super excited to present at World of Bob Dylan, July 24-27 @utulsa.bsky.social @bobdylancenter.bsky.social on artistic symmetries between Dylan and Dostoevsky. A lifelong fan, this is my first academic conference on Dylan and I can't wait to see all the great presentations.
July 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"I Fought with My Twin" Super excited to present at World of Bob Dylan, July 24-27 @utulsa.bsky.social @bobdylancenter.bsky.social on artistic symmetries between Dylan and Dostoevsky. A lifelong fan, this is my first academic conference on Dylan and I can't wait to see all the great presentations.
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Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
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Morning coffee + a book = our favorite way to start the day.
July 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Morning coffee + a book = our favorite way to start the day.
Very intrigued by this topic!
Philosophy and literature friends: I am pleased to announce that this book has finally entered the world!
Intro and purchase information below!
Intro and purchase information below!
July 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Very intrigued by this topic!
Can’t wait to read this very topical work!
New today! Octavian Gabor on his recent work and its connection to #Dostoevsky: “Traveling from the pages of Dostoevsky’s book to the pages of Immigrant on Earth, Alyosha reveals our status as immigrants—one of the essential features we have as human beings.”
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Stories of Personhood from Immigrant on Earth: A Philosopher on the Road to Emmaus
by Octavian Gabor The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement …
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July 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Can’t wait to read this very topical work!
One of the first modern terrorists was Moscow State University lecturer Nikolai Ishutin. He founded a group called “Hell” whose members would survey the peasants to find out which individuals the latter were unhappy with, and those named would be executed or poisoned. #PersonasOfRevolutionaryTerror
July 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
One of the first modern terrorists was Moscow State University lecturer Nikolai Ishutin. He founded a group called “Hell” whose members would survey the peasants to find out which individuals the latter were unhappy with, and those named would be executed or poisoned. #PersonasOfRevolutionaryTerror
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Crisis in the academy
"Universities, long celebrated as sanctuaries of free thought and intellectual rigour, have for centuries been regarded as the best way to educate and conduct research. But increasingly, this assumption is being questioned." iai.tv/video/crisis... #academia #PhilSky #PhilSci
"Universities, long celebrated as sanctuaries of free thought and intellectual rigour, have for centuries been regarded as the best way to educate and conduct research. But increasingly, this assumption is being questioned." iai.tv/video/crisis... #academia #PhilSky #PhilSci
Crisis in the academy
Universities, long celebrated as sanctuaries of free thought and intellectual rigour, have for centuries been regarded as the best way to educate and conduct research. But increasingly, this assumptio...
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July 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Crisis in the academy
"Universities, long celebrated as sanctuaries of free thought and intellectual rigour, have for centuries been regarded as the best way to educate and conduct research. But increasingly, this assumption is being questioned." iai.tv/video/crisis... #academia #PhilSky #PhilSci
"Universities, long celebrated as sanctuaries of free thought and intellectual rigour, have for centuries been regarded as the best way to educate and conduct research. But increasingly, this assumption is being questioned." iai.tv/video/crisis... #academia #PhilSky #PhilSci
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On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, I speak with the always insightful Jeff Mankoff @drjmankoff.bsky.social about how Russia's recent conflict with Azerbaijan reflects changing power dynamics in the former Soviet space. www.powervertical.org/2025/07/11/r...
RUSSIA’S FEISTY NEIGHBORHOOD
powervertical · RUSSIA'S FEISTY NEIGHBORHOOD Don’t look now but there is another conflict brewing in the former Soviet space. Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan have been in a freef…
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July 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, I speak with the always insightful Jeff Mankoff @drjmankoff.bsky.social about how Russia's recent conflict with Azerbaijan reflects changing power dynamics in the former Soviet space. www.powervertical.org/2025/07/11/r...
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Last month @katiabowers.bsky.social and I took a fantastic class on stylometry at #dhsi2025 with @joannaby.bsky.social and Jacek Bąkowski of the Krakow-based Computational Stylistics group and wrote a blogpost about it for our #digitaldostoevsky blog: digitaldostoevsky.com/2025/06/18/a...
Adventures in Stylometry!
In May we took a class called “Computational Text Analysis with Stylometry and R” at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the Université de Montréal. It was run by the Krakow-based Computatio…
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June 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Last month @katiabowers.bsky.social and I took a fantastic class on stylometry at #dhsi2025 with @joannaby.bsky.social and Jacek Bąkowski of the Krakow-based Computational Stylistics group and wrote a blogpost about it for our #digitaldostoevsky blog: digitaldostoevsky.com/2025/06/18/a...
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New on the blog! “Can money have a story?” An interview with Ekaterina Pravilova on money, narrative, and economic history: bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/07/07/m...
Money, Narrative, and Economic History: An Interview with Ekaterina Pravilova about The Ruble
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. This week Jonatha…
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July 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New on the blog! “Can money have a story?” An interview with Ekaterina Pravilova on money, narrative, and economic history: bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/07/07/m...