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Tora Lane

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Contact

Name and title: Tora Lane

tora.lane@slav.su.se

Workplace: Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German

Visiting address

Room E473

Universitetsvägen 10 E, plan 4

Postal address

Institutionen för slaviska och baltiska språk finska nederländska och tyska

106 91 Stockholm

Research groups

Forum Modernism

Forum Modernism at Stockholm University is an association for researchers whose work in some way concerns modernism, both through studies of its various mainstream and marginalized expressions, and through critical examinations of the concept as such.

Cultural memory studies

What is the cultural significance of memory? How and why do we remember the past, not only as individuals but across generations, as social and cultural communities? And how do these memory practices relate to politically and emotionally charged questions of national or ethnic identity, historical traumas, and experiences of dislocation, loss and forgetting?

Ruins of houses destroyed by bombardment

Network Language and Power

Language and power as a field of study has a long tradition, but it has become more relevant in recent years due to the rise of populism and societies becoming increasingly polarised.

About me

My main research topic is Russian modernism, and I have particularly studied the poetry and poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva's, and Andrey Platonov's particular understanding of the Russian Revolution. I have also done research on avant-garde, Soviet culture and post-Soviet literature, and in connection with that I have written on totalitarianism, memory culture, literature and politics. My research in Russian literature spans several academic fields. A central interest has been to find points of contact and parallels between Russian literature, culture and theory and European literary, cultural and philosophical tradition. Although I primarily write about Russian literature, I approach them in a dialogue with aesthetic and philosophical theories from Romanticism to the present day, which, in my eyes, makes it possible to broaden the understanding of important issues in their works. I have participated in several projects funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation such as Loss of grounds as common ground: an interdisciplinary investigation of the common beyond liberal and communitarian claims (2011-2013); "Man builds and gets destroyed himself": Aesthetics of the sublime in Soviet Russian Literature (2014-2016); Traces of oblivion: Identity, Heritage and Memory in the Wake of a Nationalistic Turn (2019-2022); Writing and Thinking at the Margins: A Philosophical Strategy to Resist Totalitarianism in Post-War Eastern Europe (2023-)

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