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She wrote a book about [[Edgar Allen Poe]]’s time in Russia.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1754-6095.1975.tb00253.x</ref> She wrote a book about [[Ivan Konevakoi]].<ref>https://muse.jhu.edu/article/817343/pdf</ref> She wrote an introductory essay for ”The Diary of Valery Bryusov, 1893-1905” published in 1980. |
She wrote a book about [[Edgar Allen Poe]]’s time in Russia.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1754-6095.1975.tb00253.x</ref> She wrote a book about [[Ivan Konevakoi]].<ref>https://muse.jhu.edu/article/817343/pdf</ref> She wrote an introductory essay for ”The Diary of Valery Bryusov, 1893-1905” published in 1980. |
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Revision as of 12:07, 23 September 2025
Joan Delaney Grossman (December 12, 1928-February 2025) was an American professor, author, and scholar who travelled to Russia during the Cold War and wrote about Russian topics.[1]
She graduated from Visitation Academy in Dubuque and joined the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
She graduated from Clarke College in Dubuque with a B.A. in English in 1952 and taught English at Immaculata High School in Chicago, Illinois from 1952 to 1957 and at Clarke College in Dubuque from 1957-1959. She studied Russian at Fordham University’s and Middlebury College’s summer schools and the graduate program at Columbia, earning an M.A. in Russian literature in 1962. She received a PhD in Slavic languages and Literatures in 1967 from Harvard.[1]
She married Gregory Grossman who died in 2014. She wrote about her life on her blog.[2]
She wrote a book about Edgar Allen Poe‘s time in Russia.[3][4] She wrote a book about Ivan Konevakoi.[5] She wrote an introductory essay for The Diary of Valery Bryusov, 1893-1905 published in 1980.
Writings
Articles
- “Leadership of Antireligious Propaganda in the Soviet Union” Studies in Soviet Thought 12:3 (1972)[1]
- “Khrushchev’s Anti‐religious Policy and the Campaign of 1954” Soviet Studies 24:3 (1973)[1]
Books
- Edgar Allan Poe in Russia: A study in Legend and Literary Influence Colloquium Slavicum (1973)
- Valery Bryusov and the Riddle of Russian Decadence University of California Press (1985)[6]
- Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism, co-editor Stanford University Press (1994)
- William James in Russian Culture, co-edited with Ruth Rischin, Lexington Books (2003)
- Ivan Konevskoi: “Wise Child” of Russian Symbolism Academic Studies Press (2010)
