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Assoc. Prof. Rebecca Mitchell, PhD

01.01.2026 - 28.02.2026

Cultural Studies

  • GWZO Fellow

    Research topic at the GWZO:
    »The Brothers Karbelashvili: Orthodox Belief, Sacred Chant and the Fate of Empire in the South Caucasus (1860-2024)«

  • Institution

    Middlebury College, Department of History, Middlebury, VT, United States

  • Research regions

    • Russian Empire
    • South Caucasus

  • Research focuses

    Culture, memory and identity construction

  • Publications (selection)

    • Sergei Rachmaninoff (London: Reaktion Books, 2022) Nietzsche's Orphans: Music, Metaphysics and the Twilight of the Russian Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016)
    • “Scriabin and the Russian Silver Age,” in Demystifying Scriabin, ed. Kenneth Fokert-Smyth and Vasilis Kallis (Boydell & Brewer, 2022), 26-45.
    • “‘Musical Metaphysics’ in Late Imperial Russia,” in The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought, ed. Randall Poole, Caryl Emerson, George Pattison (Oxford University Press, 2020): 379-395.
    • “In Search of Russia: Sergei Rakhmaninov and the Politics of Musical Memory after 1917,” in Slavonic and East European Review 97:1 (January 2019): 136-168

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