ДеБласио Алисса

Alyssa DeBlasio

Associate Professor of Russian (Dickinson College, USA)

PhD, University of Pittsburgh (USA)

Alyssa DeBlasio is Assistant Professor in the Russian Department at Dickinson College, where she also contributes to the Film Studies Program and the Philosophy Department. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. with honors from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.

She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants for her research on contemporary Russian philosophy, including awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of State, Fulbright-Hays, the Yegor Gaidar Foundation, and the American Council of Teachers of Russian.

In 2014 she published her first monograph, The End of Russian Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan), which looks at the transition of the discipline of philosophy in Russia from the 1990s through the 2000s. Her articles have appeared in Russian Review, Studies in East European Thought, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Kinokultura, Russian Journal of Communication, and Epistemologiia i filosofiia nauki (Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science), among other places. 

Selected publications on Russian philosophy:

Books

The End of Russian Philosophy: Tradition and Transition at the Turn of the 21^st Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 216 p.

Articles

1. ‘Nothing in Life But Death’: Aleksandr Zel’dovich’s Target in Conversation with Tolstoy’s Philosophy on the Value of Death // The Russian Review. 73.3 (July 2014). Р. 2–21.
2. Writing the History of Russian Philosophy // Studies in East European Thought. 63.3 (2011). Р. 203–226.
3. Что случилось с «философским бумом»? Изучение российской философии в контексте американской славистики // Вестник РХГА. Вып.  8.1 (май, 2007). С. 218–224. 

Interview

1. Необходимость научного анализа советской философии // Русский журнал (14.10.2010).