Peter Steiner

Education         
1970-1976      Yale University: M.Phil. 1973; Ph.D. 1976;  
1964-1968     Charles University of Prague.  
   
 
 
Academic Honors      
2011       Penn Lauder CIBER Travel Grant  
2001       A   Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2000 for   The Deserts of Bohemia   
1995       Individual Research Support Scheme Grant of the Higher Education Support Program  
1993     International Research and Exchanges Board Grant for Short-Term Travel  
1992     University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Award for Faculty Seminar in Central European Studies  
1989    American Council of Learned Societies East European Studies Grant  
1988    United States Information Agency University Affiliation Grant  
              University of Pennsylvania Grant for International Programs  
1987    International Research and Exchanges Board Grant Collaborative Activities  
1985    National Humanities Center Fellowship (declined)  
1983    Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship  
1982    Fulbright Award to Lecture in Israel (declined)  
             National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Award  
1979    American Philosophical Society Research Grant  
1978    Harvard Faculty Research Grant  
1975    Josephine de Karman Fellowship  
1971-74 National Defense Education Act Title IV Fellowship  
1970    Yale University Fellowship  
   
   
   
 Administrative   Services   
2005-06     Acting Chair of Slavic Department  
2004-05     SAS Personnel Committee  
2002-15     Undergraduate Chair of Slavic Department  
2001-02     Acting Chair of Slavic Department  
1999-02     Executive Committee, Center for Organizational Dynamics  
1998-00    Director of Modern Languages Program, Gregory College House  
1996-97   Chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Open Expression  
1994-96   Curriculum Committee  
1993-09   Coordinator of Penn Summer Program in Prague  
1991-92   Director of N.Y.U. Summer Program in Prague  
1990-93   Chair of Slavic Department  
1990-93   Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate  
1988-11    Freshmen Faculty Advising Program  
1989-93   Language Advisory Committee  
1989-92    Council for the Humanities  
1988-98    Faculty Master of Modern Languages College House  
1987-88   Chair of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program  
1986-89    Coordinator of Penn-Leuven Summer Institute for Literary and  Cultural Studies in Belgium  
1986-01   Penn-Leuven Faculty Exchange Committee  
1979-85    ·Communications Program Committee  
1979-81     ·Curriculum Committee of the Comparative Literature Program  
1979-81     ·Committee on Instructions  
   
 Teaching   
 Experience  2015           ·Emeritus Professor  
                       2011          ·Visiting Professor, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno, Czech Republic    
                       2009         ·Visiting Professor, Yale University  
1999          Full Professor of Slavic, University of Pennsylvania  
1985-99    Associate Professor of Slavic, University of Pennsylvania  
1996          Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill  
1985-86    Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium  
1981          Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill  
1978-85     Assistant Professor of Slavic, University of Pennsylvania   
1977-78     Assistant Professor of Slavic, Harvard University  
1976-77     Visiting Assistant Professor of Slavic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor  
1974-76     Acting Instructor of Slavic, Yale University  
1973-74     Teaching Fellow of Slavic, Yale University  
   
 Courses  
 Taught         ·  Undergraduate: Dostoevsky, Russian Literature to the 1870's; Russian  
Literature after 1870; Russian Poetics; Pushkin; Marxism and Literature; Central  
European Civilization; Czech Literature and Culture; Russian Language (levels 1-3); Czech Language (all levels).  
      ·  Graduate: Russian Prose to 1917; Russian Symbolist Poetry; The Art of Nikolai  
Gogol; Slavic Literary Theory; Slavic Literary theory in Western Context; Topics in Prague Structuralism; Semiotics of Art; Foundations of Semiotics; Western Theories of Representations; Global Communication; Europe: From an Idea to the Union.  
   
 Dissertation  
 Supervision                  Director: Ivana Vuletic, "Self and Other in Fiction of Danilo Kis," Slavic Department  (1996);  
Vladislav Todorov, "Authoritarian Power, Rational State, and the Emergence of Intelligentsia: The Concept of Government in Imperial   
Russia," Slavic Department (1996);  
Bradley Jordan, "Text and Revolution: Representation of Education and  
the Production of the Russian Revolutionary Subject," Comparative Literature (1993);  
Lindsay Watton III, "Eros and Stylization in the Early Poetry of M.A Kuzmin," Slavic Department (1991).  
 ·  Second Reader: Zina Vaganova, "Of Newton and Darwin: Scientific Metaphors and the Ending of Leo Tolstoy's Novels," Slavic Department (1995);  
Michael Burri, "Mobilizing the Aristocrat: Pre-War Vienna and the Poetics of Belligerence in Herzl, Hofmannsthal, Kraus, and Schaukal," German Department (1993);  
Arna Bronstein, "The Compositional Feature of Opposition in Exemplar Novels of Socialist Realism," Slavic Department (1986).  
 ·  Third Reader: Marco Frascari, "  Sortes Architectii in 18th Century Veneto," Graduate Program in Architecture (1982);  
Eric Reeves, "The Presumptuous Text: Toward a Theory of Literary Competence," English Department (1981).  
   
 Professional  Activities  
2009-12       The Yale-Haskins Teagle Collegium on Student Learning.  
2009-            International Advisory Panel of Slavonica.  
2007-            Editorial Board of ?eská literatura, Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.  
2004             Open World Cultural Program Russian Writers Selection Committee, The Library of Congress.      
2003-06        Editorial Board of the MLA Series: Teaching Languages,               Literatures, and Cultures.  
1999             Preliminary Review Merit Panel, National Security Education Program Institutional Grants.  
1995-97       Modern Language Association Committee for the Scaglione Prize in Slavic Studies.    
1993-95       Modern Language Association Publications Committee  
1990-93       Disciplinary Advisory Committee for Fulbright Scholars  
1989-93       Secretary of the American Committee of Slavists  
1988-91       International Research and Exchanges Board-Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Joint Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences  
1989-            International Advisory Board,   Poetics Today: A Journal for the Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication  
1984-89        Modern Language Association Executive Committee,  
Discussion Group of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics  
1982-87       Modern Language Association Executive Committee, Division of Slavic Studies and East European Literatures  
1981-87       Slavic Review Editor for Poetics Today  
   
   
   
 Papers and Lectures  
        
 Conferences:  
2015   ? l’épreuve de l’Europe: Regards croisés d’Europe occidentale et de      Russie sur les réflexions normatives dans le domaine des sciences   humaines et sociales,” Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les            Civilisations Slaves, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3.  
            “Roman Jakobson: Linguistics and Poetics,” Università del Piemonte Orientale and the Università degli Studi di Milano.  
“Russian Formalism & Eastern and Central European Literary Theory: A   Centenary View,” The University of Sheffield.  
            “Russian Formalism & the Digital Humanities, Stanford University.   “Jaroslav Ha?ek’s Fiction,” Masaryk University, Brno.  
2014    “Russia by the Numbers,” NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of   Russia, New York.  
2013    “100th Anniversary of Russian Formalism,” Vysshaia shkola ekonomiki, Moscow and Rossiskii gosudarstvenii gumanitarnyi universitet, Moscow;        “Film Adaptation: A Dialogue among Approaches,” Alfried Krupp                       Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald.  
2012    “Jan Muka?ovsk? et Le Circle linguistique de Prague,“ Centre d‘Etudes Tchèques, Université libre de Bruxelles.  
2011    “Jan Muka?ovsk? dnes: Tradice a perspektiva ?eského strukturalismu,“ Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague;  
            “Central Europe, the EU, and the New Russia,” Fontes Rerum and   European Movement in the Czech Republic, Prague;  
            “American Dream—Escape from Old Europe,” Goethe Institute, Prague.  
2010    “Financial Interdependence in the World’s Post-Crisis Capital Markets,” Global Interdependence Center, Prague.  
2009   “Milan Kundrea ou Ce que peut la literature,” Masarykova univerzita, Brno;  
“Comrades, Please Shoot Me,” Slavic Department, University of Pennsylvania.  
2008   “Julek Fu?ík – vě?ně ?iv?!” Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of       
            Sciences, Prague;  
            “Exil et dissidence en Europe centrale,” Centre d’Etudes tchèques, Université libre de Bruxelles.  
2007    “Gustave Chpet et son heritage: Aux sources russes du structuralisme et de la semiotique,” Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Civilisations Slaves, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3.  
2006    “The Examined Life: A Symposium Dedicated to the Literature and Politics  of Václav Havel,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University.  
2005    “Vladimir Holan et sa generation,” Université libre de Bruxelles.  
            “Václav Havel - Politique et po?étique ,” Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Civilisations Slaves, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3;  
            “Art & Answerability: A Colloquium In Honor of Michael Holquist,” Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.  
2003    “The Political Trials of the 1950s and the Slánsk? Case,” Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.  
2002    “Russian Literature in the Context of the 20  ^th Century World Culture,” Beijing University of Foreign Studies;  
            “Slavic Literary Theory Today: Between History and System,” Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.  
2001   “Milan Kundera, une oeuvre au pluriel,” Université libre de Bruxelles.  
1996    "The Heart of Europe: Prague and Czech Culture," Program in the  
              Humanities & Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;  
1995  "Bohemians at the Crossroads," University of Toronto;  
1990  "Fictions and Words," University of Toronto;   
"Central and East European Transformation: Historical Events and Historical Fictions," Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik;  
"Conference on Czech Literature and Culture: 1890-1990," New York University;  
1989  "The Roots of Modern Critical Thought: Slavic Poetics and Aesthetics,"  
Prague, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences;  
"Karel ?apek Symposium," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;  
1987  "Literature and Ideology in the Slavic World," Rockefeller Foundation   
Conference Center, Bellagio;  
"Mácha Conference," University of California, Berkeley;  
"Les 'petites' cultures par rapport a leurs grands voisins,"Association pour la Promotion des Cultures Slaves, Brussels;  
1986   "Gustav ?pet - Werk und Wirkung," Werner-Reimser-Stiftung, Bad Homburg;  
"Literaturtheorien in den slavischen L?ndern und Geschichte der Literaturtheorie," Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum;  
1980 "Literary Evaluation: Interdisciplinary Symposium," University of California,  
Davis.  
   
 Regular meetings:  
Fourth International Congress of the Czech Literary Studies: Prague, 2010.  
Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics: Prague, 1996.  
International Congress of Slavists: Sofia, 1988; Bratislava, 1993.  
Third International Bakhtin Colloquium, Jerusalem, 1986  
World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies: Washington, D.C., 1985.  
Semiotic Society of America: Atlanta, 1976; Providence, 1978.  
Modern Language Association: San Francisco, 1975; Chicago, 1977;  
Washington, D.C., 1984; New York, 1986.  
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies: Atlanta, 1975;                                           
Philadelphia, 1980; Washington, D.C., 1982; New Orleans, 1986; Honolulu, 1988;  
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Washington, DC,   2011.             
 ·  By invitation:  
2014   Brněnsk? naratologick? krou?ek, Brno, Czech Republic  
2013   Brněnsk? naratologick? krou?ek, Brno, Czech Republic.  
2012   Centre d‘Etudes Tchèques, Université libre de Bruxelles.  
2010    Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universit?t Bremen.  
2009    Yale University; The University of Manchester; The University of Sheffield; University of Glasgow.  
2007    Institute for Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.  
            Institute of Czech Literature and Library Science, Masaryk University, Brno.  
2006    Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Centre-européennes, Sorbonne, Paris IV.  
2004   Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Civilisations Slaves, Université                    Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3.  
2002    Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Science,        Beijing.  
2000    University of Texas, Austin.  
1999    Princeton University; University College London; Brown University.  
1998    School of Education, Charles University of Prague.  
1997    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  
1994    University of Leuven; Charles University of Prague.  
1993    Yale University; University of Sofia; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Literary Studies.  
1991    Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University; Stanford University.  
1989    Society for Literary Studies, Prague; Brown University.  
1988    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ben Gurion University of Negev; Brown University.  
1987    University of California, Davis; University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University.  
1986    University of Amsterdam; Free University of Brussels.  
1983    Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;  
       University of Chicago; Northwestern University.  
1982    University of Toronto; Toronto Semiotic Circle; SUNY Buffalo; Indiana              
      University, Bloomington.  
1981    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  
1980    The Center for the Study of Art and Symbolic Behavior, University of Pennsylvania; The Annenberg School of Communication Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.  
1978    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Texas, Austin; University of Pennsylvania.  
1977    Harvard University.  
1974    Indiana University, Bloomington.  
   
   
 Publications      
 ·  Books:   Václav Havel a invaze do Iráku: Se stál?m p?ihlédnutím k sovětské okupaci ?eskoslovenska v roce 1968 (Prague: Rubato, 2014); French version “Václav Havel et l’invasion de l’Irak (avec des references constantes à l’occupation par les Soviétiques de la Tchécoslovaquie en 1968),”   La politique et la poétique   dans l'?uvre de Václav Havel, ed. Milan Burda (Toulouse: Slavica Occitania, 2007), pp. 159-176; abbreviated Czech version in   MF – DNES, September 20, 2005, pp. E1-E3  
 Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context (Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 2000); Czech edition by Nakladatelství Lidové noviny of Prague, 2002.  
 Making a Czech Hero: Julius Fu?ík through His Writings (Pittsburgh: The Carl Beck Papers, 2000); abbreviated Czech version in   Kritick?   sborník, nos. 2-3, pp. 7-41; abbreviated Hungarian version in   2000, January 1999, pp. 46-56, and February, 1999, pp. 46-56.  
 Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics (Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1984); paperback edition, 1985; Japanese edition by Keiso Shobo of Tokyo, 1986; Italian edition by Società editrice il Mulino of Bologna, 1991; Bulgarian edition by Glauks of Shumen, 1996; Spanish edition by Ediciones Akal of Madrid, 2001; Czech edition by Host of Brno, 2011.  
 The Structure of the Literary Process: Essays Dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodi?ka, ed. with M. ?ervenka, and R. Vroon (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1982).  
 The Prague School: Selected Writings, 1929-1946, ed. (Austin: Texas U.P., 1982).  
 The Sign: Semiotics around the World, ed. with R.W. Bailey and L. Matejka (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1978).  
 Structure, Sign, and Functions: Selected Essays by Jan Muka?ovsk?, ed. and tr. with J. Burbank (New Haven: Yale U.P., 1978).  
 Word and Verbal Art: Selected Essays by Jan Muka?ovsk?, ed. and tr. with J. Burbank (New Haven: Yale U.P., 1977).  
   
   
 ·  Articles: “Edible Revolutionaries: The Rudolf Slánsk? Trial as a Romance,“ Poetics Today, 37: 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 1-28; Czech version “Revolucioná?i k se?rání: Proces s Rudolfem Slánsk?m a spol. jako romance,“   ?eská literatura, no. 3, 2011, pp. 349-73.  
Ornella Discacciati, “Conversation with Peter Steiner,”   Enthymema, no. 9, 2013, https://vimeo.com/82593106.  
“Spory o symbolick? kapitál,“ in Milan Kundera aneb Co zm??e literatura, ed. Bohumil Fo?t,   et al. (Brno: Host, 2012), pp. 217-23.  
“Dialogi?nost a teorie her,” in   P?íspěvky k mezinárodní teorii literatury, ed. Jaroslav Kolá? (Brno: Barrister & Principal: 2012), pp. 135-41.  
“Rusk? formalismus je tak trochu rebus…: Rozhovor s Pavlem Fo?tem,”   Bohemica Litteraria, 2012: 1, pp. 123-28.  
 “Paměti   Světozoru: Fu?ík jako pr?kopník ‘periodical studies‘,“ in   Julek Fu?ík vě?ně ?iv?,“ ed. Franti?ek Podhájsk? (Brno: Host, 2012), pp. 251-63.  
 “Karel Kramá? dnes,”   Mladá fronta Dnes: Víkend, November 5, 2011, pp. 35-37.  
“Ansichten eines Emigranten: ‘American Dream’ – ‘American Experience’,”   Osteuropa, January, 2011, pp. 93-97.“ More extensive Czech version in   Mladá fronta Dnes: Víkend, April 2, 2011, pp. 36-9.  
’But Isn’t He a Parody?’ Gustav Shpet’s   Aesthetic Fragments, III,”   Slavonica, no. 1, 2009, pp., 3-10; shorter French version in   Slavica Occitania, no. 26, 2008, pp. 233-41; Russian version in   Voprosy psikhologii, no. 3, 2009, pp. 88-96; shorter Russian version in Gustav Shpet i ego filosofskoe nasledie: U istokov semiotiki i strukturalizma, M. Dennes et al. (eds.), Moscow: ROSSPEN (2010), pp. 375-382.  
“On Samizdat, Tamizdat, Magnizdat and Other Strange Words Difficult to Pronounce,”   Poetics Today, 29:4 (Winter 2008), pp. 613-28; abbreviated Czech version in   Sbornik praci Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy university, V/11, 2008, pp. 47-55.  
“The Power of the Image: Václav Havel’s Visual Poetry,”   Between   Texts, Languages, and Cultures: A Festschrift for Michael Henry Heim, Craig Cravens   et al. (eds.), Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers (2008), pp. 209-22; Czech tr. in   Estetika, nos. 1-4, 2007, pp. 107-24.  
 “Rusk  á identita a americk  ? ?t  ít,”   MF – DNES, September 22, 2007, pp. D5–D6.  
“Interview with Ladislav Matejka,”   Studies in Twenieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature,” no. 2, 2007, pp. 472-76; Expanded Czech version in   ?eská literatura, no. 5, 2007, pp. 733-38; Bulgarian version in   Literaturna mysul, no. 1, 2008, pp. 186-94.  
“Genre and Ideology in Vladimír Holan's   Red Army Soldiers,”   Slavic Review, no. 4, 2007, pp. 702-17; Czech version in   ?eská literatura, no. 3, 2007, pp. 343-65.  
“Na okraj   Lexikonu rusk?ch avantgard,”   ?eská literatura, no. 6, 2006, pp. 124-129; English version,   The Slavonic and East European Review, no. 1, 2008, pp. 139-43.  
“Václav Havel et l’invasion de l’Irak (avec des references constantes à l’occupation par les Soviétiques de la Tchécoslovaquie en 1968),”  La politique et la poétique   dans l'?uvre de Václav Havel, ed. Milan Burda (Toulouse: Slavica Occitania, 2007), pp. 159-176; abbreviated Czech version in   MF – DNES, September 20, 2005, pp.E1-E3.  
               “Poetika politické fikce: Proces se Slánsk?m & spol. jako text,”   Politické procesy v              ?eskoslovensku po roce 1945 a p?ípadSlánsk?, ed. Ji  ?í Pernes (Brno: Prius,                2005), pp. 332-40; abbreviated version in   Host, June, 2005, pp. 15-19.  
 “Tropos Logikos: Gustav Shpet’s Philosophy of History,”   Slavic Review, no. 2, 2003, pp. 343-58; reprinted in   Gustav Shpet's Contribution to Philosophy and Cultural Theory, ed Galin Tihanov (West Lafayette, 2009), pp. 11-25; pre-print in G.G.   ?pet/Comprehensio: ?etv?rtye   ?petovskie ?tenija, ed. O.G. Mazaeva (Tomsk: Izdatel’stvo Tomskogo universiteta, 2003), pp. 558-579; Russian version,   Voprosy filosofii, no. 4, 2004, pp. 154-163; reprinted in   Gustav Gustavovich Shpet, ed. T. G. Shchedrina (Moscow: Rosspen, 2014), pp. 52-70; Czech version,   Dějiny - teorie – kritika, no. 2, 2008, pp. 237-54.  
 “Introduction” in Václav Havel,   The Beggar’s Opera, (Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 2001), pp. ix-xxxi; Japanese version in Václav Havel,   Kojiki opera(Tokyo: Shohakusha, 2002), pp. 129-64.  
"'The Bride' by Chekhov and the Parable of the Prodigal Son,"   Under Construction: Links for the Site of Literary Theory, ed. Dirk de Geest,   et al. (Leuven: U. of Leuven P., 2000), pp. 133-47.  
"Poetics of a Political Trial: Working People vs. Rudolf Slánsk? and His Fellow Conspirators,"   Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, no. 1, 1998, pp. 69-135; abbreviated version "Justice in Prague, Political and Poetic: Some Reflections on the Slánsk? Trial (with Constant Reference to Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera),"   Poetics Today 21:4 (Winter 2000), pp. 653-79.  
"Ironies of History:   The Joke of Milan Kundera,"   Fiction Updated: Theories of Fictionality, Narratology, and Poetics, ed. C. Mihailescu,   et al. (Toronto: U. of Toronto P., 1996), pp. 197-212; abridged version in   Literature & Opposition, ed. Ch. Worth,   et al. (Clayton: Monash U.P., 1994), pp. 135-51.  
"Russian Formalism,"   Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 8, ed. R. Selden                (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1995), pp. 11-29; abridged French version, "Le formalisme russe,"   Histoire des poétiques, ed. J. Bessèire,   et al. (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1997), pp. 434-41.  
"L'?cole de Prague,"   ibid., pp. 441-6; English version,   Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, vol. 4, ed. M. Kelly (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1998), pp. 76-80; abridged version in   The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. A. Preminger,   et al. (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1993), pp. 1215-17; revised version in the 4  ^th ed.; 2012.  
"The Kynic Hero: Jaroslav Ha?ek's   The Good Soldier ?vejk,"   Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture, no. 4, 1994, pp. 48-91; Hungarian version in   2000, January and February, 1995, pp. 43-53, 40-50; Serbian version,   Isto?nik: ?asopis za veru i kulturu, no. 25, 1998, pp. 76-112; abridged version, "TROPOS KYNIKOS,"   Poetics Today, 19:4, 1998, pp. 469-98.  
“Milan Kundera, ?esk? skandál,”   Kritická p?íloha Revolver revue, 1:1995, pp. 62-5.  
"The Motivated Sign: The Concept of Symbol in Post-Symbolist Russian Letters,"   American Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists:  
 Literature, Linguistics, Poetics, ed. R.A. Maguire,   et al. (Columbus: Slavica, 1993), pp. 170-78.  
"Semiotics and Poetics,"   The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. A. Preminger,   et al. (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1993), pp. 1138-43.  
"The Neglected Collection: ?apek's   Apocryphal Stories as Allegory,"   On Karel ?apek, ed. M. Makin,   et al. (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1992), pp. 65-86; Czech version in   ?eská literatura, no. 4, 1990, pp. 306-20; abridged French version, "Les Récites apocryphes," in  Transcultures, vol. 2, 1995, pp. 14-20.  
"Go Not Thou about to Square the Circle: The Prague School in a Nutshell,"  
 Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, nos. 1-2, 1991, pp. 3-13. "Gustav ?pet and the Prague School: Conceptual Frames for the Study of Language,"   Semantic Analysis of Literary Text: To Honor Jan van der Eng on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, ed. E. de Haard,   et al. (Amsterdam: Elsevir,           1990), pp. 553-62; repr. in   Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, nos. 1-2, 1991, pp. 35-44; French version in   Centres et périphéries: Bruxelles-Prague et l'espace culturel européen, ed. J. Dubois,   et al. (Liége: Editions Yellow Now, 1988), pp. 81-94; Japanese version in   Studia Semiotica: The Journal of the Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies, no. 9, 1988, pp. 129-40; Russian version in  ?petovskie ?tenija v Tomske--1991, ed. O.G. Mazaeva (Tomsk: Tomsk  U.P., 1991), pp. 96-109; Czech version in,   Filosofick? ?asopis, no. 4, 1993, pp. 596-606.  
"Semiotics,"   International Encyclopedia of Communications, ed. E. Barnouw (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1989), pp. 46-50.  
        "Cops or Robbers: Václav Havel's   Beggar's Opera,"   American Contributions to the   
Tenth International Congress of Slavists: Literature, ed. J.G. Harris (Columbus: Slavica, 1988), pp. 393-414; abridged version "Spectacular Pretending: Václav  
Havel's Beggar's Opera," in Critical Essays on Václav Havel, ed. M. Goetz-Stankiewicz, et al. (New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1999), pp. 184-99.  
"Slavic Literary Studies Yesterday and Tomorrow," Profession 87, pp. 2-9.  
        "History of Theory/Theory of History," Poetics Today, 7:4, 1986, pp. 759-64.  
"Sergej Karcevskij," Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, vol. 1, ed. T.A. Sebeok (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986), pp. 417-19.  
   "Jan Muka?ovsk?," ibid., pp. 571-73.  
"The Praxis of Irony: Victor Shklovsky's   Zoo,"   Russian Formalism: A Retrospective   
 Glance, ed. R.L. Jackson,   et al. (New Haven: Yale Russian and East European                        
Publications, 1985), pp. 27-43; reprinted in   Strumenti critici, May, 1986, pp. 169-  
86; Russian version in   Novoe literaturmoe obozrenie, no. 133, March 2015.  
"Otakar Zich and Jan Muka?ovsk?,"   Language and Literary Theory, ed. B. Stolz,   et al. (Ann Arbor: Papers in Slavic Philology, 1984), pp. 527-534.  
"Zembla: A Note on Nabokov's   Pale Fire,"   Russian Literature and American Critics, ed. K.N. Brostrom (Ann Arbor: Papers in Slavic Philology, 1984), pp. 265-72.  
"'Formalism' and 'Structuralism': An Exercise in Metahistory,"   Russian Literature, XII-3, 1982, pp.  290-330; abridged German version, "'Formalismus' und 'Strukturalismus': Was bedeutet schon ein Name?"   Zeichen und Funktion: Beitr?ge zur ?sthetischen Konzeption Jan Muka?ovsk?s, ed. H. Günther (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1986), pp. 118-47; Russian version in   Imja-sju?et-mif, ed. N.M. Gerasimova (St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg U.P., 1995), pp. 221-38.  
"In Defense of Semiotics: The Dual Asymmetry of Cultural Signs,"   New Literary                   History, no. 3, 1981, pp. 415-35; Czech version in  Filosofick? ?asopis, no. 4, 1992,                          
pp. 574-90.  
"The Semiotics of Literary Reception,"   The Structure of the Literary Process (see  
above), pp. 503-20.  
"Three Metaphors of Russian Formalism,"   Poetics Today, 2:1b, 1981, pp. 59-116.  
"The Roots of Structuralist Esthetics," postscript to   The Prague School (see above), pp. 174-219.  
"Semiotics in Bohemia in the 19th and Early 20th Century," with B. Volek, in   The Sign: Semiotics around the World (see above), pp. 206-26.  
"Structures and Phenomena," with W. Steiner,   PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature, no. 3, 1978, pp. 357-70.  
"Jan Muka?ovsk?'s Structural Esthetics," in J. Muk?ovsk?,   Structure, Sign, and Function (see above), pp. ix-xxxix; abridged Hebrew tr. in J. Muk?ovsk?,   Funktsyah, normah ve-erekh estetiyim (Tel Aviv: Sifriyat poalim, 1983), pp. 83-96.  
"Poem as Manifesto: Mandel'?tam's 'Notre Dame',"   Russian Literature, V-3, 1977, pp. 149-58.  
"The Biological Metaphor in Russian Formalism: The Concept of Morphology," with S. Davydov,   Sub-stance, 17, 1977, pp. 149-58.  
"On Semantic Poetics: O. Mandel'?tam in the Discussions of the Soviet Structuralists,"   Dispositio, no. 3, 1977, pp. 339-48.  
"Jan Muka?ovsk? and Charles Morris: Two Pioneers of the Semiotics of Art,"   Semiotica 19:3/4, 1977, pp. 321-34; reprinted in   Zeichen über Zeichen über Zeichen: 15 Studien über Charles Morris, ed. A. Eschbach, (Tübingen: G. Narr, 1981), pp.  285-97.  
"The Conceptual Basis of Prague Structuralism  ," Sound, Sign and Meaning Quinquagenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle, ed. L. Matejka (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Contributions, 1976), pp. 351-85.  
"The Relational Axes of Poetic Language," with W. Steiner, postscript to J. Muka?ovsk?,   On Poetic Language (Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press, 1976), pp. 71-86; expanded version "The Axes of Poetic Language,"   Language, Literature and    
 Meaning, vol. 1, ed. J. Odmark (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1979), pp. 35-70.  
   
 Translations: Roman Jakobson, "On the Translation of Verse," "Metrics," "Toward a Description of Mácha's Verse,"   Selected Writings of Roman Jakobson, vol. 5 (The Hague: Mouton, 1979), pp.131-34, 147-59, 433-85.