Professor Evdokimova has a special interest in 19th-and 20th-century Russian literature and culture. She has published books and a series of articles on Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Most recently she published a monograph, Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).

Professor Evdokimova's main areas of scholarly interest include Pushkin, Russian and European Romanticism, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, relations between fiction and history, aesthetics, and Russian intelligentsia. She is the author of Pushkin's Historical Imagination (Yale University Press, 1999); Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023); editor of Alexander Pushkin's "Little Tragedies": The Poetics of Brevity (Wisconsin University Press, 2003) which was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 by Choice; ed. Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky (Academic Studies Press). She has published a wide range of articles on Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, as well as other topics. She is currently completing a new book on Chekhov, A Genius of Culture: The Chekhov Phenomenon . Her edited volume The Allure of the Wheel: Dostoevsky's The Gambler is forthcoming from Lexington Books.

2013 C.V. Starr Lectureship Fund, Brown University (Project's title: “Dostoevsky and Non-Literary                       Discourses: Aesthetics, Philosophy, Science”: $ 7,000

2011 Brown University Curricular Development Grant : $3850

1995-6 (6 months) The National Endowment for the Humanities (Principle investigator): $ 22,500

1995-6 (5 months) International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) (Long Term Research Grant) (principle investigator): $17, 000

Paul C. Gignilliat Fellowship, Yale University, 1988-89: $6,000

Council on Russian and East European Studies, Summer fellowship, Yale University, 1885

“Donkeys, Jesus, Don Quixote, Kant, and Other Idiots: Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Nietzsche’s Antichrist,” Dostoevsky Studies. The Journal of the International Dostoevsky Society, vol. 25 (December 2022): 17-52. “Donkeys, Jesus, Don Quixote, Kant, and Other Idiots: Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Nietzsche’s Antichrist,” Dostoevsky Studies. The Journal of the International Dostoevsky Society, vol. 25 (December 2022): 17-52.

“Chekhov: An Intelligent or a Gentleman” (Chekhov: intelligent ili dzhentlmen?” in The Chekhovian Intеlligent: The Statics of the Image and the Dynamics of Culture (Ckekhovskii intelligent: statika obraza–dinamika kul’tury), Sumy, Ukraine: MakDen, 2013, 84-94. 

“The Aesthetics of Fyodor Karamazov” (“Estetika Fyodora Karamazova”), IV Mezhdunarodnyi simpozium “Russkaia slovesnost’ v mirovom kul’turnom kontekste,’ Izbrannye doklady i tezisy (Selected Proceedings of the IV International Symposium “Russian Letters in the World’s Cultural Context”) Moscow: The Dostoevsky Fund, 266-272.

Toward Chekhov’s Aesthetics: The Aesthetics Judgment in Chekhov’s Story ‘Beauties’” (“K voprosu ob estetike Chekhov: Esteticheskaia sposobnost’ suzhdeniia v rasskaze ‘Krasavitsy’”, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea, Maksima: Simferopol, 2014, 50-58.

“Chaika”: “chto eto znachit?”, Chekhovskaia karta mira. Moscow: Melikhovo, 2015, 332-343.

«Феноменология «человеческого тела» в поэтике Чехова», Философия Чехова. Иркутск: издательство Иркутского гос. университета, 2016, 77-90. (“The Phenomenology of ‘Human Body’ in Chekhov’s Poetics, in The Philosophy of A.P. Chekhov. Irkutsk: Irkutsk State University, 2016, 77-90).

«Fiction Beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky's Quest for Realism» (with Vladimir Golstein), in Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Philosophy, Religion. Ed. Svetlana Evdokimova and Vladimir Golstein. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016, 1-32.

“Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation,” in Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Philosophy, Religion. Ed. Svetlana Evdokimova and Vladimir Golstein. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016, 213-231.

“Симпатические чернила Чехова (Достоевский?)” [Chekhov’s Invisible Ink (Dostoevsky?)], in Chekhov i Dostoevskii, Moscow: GTsTM im A.A. Bakhrushina, 2017, 322-338.

“Russian Binaries and the Question of Culture: Chekhov’s True Intelligent,” in Chekhov’s Letters: Biography, Context, Poetics, ed. by Carol Apollonio and Radislav Lapushin, Lexington Books, 2018, 173-192.

“Chekhov’s ‘Holy of Holies’: The Poetics of Corporeity,” in Chekhov’s Letters: Biography, Context, Poetics, ed. by Carol Apollonio and Radislav Lapushin, Lexington Books, 2018, 263-267.

“Чехов и проблема культуры,” Изучение чеховского наследия на рубеже веков: взгляд из XXI столетия, Симферополь: ИТ «Ариал», 2019, 13-31.  (“Chekhov and the Problem of Culture,” Chekhov’s Heritage: A Look from the 21^st century, Simferopol, 2019: “Arial,” 13-31).

“Simpaticheskie chernila Chekhova (Dostoevskii?),” A. P. Chekhov: Pro et Contra. Sovremennye aspekty issledovaniia (2000-2020), v. 4. Ed. I. N. Sukhikh. St-Petersburg: Izdatelskii dom “RKhGA,” 2022: 620-639.

“Chekhov’s Intelligentsias,” Chekhov in Context, ed. by Yuri Corrigan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 154-160.

“Russian Intelligentsia and Western Intellectuals: Chekhov Between East and West, ” The Intelligentsia in Russia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis. Ed. by Sibelan Forrester and Olga Partan. Academic Studies Press (submitted)

“The Russian Quest for Form, Narrative, and Salvation,” The Allure of the Wheel: Dostoevsky’s The Gambler. Ed. by Svetlana Evdokimova. Lenham: Lexington Books (forthcoming, 2024).

“Dancing on the Feet of Chance: Introduction,” The Allure of the Wheel: Dostoevsky’s The Gambler. Ed. by Svetlana Evdokimova. Lenham: Lexington Books (forthcoming, 2024).

“Ivan Elagin: Nostalgia or Resentment,” in Literature in Exile. Emigrants’ Fiction (20th century experience), VII International Symposium. Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism, vol. 2, Institute of Literature Press, Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, Tbilisi, 2013, 370-

“Being as Event, or the Drama of Dasein: Chekhov’s The Three Sisters,” in Chekhov for the Twenty First Century, ed. by Carol Apollonio and Angela Brintlinger. Bloomington: Slavica, 2012, 57-78.

„Unmelodramatizing Drama: Čechov’s Experiment,“ in Anton P. Čechov—Der Dramatiker. Drittes internationales Čechov-Symposium Bandeweiler  im Oktober 2004. Die Welt der Slaven. Sammelbände, Band 44. Ed. By Regine Nohejl und Heinz Setzer. Verlag Otto Sagner: München, 2012, 404-412.

“Slovo i znachenie : ‘Povest’ o tom, kak Ivan Ivanovich possorilsia s Ivanom Nikiforovichem.’”  Fenomen Gogolia. Materialy mezhdunarodnoj nauchnoi konferentsii, posviashchennoi 200–letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia N.V. Gogolia. Ed. M.N. Virolainene and A. A. Karpov. St. Petersburg: Petropolis, 2011, 204-216.

“Chekhov: Poetika ulik” [“Chekhov: The Poetics of Clues”], in Obraz Chekhova I chekhovskoi Rossiii v sovremennom mire (The Image of Chekhov and Chekhovian Russia in the Contemporary World ). St. Petersburg: “Petropolis”, 2010,177-187.

“Philosophy’s Enemies: Chekhov and Shestov,” in Chekhov Through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers: V. Rozanov, D. Merezhkovskii, L. Shestov and S. Bilgakov. Modern Perspectives. London: Anthem Press, 2010, 219-245.

“Metafizicheskii vodevil’: “Zhenit’ba” Gogolia i “Svad’ba” Chekhova.” In Chekhov i Gogol’: K 200-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia N.V. Gogolia. Chekhovskie chteniia v Ialte, vyp. 14. Simferopol: “Dolia”, 2009, 48-61.

“An Intelligent in Everyday Life: Chekhov on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Behavior.” Sankirtos. Studies in Russian and East European Literature, Society and Culture (In Honor of Tomas Venclova). Ed. By Lazar Fleishman. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.

“Chekhov’s Anti-Melodramatic Imagination: Inoculation Against the Diseases of the Contemporary Theater.” Chekhov the Immigran:Translating a Cultural Icon. Edited by Michael Finke and Julie de Sherbinin. Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, IN, 2007:207-217.

"Pushkiniana as an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Criticism." In Alexander Pushkin: A Handbook . Ed. by David Bethea. Madison:   Wisconsin University Press, 2006 (with Vladimir Golstein).

"Sculptured History: Images of Imperial Power in the Literature and Culture of St. Petersburg (From Falconet to SHemiakin)," Russian Review (April 2006): 208-229.

"Pushkin's Aesthetics: Sprezzatura in Eugene Onegin," in Word, Music, History. Ed. by Lazar Fleishman, Gabrialla Safran, Michael Wachtel. Stanford, 2005: 121-146. (co-authored with Vladimir Golstein)

Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies: The Poetics of Brevity Ed. and Introduction. Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2003 (396 pages.Choice has named it an "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2004.

"The Wedding Bell, The Death Knell, and Philosophy's Spell: Tolstoy's Sense of an Ending." Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.Ed. by Liza Knapp and Amy Mandelker. New York: Modern Language Association, 2003:137-143.

"The Anatomy of Modern Self in The Little Tragedies." In Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies: The Poetics of Brevity. Ed. by Svetlana Evdokimova. Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2003: 106-143.

"Estetika dendizma v 'Evgenii Onegine'" (The Aesthetics of Dandyism in Eugene Onegin). In Pushkin I mirovaia kul'tura. St. Petersburg:Russian Academy of Science, The Institute of Russian Literature, 2003:73-87. (with Vladimir Golstein)

"'The Devil of a Difference'—Tragedies, Long or Short?" Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies: The Poetics of Brevity. Ed. by Svetlana Evdokimova. Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2003: 3-38.

"The Earthly and the Heavenly Cities: St. Petersburg in Gogol's Tale 'The Nose'" ("Gorod zemnoi i grad nebesnyi: Peterburg v povesti Gogolia'Nos.'") In Peterburgskaia tema i"Peterburgskii tekst" v russkoi literature XVIII-XX vekov. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press, 2002

"What's So Funny About Losing One's Estate, or Infantilism in The Cherry Orchard." Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 44, nu 4(Winter 2000): 623-648.

"Ritorika I iskrennost' (Problema diskursa v rasskaze Chekhova 'Neschast'e'." Chekhovskii sbornik. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Literaturnogo Instituta im. Gor'kogo, 1999: 131-144. ("Rhetoric and Sincerity: The Problem of Discourse in Chekhov's Story 'Misfortune,'" Moscow: The Institute of World Literature Press, 1999: 131-144).

Pushkin's Historical Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press,1999 (300 pages)(First reviewed in London Times Literary Supplement (TLS), Choice, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal)

"Obmanchivoe skhodstvo: Anekdot u Pushkina i Chekhova" ("Deceptive Affinity: Anecdote in Pushkin and Chekhov"). In Chekhoviana. Chekhov iPushkin. Moscow: "Nauka," 1998: 79-88.

"Protsess khudozhestvennogo tvorchestva i avtorskii tekst" ("Creative Process and the Text of the Author"). In Avtor i Tekst. Ed. by W.Schmid and V. Markovich. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press, 1996: 7-24.

"The Drawing and the Grease Spot: Interpretation and Creativity in Anna Karenina," Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. 8, 1995-96:33-46.

"The Curse of Rhetoric and the Delusions of Sincerity: Chekhov's Story 'Misfortune.'" Russian Literature, XXXV-II (15 February 1994):153-169.

"Work and Words in 'Uncle Vanja'." In Anton P. Chechov--Philosophische und Religiöse Dimensionen im Leben und im Werk:Vorträge des Zweiten Internationalen Chechov-Symposiums, Badenweiler,20-24 Oktober 1994. Ed. by Vladimir B. Kataev, Rolf-Dieter Kluge and V.Regine Nohejl. München: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1997: 119-127.

"Tolstoy's Challenge to the Concept of Romantic Love: Natasha as Hero." Scando-Slavica, Tomus 39 (1993): 23-36.

"Femininity Scorned and Desired: Chekhov's Darling." In Reading Chekhov's Texts. Ed. by Robert L. Jackson. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993: 189-197.

"Mednyi Vsadnik: Istoiia kak mif" ("The Bronze Horseman: History as Myth"). Russian Literature XXVIII (November, 1990): 441-460.

--The Bogliasco Foundation Residency Fellowship, 2018

--Choice has named Evdokimova's volume, Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies: The Poetics of Brevity, an "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2004.

--IREX  research fellowship, 1995

--NEH research fellowship, 1995-6

--Paul C. Gignilliat Fellowship, Yale University, 1988-89

--Council on Russian and East European Studies, Summer fellowship, Yale University, 1985

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
The North American Chekhov Society
The North American Pushkin Society
Modern Language Association (MLA)
The North American Tolstoy Society

North American Dostoevsky Society

Teaching interests include Russian and European Romanticism, Russian theater, history and fiction, gender and sexuality in Russian and European cultures, Russian novel, as well as courses Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov