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Natalie Rouland

Stanford University
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Natalie Rouland is a doctoral candidate in the Slavic Department at Stanford. She received her B.A. in English and Russian from Wellesley College and has conducted research in Russia and Europe with the support of IIE Fulbright, Knafel, and CREEES fellowships. She is currently writing her dissertation, “Ballet and the Imperial Body in Russian Literature, 1851-1895.” Natalie is also the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship.

Project Summary

“Ballet and the Imperial Body in Russian Literature, 1851-1895” examines the relationship of the Russian ballet in the second half of the nineteenth century to literature, popular press, and imperial power. In order to demonstrate that the ballet remained an imperial art form while superficially adopting nationalist themes, this project considers the print responses to Jules Perrot’s The Naiad and the Fisherman, Arthur Saint-Léon’s The Little Humpbacked Horse and The Golden Fish, and Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa’s Swan Lake within theatrical chronicles, memoirs, and the works of Realist writers Lev Tolstoy, Nikolai Nekrasov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Anton Chekhov.