Stanford Humanities Center
Erica Camisa Morale received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California (USC), where she afterward held the two-year Dornsife Postdoctoral Fellowship for General Education. Beforehand, Dr. Camisa Morale completed her BA in Foreign Languages and Cultures, specializing in Russian and German, and her MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Pavia (IT), during which she studied in Warsaw (PO) and conducted research in Leipzig (GE).
SHC Project
The Vanishing Dead Body and the Emerging Persona in Early Modern East Slavic Lyrics
Dr. Camisa Morale’s research interests revolve around the origins of lyric poetry and the emergence of the notion of individuality in East Slavic space in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, analyzed against the backdrop of the transcultural character of early modern East Slavic culture. She explores these interests in two projects—the monograph The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self in East Slavic Lyric and the anthology The Spring: the Origins of East Slavic Poetry. The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self in East Slavic Lyric explores the emergence of lyric selfhood in poems composed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the region corresponding to today’s Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia and applies the discoveries of historical, anthropological, and philosophical studies to the interpretation of lyric poetry. The Spring: the Origins of East Slavic Poetry is an anthology of early modern East Slavic poems on which Dr. Camisa Morale is working in collaboration with Professor Kelsey Rubin-Detlev. The anthology aims to propose to students and scholars poems of significance, but still untranslated, to broaden the knowledge of the origins of East Slavic lyric poetry, as well as of its nature, delineated by its transnational character, hybridism, varietas, and the authority of the poetic voice.
