Global Studies Teaching Professor Nicole Svobodny’s Book Nijinsky’s Feeling Mind Receives Glowing Reviews
This past year, GS Teaching Professor Nicole Svobodny’s book Nijinsky’s Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, the Writer Dances (Lexington Books, 2023) has been favorably reviewed in Modernism/modernity (the official journal of the Modernist Studies Association), Slavic Review (an interdisciplinary journal devoted to eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia), Choice Magazine (of the Association of College and Research Libraries), and Russian Review (devoted to Russian Studies).
Slavic Review calls the book a “fascinating literary study” and “an extraordinary achievement,” pointing to “Svobodny’s deep and yet wide-ranging analysis of Russian classics along with her insight into Nijinsky’s visceral approach to writing.”
Modernism/modernity writes, “Nijinsky’s notebooks belong to a vital history now being researched and written: the cultural history of the twentieth century…Modern dance may be given its due, as an essential art for those pursuing questions of the meaning of all modern art. Nijinsky’s Feeling Mind…will be among the guides…Svobodny’s work throughout demonstrates meticulous dedication to linguistic precision, and her multilingualism enhances and enlarges understanding dance in a multicultural and intermedial world of art.”
