Sabina Amanbayeva, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Arts & Sciences
English
Biography
Sabina Amanbayeva is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at 女神羞羞研究所. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on Russian translations and adaptations of Shakespeare, affect theory, and translation.
At 女神羞羞研究所, Amanbayeva teaches classes in World Literature, Shakespeare, Western Literature, and Composition. She has recently taught a class in 鈥淔ilm and International Explorations,鈥� which focused on international film adaptations of Russian literary classics and offered an independent study 鈥淚ntroduction to Russian language and culture.鈥�
Her publications include an essay, 鈥淟aughing at Tragedy: Elena Chizhova鈥檚 Critique of Popular Shakespeare鈥� that discusses the importance of theatrical laughter in the context of the Soviet project to make Shakespeare available for all ((International Shakespeare Yearbook: Soviet Shakespeare, Routledge, 2019). She also published an article on laughter in the English Renaissance, 鈥淟aughter in Twelfth Night and Beyond鈥� (Early Modern Literary Studies, 2014), which historicizes early modern attitudes to laughter in the early 17th century, and makes links between the physiology and the politics of emotion.
Her book project, 鈥淪oviet-Western Cultural Encounters: Popular Adaptations of Western Classics in the 1960s Soviet Union鈥� explores the 鈥渇oreign鈥� origins of popular Soviet classics, from the beloved Soviet cartoon 鈥淜roshka Enot鈥� based on an American children鈥檚 story by Lilian Moore 鈥淟ittle Racoon and the Thing in the Pool,鈥� to the Soviet cult singer Vladimir Vysotsky鈥檚 performance of Shakespeare鈥檚 Hamlet.
Amanbayeva regularly attends professional conferences, including the Association for the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Shakespeare Association of America, and Renaissance Society of America.
