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Henrietta Mondry

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Henrietta Mondry
Alma materUniversity of Witwatersrand
AwardsFRSNZ, FNZAH
Scientific career
FieldsRussian cultural history
InstitutionsUniversity of Witwatersrand
University of Canterbury
Thesis
  • The Evaluation Of Recent Trends In Soviet Dostoevsky Scholarship (1970s–1980s)  (1984)

Henrietta Mondry is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in Russian cultural history, especially in relation to the history of Jewish people in Russia. Mondry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi as of 2009.

Academic career

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After an MA, Mondry earned a PhD titled The Evaluation Of Recent Trends In Soviet Dostoevsky Scholarship (1970s–1980s) at the University of Witwatersrand.[1][2] Mondry taught at Witwatersrand from 1980, and was made Head of Russian Studies in 1987 and then associate professor in Russian.[3] She was appointed to the University of Canterbury in 1994.[3] She is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, where she coordinates the Russian programme.[4]

Mondry has written more than ten books, over seventy scholarly articles and over forty book chapters.[4] She was involved in developing two international journals, the New Zealand Slavonic Journal and the South African-published Slavic Almanac.[4]

Selected works

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  • Henrietta Mondry (January 2021). Embodied Differences: The Jew's Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture. Boston: Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-64469-485-5. OL 30247716M. Wikidata Q108112243.
  • Henrietta Mondry (11 February 2015). Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture. Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-94-012-1184-0. OL 34510702M. Wikidata Q101252578.
  • Henrietta Mondry (2011). "The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature". Slavic Review. 70 (3): 713–714. doi:10.5612/SLAVICREVIEW.70.3.0713. ISSN 0037-6779. Wikidata Q101492432.
  • Henrietta Mondry (1 November 2009). Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008. Academic Studies Press. doi:10.2307/J.CTT21H4WGS. ISBN 978-1-61811-852-3. JSTOR 10.2307/j.ctt21h4wgs. OL 31367519M. Wikidata Q60189588.
  • Henrietta Mondry (1 January 2006). Pure, Strong and Sexless: the Russian Women’s Body and Gleb Uspensky. Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-94-012-0218-3. OL 22728914M. Wikidata Q108112338.
  • Henrietta Mondry (December 2002). "Is the end of censorship in the former Soviet Union a good thing? The case of Vasily Rozanov". East European Jewish Affairs. 32 (2): 114–120. doi:10.1080/13501670208577980. ISSN 1350-1674. Wikidata Q58524264.
  • Henrietta Mondry (June 1999). "A note on the invocation of Russian classics in the present‐day nationalist and philosemitic Russian press". East European Jewish Affairs. 29 (1–2): 129–139. doi:10.1080/13501679908577896. ISSN 1350-1674. Wikidata Q58501172.

Awards and honours

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Mondry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2009.[4] She was also elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities (now the Humanities Society of New Zealand) the same year.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Henrietta Mondry". The University of Canterbury. Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  2. ^ Mondry, Henrietta (1984). The Evaluation Of Recent Trends In Soviet Dostoevsky Scholarship (1970's-1980's) (Thesis). Johannesburg: Univ. Of The Witwatersrand. Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Henrietta Mondry | IAS Durham". Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Professor Henrietta Mondry FRSNZ FNZAH Year Elected: 2009". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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