Ann Komaromi
Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Acting Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, and author of Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (2022), with expertise in alternative publishing, underground networks, and nonconformist literature and art in the Soviet period.
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Feb 8, 2026 • 51min
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Ann Komaromi, a University of Toronto professor researching underground publishing, explores samizdat as an uncensored network of journals, art folios, and readings. She discusses poetry’s role, regional and religious samizdat communities, conceptual art documentation, striking cover art, and samizdat’s ties to later digital circulation methods.
Feb 7, 2026 • 51min
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Ann Komaromi, a University of Toronto scholar of alternative publishing and nonconformist Soviet literature, explores samizdat as extra‑Gutenberg underground publishing. She discusses its role after Khrushchev, regional networks like Crimean Tatar and Baptist presses, poetic and conceptual art communities, archive hunts for fragile texts, and samizdat’s complex echoes in the digital age.
