Ivan Delazari received his higher education diploma in Philology (English Language and Literature) from St. Petersburg University (2000) and completed his first round of graduate studies at the Department of Literary History with a PhD (kandidat nauk) dissertation on William Faulkner (2003). Taking a six-month research leave from teaching American Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at St. Petersburg University, he continued his research into Faulkner as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) between 2009 and 2010. In 2014, he won a three-year Hong Kong PhD Fellowship at Hong Kong Baptist University, from which he holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English (2018). His interdisciplinary doctoral research in literature and music secured Ivan’s membership in and conferencing with the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), as well as his 2016 Alan Nadel Award for the Best Graduate Student Essay. In the academic year 2017–2018, Ivan Delazari taught University English II and Twenty-first Century Literature to Hong Kong Baptist University’s undergraduates and MA students, respectively. Between 2018 and 2022, he was an Associate Professor of Philology at HSE University in St. Petersburg.

Ivan Delazari is the author of Musical Stimulacra: Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen (Routledge, 2021) and several dozen journal articles and book chapters in audionarratology, comparative and Anglophone literature, and intermediality studies. His research interests embrace such issues as the experientiality of literature and readerly immersion, diegetic sound and books as multimodal narrative interfaces, and the transposition of literatures and cultures across languages and media. He is also an editorial board member for Brill’s book series in Word and Music Studies (WMS).

Monograph

• Musical Stimulacra: Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen. London and New York: Routledge, 2021.

Journal Articles

• Delazari, Ivan, and Jason S. Polley. “‘Popping into Your Mind’s Eye’: Covert Multimodality in David Foster Wallace’s ‘The Soul Is Not a Smithy.’” Style4 (2022): 413–432.
• Делазари И.А. Шостакович по-английски: мотивы с чужих слов // Новое литературное обозрение 174.2 (2022): 224–240.
• Delazari, Ivan. “Madeleine Thien’s Chinese Encyclopedia: Facts, Musics, Sympathies.” Genre2 (2021): 221–244.
• Delazari, Ivan. “Literary Sonatas: A Joint Sample of William H. Gass and Leo Tolstoy.” Comparative Literature Studies2 (2021): 308–339.
• Delazari, Ivan. “Contrafactual Counterpoint: Revisiting the Polyphonic Novel Metaphor with Faulkner’s The Wild Palms.” CounterText3 (2019): 371–394.
• Delazari, Ivan. “Overhearing Diegetic Music in Narrative Fiction: Instances of Verbally Transmitted Musical Experience.” Narrative2 (2018): 221–239.

Book Chapters

• Delazari, Ivan. “William H. Gass and the (Un)popularity of Words as Music.” Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations. Ed. Thomas Gurke and Susan Winnett. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 237–
• Delazari, Ivan. “Skizzen’s Sketches, Els’s Tweets: Streams of Incompletion in Two Musicalized Novels.” Arts of Incompletion: Fragments in Words and Music (Word and Music Studies, vol. 18). Ed. Walter Bernhart and Axel Englund. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 124–
• Delazari, Ivan. “Voicing the Split Narrator: Readers’ Chores in Toni Morrison’s ‘Recitatif.’” Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative. Ed. Jarmila Mildorf and Till Kinzel. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016. 199–
• “In Phantom Pain: The 1991 Russian Film Adaptation of William Faulkner’s ‘The Leg.’” Faulkner and Film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha. Ed. Peter Lurie and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. 146–