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Olga Stuchebrukhov

Associate Professor
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UC Davis

Undergraduate Advisor

Email: oastuch@ucdavis.edu
Office: 406 Sproul Hall
Office Hours

Research Interests

  • Nationalism and Literature
  • 19th-century Russian and English Literature
  • Dostoevsky

Education

  • M.A. with honors, Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow, 1984
  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis, 2004

Publications

Books

  • The Nation as Invisible Protagonist in Dickens and Dostoevsky: Uncovering Hidden Social Forces within the Text (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006)

Articles

  • "The Subaltern Syndrome and Dostoevsky's Quest for Authenticity of Being," The Dostoevsky Journal, 5 (2004).
  • "The 'Nation-less' State of Great Britain and the Nation-State of France in Household Words," Victorian Periodicals Review 38:4 (2006).
  • "The Hypothetical Nation and the Superfluous State: The Nationalist Symbolism of The Devils," The Dostoevsky Journal, 6 (2006).
  • "Bleak House as an Allegory of a Middle-Class Nation," Dickens Quarterly, XXII/3, 2006: 147-168.
  • "Autocratic Capitalism as the 'Political Unconscious' of Dostoevsky's Devils and A Writer's Diary, The Dostoevsky's Journal, 7 (2006).
  • " 'Ridiculous' Dream vs. Social Contract: Dostoevkij, Rousseau, and the Problem of Ideal Society," Studies in East European Thought, 59: 1-2 (2007).
  • "The Concept of Integral Reason in Crime and Punishment," forthcoming in the special issue of Dostoevsky Studies (2009).
  • "Tolstoy's Family Happiness and Dickens' Bleak House," (in Russian), forthcoming in Leo Tolstoy Fifth International Academic Conference Proceedings (2009-2010).

Courses Taught

  • Russian 042 Survey of 20th-Century Russian Literature
  • Russian 103 Literary Translation
  • Russian 126 Russian Theater
  • Russian 128 Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
  • Russian 130 Contemporary Russian Culture
  • Russian 140 Dostoevsky
  • Russian 141 Tolstoy
  • Russian 142 Women's Autobiography
  • Russian 150 Russian Culture
  • Russian 154 Russian Folklore
  • COM168B Realism and Naturalism
  • HUM1/1D Dostoevsky and Woody Allen