Position Title
Lecturer in Russian
Position Title
Lecturer in Russian
406 Sproul
Education and Degree(s)
- Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
- M.A. in Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College
- B.A. in Literary Editing and Journalism, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Research Interests & Expertise
- Philosophy and literature
- German Idealism and Russian Realism
- Hegel’s influence on Russian literature
- 19th century Russian literature
- Philosophy of emotion and cognition in literature
- Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the theory of the novel
Publications
- “Tolstoy’s Own “Master and Slave” Dialectic: “Хозяин и работник” as a re-writing of a Hegelian narrative.” SEEJ, 61.1, Spring 2017.
- “Museum of the Shestidesyatniki,” Russian Life, January 2018.
- Book Review. Hegel’s Thought in Europe, Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents. Edited by Lisa Herzog (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 265 pp.) SEEJ, 64.1, Spring 2020.
- Natalia Dolinina, A Companion to War and Peace (Po Stranicam Voini I mira), co-translation into English with Michael Denner (Forthcoming with Tolstoy Studies Journal).
- Book Review. Jillian Porter, Economies of Feeling. (Northwestern UP, 2017, 216 pp.) (Forthcoming in Pushkin Review).
- “Hegel’s Philosophical System as the Unifying Thread of Goncharov’s Trilogy” in Ivan Goncharov in the 21st century, Edited by Ingrid Kleespies, Lyudmila Parts (Forthcoming, Academic Studies Press).