Acting Associate Chair, Graduate; Associate Professor
Alumni Hall, Room 409, 121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
416-946-3009
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Russian
Areas of Interest
Nineteenth century Russian literature and its historical, cultural and institutional contexts; history and theory of the novel; Russian and other European literary and critical interactions; nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literary theory and criticism; the publication culture of the nineteenth century Russian periodicals; Historical Poetics as a discipline and corpus of works.
Courses Taught
SLA100 - Elementary Russian I
SLA101 - Elementary Russian II
SLA252 - Russian Short Fiction
SLA245 - The Golden Age of Russian Literature
SLA314 - Dostoevsky
SLA367 / SLA1238 - Chekhov
SLA1225 - Russian Literature and Criticism in the 1860s
SLA1226 - Dostoevsky in Literary Criticism and Theory
SLA191 - The Criminal Mind
Education
PhD, Yale University, 2004
MPhil, Yale University, 2002
BA/MA, University of Cambridge, 1998
Publications
- A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts (Academic Studies Press : 2018)
- The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s (Northwestern University Press : 2013)
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