Teaching Materials

• Laughter through Tears: The Comic Tradition in Russian Literature
• Advanced Russian Language and Culture
• Russian Poetry and Poetics
• 19th-Century Russian Literature in Translation
• Intensive Introductory Russian

Scholarly Presentations

• A Productive Opening Idea: A Brief History of the Soviet Chess Movement
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• Visual Aids for a Lecture on Nabokov's Bend Sinister
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Course Lectures / Visual Aids

• "Alyosha Gorshok"
• "Alyosha the Pot" and Hadji Murat
• Chekhov Short Stories
• Chekhov Plays
• Dead Souls
• Dostoevsky's "White Nights"
• Found in Translation (Eugene Onegin II)
• From Darkness into Light (Pre-Pushkin and Eugene Onegin I)
• Gogol's Petersburg Tales
• Lermontov's Poetry and A Hero of Our Time
• Leskov
• Mastering Death with Tolstoy
• "Mozart and Salieri" and "The Stone Guest"
• Notes from the Underground
• On the Edge and Over the Edge with Tolstoy
• Pushkin's Poetry
• Pushkin's Prose Fiction
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich
• "The Kreutzer Sonata"
• Denis Fonvizin, The Minor
• Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
• Daniil Kharms
• Ilf and Petrov, The Twelve Chairs
• Sofya Khvoshchinskaia, City Folk and Country Folk
• Fyodor Sologub, The Petty Demon
• Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line
• Mikhail Zoshchenko