Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature
EDUCATION:
St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University (B.A. 1979, French Literature)
Columbia University (Ph.D. 1997, Russian Literature)
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian prose; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature (especially, visual arts, Russian and Eastern Spirituality); Russian Stylistics
COURSES TAUGHT (UNDERGRADUATE):
▪ Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation
▪ Russian Literature and Spirituality (Freshman Seminar)
▪ Twentieth Century Russian Story (Reading Course)
COURSES TAUGHT (GRADUATE):
▪ Nineteenth Century Novelists (Graduate Seminar on Tolstoy)
▪ Russian Stylistics
RUSSIAN COMPONENT OF CARYL EMERSON'S GRADUATE COURSES:
▪ The Evolution of Russian Prose
▪ Proseworks From the List
▪ Twentieth Century Russian Approaches to Literature: Bakhtin, the Russian Formalists,
Cultural Semiotics
▪ Topics in Russian Spiritual Philosophy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Dialogue and Daoism." Studies of Bakhtin in China. Ed. Ji Shui He. Xiangtan (China): Xiangtan University Press (forthcoming in Chinese).
"Ierotopiia Dostoevskogo i Tolstogo," Ierotopiia: sozdanie sakral'nykh prostranstv. Ed. Alexey Lidov. Moscow: Center of the Eastern Orthodox Culture (forthcoming).
"V poiskakh ikonichnosti: Tolstoi i Malevich." Russkaia literatura, St: Petersburg: Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Institut russkoi literatury, no 1, 2004.
"Listening to the Other: Bakhtin's Dialogues with Religion, Cultural Theory, and the Classics." Review article of Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith, Bakhtin and Cultural Theory, and Bakhtin and the Classics". SEEJ, Summer, 2003 (47.2).
"Geometry of Irrational Behavior: The Pattern of Complexity in Dostoevsky." Understanding/ Misunderstanding. Contributions to the Study on the Hermeneutics of Signs. Ed. Eero Tarasti. Acta Semiotica Fennica XVI. Helsinki: International Semiotics Institute at Imatra, 2003, 532-542.
"Myshkin i Oblomov." Roman F.M. Dostoevskogo "Idiot": Sovremennoe sostoianie izucheniia. Ed. Tatiana Kasatkina. Moscow, 2000, 472-481.
"Bulgakov's Master and Margarita and the Music of Igor Stravinsky." Slavonica, UK, 2000, 28-43.
"The Pen-and-ink Drawing of Utopia in Dostoevsky's 'Dream of a Ridiculous Man'." Utopias. Ed. Neil Thomas. Durham Modern Languages Series, University of Durham, UK, 2000, 101-116.
"Peterburg, Krym i mif vechnogo vozvrashcheniia: Mashen'ka i Evgenii Onegin'." Pushkin i Nabokov. Ed. Vadim Stark, St. Petersburg: Dorn, 1999, 139-145.
"Na rassvete shestnadtsatogo chisla vesennego mesiatsa nisana: apofatizm romana 'Master i Margarita.' In Mikhail Bulgakov na iskhode XX veka. Biblioteka Sankt-Peterburgskogo Bulgakovskogo Obshchestva series. Vol. 2. Eds. A.A. Ninov, A.A. Grubin, A.S. Burmistrov. St. Petersburg: Russian Institute of the History of Arts, 1999, 134-44.
"Lev Tolstoy's Suprematist Icon–Painting." Elementa: Journal of Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural Semiotics. Vol. 2, no. 1, 1995, 67-81.
"Po zakoldovannym mestam Gogolia." Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Moscow, Russia, no. 11, 1995, 177-180.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
A book-length project on Dostoevsky