Professor
Alumni Hall, Room 421, 121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
416-971-2647
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
Russian psychological prose, Russian writings on war, 18th and 19th century Russian literature and intellectual history.
Courses Taught
SLA196 - Russia at War
SLA317 - Tolstoy
SLA433 - Anna Karenina
SLA423 - War and Peace
SLA252 - Russian Short Fiction
SLA463 – Themes in Russian Realism
SLA1238 - Dostoevsky
SLA1240 - Tolstoy
SLA1228 - Themes in Russian Realism
Education
PhD, Harvard University, 1979
MA, Harvard University, 1971
BA, magna cum laude, Cornell University, 1969
Publications
- Simploy Tolstoy (Simply Charly : 2017)
- Tolstoy on War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace" (Cornell University Press : 2012)
- Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy (Cambridge University Press : 2010)
- Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy (Stanford University Press : 2007)
- The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (Cambridge University Press : 2002)
- Tolstoy and the Gensis of "War and Peace" (Cornell University Press : 1996)
- Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-1880 (Princeton University Press : 1993)
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