Leonid Livak

Department Chair and Graduate Chair

Professor, Russian Literature

121 St. Joseph Street, Room 407

tel: 416-946-3008
email: leo.livak@utoronto.ca

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Research Interests:

19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture, 19th and 20th century French literature and culture, Modernist studies, Jewish studies, comparative approaches to literary and cultural studies.

Scholarship

Education:

Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
M.A., Middlebury College, 1998 - French language and literature.
M.A., The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996 - Slavic languages and literatures.
B.A., The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1993.

Courses Taught:

SLA212 - The Russian Novel
SLA246/1231 - Russian Modernism
SLA302/1207 - The Imaginary Jew
SLA303 - Literary Imagination and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
SLA312/1239 - Nabokov
SLA420 - Russian Syntax and Stylistics