Main specialization is in Russian, British & American late realist novel. The current project examines consciousness ofimpasse in Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Hardy and James in light of "poetics of estrangement" associated with “exilic”writerssuch as Berberova, Schklovsky and Kundera.
Related areas of research are: the influence of Bergson and Proust on Russian discourse on temporality, classical myth in Slavic modernism (Tsvetayeva, Mandelshtam, Ukrainka, Shultz), and the impact of Ukrainian gnosticism (Skovoroda) on intuitivist discourse in Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Bulgakov. Poetics of place is a long-term interest, along with phenomenology, semiotics, aesthetics, and relations between art, text, & science.
A talk on The Master & Margarita was part of the 2004 “Myth” conference at the Graduate Center. “A Passionate Quest for Reinvention” (The NY Sun, 2006) is a recent art review. “Albert Fayngold: Studies in a Forgotten Neighborhood”(Sophia-APress, Kiev, 2004) is a personal anthology of essays and paintings.

Languages

Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, French

Couses taught

LTT 3070: “From Pushkin to Dostoyevsky”: Nineteenth Century Russian Literature in English Translation.,
Fa06, Fa04 (Baruch College, Department of Modern languages and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate Teaching Fellow ) Readings include: The Queen of Spades and The Shot by Pushkin, Princess Mary and The Fatalist by Lermontov, poems by Tyutchev (as compared to Leopardi), The Overcoat by Gogol’, First Love by Turgenev, Lady with the Lapdog by Chekhov, Death of Ivan Illych and The Kreitzer Sonata by Tolstoy, The Notes from Underground and The Idiot by Dostoyevsky.
LTT 2800: Survey of World Literature from Antiquity to the Renaissance (in translation) Sp05, Su03. (Baruch
College, Department of Modern languages and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer & Graduate Teaching Fellow).
Readings include: The Epic of Gilgamesh, excerpts from The Old Testament and The Koran (especially “The Story of Joseph” in both), The Odyssey by Homer, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Medea by Euripides, lyric poems by Sappho and Catullus, selections from The Gospels and from Boccaccio’s Decameron, essays by Montaigne, Shaekspeare’s Othello, and parts of Milton’s Paradize Lost
LTT 2850: “The Reinvented Self”, Survey of World Literature from the Enlightenment to the Present (in
translation). Fa06, Sp06, Fa 05, Fa04, Sp04, Fa03, Sp03, Fa02. (Baruch College, Department of Modern languages and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer & Graduate Teaching Fellow) Main texts include: Tartuffe by Moliere; Phaedra by Racine; Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz by Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love by Saikaku, The Confessions by Rousseau; poems by Leopardi, Wordsworth and Keats;
The Queen of Spades by Pushkin, The Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky; Madam Bovary by Flaubert; The Metamorphosis by Kafka; Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun; The Garden of Forking Paths by Borges; The Guest by Camus; Death Constant Beyond Love by Márquez; poems by Rilke, Yeats, Mandelshtam, Neruda, Amichai; Death and the King’s Horseman by Shoinka.
ENG 7, Survey of Western Literature I. Fa03 (C.W. Post College, Department of English, Adjunct Professor)
Principal readings include: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, The Iliad, The Genesis, The Stories of Job, Joseph and Isac, The Song of Songs, The Confesions (St. Augustine), The Inferno, The Decameron, The Book of the Courtier, Don Quixote (selections), and Hamlet.
ENG 8, Survey of Western Literature II. SP04 (C.W. Post College, Department of English, Adjunct Professor)
Readings: Candide by Moliere, Gulliver’s Travels by Swift, The Rape of The Lock and Essay on Man by Pope, The Confessions by Rousseau (selections), poems by Blake and Hoderlin, The Narrative of Frederic Douglass, The Death of

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