Robin Feuer Miller
Department ChairProfessor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities
Professor Robin Feuer Miller has been at Brandeis since 1985. From1994-2000 she served as Dean of Arts and Sciences and is now glad to have returned to teaching and writing. Her course offerings include: 19th Century Russian Literature, The Short Story in Russia, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Dickens and Dostoevsky, Women in Russian Literature, and The Literature of Autobiography, Childhood Reminiscence, and Confession. She also offers a USEM, Children's Literature and the Construction of Childhood.
Professor Miller's research interests center around the nineteenth century novel. She is the author of Dostoevsky and The Idiot: Author, Narrator, and Reader (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981); and The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1992). She is the editor of Critical Essays on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace (by Kathryn B. Feuer), and The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel. She coedited these last two volumes with colleagues from Canada and Great Britain. She is also the author of numerous articles and reviews and is active in a variety of professional organizations.
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Fall 2008 and Spring 2009: Shiffman 215 |
Irina Dubinina
Lecturer
Director of Russian Language Program
Irina Dubinina has a Master's degree in Linguistic Anthropology from University of Alaska Fairbanks and a Master's degree in Russian from Bryn Mawr College, PA. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition in Russian at Bryn Mawr. At Brandeis she teaches all levels of Russian, including classes for bilingual speakers who wish to develop their Russian skills. Her research interests center around bilingualism, bilingual code-switching, Russian heritage speakers, language policies in the Russophone world, and teaching social culture through language.
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Office hours (Fall 2008): Shiffman 206 |
David Powelstock
Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Literature
Chair, Russian and East European Studies Program
Undergraduate Advising Head
David Powelstock received his PhD in Russian and Czech literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. Since then he has taught these subjects at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Professor Powelstock offers courses in Russian literature, especially twentieth-century prose, as well as poetry and drama of all epochs. His newest offering is Contemporary East European Literature, which focuses on the late Communist and post-Communist periods, and looks at the best works from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, the Former Yugoslavia, as well as Russia and other countries in the region, in this historical context. Professor Powelstock's research interests include Russian poetry of the Romantic period, contemporary Russian and Czech literature, and Russian Modernism. He is particularly interested in two broad questions about literature: how literary texts affect their readers' consciousness; and the various and changing roles that writers and their works play in history and culture across different ages and traditions. His book, Becoming Mikhail Lermontov: The Ironies of Romantic Individualism in Russia, will soon be published by Northwestern University Press, and he is the author of numerous other articles on Russian literature. He has also translated contemporary literature from Czech and Russian, including the poems of Jáchym Topol and two novels by Iva Pekárková.
Fall 2008 Shiffman 113 |