Robin Feuer Miller

Title

Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
History of Ideas
Russian and East European Studies

Expertise

The novel in Russia and Europe of the nineteenth century. The short story in Russia. The literature of childhood.

Profile

Professor Miller teaches and studies the fiction of writers in the nineteenth century. Her particular interest is in the novel, especially the novels of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Dickens.

Degrees

Columbia University, Ph.D.

Columbia University, M.A.

Columbia University, M.Phil.

Swarthmore College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	rfmiller@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3192
Office:	Shiffman, 215

Awards and Honors

Special Award for an edition of a "lost" book, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace) (1999)

Vice President, International Dostoevsky Association (1994 - 2002)

American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid (1978)

Whiting Dissertation Fellowship (1973 - 1974)

Columbia University Honorary President's Fellow (1971 - 1974)

Courses Taught

COML	185a	Dickens and Dostoevsky
FA	118b	Drawing upon Literature
RECS	130a	The Russian Novel
RECS	134b	Chekhov
RECS	135a	From Pushkin to Chekhov: The Short Story in Russia
RECS	147b	Tolstoy: Freedom, Chance, and Necessity

Scholarship

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Tolstoy's Peaceable Kingdom." Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy. Ed. Donna Tussing Orwin. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. ""Interview on pedagogy"." American Association for Teachers of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Graduate Student Publication (2009). (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. ""Recent Dostoevsky Scholarship"." Dostoevsky Studies (2009). (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Poem: "Tolstoy's Epilogue, with Apologies to Aylmer Maude and W.H. Auden"." Tolstoy Studies Journal (2009). (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of Dostoevsky's Democracy, by Nancy Ruttenburg. Slavic Review forthcoming (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of In Quest of Tolstoy, by Hugh McLean. Slavonica forthcoming (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction: 1846-1903, by Joe Andrew. Slavonic and East European Review forthcoming (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of Plotting History: The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age, by Dan Ungurianu. Tolstoy Studies Journal forthcoming (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of Tolstoy's Quest for God, by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere. Slavonic and East European Review forthcoming (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer , co ed. with Donna Tussing Orwin. Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace. new paperback edition ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review." Rev. of Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction, by Rowan Williams (The Archbishop of Canterbury). Times Higher Education (part of the Times of London) November 13, 2008: 46-47.

Miller, Robin Feuer. The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel. revised second edition with new chapter, paperback edition ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Dostoevsky's Religion." by Steven Cassedy. Slavic Review vol. 65, no. 3 2006: 626-627.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Faithful Realism: Elzabeth Gaskell and Leo Tolstoy: A Comparative Study." Rev. of same as above, by Josie Billington. Tolstoy Studies Journal vol. xviii 2006: 115-116.

Miller, Robin Feuer. Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey. November, 2007. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "'Son smeshnoro chelevoka,' Dostoevskogo: popytka predeleniya zhanra." Dostoevskii i mirovaya kul'tura 20 (pub. in 2006 but dated as 2004 in reference). (2006): 148-170.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Afterward." Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. signet paperback ed. New York: Signet, The Penguin Group, 2006. 523-534.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Crime and Punishment: The Elephant in the Garden." Dostoevsky: On the Threshold of Other Worlds. Ed. Milne, Leslie (Nottingham University) & Young, Sarah (University of Toronto). Nottingham: Bramcote Press, 2006. 175-189.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Suprised by Shame: Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Exposure." Rev. of Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Exposure, by Deborah Martinsen. Canadian American Slavic Studies vol. 40, nos. 2-4 (part II) 2006: 626-627.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, The Jury Trial, and the Law." Rev. of same as above, by Gary Rosenshield. The Russian Review vol. 65, no. 4 2006: 737-744.

Miller, Robin Feuer & Fanger, Donald (Harvard University). "Poetique de Dostoievski." Histoire de la Litterature Russ 20. (2005): 1003-1022.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Dostoevsky." by Richard Freeborn. Slavic and East European Journal vol. 49, no. 1 2005: 128-130.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "What is Chekhovian about Chekhov?." Word, Music, History. vol. 29 Ed. Lazar Fleishman, Gabriella Safran, Michael Wachtel. Stanford, Calif.: Gareth Perkins, 2005. 489-504.

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