Robin Feuer Miller

Title

Senior Advisor to the Provost for Faculty and Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities

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

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.Phil.

Columbia University, M.A.

Swarthmore College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	rfmiller@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3192
Office:	Shiffman Humanities Center, 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
COML/ENG	140b	Children's Literature and Constructions of Childhood
RECS	130a	The Russian Novel
RECS	134b	Chekhov
RECS	135a	The Short Story in Russia
RECS	147b	Tolstoy: Freedom, Chance, and Necessity
RECS/THA	166a	Chekhov's Stories on Stage

Scholarship

Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Creative Impulse in Tolstoy's Childhood: The Dangerous Beauty of Games, Lies, Betrayal and Art." Before They Were Titans: Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. vol. volume still in preparation by the editor Ed. Elizabeth Cheresh Allen., 2013 (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Teacher and the Text." Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. Ed. Liza Knapp, Deborah Martinsen, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman. under consideration by Northwestern University Press, 2013 (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Tolstoy's 'About Mushrooms'." Tolstoy 100 Years On. Ed. Joe Andrew and Robert Reid. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013 (forthcoming)

Miller, Robin Feuer. "A Dialectical Relationship." Rev. of Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, by Paul and Karen Avrich. Times Higher Education (THE) November 8, 2012

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Friendly Persuasion and Divine Conversation." Aspects of Dostoevskii: Art, Ethics and Faith. vol. 1, Ed. J.M. Andrew and Robert Reid. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 265-283.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Role of the Reader in The Idiot" (excerpted from SEEJ, vol.23,no. 2, 1979, 190-202)." Novels for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels. vol. 40 Ed. Sara Constantakis. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2012. 111-114.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review." Rev. of Ghostly Paradoxes: Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism, by Ilya Vinitsky. Slavonic and East European Review vol. vol.90, no.3 2012: 501-503.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review." Rev. of Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience, by Alexander Etkind. Times Higher Education (THE) vol. No. 2034 26 January 2012: 56-57.

Miller, Robin Feuer. ""The Roundtable Game"." Dostoevsky Studies xv. new series (2011): 7-11.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Review." Rev. of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman. THE (Times Higher Education) 12 May 2011

Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Deep Heart's Core." The Norton Critical Edition to Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Ed. Susan McReynolds. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. 743-752.

Miller, Robin Feuer. ""The Canon: Nikolai Gogol by Vladimir Nabokov"." THE (Times Higher Education) February 17, 2010.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Divine Conversations." Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov: Art, Creativity and Spirituality. (appeared in January 2011) ed. Ed. Predrag Cicovacki and Maria Granik. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, 2010. 73-89.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Final photocall for Tolstoy." Rev. of The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapova Station, 1910, by William Nickell. Times Higher Education vol. No. 1, 971 October 28, 2010: 56-57.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Tolstoy's Peaceable Kingdom." Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy. paperback edition, appeared 2012 ed. Ed. Donna Tussing Orwin. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 52-76.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of Tolstoy's Quest for God, by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere. Slavonic and East European Review vol. 88 of 3 july 2010: 538-539.

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

Miller, Robin Feuer. ""North American Theory and Dostoevsky: Recent Scholarship"." Dostoevsky Studies special issue: Recent Scholarship on Dostoevsky in the Context of Cultural Dialogues. (2009): 494-500.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "Poem: 'Tolstoy's Epilogue, with Apologies to Aylmer Maude and W.H. Auden'." Tolstoy Studies Journal xx (dated 2008, but published in late 2009). (2009): 102.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of Dostoevsky's Democracy, by Nancy Ruttenburg. Slavic Review vol. 68 of 3 fall 2009: 712-713.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of In Quest of Tolstoy, by Hugh McLean. Slavonica vol. 15 of 1 April, 2009: 71-72.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction: 1846-1903, by Joe Andrew. Slavonic and East European Review vol. 87 of 2 fall 2009: 338-340.

Miller, Robin Feuer. "review article." Rev. of Plotting History: The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age, by Dan Ungurianu. Tolstoy Studies Journal vol. xx 2008, actually published, late 2009: 108-112.

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. "What is Chekhovian About Chekhov? (reprinted)." The Bulletin of the North Amercian Chekhov Society 15. 2 (2008): 6-15.

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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