Robin Feuer Miller
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Research Expertise
The novel in Russia and Europe of the 19th century.The short story in Russia.
The literature of childhood and children's literature.
Degrees
Columbia University, PhD
Columbia University, MPhil
Columbia University, MA
Swarthmore College, BA
Podcast
Get to know Professor Robin Feuer Miller by listening to our podcast.
Selected Publications
Tolstoy and the genesis of War and Peace. Robin Feuer Miller co ed. Donna Tussing Orwin. new paperback edition ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.
The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel. Robin Feuer Miller. revised second edition with new chapter, paperback edition ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey. Robin Feuer Miller. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel. Robin Feuer Miller co-ed. Malcolm Jones. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Tolstoy and the genesis of War and Peace. Robin Feuer Miller co ed. Donna Tussing Orwin, Kathryn B. Feuer. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1997.
Tolstoy and the genesis of War and Peace. Robin Feuer Miller, Kathryn B. Feuer, Donna Tussing Orwin. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1996.
The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel. Robin Feuer Miller. New York: Macmillan-Twayne Publishers, 1992.
Critical Essays on Dostoevsky. Robin Feuer Miller, ed. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.
Dostoevsky and The Idiot: Author, Narrative and Reader. Robin Feuer Miller. Harvard University Press, 1981.
Awards/Fellowships
Brandeis Service to the University Award (2018)Mandel Humanities Center Research Award (2017)
Guggenheim Fellow, 2013-2014 (2013)
Visiting Fellow, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (2013)
Executive Committee, International Dostoevsky Society (2000-2017)
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)
Vice President, North American Dostoevsky Society (1994)
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid (1978)
Whiting Dissertation Fellowship (1973-1974)
Columbia University Honorary President's Fellow (1971-1974)
Select Courses Taught
COML 185a: Dickens and DostoevskyCOML/ENG 140b: Children's Literature and Constructions of Childhood
COML/REC 136a: All in the Family: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and the English novel
HUM 3a: Drawing upon Literature
RECS 130a: The Russian Novel
RECS 134b: Chekhov and the Art of Storytelling
RECS 135a: Russian Short Fictions: Where is Justice in This World?
RECS 144b: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Confronting the Novel
RECS 146a: Creative Genius: The Case of Dostoevsky
RECS 147b: Tolstoy and the Contrariness of Desire
RECS/THA 166a: Chekhov's Stories on Stage
UWS 40a: Children's Literature
Affiliated Departments/Programs
Comparative Humanities
Comparative Literature and Culture
English
European Cultural Studies
Full List of Publications
All Publications (click to expand)
Works in Progress
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and the Small of This World.
Love in a Time of Upheaval: Kazuko’s Letters from Japan (with Matthew Fraleigh).
“Three Tiered Recollections: Double Diaries: Moscow, 1963.” (A scholar from Hunter College, Yasha Klots, is working on a book-length project in consultation with me to publish my diaries alongside those of my father.)
“The Lives of the Children in the World of Crime and Punishment,” will appear in Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and MLA volume, eds, Alexander Burry and Michael Katz.
“Introduction to an Ending,” introductory essay in a collection of essays on the Epilogue to Crime and Punishment. Canadian Slavonic Papers (CPS) has expressed interest in publishing this cluster.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Introductory Essay." Joseph Frank's Lectures on Dostoevsky. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019 (forthcoming)
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Tolstoy's 'About Mushrooms'." Tolstoy 100 Years On. Ed. Joe Andrew and Robert Reid. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2019 (forthcoming)
All Publications
Miller, Robin Feuer. ""Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy's Labyrinth of Plots," by Liza Knapp." Columbia University, Heyman Center for the Humanities. April 2017.
Miller, Robin Feuer. ""Crime and Punishment and The Idiot", Chair and Moderator." AATSEEL, Washington, D.C.. February, 2018.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Book Review." Rev. of Siblings in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: The Path to Universal Brotherhood, by Anna A. Berman. Slavonic and East European Review (SEER) vol. 96 of 2 2018: 333-334.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Dostoevsky and Internality, Discussant." AATSEEL, Washington, D.C.. February, 2018.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Ethics and Religion in Tolstoy, Chair and Moderator." ASEEES, Chicago. November 2107.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Family Novel Variations: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy. Discussant." ASEEES, Chicago. November 2107.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Fast Forward into Prose: The novelistic transformation of Russian narrative discourse." Poetics Today 38. 4 (2018): 763-767.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Mission Impossible: Letters from 1888-1889." Chekhov's Letters: Biography, Context, Poetics. Ed. Carol Apollonio and Radik Lapushin. New York: Lexington Books, 2018. 259-263.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Strangers on a Train (The Idiot)." (2018): <blog>.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Russian Revolution---invited round table symposium." Liberty Fund Symposium, St. Petersburg, Florida. October 2017.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Winter Reads." Times Higher Education (THE) 21December 2017-3 January 2018: p.49.
Miller, Robin Feuer, Chair and Moderator. "Dostoevsky and the Law." AATSEEL. San Francisco. February 2017.
Miller, Robin Feuer, Chair and Moderator. "Dostoevsky: Interdisciplinary Readings." ASEEES. Washington, D.C.. November 2016.
Miller, Robin Feuer, Chair, Moderator and Discussant. "North American Dostoevsky Society (NADS) and also conducted business meeting." AATSEEL. San Francisco. February 2017.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Anna Karenina and Others (presentation on recent books)." Public Lecture at Columbia University. Heyman Center for the Humanities. March 24, 2017.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Chair and Moderator for Graduate Student Panel on Dostoevsky---CP150." CP150. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Oxtober 2016.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Crime and Punishment at 150." Crime and Punishment at 150. University of British Columbia. October 2016.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Finding Raskolnikov on the Dialogic Blog Trail." (2017)
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Finding Raskolnikov on the Dialogic Blog Trail." NADS The Bloggers Karamazov August 2017 (2017)
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Genius for Sale! Opening presentation." Genius for Sale!. Brandeis University (interdisciplinary conference--co-organizers Katy Graddy and myself. October 2016.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Reconsidering the Novel's Epilogue: Crime and Punishment at 150. discussant." ASEEES. Washington, D.C.. November, 2016.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Teaching Dostoevsky in American and International Universities." AATSEEL, San Francisco. February 2017.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Discovery of Chance." Rev. of The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen, by Aileen M.Kelly. Times Higher Education (THE) vol. June 6, 2016 2017
Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Lives of the Children (invited keynote plenary speaker)." XVI Symposium of The International Dostoevsky Society (IDS). University of Granada, Spain. June 2016.
Miller, Robin Feuer, Discussant. "The Dostoevskian Individual: Personality, Character or Type?." ASEEES, Philadelphia. November 2015.
Miller, Robin Feuer, chair and moderator. "Literature, Music and Economics in 19th century Russia." ASEEES, Philadelphia. November 2015.
Miller, Robin Feuer, discussant and moderator. "Dostoevsky and Addiction." AATSEEL, Austin, Texas. January 2016.
Miller, Robin Feuer. ""A Childhood's Garden of Despair"." Russian Writers at the Fin de Siecle: The Twilight of Realism. Ed. Katherine Bowers and Ani Kokobobo. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 52-69.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Children." Dostoevsky in Context. Ed. Deborah Martinsen and Olga Maiorova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 139-148.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer and "The Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree"." Columbia University. April 2015.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Introductory Essay." Plots (by Robert L. Belknap). New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xiii-xxiii.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Joseph Frank." Dostoevsky Studies New Series, Vol 18. (2016): 9-22.
Miller, Robin Feuer. ""Locating the Gothic in Russia"." Locating the Gothic, Limerick, Ireland. October, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. ""The Diary of a Writer and a childhood's garden of despair"." Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky, Brown University. March 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Book review." Rev. of The Real and the Sacred: Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, by Jefferson J.A. Gatrall. Slavic and East European Journal vol. 59.4 Winter. 2015-6: 621-622.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Discussant, "Dostoevsky and the Sciences of the Mind: Perception, Memory and Trauma"." ASEEES, San Antonio, Texas. November, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Dostevky's "Crime and Punishment"." Brandeis University, Bridging the Two Cultures Series. November, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Dostoevsky and a Child's Garden of Despair." Dean's Lecture. McGill University. October, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Friendly Persuasion and Divine Conversation in The Brothers Karamazov." Swarthmore College. April, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Robert Belknap." Slavic and East European Journal 58. No. 2 Summer 2014 (2015): 323-325.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Robert L. Belknap." Columbia University. September, 2014.
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. Ed. Elizabeth Cheresh Allen. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2015. 153-193.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Question of Minor Characters in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"." Oxford University. May, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Small of This World"." GRALL Annual Dinner Lecture and Colloquium. Brandeis University. September, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "chair and moderator, "Word and Image in Dostoevsky's Novels"." ASEEES, San Antonio, Texas. November, 2014.
Interviewed about Dostoevsky, imprisonment, and "Crime and Punishment" in January, radio show "Safe Space" by host Dr. Anne Hallward, a psychiatrist, January 2014. interviewee Miller, Robin Feuer. Public Radio, Series on Incarceratation, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. ""From Well-Rounded to Sharp: Liberal Education in the Twenty First Century" Keynote plenary public address." Transylvania University Summer Symposium on Liberal Education. Lexington, KY. July 25-28, 2013.
Miller, Robin Feuer. ""Reading as if for Life": Dostoevsky's Poor People." Reading in Russia: Literary Communication and Practices of Reading, 1760-1930. Ed. Raffaella Vassena and Damiano Rebecchini. Milan: University of Milan Press, 2014. 143-165.
Miller, Robin Feuer. ""review"." Rev. of Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature, by Robert Louis Jackson. Dostoevsky Studies vol. New Series, Vol. 18 2014: 223-226.
Miller, Robin Feuer. ""review"." Rev. of Dostoevsky's The Brother's Karamazov, by Julian W. Connolly. Russian Review vol. 73 2014: 116-117.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Anna Karenina through the Lens of Chekhov." Cambridge University. November 13, 2013.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Art Ameliorates the Inevitable." Rev. of Musings on Mortality: From Tolstoy to Primo Levi, by Victor Brombert. Times Higher Education (THE) 3 October, 2013
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Colloquium on Tolstoy--invited public lecture." Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University. September 13, 2013.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Crime and Punishment: "The Hum and Buzz of Implication" Keynote Address." The Maine Humanities Council Winter Weekend. Brunswick, Maine. March 7, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Dostoevsky and "The Boy at Christ's Christmas Party"." University of Bristol. February 25, 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Joseph Frank." Dostoevsky Studies New Series, vol. 18. (2014): 9-22.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Past, Present and Future of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Studies in the UK." The Long Nineteenth Century: New UK Research in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. University of Cambridge, Darwin College. 1 February 2014.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "The Teacher and the Text: The Pragmatic Sleuth in the Classroom." Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. Ed. Deborah Martinsen, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2014. 16-31.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Tolstoy's "Small Things"." University of Nottingham. November 14, 2013.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "review of." Rev. of The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s, by Kate Holland. The Russian Review vol. vol. 73 july 2014: 468-460.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "Lewis S. Feuer: A Daughter's Reminiscence." Science and Society 50. (2013): 362-364.
Miller, Robin Feuer. "On Value of Liberal Education, Blog Entry on WGBH Website, September 4, 2013." (2013)
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.
Miller,Robin Feuer. "Review of "Limits to Interpretation: The Meaning of Anna Karenina," By Vladimir Alexandrov." Tolstoy Studies Journal XVI. (2004).
Miller,Robin Feuer. "Frank's Dostoevsky"." Slavic and East European Journal 47. 3 (2003): 471-479.
Miller,Robin Feuer. "pritchi u Dostoevskogo: paradoks is siuzhet"." Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura 17. 2003 (2003): 125-142.
Miller,Robin Feuer, co-ed. Malcolm Jones. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Miller,Robin Feuer, co-ed. Donna Tussing Orwin, Kathryn B. Feuer. Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Miller, Robin Feuer, Feuer, Kathryn B., Orwin, Donna Tussing. Tolstoy and the genesis of "War and Peace". Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Miller,Robin Feuer. The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel. New York: Macmillan-Twayne Publishers, 1992.
Miller,Robin Feuer, ed.. Critical Essays on Dostoevsky. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.
Miller,Robin Feuer. "Intimations of Rousseau in The Possessed." Dostoevsky Studies 5. 1984 (1984): 77-91.
Miller,Robin Feuer. "The Castle in the Gothic Novel." Nineteenth Centruy 9. 1984 (1984): 3-5.
Miller,Robin Feuer. Dostoevsky and The Idiot: Author, Narrative and Reader. Harvard University Press, 1981.
Miller,Robin Feuer. "Notions of Narrative in the Notebooks for The Idiot." Ulbandus Review 2. 1979 (1979): 160-175.
Miller,Robin Feuer. "Recollections of Rufus Mathewson." Ulbandus Review 2. 1979 (1979): 5-14.
Miller,Robin Feuer. "The Role of the Reader in The Idiot"." Slavic and East European Journal 23. 1979 (1979): 190-202.
Miller,Robin Feuer. "The Function of Inserted Narratives in The Idiot." Ulbandus Review 1. 1977 (1977): 15-28.