Slavic 253: Reading Contemporary Russia

A Graduate Seminar in Undergraduate Education, on post-1989 Russian literature, film, and culture, and on the challenges and pleasures of studying contemporary cultural processes. Includes Brodsky, Medvedev, Pelevin, Petrushevskaya, Prigov, Shvarts, Sorokin; German, Muratova, Sokurov. Combines individual research proposals with designing an undergraduate course.