#  Classes 

 



### Spring, 2022

  [### Slavic 264. Russian Poetry and Its Borders

 ](/class/slavic-264-russian-poetry-and-its-borders) 

 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2022 

 

   [### GENED 1057. Poetry Without Borders

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2022 

 

  



### Fall, 2021

  [### Slavic 189. The Other Russia: Twenty-First Century Films, Fictions, States of Mind

 ](/class/slavic-189-other-russia-twenty-first-century-films-fictions-states-mind) 

 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2021 

 

  



### Spring, 2019

  [### Slavic 289. Elegy: The Art of Losing

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2019 

 

  



### Fall, 2019

  [### Freshman Seminar 36g

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2019 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 

 

 Translation makes culture possible. Individual writers and thinkers draw sustenance and stimulation from works created outside their own cultures, and artists working in one format get ideas from those working in entirely different media. Translation between languages and... 

 

   [### Slavic 286. Poetry After Brodsky: How Russian Is It?

 ](/class/slavic-286-poetry-after-brodsky-how-russian-it) 

 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2019 

 

  



### Fall, 2018

  [### Slavic 148. Strange Russian Writers

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2018 

 

 Studies Russia's rebels, deviants, martyrs, loners, and losers as emblems of national identity. Stories, films and poems that project Russia's distinctive obsessions with history and religion. Includes Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, Kharms, Platonov, Nabokov... 

 

  



### Fall, 2016

  [### Slavic 287: Poetic Creation in Twentieth-Century Russia

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2016 

 

 A course that examines how poems create self-images for poets working in and after Russian modernism, including Khlebnikov, Vvedenskii, Mandel'shtam, Tsvetaeva, Barkova, Brodsky, Sedakova, Shvarts, Dragomoshchenko. Relies on literary and psychoanalytic theories of identity. 

 

  



### Spring, 2015

  [### Slavic 253: Reading Contemporary Russia

 ](/class/slavic-253-reading-contemporary-russia) 

 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2015 

 

 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... 

 

  



### Spring, 2014

  [### Slavic 289. Elegy: The Art of Losing

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2014 

 

 Poems, films, visual artifacts, and music alongside theories of loss. Focuses on non-narrative forms, with examples from Pushkin, Baratynsky, Fet, Brodsky, Shvarts; Tarkovsky, Shemiakin, Sokurov; Silvestrov, Sebald. Reading knowledge of Russian required. Graduate seminar... 

 

  



### Fall, 2014

  [### AI 11: Poetry Without Borders

 ](/class/ai-11-poetry-without-borders) 

 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2014 

 

 This General Education course studies poetry as a cultural practice that requires and perversely challenges visual, linguistic, geographic, and aesthetic borders. Main topics are translation (poems crossing borders), emigration/exile (poets crossing borders), and poetry and... 

 

  



### Spring, 2013

  [### Slavic 98: Junior Tutorial

 ](/class/slavic-98-junior-tutorial) 

 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2013 

 

 I am teaching the second half of our tutorial for junior concentrators. This term, we are reading Evgenii Onegin across the whole semester.