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Fall, 2022

Immigrant Memoirs: Women’s Lives from Eastern Europe to America
Semester: Fall
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Year offered: 2022
n this seminar we will read memoirs and personal essays (as well as a few poems and a play) written by women who had moved from eastern Europe to the United States (and in some cases to the UK and Canada, too). What did they think about their new countries? What happened to...

Fall, 2016

Slavic 193: Russian and Soviet Silent Film
Semester: Fall
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Year offered: 2016
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Link: Course Website
Explores filmmaking and film culture from Imperial to early Soviet Russia; from the former’s deep and deliberately slow psychological melodramas directed by Yevgeni Bauer to super-dynamic, politically charged montage movies that brought fame to directors as different as...

Slavic 191: Russian Orthodoxy
Semester: Fall
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Year offered: 2016
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Link: Course Website
This course examines the development and role of the Orthodox Church in Imperial Russia, with particular attention to belief and believers, to domestic and transnational contexts. Course will be taught by Visiting Professor, Gregory Freeze.

Slavic 168: Post-Soviet and Post-Modern Ukrainian Literature
Semester: Fall
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Year offered: 2016
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Link: Course Website
Focus on Dibrova and the onset of Post-Sovietism; the post-modernist performance of Andrukhovych and the Bu-Ba-Bu circle; Izdryk; Prochasko; Kurkov, Zabuzhko and feminist and anti-feminist writing, Zhadan and the post-modern nostalgia for the USSR; Ukrainian literature in...

Slavic 145: Russian Literature in Translation
Semester: Fall
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Year offered: 2016
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Link: Course Website
A survey of major works of fiction from Pushkin through Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Key themes include Russia's encounter with East and West; urban and rural life; the writer and the state; generational conflict and continuity; religion and science; reform and...

Slavic 129: Russia and the Representation of Race
Semester: Fall
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Year offered: 2016
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Link: Course Website
This course examines Russian and Soviet culture and the representation of race. We will approach this topic in terms of Russia’s own engagement with questions of race, focusing on episodes in the literary and cinematic representation of minority peoples throughout the empire...

Slavic 199 hfa (Fall)/hfb (Spring) - Russian Culture in Performance
Semester: Fall
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Year offered: 2016
A one-time only, collaborative course organized around the October, 2016 performance at Harvard of Petersburg’s Bolshoi Drama Theater’s production of The Visible Side of Life, a one-woman play about the poet Elena Shvarts. This is a year-long course, for four credits. The...

Slavic 154/Complit 153: Nabokov
Professor Justin Weir M 6:00-8:00 pm Course site Course description: This course on the major fiction of Vladimir Nabokov begins with his major Russian novels in English translation, including The Defense, Laughter in the Dark (Camera Obscura), Invitation to a Beheading, and...