I’m Braxton Boyer, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia. 

I wrote my dissertation on Christian anarchist thought and art in Lev Tolstoy’s publishing house, The Intermediary. More generally, I like thinking about anarchism and aesthetics, and how political thought creatively expressed can change our world.

Although I chose the other “giant” of 19th-century Russian literature as the main focus of my dissertation, I have a special love for Dostoevsky — The Brothers Karamazov is my favorite novel from any writer anywhere — and I’m excited to dive into the Digital Humanities through him. I hope you enjoy following our project as much as we have enjoyed (and are still enjoying) creating it!