At the moment of publication of this post, Russia continues its unprovoked war against Ukraine. The horrific crimes against the Ukrainian people has happened every day for over two months. It is not and cannot be forgotten or ignored as we research texts in Russian. One of the basic yet pointed questions about The Double … Continue reading Names and The Double’s Existence
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Bicentennial Hiatus and Updates
Happy birthday, Dostoevsky! Image by Katia Bowers This blog has been quiet for a few months because Digital Dostoevsky slowed down in the fall while Katia Bowers and I were busy organizing an international outreach program marking the Dostoevsky bicentenary, which was supported through a SSHRC Connection Grant and co-sponsored by the North American Dostoevsky … Continue reading Bicentennial Hiatus and Updates
About me: Elena
Hello! I'm Elena Vasileva, a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto. I am writing a dissertation on the memory of Russian modernism, where I look at how this memory was formed in memoirs and literary fiction that were created after modernism ceased to exist as a cultural institution. … Continue reading About me: Elena
About Me: Marcin
Hi, I'm Marcin Cieszkiel. I'm one of the library research assistants at the Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre at the John P. Robarts Research Library, working on the Digital Dostoevsky project. My research looks at post-WWII Polish émigré organizations and deals with questions of historiography, philosophy of memory, culture, and history. Dostoevsky weaves these … Continue reading About Me: Marcin
About Me: Braxton
I’m Braxton Boyer, a Ph.D. student in Russian literature at the University of Toronto. Most of my academic life revolves around the later writings of Leo Tolstoy and Russian religious thought and culture in general. My main interest is exploring how religious belief and spirituality influence literary form. I also like thinking about the reverse … Continue reading About Me: Braxton
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