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

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

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

Hello! My name is Dr Katherine Bowers, but many people call me Katia. I’m an Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. I’m a specialist in nineteenth-century Russian literature and my work focuses on genre, narrative, and form. You can find out more about my research on my … Continue reading About Me: Katia

Hi, I’m the lead investigator of Digital Dostoevsky, and an Associate Professor in the Slavic Department at the University of Toronto. My background is in the study of the nineteenth century Russian novel in general, and Dostoevsky’s novels in particular. I’m fascinated by the novel as a genre, and the different narrative strategies novelists use … Continue reading About Me: Kate