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Julian W. Connolly, Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Research and Publications

Article in October 2006 Arts and Sciences Magazine

1999 Outstanding Teaching Award

Contact Information:

E-Mail: jwc4w@virginia.edu

By Post:
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
PO Box 400783
Charlottesville VA 22904-4783

By Phone: (434) 924-6682

Office: 104 New Cabell Hall

Education:

AB, Harvard University
AM, Harvard University
PhD, Harvard University

Current Research Interests:

19th- and 20th-century Russian literature and film

Recent Publications:

“Dostoevskij’s Guide to Spiritual Epiphany in The Brothers Karamazov.” Studies in East European Thought 59 (2007): 39–54.

“Why are Nymphets ‘Demonic’?: Remarks on the Cultural Roots of Nabokov’s Lolita.” In The Real Life of Pierre Delalande.  Studies in Russian and Comparative Literature to Honor Alexander Dolinin. Stanford Slavic Specialities, vol. 34. Ed. David M. Bethea, Lazar Fleishman, and Alexander Ospovat. Stanford: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, 2007. 2: 674–86.

“The Challenge of Interpreting and Decoding Nabokov: Strategies and Suggestions.”  Cycnos 24.1 (2007): 155–170.

“Nabokov, Pushkin, and Eugene Onegin.”  In Nabokofu Yakuchu Evugenii Onegin Chukai [Translation with Commentary of Nabokov’s Translation with Commentary of Eugene Onegin].  Ed. Honyaku No Shoso Kenkyukai [Research Group on “Aspects of Translation”].  Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Daigaku Daigakuin Bungakukenkyuka, 2007.

The Brothers Karamazov.” In Masterplots II: Christian Literature.  Ed. John K. Roth.  4 vols.  Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2007.  2:229–32.

“Black and White and Dead All Over: Color Imagery in Nabokov’s Prose.”  Nabokov Studies 10 (2006): 1–14.

The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov (2005)

Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives (1999)

Nabokov's "invitation to a Beheading": A Critical Companion (1997

Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and Others

Ivan Bunin

Links to Resources at University of Virginia:

RUTR 335 -- Devils and Doubles in 19th Century Russian Literature

RUTR 273/373 -- Dostoevsky

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia

 

Links to Web Sites on Russian Authors:

Vladimir Nabokov:

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Fyodor Dostoevsky:

Mikhail Lermontov:

Other Russian Authors