E-Mail:herman@virginia.edu
By Post:Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
PO Box 400783
Charlottesville VA 22904-4783By Phone: (434) 924-6687
Office: 103 New Cabell Hall
PhD UC-Berkeley 1993
MA Bryn Mawr 1985
BA Haverford 1983
Research Interests:
19th-century Russian literature, Literary theory, 18th-century Russian literature, Medieval Russian literature, language pedagogy
"Khadzhi-Murat's Silence." Slavic Review 64:1 (2005): 1-23.
Second-Year Russian: A Textbook (manuscript, used in RUSS 201-202 at UVa).
Poverty of the Imagination: 19th-Century Russian Literature About the Poor. Evanston, Northwestern University Press: 2001.
"Don Juan and Don Alejandro: The Seductions of Art in Pushkin's Stone Guest." Comparative Literature 51:1 (1999): 3-23.
"Innocents at Home: 'Poor Liza' as a Response to The Letters of a Russian Traveler." Russian Literature 44:2 (1998): 159-83.
"Allowable Passions in Anna Karenina." Tolstoy Studies Journal 8 (1998) (Special Issue: Anna Karenina): 5-32.
"Stricken by Infection: Art and Adultery in Anna Karenina and Kreutzer Sonata." Slavic Review 56:1 (1997): 15-36.
"A Requiem for Aristocratic Art: Pushkin's 'Egyptian Nights.'" Russian Review (1996): 661-80.