Svetlana Rukhelman

Doctoral Student in the Department of Comparative Literature


Courses taught:

  • Literature & Arts C-30: How and What Russia Learned to Read: 19th-Century Russian Literature
  • Foreign Cultures 72: Twentieth-Century Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika
  • Literature 98a, 98b: Junior tutorials
  • English 185: Wit and Humor in Literature and Film
  • Slavic 156: Vladimir Nabokov: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • Slavic B: Intermediate Russian

 

 

Contact  Information:
Dept. of Comparative Literature
Dana Palmer House

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

 


Fields of interest:
19th- and 20th-century narrative (Russian, English, French). Cinema. Narrative techniques and narrative theory. Irony and satire, the absurd. Cognitive approaches to literature and art. Primitivism in visual art and literature. Philosophical literature. New Economic Criticism.

Languages:
Russian, English, French.
Reading knowledge of German, Latin, Ukrainian.