Julie Buckler

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Acting Chair 2007-2008

Barker center:323 - 496-4916 - buckler[at]fas.harvard.edu

Education: B.A. 1980 Yale, Ph.D. 1996 Harvard.

Interests: Russian literature, 18th-century, 19th-century and pre-revolutionary fiction, West-European and American literature, cultural studies and semiotics, gender studies, performing arts (opera, theater, music), St. Petersburg, memoir and autobiography, literary canon and popular culture, masterworks and post-histories .

Current Courses:

Fall:
• Lit & Arts C-50 (Russian Imperial Masterworks and Their Post-Histories)

Spring:
• Slavic 98 (Tutorial - Junior Year)
• Freshman Seminar 37p (Reading Tolstoy's War & Peace)

Selected Works: Mapping St. Petersburg (2005); The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia (2000); "Her Final Debut: The Kadmina Legend in Russian Literature" (1998); Novelistic Figuration, Narrative Metaphor: Western and Russian Models of the Prima Donna (1998); Melodramatizing Russia: Nineteenth-Century Views from the West (2001); Eclectic Fabrication: St. Petersburg and the Problem of Imperial Architectural Style (2002); Eccentricity and Cultural Semiotics in Imperial Russia (2002); Reading Anna Karenina: Opera, Tragedy, Melodrama, Farce (2002).

Work in Progress: Cultural Afterlives: Russian Imperial Masterworks and their Post-Histories (book, in planning stages); The Over-Examined Life: New Perspectives on Tolstoy (conference volume).

Honor: Received the 2004 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for her exemplary dedication to mentoring. Nominated by the GSAS students of the Slavic Department.