Justin McCabe Weir

Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures

On Leave Spring 2009

Barker Center 326 - 496-3737 - weir[at]fas.harvard.edu

Education: B.A. 1991 University of Minnesota, M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 1997 Northwestern University.

Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian prose, twentieth-century Russian drama and film, literary theory.

Current Courses:

Fall:
• Freshman Seminar 37p (Reading Tolstoy's War and Peace)

Selected Works:
• The Author as Hero (2002)
• Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays, ed. and trans. with Timothy Langen (2000).

Work in Progress:
• Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative.