William Mills Todd III

Harvard College Professor, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature

Director of Graduate Studies

Barker Center 369 - 495-1997 - todd[at]fas.harvard.edu

Education: A.B. 1966 Dartmouth, M.A. 1968 Oxford, Ph.D. 1973 Columbia.

Interests: Narrative and cultural studies; Russian, English, and French literature of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries; Russian fiction and social history; literary sociology, semiotics, Pushkin and Dostoevsky.

Current Courses:

Fall:
• Slavic 192 (Literature as Institutions: Conference Course)

Spring:
• Slavic 152 (Pushkin)
• Literature and Arts C-30 (How and What Russia Learned to Read: The Rise of Russian Literary Culture)

Selected Works:
• "The Ruse of the Russian Novel" (2006)
• "Dostoevsky As A Professional Writer" (2003)
• Sovremennaia Amerikanskaia Pushkinovedenie: Sbornik Statei (St. Petersburg, 1999)
• Soviet Sociology of Literature: Conceptions of a Changing World (1990)
• Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology, Institutions, Narrative (1986, Russian transl 1996.)
• Literature and Society in Imperial Russia: 1800-1914 (1978)
• The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin (1976, Russian transl. 1995).

Works in Progress:
• A book on the serialization of the Russian novel (1860s-80s)
• Articles on Pushkin and on Russian literary and cultural theory.

Honors:
• Graduate Student Council Excellence in Mentoring Award, Harvard, 1999 Harvard College Professor, 2002 (an award for undergraduate teaching)
• Awarded the A.S. Pushkin Medal for great services (velikie zaslugi) at the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg June, 2003.
• The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages 2005 award for outstanding contribution to Scholarship.