Olga Stuchebrukhov

Education and Degree(s):

• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis (2004)
• M.A. with honors, Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (Moscow, Russia, 1984)

Research Interest(s):

• Nationalism and Literature
• 19th-century Russian and English Literature
• Dostoevsky

Course(s) Taught:

• Russian 42: Survey of 20th-Century Russian Literature
• Russian 103: Literary Translation
• Russian 126: Russian Theater
• Russian 128: Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
• Russian 130: Contemporary Russian Culture

Selected Publications:

Books

• The Nation as Invisible Protagonist in Dickens and Dostoevsky: Uncovering Hidden Social Forces within the Text (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006)

Articles

• "The Subaltern Syndrome and Dostoevsky's Quest for Authenticity of Being," The Dostoevsky Journal, 5 (2004).
• "The Nation-less State of Great Britain and the Nation-State of France in Household Words," Victorian Periodicals Review 38:4 (2006).
• "The Hypothetical Nation and the Superfluous State: The Nationalist Symbolism of The Devils," The Dostoevsky Journal, 6 (2006).
• "Bleak House as an Allegory of a Middle-Class Nation," Dickens Quarterly, XXII/3, 2006: 147-168.
• "Autocratic Capitalism as the Political Unconscious of Dostoevsky's Devilsand A Writer's Diary, The Dostoevsky's Journal, 7 (2006).
• "Ridiculous Dream vs. Social Contract: Dostoevkij, Rousseau, and the Problem of Ideal Society," Studies in East European Thought, 59: 1-2 (2007).
• "The Concept of Integral Reason in Crime and Punishment," forthcoming in the special issue of Dostoevsky Studies (2009).
• "Tolstoy's Family Happiness and Dickens' Bleak House," (in Russian), forthcoming in Leo Tolstoy Fifth International Academic Conference Proceedings (2009-2010).