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Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
688 Sherbrooke Street West
Suite 0425
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1
Tel.: 514-398-3639
Fax: 514-398-1748
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Paul M. Austin
Associate Professor
MA (Cornell), BA, PhD (Toronto)
Contact information:
514-398-4984
Professor Austin specializes in late 18th and early 19th century literature. At the undergraduate level, Professor Austin covers Russian writers of the 19th century as well as Russian literature from the Crimean War (1856) to the Revolution of 1917. He also teaches upper level undergraduate courses on the prose works of Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, etc. At the graduate level, Professor Austin offers seminars on Russian Romanticism and the Development of Russian Literary Criticism. His research interests include Soviet Karelian, and post-Soviet linguistic policy in Karelia and Russian Romanticism.
Laura A. Beraha
Associate Professor and Chair
BA, MA, PhD (McGill)
Contact information:
514-398-2802
Educated at McGill and Moscow. Specializing in Russian 20th century literature, narrative and genre theory. Russian-language instruction on all levels, interactive and communicative competence approach, text analysis, applied translation theory. Undergraduate courses in Russian 20th century literature in the original and in English translation; culture from Peter the Great; readings in Russian 19th century literature. Graduate seminar in Russian literary theory.
Lyudmila Parts
On Sabbatical leave, 2009/2010
Associate Professor
MA and PhD (Columbia)
Contact information:
514-398-1719
Professor Parts' book The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic” (Ohio State UP, 2008) explores the intersection of intertextuality, cultural memory, and cultural myth. Her research and teaching interests include 19th century literature, Chekhov, post-Soviet literature, and the theory of genre. She has published articles on Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstaya, Petrushevskaya, P'etsukh, and Pelevin. Her current research project is on Russian symbolic geography and the provincial topos in contemporary Russian culture.
