Molly Brunson
Education
B.A. 2000 (Art History), Columbia University; M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2009 (Slavic Languages and Literatures), University of California, Berkeley
Interests
19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture; Russian literary and painterly Realism; the Soviet avant-garde; representations of urban and rural space; interart theory; theory of the novel
Current Courses
Literature and Empire in Russia; Literature and Painting in the Age of Tolstoy; City and Country in the Novel; Russian Realist Literature and Painting; Studies in the Novel: Dostoevsky; Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the Novel; The Fantastic in Russian Artistic Culture
Current Projects
Borderline Realism: Interart Encounters in Russian Literature and Painting, 1840-80. Book manuscript.
Russian Points of View: The Theory and Practice of Perspective in Russia, 1820-1940. Book manuscript.
Publications
“Panorama P’era: Opticheskaia illiuziia i illiuziia romana v Voine i mire” (“Pierre’s Panorama: Optical and Novelistic Illusion in War and Peace”), Conference Proceedings from the Fifth International Academic Conference “Tolstoy and World Literature (Tula: Iasnaia Poliana Press), forthcoming.
“Polet nad Moskvoi: Vid s vozdukha i reprezentatsiia prostranstva v Mastere i Margarite Bulgakova” (“Flying over Moscow: Aerial Perspectives and Spatial Representation in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita”), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 76 (2005), 173-95.
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