Irina M Erman
Contact:
ierman@stanford.edu
OVERVIEW:
Undergraduate Honors Thesis: "Radicalizing Crime and Punishment: Purity, Pollution, and the Pharmakos in Feodor Dostoevsky's Work."
MA Thesis: "Dostoevsky and Bakhtin"
PhD Dissertation: "At Home in the Margins: Authorship, Autobiographical Discourse and Alterity in Vasily Rozanov's Modernist Family Tree"
Languages: Russian (native), French, Spanish, Ancient Greek
EDUCATION:
2012: PhD anticipated, Stanford University, Russian Literature
2006: M.A., Stanford University, Russian Literature
2004: B.A., Emory University, Summa Cum Laude, Comparative Literature
2004: B.A., Emory University, Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Courses
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DLCL2222011-12
The Performance Group brings together diverse departments within the DLCL with other disciplines, such as Drama, to achieve a cross-pollination: to reinvigorate performance theory through our own consciously re-mediated research interests, methodologies, and forms of scholarly expression. Drawn to topics involving space, temporality, and embodiment, we still want to "do things with words."
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SLAVLIT251Win2011-12
This course is an in-depth engagement with a range of Dostoevsky's genres: early works (epistolary novella Poor Folk and experimental Double), major novels (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot), less-read shorter works ('A Faint Heart,' 'Bobok', and 'The Meek One'), and genre-bending House of the Dead and Diary of a Writer. We will apply recent theory of autobiography, performance, repetition and narrative gaps, to Dostoevsky's transformations of genre, philosophical and dramatic discourse, and narrative performance. For graduate students. Slavic students will read primary texts in Russian, other participants in translation. Course conducted in English. Undergraduates with advanced linguistic and critical competence may apply.
