Study Abroad: St. Petersburg Faculty

Faculty Coordinator and Faculty Bios

Svetlana Evdokimova, A Window on Russia (part 1)

Svetlana Evdokimova is Professor of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature at Brown University. She is currently Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages. Before coming to Brown in 1991, she has held a teaching position at Yale University from 1990-91.

A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, Evdokimova holds degrees from Yale University (Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures) and the St. Petersburg State University, Russia (M.A. French Language and Literature). Her main areas of scholarly interest include, Pushkin, Russian and European Romanticism, Tolstoy, Chekhov, relations between fiction and history, and gender and sexuality in Russian and European literatures. She is the author of Pushkin's Historical Imagination (Yale University Press, 1999) and editor of Alexander Pushkin's "Little Tragedies": The Poetics of Brevity (Wisconsin University Press, 2004), which was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 by Choice. In addition, she has published a wide range of articles on Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, and Tolstoy. She is currently writing a book on Chekhov's relationship with the Russian intelligentsia and its impact on the formation of his literary self.

Vladimir Golstein, A Window on Russia (part 2)

Vladimir Golstein holds his M.S. in Computers from Moscow Institute of Management, his B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University. Prior to coming to Brown he taught at Oberlin College (1990-93) and Yale University (1993-2003), where he has taught a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses that explore Western and Russian literary traditions. His scholarly interests embrace Russian culture, religion, philosophy, and poetry, of the past two centuries. He is the author of Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism (Northwestern University Press, 1998) and numerous articles on nineteenth-and twentieth century Russian authors, including Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tsvetaeva, and Bulgakov. He is currently completing a monograph on the conflict of generations in Russia.

Michal Oklot, Russian language and on-site coordinator

Michal Oklot holds his M. A. from University in Warsaw (Poland) -- where he also taught at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology -- and his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Northwestern University. Prior to coming to Brown he taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison and American University in Cairo. He has taught courses on Russian, Polish, and English literatures from the early modern period through the twentieth-century. His scholarly interests include Nikolai Gogol and his twentieth century continuators, Russian and Polish modernism, comparative Slavic history of ideas, especially Neoplatonic currents in Slavic thought, literary theory. He has published articles on Schulz, Gombrowicz, Wittlin, Vincenz, and others. His book, Phantasms of Matter in Gogol (and Gombrowicz), is forthcoming with Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.