Courses:

Robert Bird

· Introduction to Russian Literature (all periods); syllabus

· Humanities Core Curriculum (“Human Being and Citizen”) syllabus

· The Soviet Imaginary syllabus

· Poetic Cinema

· Image and Narrative in Russian Literature

· Russian Orthodoxy and Modern Aesthetics

· Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev syllabus

· Narratives of Suspense in Literature and Cinema syllabus

· Marxism and Modernism

· Lev Tolstoy

· Fedor Dostoevsky

· Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

· Russian and Polish Film 1956-present

· The Russian Narrative Poem of the 20^th Century

· Andrei Platonov syllabus

· The Icon in Russian Literature

· Russia and the West: An Interdisciplinary Approach

· Cinematic Adaptation

· Russian and East European Film

· The Russian Novel

· Russian Culture

· all levels of Russian from introductory to advanced, including literature read in the original and intensive Russian

· Old Church Slavonic