Lina Steiner
Assistant Professor of Russian Literature

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Chicago
1130 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel. (773) 702 5761
Email: lsteiner@uchicago.edu

Education:

Yale University, PhD in Comparative Literature, 2004.
Bucknell University, MA in English Literature, 1999.
Lomonossov University, Moscow, BA in Romance and Germanic Philology, 1995.

Academic Positions:

Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago.
June 1, 2004 - Present.

Instructor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago.
September 1 2003 - June 1 2004.

Research and teaching interests:

Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century Novel (Russian, European, and American).
The Enlightenment. Romanticism. 
Theory and history of the novel. Narratology. Aesthetics. Semiotics.

Publications:

"Toward an Ideal Universal Community: Yurii Lotman’s Revisiting of the Enlightenment and Romanticism," Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1, February 2003, 36-53.

"Pushkin’s Vision of the Enlightened Self: Individualism, Authority and Tradition beyond Karamzin," Pushkin Review, Vol. 6, 2003, 1-23.

"Pushkin’s Parable of the Prodigal Daughter and the Evolution of the Prose Tale from Aestheticism to Historicism," Comparative Literature, Vol. 56, № 2, Spring 2004, 130-146.

"Netochka Nezvanova on the Path of Bildung," Die Welt der Slaven LI , Summer 2006, 233-252.

"Herzen’s Tragic Bildungsroman:  Love, Autonomy, and Maturity in My Past and Thoughts," forthcoming in Russian Literature.  

"Our Quest is Done, and Happiness Enough Has Fallen to Our Lot:’ Tolstoy in Search of Happiness." Forthcoming in Time, Place, Self: A Festschrift in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone.

"Pushkin and Goldsmith," in Filosofskii vek: Rossiia I Britaniia v Epokhu Prosvescheniia. (St. Petersburg: Center for History of Ideas, 2002) 246-258.

Book review: "Realist Vision by Peter Brooks," forthcoming in Comparative Literature

Selected Courses:

"Romanticism in Russia"
"19th- Century Russian Literature and the European Enlightenment"
"Innocence and Insight in the Novel: Dostoesvky and Henry James"
"Pushkin and his Age"
"Psychological Novel" 

Fellowships and Awards:

Franke Residential Faculty Fellowship (awarded for 2006-2007).
The Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, 2002-2003.
The Prize Teaching Fellowship (Yale University) 2002.
Graduate Affiliate, Whitney Humanities Center (Yale University) 2002-2003.
John Perry Miller Summer Research Fellowship, 2002.
Fellow, the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, 1998.
Special United States-Russian Educational Initiative Undergraduate Research Fellowship
(University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995).