David Herman

David Herman

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-6687

Address:
PO Box 400783
Cabell Hall, 103
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4783

Research Interests

Tolstoy, 19th-century Russian literature, 18th-century Russian literature, medieval Russian literature, literary theory, language pedagogy

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Haverford College in Pennsylvania, 1983
• Master of Arts (MA), Bryn Mawr College, 1985
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California System : Berkeley, 1993

Selected Publications:

• "Khadzhi-Murat's Silence." Slavic Review 64:1 (2005): 1-23.
• Poverty of the Imagination: 19th-Century Russian Literature About the Poor. Evanston, Northwestern University Press: 2001.
• Second-Year Russian: A Textbook (1999, manuscript used at UVa).
• "Don Juan and Don Alejandro: The Seductions of Art in Pushkin's Stone Guest." Comparative Literature 51:1 (1999): 3-23.
• "Innocents at Home: 'Poor Liza' as a Response to The Letters of a Russian Traveler." Russian Literature 44:2 (1998): 159-83.
• "Allowable Passions in Anna Karenina." Tolstoy Studies Journal 8 (1998) (Special Issue: Anna Karenina): 5-32.
• "Stricken by Infection: Art and Adultery in Anna Karenina and Kreutzer Sonata." Slavic Review 56:1 (1997): 15-36.
• "A Requiem for Aristocratic Art: Pushkin's 'Egyptian Nights.'" Russian Review (1996): 661-80.