Lina Steiner
Lina Steiner, Russian Literature
Ph.D., Yale University, 2004
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(773) 702-4015
lsteiner@uchicago.edu
Lina Steiner specializes in nineteenth-century Russian and European literature, culture and intellectual history, with additional research and teaching interests in critical theory, narratology and semiotics. She is currently completing a book-length study that explores the development of the 19th century Russian novel in relation to contemporary debates on national identity.
Selected 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 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.
“Pushkin’s Vision of the Enlightened Self: Individualism, Authority, and Tradition beyond Karamzin,” Pushkin Review, Vol. 6, 2003-04, 1-23.
“Herzen’s Tragic Bildungsroman: Love, Autonomy, and Maturity in Aleksandr Herzen’s Byloe i dumy,” Russian Literature LXI-I/II 2007. 139-173.
“My Most Mature Poema: Pushkin’s Poltava and the Irony of Russian National Culture,” forthcoming in Comparative Literature.
Courses
Gogol and Fantastic Realism
Pushkin and Romanticism
Realism is Russia
Russian Formalism
The Individual Form and the Novel
Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"
Chekhov
The Idea of Europe in the 19th century