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Donna Orwin

Graduate Coordinator
Leonid Livak

Undergraduate Coordinator (sabbatical)
Taras Koznarsky

Acting Undergraduate Coordinator
Joseph Schallert

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Veronika Ambros

Christopher Barnes

Kate Holland

Christina E. Kramer - sabbatical

Julia Mikhailova

Dragana Obradovic

Pia Paivio

Joseph Schallert

Tamara Trojanowska

 

Sessional Lecturers

Zahar Davydov

Artur Placzkiewicz

 

Emeritus Professors

C. Harold Bedford

George Bisztray

Ralph Bogert

Lubomir Dolezel

David Huntley

Kenneth Lantz

Ralph Lindheim

Richard H. Marshall

N. Pavliuc

Constantin V. Ponomareff

R.D. Boris Thomson

Norman N. Shneidman

Borje Vahamaki

Librarian

Ksenya Kiebuzinski

Associated Faculty

Ann Komaromi

Thomas Lahusen

Anna Shternshis

Alison K. Smith

T. Allan Smith

In Memoriam

Hanka Markowicz

 


Donna Orwin

Professor, Russian Literature

121 St. Joseph Street, Room 415

tel: 416-926-1300 ext. 3316
email: donna.orwin@utoronto.ca

Research Interests:

Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Nineteenth Century Russian Fiction and Thought.

Education:

B.A. 1969 Cornell University
M.A. 1971 Harvard University
PhD 1979 Harvard University

Recent Scholarship:

Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. Upcoming from Stanford University Press, fall, 2007.

Tolstoi, Stern i Platon.”  Lev Tolstoi i mirovaia literatura. Materialy III Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii (Tula: Izdatel’skii dom “Iasnaia Poliana”, 2005), 45-56.

 “Did Tolstoy or Dostoevsky Believe in Miracles?” In Robert Louis Jackson, ed. A New Word on The Brothers Karamazov. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2004.  105-141.

 “What Men Live By: Belief and the Individual in L. Tolstoy and William James.  In William James and Russian Culture. Edited by Joan Delaney Grossman and Ruth Rischin.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2003. 59-79.

 “Tolstoy’s Anti-Philosophical Philosophy in Anna Karenina.”  Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina. Edited by Liza Knapp and Amy Mandelker. New York: MLA, 2003.  128-40.

 Vliianie zhanra Platonova dialoga v tvorchestve Tolstogo. Russkaia literatura 1 (February, 2002):38-45.

Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (Cambridge, 2002).

Course Links:

SLA 252S – 2012 Russian Short Fiction. Syllabus

University of Toronto

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
121 St. Joseph Street, Alumni Hall (AH), Rm. 429 ~ Toronto, Ontario ~ M5S 1J4
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