Irina Reyfman
"What Makes a Gentleman? Revisiting Gogol's 'Diary of a Madman'"

Time: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 5:00 p.m.

Location: 402 Dey Hall

Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Irina Reyfman is Professor of Russian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. Her specialties include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature, Gogol, Pushkin, and the semiotics of culture. She is the author of the books Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature (Stanford, 1999) and Vasilii Trediakovsky: The Fool of the 'New' Russian Literature (Stanford, 1991).