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Molly Brunson - Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840-1890

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

As a scholar of modern Russian culture, Professor Brunson specializes in the literature and visual art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on the recurrent realisms that emerged in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. Spanning a broad historical scope, her research encompasses topics as diverse as the socially conscious genre painting of the early nineteenth century and the sweeping novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to the avant-garde’s claims to the “real” and the rise of Soviet socialist realism. She is particularly interested in aesthetics and interart studies, theories of the novel, visual cultural studies, the representation of space, and the transnational and transhistorical networks of modern culture. Molly Brunson is an Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Air date, April 26, 2017