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Research interests:
Prof. Morson's work ranges over a variety of areas: literary theory (especially narrative); the history of ideas, both Russian and European; a variety of literary genres (especially satire, utopia, and the novel); and his favorite writers -- Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He is especially interested in the relation of literature to philosophy.
Work currently in progress:
Professor Morson typically works on a number of projects at once. He recently completed a study of Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina (“Anna Karenina” in Our Time: Seeing More Wisely), which Yale University Press will bring out in the fall of 2007. He is also working on a study of aphorisms, witticisms, and other kinds of quotation; on a sequel to his book on time and contingency; and on a study of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
Selected publications:
-Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time;
-Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (co-authored with Caryl Emerson);
-Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in "War and Peace";
-The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's "Diary of a Writer" and the
Traditions of Literary Utopia.
-Under the name Alicia Chudo:
And Quiet Flows the Vodka, or When Pushkin Comes to Shove: The Curmudgeon's Guide to Russian Literature and Culture.
Honors:
Professor Morson has won "best book of the year" awards from the American Comparative Literature Association and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages; he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and he is the only Northwestern professor to have held simultaneously two endowed chairs, one for research and one for teaching.
Courses taught in the last 3 years:
Undergraduate courses on the novels of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy; Graduate courses devoted to single novels -- Anna Karenina_, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, and The Idiot-- and on Mikhail Bakhtin and on various topics in Russian intellectual history.
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