Faculty

	SEAMAS O'DRISCOLL                Assistant professor                4-117 Crowe Hall                (847) 491-5641                s-odriscoll@northwestern.edu

Research Interests

Seamas O’Driscoll received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages & Literatures from Harvard University in 2005. His research focuses on the cultural history of capitalism in pre-Revolutionary Russia.  He is currently working on a book that examines the interaction of political economic thought and fiction-making during the period of Russian realism.  A native of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Professor O'Driscoll has lived in Russia, France and in the Connemara Gaeltacht -- one of the Gaelic speaking regions of Ireland.

Recent courses taught

Slavic 105-6: Freshman Seminar (Money,Sex and Power)

Slavic 318: 19th Century Russian Cemedy and Satire

Slavic 439: Theories of Fiction and Fictoinality (Graduate seminar)

Humanities 268: Aspects of Love (team taught with Professors Dwight McBride and Marco Ruffini)

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