David R. Schatz
Associate Professor of Russian Language & Literature
Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., Harvard University
A.B., Princeton University
Professor Schatz teaches the full sequence of Russian language courses – elementary to advanced – and standard courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, as well as more specialized tutorials as required by student interest and need.
His research interests include narrative theory and practice, primarily in literature, but in other subjective and cultural manifestations as well; new approaches to canonical Russian literary texts and the role of "lesser luminaries" in relationship to the canon; and Russian literature and popular culture since 1991.
His research interests include narrative theory and practice, primarily in literature, but in other subjective and cultural manifestations as well; new approaches to canonical Russian literary texts and the role of "lesser luminaries" in relationship to the canon; and Russian literature and popular culture since 1991.
Recent Courses
Beginning Russian I and II
Intermediate Russian I and II
Tolstoy and Chekhov: The Short Fiction
Russian Realism: Five Masterpieces
Russian Short Fiction: Sentimentalism to Neo-Realism
Readings in Russian: Language and Verbal Art
F. M. Dostoevsky: The Short Fiction
The Brothers Karamazov: A Seminar
Intermediate Russian I and II
Tolstoy and Chekhov: The Short Fiction
Russian Realism: Five Masterpieces
Russian Short Fiction: Sentimentalism to Neo-Realism
Readings in Russian: Language and Verbal Art
F. M. Dostoevsky: The Short Fiction
The Brothers Karamazov: A Seminar
