MLA Dostoevsky Panels and Papers
MLA Dostoevsky Panel: Reading Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky Reading
Saturday, January 9, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW Marriott
Chair: Katia Bowers (University of British Columbia) (Dr. Bowers will be unable to attend)
Panelist: Brian Armstrong (Augusta University)
- Title: Rereading Nietzsche Reading Dostoevsky: Guilt Is Good
Panelist: Alexander Burry (Ohio State University)
- Title: Reconstructing Dostoevsky’s Reading of Pushkin: ‘Cold Winds Still Blow’ as Key to Rebellion in The Brothers Karamazov
Panelist: Susan McReynolds (Northwestern University)
- Title: Guilt and Punishment: Reading Dostoevsky through Kafka
Cate Reilly (Princeton University) will also be presenting on Dostoevsky as part of the “Fort-Da: Contested Legacies of Psychoanalysis in Russia” panel, which was organized by NADS member Emma Lieber (Rutgers University). Information can be found on the panel website.
AATSEEL Dostoevsky Panels
Panel: Dostoevsky and Addiction
Friday, January 8, 10:30am-12:15pm
Organizer and Chair: Justin Trifiro (University of Southern California)
Panelist: Lonny Harrison (University of Texas at Arlington)
- Title: The Suffering Games: De Quincean Prodigality and Self-Production in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Igrok
Panelist: Victoria Juharyan (Princeton University)
- Title: Between Humility and Humiliation: Love as Freedom and Love as Addiction in Dostoevsky
Discussants: Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis University) and Donna Tussing Orwin (University of Toronto)
Texts and Contexts: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
Friday, January 8, 4:30-6:30pm
Chair: Jennie Wojtusik (University of Texas-Austin)
Panelist: Soelve Curdts (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
- Title: ‘Borodino is the word that comes to me in my sleep’: Coetzee reads Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
Panelist: Rebecca Bostock-Holtzman (The Ohio State University)
- Title: Chronic Issues: Spatial/Temporal Manipulation in The Death of Ivan Ilych
Panelist: Michael Marsh-Soloway (University of Virginia)
- Title: Dostoevsky and the Natural Philosophy of Classical Antiquity
Panelist: Alexei Pavlenko (Colorado College)
- Title: The Higher Stakes
Panel: The Subjectivity of the Novel: The Case of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
Saturday, January 9, 1:15-3:00pm
Organizer and Chair: Irina Paperno (University of California – Berkeley)
Panelist: Brian Egdorf (University of California – Berkeley)
- Title: Narrative and the Mind: Epilepsy in The Idiot
Panelist: Kathryn Pribble (University of California – Berkeley)
- Title: Hero as Author: Unethical Narrating in The Idiot
Panelist: Ernest Artiz (University of California – Berkeley)
- Title: Slipping Destiny: The Allegoric Unraveling of Narrative in The Idiot
Discussants: Caryl Emerson (Princeton University) and Alex Spektor (The University of Georgia – Athens)
Panel: The North American Dostoevsky Society
Saturday, January 9, 5:15-7:00pm
Organizer: Carol Apollonio (Duke University)
Chair: Eric Naiman (University of California – Berkeley)
Panelist: Katia Bowers (University of British Columbia) (Dr. Bowers will be unable to attend)
- Title: Dostoevsky’s Gothic Autobiography: Anxiety and Terrible Tableaux in The Idiot
Panelist: Jennifer Flaherty (University of California – Berkeley)
- Title: The Peasant in Dostoevsky’s Zapiski iz mertvogo doma and “Muzhik Marei”
Panelist: Anna Berman (McGill University)
- Title: Dostoevsky and the Family Novel
Discussant: Vadim Shkolnikov (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Texts and Contexts: Dostoevsky
Sunday, January 10, 12:00-2:00pm
Chair: Victoria Juharyan (Princeton University)
Panelist: Lisa Woodson, University of New Mexico
- Title: Job in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov
Panelist: Alina Wyman (New College of Florida)
- Title: Between Empathy and Ressentiment: Ivan Karamazov’s Social Dilemma
Panelist: Elizabeth Blake (Saint Louis University)
- Title: Fedor Dostoevsky’s Authoring and Editing of Notes from House of the Dead: An Ongoing Dialogue with Fellow Former Political Exiles
Panelist: Chen Zhang (Ohio State University)
- Title: “Can’t You Cut Pages with a Garden Knife?”: Rogozhin’s Destruction that Derives from His Pursuit of Enlightenment
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