B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
ON LEAVE, 2007-08
2706 Hall of Graduate Studies, 432-1302, vladimir.alexandrov@yale.edu

Education
B.A. 1968, Queens College of CUNY (Geology); M.A. 1971, The City College of CUNY (Geology); M.A. 1973, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Comparative Literature); M. A. 1976, Ph. D. 1979, Princeton University (Comparative Literature).

Interests
19th and 20th century Russian prose; Tolstoy, Bely, Bunin, Nabokov; Russian émigré literature and culture between the wars; cultural and literary theory; neuroscience and literary theory.

Current Courses
Nabokov; Tolstoy and Dostoevsky; The Divine and the Human in Russian Fiction; Proseminar in Russian Literature; Aspects of Turn of the Century Russian Culture; Tolstoy; Russian Émigré Literature and Culture Between the Wars.

Selected Recent Publications
"Literature, Literariness and the Brain," Comparative Literature, Spring 2007, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 97-118.

"Literariness, the Sacred and the Brain," La Conoszenza della Letteratura/The Knowledge of Literature. Vol. VI. Ed. Angela Locatelli. Bergamo (Italy): Bergamo University Press/Edizioni Sestante, 2007, pp. 107-22.

Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Winner of the 2004-2005 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association of America for an outstanding scholarly work in the field of Slavic languages and literatures, Finalist, 2005 Prize for Best Book in Literary or Cultural Studies from AATSEEL.

Work in Progress
"Jules Verne's Michel Strogoff and Russian Émigré Cinematic Mythology"

"Frederick Bruce Thomas: The Life and Times of a Black American Entrepreneur in Moscow and Constantinople, 1869-1928."

Recent Honors
Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities in Yale College, 2006.