Molly Brunson    

Lecturer Convertible
2699B Hall of Graduate Studies, 432-7023
molly.brunson@yale.edu

Education
B.A. 2000 (Art History), Columbia University; M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2009 (expected)  (Slavic Languages and Literatures), University of California, Berkeley

Interests
19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture; Russian literary and painterly Realism; the Soviet avant-garde; representations of urban and rural space; interart theory; theory of the novel

Current Courses
Literature and Empire in Russia; Literature and Painting in the Age of Tolstoy; City and Country in the Novel; Russian Realist Literature and Painting

Current Projects
“The War (and the Peace) between Russian Literary and Painterly Realism.” Dissertation

Publications
“Panorama P’era: Opticheskaia illiuziia i illiuziia romana v Voine i mire” (“Pierre’s Panorama: Optical and Novelistic Illusion in War and Peace”), Conference Proceedings from the Fifth International Academic Conference “Tolstoy and World Literature (Tula: Iasnaia Poliana Press), forthcoming.

 “Polet nad Moskvoi: Vid s vozdukha i reprezentatsiia prostranstva v Mastere i Margarite Bulgakova” (“Flying over Moscow: Aerial Perspectives and Spatial Representation in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita”), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 76 (2005), 173-95.