Kate Holland

Assistant Professor, DGS
2709 Hall of Graduate Studies, 432-8515
kate.holland@yale.edu

Education:
BA/MA 1998, University of Cambridge; M. Phil. 2003, Ph. D. 2004, Yale University.

Research Interests:
Nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and culture; the Russian novel in its European context; novel theory; genre theory; the history of Russian literary theory.

Current Courses:
Studies in the Novel: Dostoevsky
The Novel and the Family in the Nineteenth Century
Russian Rejections of Realism
Dostoevsky and Novel Theory
Russian Literary Culture in the Age of Reform
Criminality and the Novel

Current Projects:
"The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre after the Great Reforms." Book manuscript.

"Literary Tradition, Print Culture, and the Evolution of the Russian Family Novel in the 1870s." Book manuscript.

Recent Publications:
"Literary Contexts of Triangular Desire: Natalie and Alexander Herzen as Readers of George Sand," forthcoming in January 2007 in Russian Literature.

"Novelizing Religious Experience: The Generic Landscape of The Brothers Karamazov," forthcoming in January 2007 in Slavic Review.

"The Legend of the Ladonka and the Trial of the Novel", in A New Word on The Brothers Karamazov, ed. R. L. Jackson, Northwestern University Press, 2004, 192-199.

"The Beginning of Anna Karenina", in MLA Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina, ed. Liza Knapp and Amy Mandelker, 2003, 144-149.

"The Fictional Filter: "Krotkaia" and The Diary of a Writer," Dostoevsky Studies, New Series, Vol. IV, (2000), 95-116.