Senior Lector
2710B Hall of Graduate Studies, 432-0995
constantine.muravnik@yale.edu

Education
B. A. 1992, Moscow State University; M. A. 2002, Yale University; Ph.D. 2005 (expected) Yale University.

Interests
Second language acquisition and multimedia teaching materials.
Nabokov’s art and thought.
Philosophical aspects of literature.
Russian poetry.

Current Courses
First, Second, and Third-Year Russian, Intensive Russian (First and Second Year), Fifth- Year Russian (Stylistics), Discussion section in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Business Russian (Tutorial), Selected Works of Russian Literature in the Original (Tutorial).

Recent Scholarship
“Intimations of the Metaphysical in Gogol’s Diary of a Madman and Nabokov’s Pale Fire,” AAASS Conference, Toronto, November 20, 2003.

“Mme Lecerf, If I’m Not Mistaken?. . .” (An article on the biographical method of V. Nabokov and the Identity of Mme Lecerf in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight) The Nabokovian, Number 43, Fall 1999.

A Website with Selected News Clippings for Aural Comprehension (Funded by the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning), Center for Language Study, Yale University, August 2001.

Work in Progress
Ph. D. dissertation on Nabokov’s art and thought in light of the aesthetic theories of Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.