Constantine F. Muravnik

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
"Poetry as Salvation: Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and Mandelshtam's "Ja slovo pozabyl, chto ja xotel skazat'..." (The Best Essay Prize) 30th Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Columbia University, March 31, 200

"Tolstoy and Schopenhauer: Freedom, Necessity, Character, Love and Ethics", 29th Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Fordham University, April 1, 2006.

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

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.

Publications
Complete Russian: The Basics, New York: Living Languages, Random House, 200

"Choosing the Hero: Nabokov's Short Story 'Recruiting' as an Introduction to his Aesthetics" (pp.61-84), Russian Literature, Number 64, 2008

“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.