Office: Calhoun 408

Office Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 3:30-4:30, and by appointment

Phone: Department: 471-3607

lobell@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978

Research interests:
Russian literature and culture, Pushkin, Russian poetry, Russian music, Franco-Russian literary relations, the Orthodox liturgy.

Courses taught:
Undergraduate:
Russian Novel
Russian Short Story
Pushkin
The Russian Romance with Shakespeare
Russian Culture through the Arts
Window on Russia
Russian nineteenth-century literature (original texts)
Russian twentieth-century literature (original texts)
Russian language on all levels

Graduate:
Forgotten Periods (including eighteenth-century)
Russsian Nineteenth-century Prose
On the Shoulders of Giants (Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov)
Traditions of Russian Poetry
Russian Prose of the Silver Age
Twentieth-century Russian Poetry
Russsian Poetry since 1950
Survey of Russian Drama
Graduate colloquium

Recent Publications:
I have published a book and many articles on Pushkin as well as essays on Derzhavin, Krylov, Turgenev, Chekhov, the European reception of the Russian novel, Annensky and Akhmatova. My articles have appeared in journals such as Slavic Review, Russian Review, Die Welt der Slaven, Slavic and East European Journal, Canadian Slavonic Studies and the Pushkin Journal.

Awards/Honors:
Henry Fellowship, Oxford University
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Finalist, Friars Teaching Award
Past-President, North-American Pushkin Society

I have previously served as undergraduate advisor, honors advisor and coordinator of first-year Russian.