Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak

About Frederick T. GriffithsStanley J. Rabinowitz

Stanley J. Rabinowitz (Ph.D. Harvard University) teaches Russian language and literature at Amherst College. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and has been the Max Hayward Fellow in Russian Literature at St. Antony's College Oxford. His research interests include modern Russian prose and Russian classical dance during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Frederick Griffiths (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Class of 1880 Professor of Greek and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies Amherst College. His primary focus has focused on relationship of literature and politics in Hellenistic Alexandria (Theocritus and Apollonius Rhodius) 19th and 20th century Russian (with S. J. Rabinowitz: Gogol Tolstoy Dostoevsky Pasternak) and 20th century America (Willa Cather Richard Wright Ralph Ellison Charles Johnson). He is the author of Theocritus at Court: articles on Apollonius Rhodius Willa Cather Richard Wright Ralph Ellison.