Please join us in welcoming our newest Professor, Jennifer Flaherty!
Jennifer Flaherty received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from University of California, Berkeley in 2019. She's held academic appointments at the College of William & Mary, UC Berkeley, and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Flaherty's current book project, 'The Unsocial Society: Peasants and the Making of Russian Literary Modernity,' studies the role of class conflict in shaping nineteenth-century Russian literature. The project won a fellowship grant at NYU's Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, where Flaherty served as a postdoctoral researcher. Most recently, Flaherty headed the Russia team on a comparative literature project at the University of Bologna in Italy, titled "Modernizing Empires," which studies the literature of Japan, Russia and the Ottoman Empire as "non-Western" traditions. With an interest in philosophy and political theory, Flaherty has articles on Russian Nihilism and Russian Populism. Pairing a specialization on the big names in Russian prose (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky) with an interest in poetry, she has an essay in the new edition of Oxford's Handbook of Russian Poetry, focusing on the pastoral tradition. Flaherty is interested in collaborative and public-facing humanities projects, from podcasts to community events.
This Fall 2023 Semester, Professor Flaherty will be teaching our new course: “The Russian Fairytale and Its Cultural Legacy, An Introduction to Slavic Folklore”.
The Russian Fairy Tale and Its Cultural Legacy
An Introduction to Slavic Folklore
FALL SEMESTER 2023
Languages Bldg, Room 320 Mondays & Wednesdays 4:40-5:55p
Instructor
Dr. Jennifer Flaherty jennifer.flaherty@duke.edu
“By the will of the pike, do as I like.”
«По щучьему велению по моему хотению.»
Using the popular Russian fairy tale as an entry point, this course offers an introduction to the rich folklore of diverse Slavic peoples. Students gain knowledge of these places of the world while learning the very foundations of the study of art & culture.
‘Who are the folk? Among others, we are!’ | Alan Dundes
The Department of Russian & Eurasian Studies offers a variety of courses on the language, culture, literature, and history of the Slavic and Eurasian World. For courses taught in English, students may sign up for an additional partial-credit independent study to work on the material in the original Russian. For details, contact todd.lewis@duke.edu or carol.apollonio@duke.edu.
SLAVIC & EURASIAN STUDIES