Russian National Identity: thesis, antithesis or synthesis?
Your Instructor
PhD Candidate in Russian Studies
Princeton University
Being an incorrigible bookworm and a night owl with a penchant for foreign languages, it was but a matter of time that I would land in some literature department. I was born in Barcelona, Spain, where I graduated with a BA in German and Russian literatures. After a few years in industry, I moved to Chicago to earn a MA in Digital Humanities from uChicago, before going back to Europe for a MPhil in Slavonic Studies at the University of Oxford. Currently, I am earning a PhD in Slavic Studies at Princeton. In my doctoral research, I focus on translation, intertextuality, Symbolism, and literature and the scenic arts. I believe that there is no better observatory of mankind than literature, and I enjoy welcoming others into that observatory.
$150
What you'll learn
Master the main topics of Russian national thought
Slavophiles vs. Westernizers debate
Discursive constructs: East vs. West
Empire and Imperialism vs. Nation and Nationalism
Russian Messianism
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In this introduction we will lay the theoretical framework for our future discussions. Our focus will be on the primitivist vs. constructivist debate found in scholarly literature regarding the nation. The basis of our discussion will be excerpts from Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism (1983), Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities (1983), Miroslav Hroch's Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe (1985), and Alexander Motyl's “Inventing Invention: The Limits of National Identity Formation" (2002).
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Your Instructor
PhD Candidate in Russian Studies
Princeton University
Being an incorrigible bookworm and a night owl with a penchant for foreign languages, it was but a matter of time that I would land in some literature department. I was born in Barcelona, Spain, where I graduated with a BA in German and Russian literatures. After a few years in industry, I moved to Chicago to earn a MA in Digital Humanities from uChicago, before going back to Europe for a MPhil in Slavonic Studies at the University of Oxford. Currently, I am earning a PhD in Slavic Studies at Princeton. In my doctoral research, I focus on translation, intertextuality, Symbolism, and literature and the scenic arts. I believe that there is no better observatory of mankind than literature, and I enjoy welcoming others into that observatory.
$150