Languages & Literatures |
Russian Faculty
Luc Beaudoin
Luc Beaudoin, Associate Professor of Russian, received his PhD from the University of Toronto in Slavic Languages and Literatures (concentration: Russian Literature, with a minor in Polish Literature). Though he has been teaching primarily in the Russian Language and Literature Program since his arrival at DU, he also teaches in DU's general humanities and Core curricula. He is currently working on his second book, and his research interests include gender/gay issues in Russian poetry and culture, literary psychoanalysis and Lacan, cultural semiotics, and Romantic irony and idealism in its Russian manifestations. He and his partner Mark live in Capitol Hill next to the Molly Brown Mansion (the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" of Titanic fame). Their faithful Golden Retriever Sasha loves to go for walks and keep an eye on the neighborhood cats and squirrels.
Phone Number:Email: luc.beaudoin@du.eduPolina Rikoun
Polina Rikoun, Lecturer of Russian, received her PhD from Harvard
University in Comparative Literature, with a main focus on Russian and
additional specializations in Ukrainian and American literature. She
loves teaching Russian language, literature, and culture; her three
favorite literature courses that she has taught so far were on
nineteenth-century Russian classics, Russian women writers, and on
slavery and serfdom in Russian and American fiction. She is also
developing a course on evil in Russian and Ukrainian literature and
culture, to be taught in the Arts and Humanities Foundations
curriculum. Her research interests include narrative theory, empire
studies, Russian-Ukrainian relations, and the cultural identity of
post-imperial cities, particularly Odessa. She is now working on a book
project, Narrating the Empire, which examines how writers use narrative
to advance different interpretations of Russian imperial history. In
her spare time, Polina loves to read, hike, cook with her husband
Andrew, and play with her cat Gracie.
Phone Number:Email: polina.rikoun@du.edu |