This chapter presents a case study of the gothic novel reader and the way notions about gothic novels and their readers developed in Russia. The chapter takes a comparative approach, drawing on reviews and reader accounts from both England and Russia, to demonstrate how similar attitudes in both countries were despite Russia’s later gothic wave.…[Read more]

Project Bamboo (2008-2012) was a cyberinfrastructure initiative for the arts and humanities, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. This is the grant proposal for the technical implementation phase of Project Bamboo (intended phase 1).

Project Bamboo (2008-2012) was a cyberinfrastructure initiative for the arts and humanities, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. This was the initial proposal to the Mellon Foundation for the planning project, submitted January 2008.

This article examines the epilogue of Dostoevskii’s novel Crime and Punishment from the perspective of genre and generic expectation. Considering two generic plots that appear in the novel, the detective plot and the redemption narrative, the author argues that the imagined reader’s generic expectation is both satisfied and thwarted in each cas…[Read more]

This short chapter discusses Dostoevskii’s incorporation of the Ol’ga Umetskaia’s case into The Idiot.

Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition (BDLT) has been one of the longest-running Slavic digital humanities projects in the United States. Initially conceived in 2008 as a series of printed volumes, the digital project was built upon the foundation of a long-term international collaboration dating to the 1970’s. As BDLT nears completion in 2…[Read more]