This is an archive of the second half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

This is an archive of the first half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

Part of a larger roundtable series on Arab American histories for the Journal of American Ethnic History.

A review of Marek Inglot, S.J., How the Jesuits Survived Their Suppression. The Society of Jesus in the Russian Empire (1773-1814), ed. and trans. D. L. Schlafly (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2015), Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 85, Fasc. 169.

Review of Nikolaos Chrissidis, An Academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia

A review of Au service de la reconciliation des Églises: Jean Gagarin, Jean Martynow et Victor de Buck: Correspondance, edited by Robert Danieluk, S.J., and Bernard Joassart, S.J.

In 1791, amidst growing anxiety about British encroachment on its fur trade with the Qing Empire, the Russian government discovered that Britain was sending a large and important embassy to Beijing, led by Lord Macartney. In an attempt to derail the negotiations, Russia enrolled the Polotsk Jesuits in a plot to convince the Qing of the…[Read more]

A study of the ideological and transnational context of informatics and cybernetics in the late Soviet Union, focusing on the leading Soviet computer scientist Andrei Ershov.

A study of the relationship between pastoral poetry and urban politics in eighteenth-century New York City.

This article considers a unified polar Gothic as a way of examining texts set in Arctic and Antarctic space. Through analysis of Coleridge’s’ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket , the author creates a framework for understanding polar Gothic, which includes liminal…[Read more]