Susanne Fusso talk on "Dostoevsky's Literary Partnership with Editor Mikhail Katkov"
On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, the Carmel Institute continued its year-long series of book talks in honor of the bicentennial of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's birth in 1821. Our third speaker was Dr. Susanne Fusso,泭Marcus L. Taft Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Wesleyan University discussing her 2017 book,泭Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy: Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian Novel泭(NIU Press, 2017).泭
Dr. Fusso is a specialist in nineteenth-century Russian prose, especially Gogol and Dostoevsky. She is the author of泭Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol泭(Stanford University Press, 1993) and泭Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky泭(Northwestern University Press, 2006). Her most recent book is泭泭Her most recent translations are of Sergey Gandlevsky's autobiographical novel泭Trepanation of the Skull泭(NIU Press, 2014), his novel泭Illegible泭(NIU Press, 2019), and the short stories of Nikolai Gogol,泭The Nose and Other泭Stories泭(Columbia University Press, 2020). She has also published edited volumes on Gogol, Karolina Pavlova, and Russian writers' views of America, and a translation of the memoirs and hunting stories of Prince Vladimir Sergeevich Trubetskoi.