Michael Denner
Professor of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Michael Denner is a professor of Stetson's program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal, an annual refereed journal.
- PhD, Slavic languages and literature, Northwestern University
- BA with high distinction, Indiana University
More About Michael Denner
Areas of Expertise
- Russia, East European and Eurasian studies
- Russian language
Course Sampling
- Russian language, literature, film and culture
- "The Proletarian Lord: Tolstoy among the Bolsheviks," 1917-1921, in Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy, Cambridge University Press (2010)
- "Be not afraid of greatness: Leo Tolstoy and Celebrity," aJournal of Popular Culture 44:4 (2009)
- "Dusting off the Couch (and Discovering the Tolstoy Connection in Shklovsky's 'Art As Device')," a Slavic and East European Journal 52.3 (2008)
- "Tolstoy Yearbook," a publication of the State Tolstoy Museum in Moscow
- "The First Russian Color Photoportrait," Tolstoy Studies Journal Website (2004)
- "Accidental Art: L. N. Tolstoy's Practical Poetics of Unintentionality, Philosophy and Literature," 27:2 (2003)
- Tolstoy Filmography (filmography of films based on works by L. N. Tolstoy), Tolstoy Studies Journal Website (2003)
- "The Advantage of Doing Nothing," Tolstoy Studies Journal, Vol. XIII (2001)
- "Resistance Is Futile, but Nonresistance Might Work: The East and Russia in Tolstoi's Political Imagination, 1905-1910," Kritika (Winter 2015, forthcoming).
- "Introduction," in Tolstoy on Screen. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
- "What, Then, Shall We Do?' and Tolstoy's Emergence as a Radical Social Thinker," in Tolstoy in the Twenty-First Century. (under contract, Northern Illinois University Press).
- "The Proletarian Lord: Tolstoy among the Bolsheviks, 1917-1921," in Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy, Cambridge University Press (2010).
- "'Be not afraid of greatness': Leo Tolstoy and Celebrity," Journal of Popular Culture (2009).