
Erica Drennan
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Erica Drennan joins the Barnard Slavic Department in fall 2021 after completing her Ph.D. in Russian Literature at Columbia. A specialist in nineteenth-century Russian literature, her research investigates the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in realist fiction. Her dissertation and current book project, Reading and Judging: Russian Literature on Trial, examines public mock trials of literary characters that were performed in the early twentieth-century in order to explore how readers reinterpreted and reimagined canonical texts. She teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, as well as comparative literature.
B.A., Columbia University (2011)
M.A., Columbia University (2016)
M.Phil., Columbia University (2018)
Ph.D., Columbia University (2021)
- Russian literature
- English and comparative literature
- Law and literature
- Narrative ethics
- Serial fiction
“Breaking the Frame: Leskov’s “Concerning ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’” and the Ethics of Storytelling,” Slavic and East European Journal, 2017