Lonny R. Harrison, Ph.D.
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Dr. Lonny Harrison is an incoming Associate Professor of Russian and Director of Critical Languages and International Studies (CLIS) in the Department of Modern Languages. He specializes in 19th-century Russian literature and culture and has wider interests including 20th-century Russian literature, media, and mass culture, and Russian philosophy. His research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, incorporating Russian and European trends in literature, psychology, and the history of ideas. Dr. Harrison's book Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self was published in May 2016 by the Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Other teaching and research interests are Russian cinema, translation studies, and technology-enhanced language learning.
- 2008 - PhD in Russian Literature, The University of Toronto
- 2008 - MA in Slavic Languages and Literature, The University of Toronto
- 1999 - BA in English, Simon Fraser University
Office: Hammond Hall, Room 221 E-Mail: lonnyharrison@uta.edu
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Introduction to Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self
(Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016) -
Duality and the Problem of Moral Self-Awareness In Dostoevsky's Dvoinik (The Double)
(University of Toronto, 2008)This dissertation investigates the problem of duality as it relates to the moral situation of the protagonist of F. M. Dostoevsky's novella Dvoinik (The Double, 1846). Bearing the cultural and literary heritage as well ... -
Review of The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism, by Claudia Verhoeven
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European LanguagesDepartment of Modern Languages, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2010 Sprin) -
Review of Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration, by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European LanguagesDepartment of Modern Languages, The University of Texas at Arlington, Fall 2011) -
The Numinous Experience of Ego Transcendence in Dostoevsky
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European LanguagesDepartment of Modern Languages, The University of Texas at Arlington, Fall 2013)This paper responds to recently debated questions of “reading Dostoevsky religiously” by investigating themes of personal transformation and ego transcendence in his works. They are seen as the writer’s chief response to ...
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