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,听Marcus L. Taft Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Wesleyan University discussing her 2017 book,听Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy: Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian Novel听(NIU Press, 2017).听
Dr. Fusso is a specialist in nineteenth-century Russian prose, especially Gogol and Dostoevsky. She is the author of听Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol听(Stanford University Press, 1993) and听Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky听(Northwestern University Press, 2006). Her most recent book is听听Her most recent translations are of Sergey Gandlevsky's autobiographical novel听Trepanation of the Skull听(NIU Press, 2014), his novel听Illegible听(NIU Press, 2019), and the short stories of Nikolai Gogol,听The Nose and Other听Stories听(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.