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Email:	katyo@bu.edu
Office:	303
Phone:	353-6253
Fax:	353-6246
Office hours:	M 9-12

Katherine O'Connor

Associate Chair, Department of Modern Languages & Comparative Literature

Professor of Russian

AB, Bryn Mawr College
AM, Harvard University
PhD, Harvard University

Teaching and Research Interests

19th and 20th century Russian prose and poetry, literary translation; general humanities (Core humanities courses)

Selected Publications

Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Marguerita (translated with Diana Burgin); Sergei Dovlatov’s “Somebody’s Death” (translated with Diana Burgin), The New Yorker (9/29/81); Boris Pasternak’s ‘My Sister-Life’: The Illusion of Narrative (1989); “Rereading Lolita, Reconsidering Nabokov’s Relationship with Dostoevsky,” Slavic and East European Journal (Vol.33, no 1, 1989); “Chekhov’s Death: His Textual Past Recaptured,” Studies in Poetics (1995); “Chekhov’s Letter to Lermontov,” Essays in Poetics (Autumn 2006); “Writing in English with a Chekhov Muse,” Chekhov the Immigrant: Translating a Cultural Icon (forthcoming).

Work in Progress

Monograph on Chekhov’s letters

Honors, Grants, and Awards

Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellowships
NDFL Grants
Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, Radcliffe College
Metcalf Teaching Award, Boston University