Associate Director
Yuri Corrigan joins the Center as associate director in AY 25-26 and heads the Center’s Global Initiative. He is an Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature in the Department of World Languages & Literatures, where he studies the intersections of philosophy, religion, and psychology in modern Russian and European literature with a focus on the Russian nineteenth century. He is the author of Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self (2017); the editor of Chekhov in Context (2023); and is working on two new books – one titled Soul Geographers: From Gogol to Nietzsche, a comparative study of literary attempts to map the unconscious in the 19th century; the other probing Chekhov as a moral thinker for our time.
He was awarded the Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2019 by the College of Arts and Science. In 2024, he won the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
For more about Professor Corrigan’s research, please see his departmental bio.