ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF RUSSIAN & COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, CONVENER OF RUSSIAN
Professor Corrigan 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), which examines Dostoevsky as a distinctive philosopher of the unconscious. He is working on two new books, the first a study of the high-stakes cultural struggle to define the human being in pre-revolutionary Russia (titled Soul Wars). The second, Chekhov as a Moral Thinker, explores the significance of Chekhov’s ethical thought both for our own time and for Russian and European culture at the fin de siècle.