Associate Professor of Russian & Comparative Literature
Spring 2026 office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 and Wednesdays 2:30-3:30
Prof. Corrigan teaches courses in Russian and comparative literature and in the Core Curriculum. He is interested in modern European literature and philosophy, with a special focus on the long nineteenth century in Russia leading up to the revolution of 1917.
His most recent book is Chekhov’s Antidotes (Stanford UP, 2026), a revaluation of Chekhov as a reparative moral philosopher for a divided and dysfunctional age. He is also the author of Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self (Northwestern UP, 2017) and the editor of Chekhov in Context (Cambridge UP, 2023). His current project is a book titled Soul Geographers, a study of how writers tried to map the unconscious in the nineteenth century, with chapters on Gogol, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.
He was awarded the Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2019 by the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2024, he won the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Roundtable discussion, “Dostoevsky at 200,” Oxford University (May 2021)
Writ Large podcast episode, on Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov