{"id":3719,"date":"2013-10-09T19:55:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T23:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3719"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:37:56","slug":"yuri-corrigan","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/yuri-corrigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuri Corrigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spring 2026 office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 and Wednesdays 2:30-3:30<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">His most recent book is\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/literary-studies-and-literature\/chekhovs-antidotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/literary-studies-and-literature\/chekhovs-antidotes\"><span>Chekhov\u2019s Antidotes<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0(Stanford UP, 2026), a revaluation of Chekhov as a reparative moral philosopher for a divided and dysfunctional age.\u00a0<\/span><span>He<\/span><span>\u00a0is also the author of<span class=\"x_x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self<\/em><span class=\"x_x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(Northwestern UP, 2017) and the editor of<span class=\"x_x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Chekhov in Context<\/em><span class=\"x_x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(Cambridge UP, 2023). His current project is a book titled<span class=\"x_x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Soul Geographers<\/em>, a study of how writers tried to map the unconscious in the nineteenth century, with chapters on Gogol, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/awards-publications\/award-opportunities\/university-wide-teaching-awards\/metcalf\/metcalf-cup-and-prize\/2024-metcalf-cup-and-prize-recipient-yuri-corrigan\/\">Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/dostoevsky-200-roundtable\">Roundtable discussion, \u201cDostoevsky at 200,\u201d Oxford University (May 2021) <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/on-fyodor-dostoevskys-the-brothers-karamazov\/id1502742433?i=1000508334716\">Writ Large podcast episode, on Dostoevsky\u2019s Brothers Karamazov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2013\/10\/CV-Yuri-Corrigan-2025.pdf\">CV &#8211; Yuri Corrigan<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/yuri-corrigan\/cv-yuri-corrigan-2\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5147,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20849,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3719\/revisions\/20849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}