Courses Academic Year 2025-2026

Artist in Power: The King as Narrator
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F25
Comparative Case Studies within the Disability Rights Movement
Vera Shengeliya | MAR – APR S26
Documentary Poetry: Politics of Memory and the ‘Desire for an Archive’
Galina Rymbu | FEB – MAR S26
Ecocritical Reading of Russophone Poetry of the 20th-21st Centuries
Galina Rymbu | MAR – APR S26
Exploring Disability Identity
Vera Shengeliya | FEB – MAR S26
Literature after The War: Genres, Themes, Challenges
Dmitry Bykov | FEB – MAR S26
Literature and Photography
Larissa Muravieva | MAR – APR S26
Narrating Trauma
Larissa Muravieva | FEB – MAR S26
Russian Folklore: Myth, Rumor, and Cultural Memory
Dmitry Bykov | OCT – NOV F25
Why Do We Forget? The Politics of Memory
Ilia Venyavkin | MAR – MAY S26
Writers’ Survival Strategies
Dmitry Bykov | MAR – APR S26
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