Michael Finke, Head, Professor
Contact
Phone: (217) 244-3068
Email: mcfinke@illinois.edu
Office: 3129 FLB, Thur. 12-1:30 or by appt.
Degree
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1989
Major Interests
Chekhov, Literature and Medicine, Literature and Psychoanalysis, Aviation and Popular Culture.
Selected Publications
Books:
- Seeing Chekhov: Life and Art (Cornell University Press, 2005).
- Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov (Duke University Press, 1995).
- Chekhov the Immigrant: Translating a Cultural Icon, proceedings of October 2004 NEH symposium, co-edited with Julie de Sherbinin of Colby College (Slavica Press, 2007).
- One Hundred Years of Masochism: Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts, co-edited with Carl Niekerk (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000).
select Articles
- "The Agit-Flights of Viktor Shkolovskii and Boris Pil'niak," in The Other Shore, 1 (2010): 19-32.
- “Heal Thyself, Hide Thyself: Why Did Chekhov Ignore His TB?” forthcoming in Chekhov the Immigrant (see above).
- “Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams: A Conversation with Dr. Robert Coles,” video documentary (42 minutes), to appear in Chekhov the Immigrant (see above).
- “Dostoevsky's ‘White Nights' and Turgenev,” In Other Words: Studies in Honor of Vadim Liapunov (Indiana Slavic Studies, vol. 11 [2000]), 27-58.
- “Sacher-Masoch, Turgenev, and Other Russians,” One Hundred Years of Masochism: Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts , ed. Michael Finke and Carl Niekerk (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), 119-137.
- “Figures for History in Kapitanskaia dochka and Poets as Historical Figures in Istoriia Pugacheva , in The Pushkin Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1993): 167-83.