Irina Paperno

Irina Paperno teaches Russian literature and intellectual history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications include:

“Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior.” Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.

“Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky’s Russia.” Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997.

“Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams.” Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009.

ipaperno@berkeley.edu