The Science of Sensation: Dostoevsky, Wilkie Collins and the Detective Novel
Melissa Frazier is a professor of Russian Language and Russian and Comparative Literature at Sarah Lawrence College, where she also holds the Margot C. Bogert Distinguished Service Chair. Her book Romantic Encounters: Readers, Writers and the Library for Reading (2007) was awarded the 2007 Jean-Pierre Barricelli book prize by the International Conference on Romanticism. Current projects include Dostoevsky and the detective novel and the intersections of Russian and African American literature.
NYU's Russian and Slavic Studies Colloquium is an interdisciplinary forum that serves to introduce and discuss the most recent work of a range of scholars from within the Slavic field.