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This talk will apply the newest insights from cognitive psychology to the study of Russian literature. It will focus on writers and cultural figures from the Golden to the Internet Age including: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Sologub, Bely, Akhmatova, Nabokov, Baranskaya, and contemporary online discourse. Dolack will discuss a wide array of cognitively-informed fields within psychology and related disciplines and approaches such as social psychology, the study of autism, cognitive approaches to creativity, the medical humanities, cognitive anthropology, psychopathology, and psychoanalysis.
Tom Dolack is currently a student advisor at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. For the previous 20 years he had taught Russian language and comparative literature at the Universities of Oregon, Chicago, and Pennsylvania, the Middlebury Summer Language Program, and Wheaton College. He has published on translation theory, cognitive and evolutionary approaches to literature, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Mandelstam, Petrarch, and Unamuno among other topics. Most recently he is the editor of Russian Literature and Cognitive Science from Lexington Books.
