Edythe C. Haber

Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1971
Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
617.354.1168
ehaber@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests
Russian 20th century literature, especially Mikhail Bulgakov and Nadezhda Teffi

Current Projects
Nadezhda Teffi: A Creative Biography

Three archival projects: Aleksandr Amfiteatrov and Russian emigre writers in France: The Teffii-Amfiteatrov Correspondence; The "Sovremennye zapiski" archive: Teffi materials; The Correspondence of Teffi and Petr Bitsilli

Selected Publications
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Early Years. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998.

"The Mythic Bulgakov: 'The Master and Margarita' and Arthur Drews's 'The Christ Myth'," SEEJ 43:2 (Summer, 1999): 347-60.

"N.A. Teffi," Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 317: Twentieth Dentury Russian Émigré Writers, ed. Maria Rubins. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005: 307-319.

"Fashioning Life: Teffi and Women's Humor," in Reflective Laughter: Aspects of Humour in Russian Culture, ed. Lesley Milne. London: Anthem, 2004: 63-71, 200-203.

"The Roots of NEP Satire: The Case of Teffi and Zoshchenko," The NEP Era: Soviet Russia, 1921-28, 1:1 (2007): 89-99.