Ronald D. LeBlanc

Ph.D., 1984; M.A., 1978; B.A., 1976, University of Washington
Professor of Russian and Humanities, University of New Hampshire
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
603.862.3553 (work)
603-862-4962 (fax)
Ronald.LeBlanc@unh.edu

Research Interests
History and poetics of the Russian novel; food imagery and eating metaphors in Russian fiction; sexuality in Russian culture.

Current Projects
Book project, "Food, Sex, and Carnality in 19th-Century Russian Fiction," that examines how Russian authors used eating as a trope for male sexual desire

Selected Publications
"Vegetarianism in Russia: The Tolstoy(an) Legacy," Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, no. 1507 (2001): 1-39.

"Gluttony and Power in Iurii Olesha's Envy," The Russian Review, 60 (2001): 220-237.

"Deconstructing Dostoevsky: God, Guilt, and Morality in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors," Film and Philosophy (special issue 2000): 244-267.

"Food, Orality, and Nostalgia for Childhood: Gastronomic Slavophilism in Midnineteenth-Century Russian Fiction," The Russian Review, 58 (1999): 244-267.

"A la recherche du genre perdu: Fielding, Gogol, and Bakhtin's Genre Memory," in Russian Subjects: Empire, Nation, and the Culture of the Golden Age, ed. Monika Greenleaf and Stephen Moeller-Sally (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1998), 101-122.