Ronald D. LeBlanc

Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Washington, 1984
Professor of Russian and Humanities, University of New Hampshire
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
603.862.3553
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
“A Soviet Jungle: Boris Pilnyak’s Miaso: Roman (1936)”

Selected Publications
Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2009)

“Alimentary Violence: Eating as a Trope in Russian Literature,” in Times of Trouble: Violence in Russian Literature and Culture, ed. Marcus Levitt and Tatyana Novikov (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), 154-177.

“«Санин» Арцыбашева как ответ Толстому и толстовству,” Лев Толстой и мировая литература: Материалы IV международной научной конференции, ред. Галина Алексеева  (Тула: «Ясная Поляна», 2007), 45-53.

“Tolstoy’s Body: Diet, Desire, and Denial,” in Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World, ed. Christopher E. Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 147-166.