William Mills Todd III

Ph.D., Columbia, 1973, M.A., Oxford, 1968)
Chair, Department of Comparative Literature; Harvard College Professor and Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature
Faculty Associate and Executive Committee, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Contact Information
Slavic Department:
Barker Center 369
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Telephone: 617.495.1997
Private fax: 617.354.4458
todd@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/faculty/William_mills_todd.html

Research Interests
19th-century Russian and European literature, Russian pastoral, journalism and literature, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, theory of narrative, semiotics, literary sociology, and cultural studies.

Current Projects
A book dealing with the serialization of the Russian novel (1860s-80s), as well as articles on Dostoevsky and Pushkin.

Selected Publications
Sovremennaia Amerikanskaia Pushkinovedenie: Sbornik Statei (St. Petersburg, 1999)

The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin (1976, Russian transl. 1995)

Literature and Society in Imperial Russia: 1800-1914 (1978)

Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology, Institutions, Narrative (1986, Russian translation 1996.)

Soviet Sociology of Literature: Conceptions of a Changing World (1990)