Caryl Emerson
Princeton University
Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Her scholarship has focused on the Russian classics (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky), Mikhail Bakhtin, and Russian music, opera and theater. Recent projects include the French Neo-Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain and the interwar Russian diaspora (philosophers and creative artists), the Russian modernist prosewriter Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950), the allegorical-historical novelist Vladimir Sharov (1952-2018), and the co-editing, with George Pattison and Randall A. Poole, of The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought (2020).