Victoria Juharyan
Johns Hopkins University
Victoria Juharyan currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. She was formerly a visiting assistant professor and the undergraduate advisor in the Department of Russian and German at UC Davis, a visiting assistant professor, a summer language teacher, and a graduate school instructor at Davis School of Russian at Middlebury College, and a visiting assistant professor and the undergraduate advisor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Victoria completed her PhD in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University in 2018. She also holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and a BA in Literary Editing from St. Petersburg State University in Russia. Her research interests include the relationship between philosophy and literature, German Idealism and Russian Realism, nineteenth-century Russian literature, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, aesthetics, philosophy of emotion and cognition in literature, the theory of the novel, Bakhtin, Russian theater, poetry, and translation. In addition to completing a manuscript on Tolstoy’s philosophy of love titled The Cognitive Value of Love in Tolstoy: A Study in Aesthetics, Victoria is working on two other long-term projects: one on Hegel’s influence on Russian literature and the other on the eighteenth-century Ukrainian philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda. Together with Alyssa DeBlasio, she is the co-editor of the collected volume Socrates in Russia (Brill, 2022) with several similar co-edited volumes such as Socratic Women and Faust in Russia currently in progress. Victoria also serves on the Program Committee of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
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Hegel’s Philosophy of History as the Unifying Thread of Goncharov’s Trilogy
Review of Porter's Economies of Feeling
Oblomov and Hegel: Circles of Time and Structure in Dialectical Progression