Livak,
Leonid
Email:
leo.livak@utoronto.ca
Phone:
416-926-1300 ext. 3143
Fax:
416-926-2076
Department:
Slavic Languages & Literatures/Jewish Studies
Status:
Faculty
Courses taught:
SLA 220Y Intermediate Russian
SLA 234Y Russian and Soviet Cinema
SLA 234F/S Russian and Soviet Cinema I: Pioneers, Avant-gardists, Totalitarians
SLA 235S Russian and Soviet Cinema II: New Wave, Ideology and Dissent, The End of an Empire
SLA 244S Studies in Film Genre I: Russian and Soviet Comedy
SLA 302S The Imaginary Jew
SLA 320S Advanced Russian
SLA 312F/S Nabokov
SLA 313F Vladimir Nabokov’s American Novel
SLA 339F The Twilight of an Empire: Russian Art and Thought in the European Fin de Siècle
SLA 339F 20th Century Russian Prose I: Modernism, Avant-garde, Totalitarianism
SLA 420Y Studies in Russian Syntax and Stylistics
SLA 340S/SLA 1231S 20th Century Russian Prose II: Internal and External Exile
SLA 1232F Russian Symbolism
Research interests:
19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture; Russian language and linguistics; 19th and 20th century French literature and culture; literary and critical theory; comparative approaches to literary and cultural studies; Russian-Jewish cultural relations.; (Currently Undergraduate Coordinator)
Languages:
Russian