D.Sc. in Russian Language and Literature
Associate Dean of Alumni Education, Columbia College
Adjunct Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
President, International Dostoevsky Society (2007-2013)
Honorary President, International Dostoevsky Society (2013-present)
Executive Secretary, North American Dostoevsky Society (1998-2013)
Awards
2016 Donald Barton Johnson Award for the best essay published in Nabokov Studies that year: “Lolita as Petersburg Text.”
2012 Lehrpreis zur Förderung von Innovationen in der Lehre from the University of Leuphana for her Skype class “Love and Madness: Reading Nabokov’s Lolita.”
Ph.D. Thesis: Dostoevsky and the Temptation of Rhetoric, 1990
Research interests: Dostoevsky, Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose, Narrative and Rhetorical Theory, Shame Studies and the Novel.
Selected Works
Books
- Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky’s Liars and Narrative Exposure. OSU Narrative Series, 2003. 273 p. In English.
- Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide (forthcoming Academic Studies Press, 2021).
Curatorial Works
- Martinsen, Deborah, editor. Literary Journals in Imperial Russia. Cambridge 1997. 265 p. In English.
- Martinsen, Deborah, et al, editors. Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap. Academic Studies Press, 2014. In English.
- Martinsen, Deborah, and Olga Mairova, editors. Dostoevsky in Context. Cambridge, 2016. 329 p. In English.
Teaching experience
Associate Dean of Alumni Education, Adjunct Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, and Adjunct Lecturer of English and Comparative Literature.