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Galya Diment

Professor, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

Contact Information

galya@uw.edu

(206) 543-7344

PDL A-219

Office Hours: 

Winter 2022 (online) - T 11:00-12:00pm, or by appointment

Fields of Interest

Nabokov19th Century20th CenturyAutobiography, Biography, and Life WritingComparative LiteratureFilm/CinemaJewish StudiesModernismRussian

Biography

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1987

Full CV (146.84 KB)

Research

Selected Research

• Galya Diment, ed. H.G. Wells and All Things Russian.  London: Anthem Press, 2019.
• Galya Diment. A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011, 2013. 438pp.
• Galya Diment. Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997, 2013. 256pp.
• Galya Diment, Zoran Kuzmanovich. MLA Approaches to Teaching "Lolita." New York: MLA, 2008. 200pp.
• Galya Diment, ed. Goncharov's "Oblomov": A Critical Companion. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998. 200pp.
• Galya Diment. Leon Schulman Gaspard: The "non-Chagall" of Vitebsk on the World Stage

Research Advised: Undergraduate Honors Theses

• Coppock, Jeremy. Lost and Found: A close reading of some poems in Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift. Honors Thesis, 2013.
• Kufeldt, Elyse. The Russian Diaspora from a Female Perspective: Analyzing the Lives and Works of Nadehda Teffi and Nina Berberova. Honors Thesis, 2012.
• Chan, Roy. Mikhail Kuzmin: Towards a Critical Reevaluation. Honors Thesis, 2002.
• Kriloff, Paul. Lolita and Nabokov's Aesthetic Moralism. Honors Thesis, 1993.

Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations

• McPeak, Rickie A. Iconoclasm or Iconography? The Death of the "Other" in Lev Tolstoy's Prose. Diss., 1996.
• Qualin, Anthony J. Exile, alienation, and the cultural other in the works of Timur Pulatov and Chingiz Aitmatov. Diss., 1996.
• Givens, John R. Vasilii Shukshin and Folk Discourse. Diss., 1993.

Courses Taught

Winter 2022

• RUSS 120 A: Topics in Russian Literary and Cultural History
• SLAVIC 580 A: Dissertation Workshop

Autumn 2021

• RUSS 340 A: Russia's Big Books
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar in Contemporary Russian Prose

Spring 2021

• RUSS 240 A: Vladimir Nabokov

Winter 2021

• RUSS 120 A: Topics in Russian Literary and Cultural History

Autumn 2020

• RUSS 426 A: Russian Art and Architecture

Winter 2020

• RUSS 340 A: Russia's Big Books
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar in Contemporary Russian Prose

Spring 2019

• RUSS 240 A: Vladimir Nabokov
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar in Contemporary Russian Prose

Winter 2019

• RUSS 340 A: Russia's Big Books
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar in Contemporary Russian Prose

Autumn 2018

• RUSS 523 A: Russian Literature of the Twentieth Century

Autumn 2017

• RUSS 340 A: Russia's Big Books
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar In Contemporary Russian Prose

Spring 2017

• RUSS 240 A: Vladimir Nabokov
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar In Contemporary Russian Prose

Winter 2017

• RUSS 600 A: Independent Study Or Research

Autumn 2016

• RUSS 340 A: Russia's Big Books: Lev Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar In Contemporary Russian Prose

Spring 2016

• RUSS 240 A: Vladimir Nabokov: Nabokov's American Years
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar In Contemporary Russian Prose

Winter 2016

• RUSS 120 A: Topics In Russian Literary And Cultural History: Russian Crime Fiction

Autumn 2015

• RUSS 340 A: Russia's Big Books: Tolstoy's "War and Peace" - Course Website
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar in Contemporary Russian Prose - Course Website

Spring 2015

• RUSS 240 A: Vladimir Nabokov: Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce - Course Website
• RUSS 543 A: Seminar In Contemporary Russian Prose - Course Website

Winter 2015

• RUSS 223 A: Russian Cinema: Russian, Polish, and Soviet Jewish/Yiddish Film, 1912-1948
• RUSS 322 A: The Golden Age: Nineteenth Century Russian Literature And Culture
• RUSS 423 A: Russian Film: Russian, Polish, and Soviet Jewish/Yiddish Film, 1912-1948
• RUSS 522 A: Russian Literature Of The Nineteenth Century

Resources & Related Links

Affiliate Professor, Jewish Studies

Related News

Related News

• Professor Galya Diment Publishes New Book! - July 15, 2019
• Galya Diment named as the Byron W and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities - May 13, 2019
• Prof. Galya Diment to give talks on her upcoming book on H.G. Wells - January 22, 2019
• Prof. Galya Diment selected as peer review committee member for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. - August 7, 2018
•  "Katherine Mansfield And Russia" a book edited by Galya Diment is published - September 18, 2017
• Professor Galya Diment has written an article about the painter, Marc Chagall. - August 11, 2016
• Diment to lead bi-monthly graduate seminar on "Melting Port" cities - September 25, 2015
• Finding Chagall in Belarus - September 22, 2015
• Diment awarded Hanauer Distinguished Professorship - May 27, 2015
• Diment now an affiliate faculty member in Jewish Studies - October 29, 2014
• Katherine Mansfield's Russian Healers - September 15, 2014
• Galya Diment's article in Times Literary Supplement - December 30, 2013
• A Tale of Two Lolitas - November 25, 2013
• Diment to give Oulanoff Lecture at The Ohio State University - September 18, 2013
• Book news - March 26, 2013
• Diment’s book gets starred review on Booklist - June 6, 2012
• Thanks to Galya - June 4, 2012
• Galya Diment’s book reviewed by The Times Literary Supplement - April 2, 2012
• Diment January book readings - December 1, 2011
• Diment’s new book - October 17, 2011

Affiliations

Affiliated Departments: 

• Cinema & Media Studies

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