Professor Emerita
Biography
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
Curriculum Vitae
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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
- 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.
- 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.
- Kriloff, Paul. Lolita and Nabokov's Aesthetic Moralism. Honors Thesis, 1993.
- Givens, John R. Vasilii Shukshin and Folk Discourse. Diss., 1993.
Courses Taught
Spring 2024
- GLITS 252 B: Introduction to Global Literatures: Literary Genres Across Time and Place
- RUSS 120 A: Topics in Russian Literary and Cultural History
- SLAVIC 580 A: Dissertation Workshop
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
- GLITS 252 B: Introduction to Global Literatures: Literary Genres Across Time and Place
- RUSS 240 A: Vladimir Nabokov
- RUSS 543 A: Seminar in Contemporary Russian Prose
- SLAVIC 580 A: Dissertation Workshop
Winter 2023
- GLITS 311 A: Literature Across Times
- RUSS 120 A: Topics in Russian Literary and Cultural History
- SLAVIC 580 A: Dissertation Workshop
Autumn 2022
- RUSS 340 A: Russia's Big Books
- RUSS 543 A: Seminar in Contemporary Russian Prose
- SLAVIC 580 A: Dissertation Workshop
Spring 2022
- RUSS 240 A: Vladimir Nabokov
- RUSS 543 A: Seminar in Contemporary Russian Prose
- SLAVIC 580 A: Dissertation Workshop
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
- RUSS 340 A: Russia's Big Books
- RUSS 543 A: Seminar in Contemporary Russian Prose
- SLAVIC 580 A: Dissertation Workshop
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
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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)