Thomas Dyne is a scholar of 19th-century Russian literature, the theory of the novel, and narrative ethics.
Education and Training
- PhD, UC Berkeley, 2019
- MA, UC Berkeley, 2015
- MA, NYU, 2011
- BA, NYU, 2009
Courses Taught
- Crime & Punishment & Kanye West
- Elementary Russian I & II
- Early Russian Culture
- Adultery, Murder, Omniscience: Introduction to Nineteenth Century Russian Literature
- Sci-Fi: East and West
- Behind Bars: Cross-Cultural Representations of the Prison in the 20th Century
Representative publications
"'That's the horrible part: I understand everything!': The Narrative Ethics of Misreading the Other in Dostoevsky's Poor Folk and 'The Meek One'", Slavic and East European Journal, vol 64, no. 3, Fall 2020, pp 453-72
"Silent Scenes of Interpretation: Visual & Verbal Language in Tolstoy's Narrative", Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. XXVIII, December 2016, pp. 7-16
Research interests
- Narrative ethics in the nineteenth-century novel
- The representation of the body in the novel
- Theory of narrative and the novel
- Science fiction
- History of the firearm in Russian literature