Thomas Dyne is a scholar of 19th-century Russian literature, the theory of the novel, and narrative ethics.
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
- Girlhood: Nabokov's Lolita and Taylor Swift
- Appropriating the Past: The Early History and Culture of the Eastern Slavs
- Formative Masterpieces
- PhD, UC Berkeley, 2019
- MA, UC Berkeley, 2015
- MA, NYU, 2011
- BA, NYU, 2009
Education & Training
Awards
2024 Provost’s Award for Diversity in the Curriculum
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 Eastern European Journal, vol. 64, no. 3, Fall 2020, pp. 453-72. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism: Fyodor Dostoevsky. Vol. 332. Gale: 2024.
Annotations and commentary for Nabokov’s lecture on Turgenev. Published Dec. 2018 by The Nabokovian. (thenabokovian.org/annotations)
“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
- Theory of narrative and of the novel
- Realism and the nineteenth-century novel
- Narrative omniscience in the novel
- Digital humanities