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Steven Cassedy

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Slavic and Comparative Literature

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russian, French, German and Yiddish Literature; Early Twentieth-Century Literary Theory; Russian Jewish Intellectual History; Jewish Immigration to America

Steve Cassedy has been a member of the Department of Literature since 1980. He was a Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, Director of Eleanor Roosevelt College's Making of the Modern World (a core sequence in world civilization), and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. His teaching and research interests included Russian literature, other Western European literatures, intellectual history of the West, and Russian-Jewish and American-Jewish cultural history.

Publications

  • Dostoevsky's Religion. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

  • To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

  • Flight from Eden: The Rise of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.

  • Selected Essays of Andrew Bely. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985.

  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Princeton University, 1979

  • B.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, 1974