Dr. Anna Schur

Degrees & Credentials: Ph.D. University of California, Davis, Comparative Literature. M.A. Leningrad State University, Russia.

Anna Schur is the author of Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment and The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia, both from Northwestern University Press. Her work has appeared in Slavic Review, The Russian Review, East European Jewish Affairs, Russian Literature, Law and Literature, and Slavonic and East European Review, among other journals. Her current research project focuses on the notions of fact and historical authenticity in the fin de siècle Russia.

Her research has been supported by internal and external grants, including from the National Endowment Foundation (2002, 2007, 2013) and the Whiting Foundation (2004, 2013).

Research Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, literature and civil society, law and literature, Russian and Soviet legal culture, the novel, 20th-century Russian-Jewish literature, Fridrikh Gorenshtein.

Recent Publications

“Evil, Theodicy, and Jewishness in Fridrikh Gorenshtein.” Slavic Review 82, no 3 (Fall 2023):737-753.

"Authenticity, Facts and Politics in the Fin-de-Siècle Pushkin Debate." Forthcoming in Slavonic and East European Review. 101, no 4 (2023):601-625.

“Ambivalently Modern, Ambiguously Traditional: Ivan Bunin and the Courtroom Narrative.” The Russian Review. 81, no 3 (2022):511-527.