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Steven CASSEDY - Ph.D. (Princeton)

Primary Office: OGS
Primary Phone: (858) 822-0655
(Stu Svcs Ctr 449)
Secondary Office: Contact Department
Secondary Phone: Contact Department
Summer 2008 Teaching Schedule:
Course: SSII: LTEN 158 Time: MW 6:00-8:50 Location: YORK 4080A
Email: scassedy@ucsd.edu
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
Director: Making of the Modern World
Director: Russian and Soviet Studies Program

Professor of 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 received his undergraduate degree in comparative literature at the University of Michigan in 1974 and his Ph.D. in comparative literature at Princeton University in 1979. He has been a member of the Department of Literature since 1980. He is currently 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 include Russian literature, other Western European literatures, intellectual history of the West, and Russian-Jewish and American-Jewish cultural history.

Selected Publications:

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

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

"Pavel Florenskij's Philosophy of Language: Its Contextuality and Its Context," Slavic and East European Journal, 35 (1991): 537-552.

"Chernyshevsky Goes West: How Jewish Immigration Helped Bring Russian Radicalism to America," Russian History, 21 (1994): 1-21.

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

Dostoevsky's Religion. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005 (expected).