Susan McReynolds
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Harvard University (Comparative Literature)
- s-mcreynolds@northwestern.edu
- (847) 467-2754
- 1880 Campus Dr., Kresge Hall, Suite 3305 (Office 3361), Evanston, IL 60208
Susan McReynolds' research interests include Russian and German literature and philosophy; nationalism, anti-Semitism, and religion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. She is the author of Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky’s Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism (Northwestern UP 2008). She edited and revised the translation Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, published as a new Norton Critical Edition in 2011. She is currently completing a monograph on Dostoevsky’s contributions to twentieth-century cultural and political developments and several projects on Tolstoy, including a study of Tolstoy and Hannah Arendt.
Recent courses taught:
- Slavic 105-6 Freshman Seminar (Utopia and Anti-Utopia )
- Slavic 210-3 Introduction to Russian Literature
- Slavic 311 Dostoevsky
- Slavic 390 Literature and Politics in Russia
- Slavic 436 Studies in 19th Century Russian Literature
- CLS 390 Topics in Comparative Literature (Literature and Money)