Barry P. Scherr

Name: Barry P. Scherr (e-mail)
Position: Mandel Family Professor of Russian; Provost
Degree: Ph.D., University of Chicago, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Address:

HB 6085
Reed Hall, Room 211A
Hanover, NH 03755-1801

Phone: (603) 646-2628

Courses Taught

• Russian language
• Russian literature (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
• Comparative Literature
• Humanities and Film

Research Interests

• Versification
• Narrative theory
• Twentieth-century Russian prose,
• Russian poetry of the Silver Age

Selected Publications

• The Shining World: Exploring Aleksandr Grin's "Grinlandia", by Barry P. Scherr and Nicholas Luker, with the collaboration of Simon Ellis. Nottingham: Astra Press, 2007. xviii + 189 pp.
• "Settling Accounts with Russia’s Silver Age: Nabokov Writes Akhmatova," The Russian Review, 65 (2006), no. 1, 35-52.
• "Yearning For a Last Love: Tjutcev’s "Poslednjaja Ljubov'" in English," Russian Literature, 57 (2005), nos. 1-2, 183-204.
• "Gorky and God-Building." In William James in Russian Culture. Ed. Joan Delaney Grossman and Ruth Rischin. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. Pp. 189-210.
• Eisenstein at 100: A Reconsideration. Ed. Al LaValley and Barry P. Scherr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. ix + 318 pp.
• "To Urania." In Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem. Ed. Lev Loseff and Valentina Polukhina. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp. 92-106.
• Maksim Gorky: Selected Letters. Edited, translated, and commentary by Andrew Barratt and Barry P. Scherr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.