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Greta Matzner-Gore

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Email matzner@usc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University, 2014
  • M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University, 2009
  • B.A. Russian and East European Studies, Yale University, 2006
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, The Harriman Institute of Columbia University, 2014-2015

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Greta Matzner-Gore is a specialist in nineteenth-century Russian prose, with interests in narrative theory, the ethics of reading, and intersections between science (especially nineteenth-century research into geography, physiology, and statistics) and literature. Her first book, “Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters,” was published by Northwestern University Press in the Spring of 2020.

    Research Keywords

    19th-century Russian Literature,
    Narrative Theory,
    Theory of the Novel, The History of Science, Theories of Realism

  • Book

    • Matzner-Gore, G. (2020). Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

    Book Chapter

    • Matzner-Gore, G. (2021). The Improbable Poetics of Crime and Punishment University of Toronto Press. (Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland). pp. 159-176.

    Journal Article

    • Matzner-Gore, G. (2018). Dmitry Grigorovich and the Limits of Empiricism Lawrence, Kansas: Russian Review. Vol. 77 (July 2018), (Eve Levin). pp. 359–77.
    • Matzner-Gore, G. (2014). Gogol’s Language of Instability: The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich and the Problem of Identity Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 58 (1), (Irene Delic). pp. 19-32.
    • Matzner-Gore, G. (2014). Kicking Maksimov out of the Carriage: Minor Characters, Exclusion, and The Brothers Karamazov Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 58 (3), (Irene Delic). pp. 419-436.
    • Albert S. Raubenheimer Junior Faculty Award, 2019-2020
    • General Education Teaching Award, 2018-2019
    • Robert L. Belknap Dissertation Prize, 2014-2015
    • Columbia’s Core Preceptor Teaching Award, 2013-2014