Courses

Current courses: 

[Prof. Weir is on sabbatical leave 2021-22]

Previously taught:

  • CompLit 122/ Slavic 184: Soviet Theory and the West
  • CompLit 189/ Slavic 181: Document, Testimony, and Political Fictions (with Jonathan Bolton)
  • Ethical Reasoning 28. Moral Inquiry in the Novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
  • Freshman Seminar 32i: The Films of Sergei Eisenstein
  • Freshman Seminar 37P: Reading Tolstoy's War and Peace
  • Freshman Seminar 91: Russian Psychological Fiction
  • Freshman Seminar 62P: War in Fiction and Film
  • Literature 102: On Narrative
  • Literature and Arts A A-45: Theories of Authorship: Russian Case Studies
  • Literature 138: Russian Formalism
  • Literature 142. Narrative Theories of Prose and Film 
  • Slavic 98. Tutorial—Junior Year 
  • Slavic 154: Nabokov
  • Slavic 131 Dostoevsky
  • Slavic 142: Authorship and the Post-Revolutionary Russian Novel
  • Slavic 143: Russian Formalism
  • Slavic 145B: Russian Literature and Revolution
  • Slavic 147: Russian Psychological Prose
  • Slavic 147: Soviet Film After Stalin 
  • Slavic 157: Tolstoy
  • Slavic 159: Approaches to Tolstoy (with Julie Buckler)
  • Slavic 184: Russian Theory
  • Slavic 240. Soviet Cinema and the Bolshevik Revolution: Seminar
  • Slavic 252. Rereading Russian Intellectual History
  • Slavic 284: Tolstoy and Modernism
  • Slavic 299. Proseminar
  • Visual and Environmental Studies 188s: Soviet and Russian Film and Film Theory