Maria Carlson


Maria Carlson
  • Professor Emerita

Contact Info

Wescoe Hall, 2139
1445 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045

Biography

Slavic folklore; Russian Silver Age literature and thought

Research

Research Interests

  • Russian cultural and intellectual history and non-Marxist thought
  • Russian occult movements and speculative mysticism
  • East Slavic folklore, Slavic mythology, neo-paganism
  • Literature, art, thought, and culture of the Russian Silver Age (1885-1922), with comparative European dimension
  • The work of Andrei Bely (1880-1934)

Teaching

Teaching Interests

  • Russian intellectual history
  • Main Currents of Russian Though
  • Slavic folklore and mythology
  • Russian symbolism
  • Russian Modernist poetry
  • Soviet literature
  • The Devil in Russian and European culture
  • The 18th century
  • Andrei Belyi
  • Mikhail Bulgakov&rsquo
  • S Master i Margarita
  • Russian art and culture
  • Interdisciplinary studies