Maria Carlson
- Professor Emerita
Contact Info
Wescoe Hall, 2139
1445 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045
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