William Mills Todd III

Ph.D., Columbia, 1973, M.A., Oxford, 1968
Harvard College Professor, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature;
Acting Chair, Slavic Department, 2010–11;
Faculty Associate and Executive Committee Member, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Contact Information
Slavic Department
Barker Center 369
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

617.495.1997
todd@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests
Narrative and cultural studies; Russian, English, and French literature of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries; Russian fiction and social history; literary sociology, semiotics, Pushkin and Dostoevsky.

Current Projects
A book on the serialization of the Russian novel (1860s–80s), as well as articles on Pushkin and on Russian literary and cultural theory.

Selected Publications
"The Ruse of the Russian Novel" (2006)

"Dostoevsky As A Professional Writer" (2003)

Sovremennoe amerikanskoe Pushkinovedenie: Sbornik Statei (St. Petersburg, 1999)

Soviet Sociology of Literature: Conceptions of a Changing World (1990)

Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology, Institutions, Narrative (1986, Russian translation 1996.)

Literature and Society in Imperial Russia: 1800–1914 (1978)

The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin (1976, Russian transl. 1995)