Edythe Haber

Areas of Expertise

Edythe Haber is a Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of an acclaimed book on Mikhail Bulgakov’s early years and of many publications on Bulgakov, Teffi, and Nabokov. A second book, Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter, came out in 2019, a Russian edition scheduled to appear in 2022. She has recently returned to Bulgakov and is continuing her work of exploring the mythical, religious, and philosophical underpinnings of his great novel, The Master and Margarita.

My Events:

The Genius Song: Text to Music

Thursday, October 19, 2023
4:30 to 6pm EDT

In person

This talk considers two musical works, produced in the 2000s, based on writing by poet Marina Tsvetaeva and novelist Vladimir Sorokin, respectively. Both are homages to the literary and musical figures of past and present, unified by the modern and post-modern tableaux of the “disintegrated world.”

Olga Zaslavsky

Independent Scholar

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

an old photograph of chekhov with actors

Chekhov's Fictions of the End

Tuesday, April 25, 2023
4 to 5:30pm EDT

In person

Please join the Davis Center for a conversation with Robin Miller about Chekhov's writings.

Robin Feuer Miller

Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities and Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Never-ending War: Russian Myth, Yesterday and Today

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
4 to 5:30pm EDT

In person

Greg Carleton will discuss how history and culture can be made to give Russia's pedigree status as an exceptional nation worldwide. Its roots, uses, and applications today to the war in Ukraine and beyond.

Gregory Carleton

Professor of Russian Studies, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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