A native of Northern California, Thomas Hodge earned degrees at Pomona College, Oxford University, and Stanford University before joining the faculty at Wellesley College, where he has taught in the Russian Department since the early 1990s. He specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature and its connections to the natural environment and to Russian music. He is the author of three books: the first translation of Sergei Aksakov's treatise, Notes on Fishing (Northwestern UP, 1997); A Double Garland: Poetry and Art-Song in Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia (Northwestern UP, 2000); and Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World (Cornell UP, 2020).
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