Dr. Yvonne H. Howell

Associate Professor of Russian and International Studies
International Studies Concentration Advisor, Modern Europe
215 Puryear Hall
Office: (804) 289-8101
Fax: (804) 287-6446

Teaching:
19th and 20th century Russian literature
Czech literature and culture
Russian language
Introduction to international studies
First Year Core Course

Research:
Russian literature and culture
Czech literature and culture
Sociobiology in cross-cultural perspective
History of science (Soviet Union)

Education:
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
M.A., Slavic Linguistics, University of Michigan
B.A., Biology, Russian, Dartmouth College

Selected Publications:

Howell, Y. “The Liberal Gene: Sociobiology as Emancipatory Discourse in the late Soviet Union” [under review, 2008].

Howell, Y. "The Genetics of Genius: Biosocial mechanisms of higher intellectual activity." In Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture. Ed. A. Brintlinger and I.Vinitsky. University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Howell, Y. (2006) Eugenics, Rejuvenation, and Bulgakov's Journey into the Heart of Dogness. Slavic Review, v.65, Fall.

Howell, Y. “V. P. Efroimson.”  Biographical entry in Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History, ed. Bruce F. Adams, Greenwood, 2006.  

Howell, Y. “Fiziki-liriki [scientist-poets]” Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. Routledge Press, 2006.

Howell, Y. Apokalipticheskii realism. Nauchnaia fantastika A B Strugatskiie. Russian edition of original English volume, trans. Alla Kuznetsova, 2005. 

Howell, Y. (2002) Where's the Velvet? Jachym Topol's Sestra and the Reception of Alex Zucher's Translation of City, Sister, Silver. Translation Review, v.63.

Howell, Y. Apocalyptic Realism: The Science Fiction of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. New York: P. Lang, 1994.