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Published on: 10/7/2008
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Instructor: Robert L. Belknap is Professor Emeritus of Russian at Columbia and Director of the University Seminars.He was educated at Princeton University, The University of Paris, Columbia University, and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University.He is the author of The Structure of The Brothers Karamazov, The Genesis of The Brothers Karamazov, and other studies of Russian literature and of university education.He teaches courses in Russian and comparative literature and literary theory.He has taught the Humanities course in major texts of the Western tradition for fifty years, and recently a sequel to it that involves major Asian classics.He has chaired the Humanities course and the Slavic Department, been Director of the Russian (now Harriman) Institute, and served as Dean of Students and Dean of the College.