Kate Holland

Associate Professor, Russian Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Kate Holland

Areas of interest

  • Russian literature & culture

Biography

Main bio

Kate Holland is Associate Professor of Russian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She has published widely on nineteenth century Russian literature and culture including articles on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Gogol, and historical poetics. She is author of The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s (Northwestern, 2013) and co-editor of Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity (U of T Press, 2021). Her current project is the SSHRC-funded Digital Dostoevsky, a computational text analysis project on a corpus of five novels and two novellas by Dostoevsky. She is President of the North American Dostoevsky Society and an active contributor to that organization’s blog and social media