Dr. Stephanie Merkel

Contact Information

Office: Sturges 303
Phone: 740-368-3586
E-mail: slmerkel@owu.edu

Education

M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
B.A., University of Notre Dame

Biography

Professor Merkel joined Ohio Wesleyan’s faculty in 1998. She earned her B.A. in Government/Soviet Studies and Russian language from the University of Notre Dame, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Slavic Studies from Cornell University. In addition, she studied one year at Leningrad State University in the former USSR and has traveled extensively in Russia. Before coming to Ohio Wesleyan she taught Russian language and literature at Cornell, Syracuse, and Lehigh universities. Her research on Russian Romanticism explores the intersection of poetry and fashion. She writes on Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Akhmatova. In addition to Russian literature, Professor Merkel is also trained in Middle High German.

Courses Taught

HMCL 122, Myth, Legend and Folklore
HMCL 255, The Devil, the Hero and God
HMCL 290, Rogue’s Progress:  The Picaresque Experience
HMCL 350, Reason and Romanticism
HMCL 360, Great Books of the Nineteenth Century
HMCL 380, Great Books of Russia:  The Russian Enigma

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