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Jehanne Gheith, Associate Professor and Director, International Comparative Studies Program

Contact Info:

Office Location:	309 Languages Building
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 3147, +1 919 660 3140
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• HOUSECS 59.03, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis

  Perkins 088, M 07:00 PM-08:30 PM

• SOCIOL 180S.01, SOCIETY, SELF, NATURAL WORLD Synopsis

  Languages 114, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	Stanford University	1992
MSW	UNC-Chapel Hill	2009
MA in Russian Literature	Stanford University, Stanford California	1987
BA in Russian Literature (summa cum laude)	Boston University, Boston, MA	1983

Specialties:

Russian
Cultural Memory
International Comparative Studies
Gender Studies
Women's Studies

Research Interests: 19th & 20th Century Literature, Gulag, Women's & Gender Studies, Cultural Memory

Current projects: "Voices from the Gulag": will appear in January 2011 from Palgrave MacMillan, Book ms, "A Dog Named Stalin: Memory, Trauma and the Gulag,? is a study of the Gulag based on life-history oral accounts., New research project beginning on the emerging Russian Hospice movement

My book manuscript, "A Dog Named Stalin: Memory, Trauma and the Gulag," is a study of the Gulag based on life-history oral accounts. The analysis is based on multiple interviews I have conducted over five years with fifteen survivors of the Gulag and their children. The study is organized around three themes: 1) the effects of about fifty years of enforced silence on individual memory; 2) the problem of public mourning and memorialization; and 3) an investigation of the ways in which the category of trauma must be modified or altered to suit the Russian context. Because many common ("Western") assumptions about trauma in general, and particularly around trauma and the Holocaust, are not adequate for the Russian context, the exploration of culturally specific reasons for these differences on one of the key contributions made by my study.

Areas of Interest:

Russian literature and culture, C 19 and 20
International Studies
Cultural memory
Gender studies

Keywords:

International • Russia • Literature • Women's writing

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Katherine Mohrig  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Fowler, M; Gheith, J, A Therapeutic Welcome: Mental Health within the Reality Ministries Disability Community, Journal of Disability and Religion, vol. 27 no. 2 (January, 2023), pp. 358-382 [doi]  [abs]
2. Goss, KA, Introduction, vol. 10 (January, 2014), pp. 265-270, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
3. Gheith, J, Reflections on Sibling Grief, Epilogue (Fall, 2005)
4. Izatt, JA; Fujimoto, JG; Tuchin, VV, Introduction, vol. 8213 (January, 2012), pp. xv-xvii, SPIE, ISBN 9780819488565 [doi]
5. Gheith, J, Article on Gulag Research, Encompass (2012) (Spring, 2012. Although this is a student-run journal, it is important for me that Duke students share in my research on the Gulag, so I inlcude it here..)