DISC Faculty

Jehanne Gheith
Associate Professor
Co-director, International Comparative Studies

Jehanne Gheith

Office Location: 309 Languages Building
Office Phone: +1 919 660 3147, +1 919 660 3140
Email Address: gheith@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~gheith

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

Education:
PhD, Stanford University, Stanford California, 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

Research Categories: 19th & 20th Century Literature, Women's & Gender Studies, and Comparative Women's Autobiography

Teaching (Spring 2012):

  • RUSSIAN 144.01, Tolstoy and russian experience Synopsis
    Languages 320, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • RUSSIAN 149S.01, Culture-era of terror Synopsis
    Allen 226, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. J. Gheith, Gulag Voices (January, 2011) .
  2. J. Gheith, "‘It’s Difficult to Convey’: Oral History and Memories of Gulag Survivors", Gulag Studies, vol. 2-3 (November, 2010) .
  3. J. Gheith, “’The doctors said I was normal’: Trauma, the non-narrative, and the Gulag.”, To be published in Slavic Review (2011?)  [abs] [author's comments].
  4. J. Gheith, Foreword, in Understanding Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia’s Short Story Collection: An Album: Groups and Portraits” (2010)  [abs].
  5. J. Gheith, “’The doctors said I was normal’: Trauma, the non-narrative, and the Gulag”, Slavic Review (Accepted, 2010)  [abs].

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Katherine Mohrig