DISC Faculty

Jehanne Gheith
Associate Professor
Co-director, International Comparative Studies

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
International Comparative Studies
Women's Studies

Education:
PhD, Stanford University, Stanford California, 1992
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

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. J. Gheith, 'Collecting Crumbs': Rupture and Repair for Children of the Gulag, in The Gulag: History and Legacy, edited by Steven Barnes (Accepted, 2009) .
  2. J. Gheith, "Solovki"; "Legacy of the Gulag", on-line "Stalin Project" (2008) [available here] .
  3. J. Gheith, "'It's Difficult to Convey': The Gulag and Traumatic Memory", in The Purges (working title), edited by Sofi Oksanen (Accepted, expected publication: 2009), WSOY (Helsinki Finland.) .
  4. J. Gheith, 'I Never Talked...': Enforced Silence, Non-Narrative Memory, and the Gulag, Mortality, vol. 12 no. 2 (May, 2007), pp. 159-175, Routledge  [abs].
  5. J. Gheith, You can't kill yourself in a communal apartment: memory, collectives, and the Gulag, Mortality (Accepted, 2006) (forthcoming.) .

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Kevin Cook