| Jehanne Gheith, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and Associate Chair
![Jehanne Gheith](https://fds.duke.edu/photos/fac/u1710.jpg) - Contact Info:
Office Location: | 321C Languages Bldg, 133 Franklin Center, Durham, NC 27708 | Email Address: | ![send me a message](https://fds.duke.edu/photos/fac/New.gif) |
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- 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:
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Russian
International Comparative 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
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Fowler, M; Gheith, J. "A Therapeutic Welcome: Mental Health within the Reality Ministries Disability Community." Journal of Disability and Religion 27.2 (January, 2023): 358-382. [doi] [abs]
- Goss, KA. "Introduction." 10 (January, 2014): 265-270. [doi]
- Gheith, J. "Reflections on Sibling Grief." Epilogue (Fall, 2005).
- Izatt, JA; Fujimoto, JG; Tuchin, VV. "Introduction." 8213 (January, 2012): xv-xvii. [doi]
- 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.)
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