Robin F Miller

Professor Miller is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities and Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature. She is an Affiliated Member of the Department of English, Women's and Gender Studies and the programs in European Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature and History of Ideas. She teaches and studies the fiction of writers in the nineteenth century, as well as the family novel and children's literature. Her particular interest is in the novel, especially the novels of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Dickens, as well as the shorter fiction of Chekhov. Her books include Dostoevsky and The Idiot: Author, Narrator and Reader (Harvard University Press, 1981), Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey (Yale University Press, 2007), and The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel (second edition, 2008, Yale University Press) as well as numerous articles and several edited or co-edited volumes, including Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace (Donna Tussing Orwin), by Kathryn B. Feuer (Cornell University Press, 1996) and The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel (with Malcolm V. Jones), (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey appeared in Russian in 2022. Her current projects are Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and the Small of This World and Love in a Time of Upheaval: Kazuko's Letters from Japan.