Luba Golburt

Research Bio

Luba Golburt is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature.  Her award-winning book The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination (2014) traced how the emergence of epochal consciousness and historicism in the Romantic era contributed to the perception of a substantive divide between the cultures of the 18th century and the new modernity ushered in by the Romantics.  She has coedited collected volumes on the poetry of Nikolai Nekrasov and Yan Satunovsky. She is currently at work on a book project provisionally titled The Russian Nature Lyric and coediting The Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry.

Research Expertise and Interest

Russian poetry from the 18th century to contemporary, lyric theory, nature lyric, Pushkin, Russian literature and art of the 18th and 19th centuries, Derzhavin, Turgenev, history and literataure, historical novel

Teaching

Courses taught during the three most recent terms
2026 Spring
  • Honors Course  [COMLIT H195]  

  • Russian Realism (1840s-1900)  [SLAVIC 245B]  

  • Special Study for Graduate Students  [SLAVIC 298]  

  • Directed Research  [SLAVIC 299]  

  • Internship in the Teaching of Literature/Linguistics  [SLAVIC 310]  

  • Freshman/Sophomore Seminar  [SLAVIC 39N]  

  • Individual Study for Master's Students  [SLAVIC 601]  

  • Individual Study for Doctoral Students  [SLAVIC 602]  

2025 Fall
  • Honors Course  [COMLIT H195]  

  • Russian Prose  [SLAVIC 188]  

  • Russian Poetry  [SLAVIC 287]  

  • Special Study for Graduate Students  [SLAVIC 298]  

  • Directed Research  [SLAVIC 299]  

  • Internship in the Teaching of Literature/Linguistics  [SLAVIC 310]  

  • Individual Study for Master's Students  [SLAVIC 601]  

  • Individual Study for Doctoral Students  [SLAVIC 602]  

2025 Summer 2025 Spring
  • Russian Composition and Style  [RUSSIAN 204]  

  • Pushkin  [SLAVIC 182]  

  • Directed Research  [SLAVIC 299]  

  • Internship in the Teaching of Literature/Linguistics  [SLAVIC 310]  

  • Individual Study for Master's Students  [SLAVIC 601]  

  • Individual Study for Doctoral Students  [SLAVIC 602]