Grigori Utgof - Why do I Teach Russian?
Grigori Utgof is a literary researcher at Tallinn University. He teaches quantitative poetry, or verse science, and Russian literary history. During our Winter School, he gave Russian language lectures to foreigners. How does a researcher benefit from giving lectures?
Grigori Utgof is a literary researcher at Tallinn University. He teaches quantitative poetry, or verse science, and Russian literary history. During our Winter School, he gave Russian language lectures to foreigners. How does a researcher benefit from giving lectures?
Utgof answers this question by reading a passage from Anton Chekhov鈥檚 鈥淎 Boring Story鈥.
In addition to his work at the university, Grigori Utgof has commented on Vladimir Nabokov鈥檚 collected works (1999-2000), and has been the editor of Studia Slavica, the research magazine of the Tallinn University Institute of Slavonic Languages and Cultures. Since 2014, he has been the editor-in-chief of the peer review magazine Slavica Revalensia. In 2015, he published a book on the methodology of text analysis at Tartu University press, called 鈥溞⌒感窖傂靶貉傂秆囆笛佇盒感 懈褋褋谢械写芯胁邪薪懈褟鈥.