Lindsay Ceballos
Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies
Degrees
- Ph. D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
- B. A. in Russian, History, Wesleyan University
Selected publications
“Aryan or Semitic? On the Racial Origins of “Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky,”” The Russian Review (Vol. 81, No. 2, April 2022)
“The Politics of Dostoevsky’s Religion: Nemirovich-Danchenko’s 1913 Nikolai Stavrogin,” Slavic & East European Journal, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Spring 2021)
“From the Correspondence of Roman Jakobson and Father Georges Florovsky,” Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, vol. 4 (2016)
Lindsay’s research focuses on the novels and cultural legacy of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the history of Russian poetry, and modernist literature, criticism, theater, and religious culture. She has held fellowships granted by ACLS and the Davis Center at Harvard University. Her first book, Reading Faithfully: Russian Modernist Criticism and the Making of Dostoevsky, 1881-1917, out July, 2025 through Cornell University Press.
Her teaching interests include 19th-century Russian literature, Dostoevsky, academic writing, and late-Soviet and contemporary Russian cinema.