Anna Barker: From Peter the Great to Napoleon the Lesser: Dostoevsky and the Great Men of History

Name: Anna Barker: From Peter the Great to Napoleon the Lesser: Dostoevsky and the Great Men of History
Start: 2024-10-15T16:30:00-05:00
Location: Iowa City Public Library

Schedule

Tue Oct 15 2024 at 04:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Iowa City Public Library | Iowa City, IA

Professor Anna Barker teaches in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Russian Program and in the UI Tippie College of Business Marketing Program on topics ranging from Tolstoy to Barbie. Her current courses include Introduction to Russian Culture, Russian Literature in Translation, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and Hey Barbie, I Like Your Style – AND Substance: The Archetypal Genius of a Blockbuster.
Since 2003, she has taught UI courses in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, University College, and the Honors Program and organized a diverse array of literary programs in collaboration with UI Libraries Special Collections, UI Stanley Museum of Art, UI Old Capitol Museum, UI Symphony, UI Opera Studies Forum, UI International Programs WorldCanvass, UI Senior College, IC UNESCO City of Literature, IC Book Festival, Music IC, FilmScene, Riverside Theatre, and Cedar Rapids Opera.