Russian Scholar Delivers Keynote at Conference
Monday, February 26, 2018
Earlier this month, UNH professor of Russian Ronald LeBlanc delivered the keynote address for "Culture and Cuisine in Russia and Eastern Europe," a conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. His talk was titled "From Russian Vegetarians to Soviet Hamburgers: Tolstoy, Pilnyak, and the Ethics/Politics of Diet." LeBlanc is the author of Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction (2009). He has written numerous "gastrocritical" studies on food and eating in the works of such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Goncharov, Bulgakov, and Olesha.
