Charles Byrd's areas of interest: Russian Cultural Studies, Russian Cinema, French-Russian Literary Relations, Nikolai Gogol and Vladimir Nabokov.

Recent Publications:
"Prophetic Stammering in V.V. Kapnist's Iabeda (1798)," Slavic and East European Journal , Winter 1997, 541-553.

"Thunder Imagery and the Turn Against Horace in Derzhavin's OE Evgeniiu. Zhizn' Zvanskaia ," in Russian Literature and the Classics , ed. Barta, Peter I., David Larmour and Paul Allen Miller, 1996, 13-34.

"Vasily Vasilevich Kapnist" in Early Modern Russian Writers: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Dictionary of Literary Biography , ed. Levitt, Marcus, 1995, 129-134.

"Freud's Influence on Bakhtin," Germano-Slavica V (5-6), 1987, 223-230.

Current Projects:
Faces of Imposture: Popular and Literary Russification of Napoleon . In progress. 220 typescript pages.

RUSS 4090: " Russia through the Eyes of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky," a new course devoted to nineteenth-century Russia 's greatest novelists