Literature of the Americas Literature of the Americas 2541-7894 2542-243X IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-225-238 Articles Dostoevsky Studies in North America 2021 Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 This article describes the major trends and events in Dostoevsky studies in North America in the past five years. It begins by providing an overview of notable scholarship in the last five years as well as forthcoming: these include works informed by a philosophical perspective, those which deal with narrative form, and those rooted in contemporary discourse, as well as new computational methods. It also discusses works which are aimed at students, teachers, and general readers of Dostoevsky. The article then goes on to provide a discussion of the history and organization of the North American Dostoevsky Society and the public outreach events and scholarly activities that it organizes, including its popular blog, Bloggers Karamazov. It also provides a summary of the transnational online program organized by the Society and other organizations for the 2021 Dostoevsky bicentenary, which include a lecture series and a birthday party. Finally, the article touches on global connections enabled by new technology and the future of Dostoevsky studies in North America, in particular the website of the International Dostoevsky Society and the online transfer and update of the Society’s bibliography into a research portal hosted on that website. Arkady, Shirley, Holland 2021 — Arkady, Kaitlin Shirley, and Kate Holland. “Dostoevsky in the Time of Discord; or Generation Dostoevsky and Memes from Lockdown.” Bloggers Karamazov (blog), October 3, 2021. https://bloggerskaramazov.com/2021/10/03/dostoevsky-in-the-time-of-discord. Bowers 2020 — Bowers, Katherine. “Plotting the Ending: Generic Expectation and the Uncanny Epilogue of Crime and Punishment.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 62, no. 2 (2020): 95–108. Bowers, Doak, Holland 2018 — Bowers, Katherine, Connor Doak, and Kate Holland. A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. Bowers, Holland 2021a — Bowers, Katherine, and Kate Holland, eds. Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Bowers, Holland 2021b — Bowers, Katherine, and Kate Holland. “[Start Page].” Digital Dostoevsky (blog), Digital Dostoevsky (text analysis project). Last updated August 18, 2021. https://digitaldostoevsky.com.  Brickman 2019 — Brickman, Caroline Lemak. “Crime, Punishment, and Kanye West.” Bloggers Karamazov (blog), April 17, 2019. https://bloggerskaramazov.com/2019/04/17/crime-punishment-and-kanye-west. Brooks 2019 — Brooks, Daniel. “The Incels and the Injured: Dostoevsky Against Toxic Masculinities.” Bloggers Karamazov (blog), April 10, 2019. https://bloggerskaramazov.com/2019/04/10/the-incels-and-the-injured-dostoevsky-against-toxic-masculinities. Ceballos 2021 — Ceballos, Lindsay. “The Politics of Dostoevsky’s Religion: Nemirovich-Danchenko’s 1913 Nikolai Stavrogin.” Slavic and East European Journal 65, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 21–40. Contino 2020 — Contino, Paul J. Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2020. Corrigan 2017 — Corrigan, Yuri. Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. Erman 2020 — Erman, Irina. “Ideas the Plague Us: Reading Crime and Punishment During the Pandemic.” Bloggers Karamazov (blog), December 2, 2020. https://bloggerskaramazov.com/2020/12/02/reading-crime-and-punishment-during-the-pandemic. Evdokimova, Golstein 2016 — Evdokimova, Svetlana, and Vladimir Golstein, eds. Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion, Philosophy. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016. Givens 2018 — Givens, John. The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. Harrison 2016 — Harrison, Lonny. Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2016. Holland 2020 — Holland, Kate. “The Clash of Deferral and Anticipation: Crime and Punishment’s Epilogue and the Difficulties of Narrative Closure.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 62, no. 2 (2020): 109–122. Katz, Burry 2022 — Katz, Michael R., and Alexander Burry, eds. Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” New York: Modern Languages Association, forthcoming [2022]. Kitzinger 2021 — Kitzinger, Chloë. Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2021. Love, Metzger 2016 — Love, Jeff, and Jeffrey Metzger, eds. Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Martinsen, Maiorova 2016 — Martinsen, Deborah A., and Olga Maiorova, eds. Dostoevsky in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Marullo 2020 — Marullo, Thomas Gaiton. Fyodor Dostoevsky — The Gathering Storm, 1846–1847: A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2020. Marullo 2017 — Marullo, Thomas Gaiton. Fyodor Dostoevsky — In the Beginning, 1821–1845: A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2017. Matzner-Gore 2020 — Matzner-Gore, Greta. Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. Naiman 2020 — Naiman, Eric. “‘There was something almost cruel about it all…’: Reading Crime and Punishment’s Epilogue Hard Against the Grain.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 62, no. 2 (2020): 123–143. Patyk 2021 — Patyk, Lynn Ellen. “The Dark Side of Dialogue: Dostoevskian Provocation and the Provocateurs Karamazov.” The Slavonic and East European Review 99, no. 1 (2021): 41–70. Patyk 2022 — Patyk, Lynn Ellen. Dostoevsky's Provocateurs. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming [2022]. Patyk 2017 — Patyk, Lynn Ellen. Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861–1881. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. Porter 2017 — Porter, Jillian. Economies of Feeling: Russian Literature under Nicholas I. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. Ronner 2021 — Ronner, Amy D. Dostoevsky as Suicidologist: Self Destruction and the Creative Process. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. Shneyder 2020 — Shneyder, Vadim. Russia’s Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. Spektor 2020 — Spektor, Alexander. Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. Wilson 2018 — Wilson, Jennifer. “Dostoevsky’s Timely Castration.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 5, no. 4 (2018): 565–573. Wyman 2016 — Wyman, Alina. The Gift of Active Empathy: Scheler, Bakhtin, and Dostoevsky. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016.