Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments The current study is the culmination of research initially undertaken in Russia at the Pushkin House and the Dostoevsky Museum in St. Petersburg (with the aid of B. N. Tikhomirov) and in Poland at Jagiellonian University (with the support of Krzysztof Frysztacki) funded by a Fulbright-Hays dissertation grant and an international travel grant from Ohio State University. Additional grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of State enabled me to complete the research for the monograph at the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Here, I greatly benefited from the expertise of the Slavic reference librarians (especially Helen Sullivan and Jan Adamczyk), who helped me locate and obtain rare resources. I would like to express my profound gratitude to Caryl Emerson, who saw potential in a dissertation topic on Dostoevsky’s dialogue with the Time of Troubles and encouraged me to write the present monograph. This study has benefited immeasurably from her perceptive observations on multiple drafts of the manuscript. I also appreciate Robert Belknap’s input on an earlier draft of the first chapter and Robert L. Jackson’s support for my research on Dostoevsky and the Polish prisoners, which was published as “Portraits of the Siberian Dostoevsky by Poles in the House of the Dead,” Dostoevsky Studies, New Series 10 (November 2006). It was my good fortune to have come to Dostoevsky studies during the publication of Joseph Frank’s five-volume biography of Dostoevsky and the publication of Dostoevsky’s collected works in thirty volumes, to which this present study owes a significant debt. I would also like to acknowledge the intellectual contribution of the following faculty, with whom I consulted during my graduate studies at Ohio State University: George Kalbouss for sharing his love of Russian drama and culture, Dan Collins for our discussions of Orthodox monasticism, Irene Masing-Delic and Sara Dickinson for their readings of Dostoevsky, Angela Brintlinger for encouraging my analysis of publicistics, Eve Levin for the course on Russian Orthodoxy, and Yana Hashamova for her advice on historical theory. In addition, I greatly Acknowledgments xii benefited from the opportunity to share my research with students and colleagues at the Department of German and Russian Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia and at the Departments of English, Theological Studies, and Modern and Classical Languages at Saint Louis University. Research librarian Ron Crown and the chairs of English (Sara van den Berg) and theological studies (J. A. Wayne Hellmann) particularly encouraged my research. Acquisitions editor Mike Levine and managing editor Anne Gendler at Northwestern University Press made the publication process a positive experience , and the insightful comments by series editor Gary Saul Morson and the anonymous readers led to productive revisions of the manuscript. For their help in proofreading the monograph at various stages of production, I would like to thank Marika Whaley, Mikhail Palatnik, Jan Adamczyk, Arline Cravens, Joe Lenkart, and Urszula Biegaj. I greatly appreciate the support of my first editor, colleague, collaborator, and husband Ruben Rosario. For her mature understanding during the many years of labor on this monograph, I thank our lovely daughter Isabella, whose fascination with Greek mythology reminded me of long-forgotten texts that informed the final draft of this manuscript. Finally, I am also grateful for our brave son Raphael, whose forbearance during his own troubles was inspiring during the final editing of the manuscript. ...