Thomas Hodge

Thomas Peter Hodge
Curriculum Vitae

thodge@wellesley.edu
(781) 283-3563
Russian
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Oxford University; A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University
Spring '23 office hours (until 5/2/23): TF11:10-12:00, & by appointment via Zoom
Founders Hall 414

Thomas Peter Hodge

Professor of Russian

Interests include history of 19th-century Russian literature, Russian nature writing, and Russian music.


I've devoted most of my research to the nexus of Russian literature and Russian music in the 1800s, and to the history of nineteenth-century Russian nature writing and hunting literature. My most recent work is a book-length analysis of Turgenev as a nature writer: Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World, published in 2020 by Cornell University Press. An authorized Russian translation of the book -- Природа охотника: Тургенев и органический мир -- was published in 2022 by Academic Studies Press / Bibliorossika.

Over the years I've taught more than a dozen different courses, though now I focus on elementary Russian language and nineteenth-century Russian novels and poems. I teach these literature courses in both English and Russian. In 2000, with Professor Marianne Moore of the Biological Sciences Department, I co-founded Lake Baikal: The Soul of Siberia, a course that sent a dozen Wellesley students to the great lake nine times over the span of two decades.

I write occasional program notes for the Salzburg Festival's concerts of Russian music, as well as liner notes for Deutsche Grammophon. I also collaborate with local musicians who feature Russian repertoire.

I was born and raised in Northern California. In college I played catcher for four years on the varsity baseball team; here's some grainy video evidence from March 1983: Bunt | Tag. These days I enjoy spending time with my wife and two children, commuting on my bike, cooking, catch-and-release fly-fishing, fly-tying, birdwatching, mushroom-hunting, canoeing, hiking, and camping. Sometimes I skip rocks.


  

 

 

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