Gary Jahn

Specialties

• Computer technology in language teaching and acquisition
• History of Russian literature: origins through 19th century
• Tolstoy
• Computer technology in literary study

Publications

• Jahn, Gary. "Beginning Russian: An Electronic Supplement, ver 10." (1999).
• Jahn, Gary. Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych: A Critical Companion [Northwestern/AATSEEL Critical Companions to Russian Literature]. Northwestern University Press, 1999.
• Jahn, Gary. Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilich: An Interpretation [Twayne's Masterwork Studies]. Macmillan and Company, 1993.
• Jahn, Gary. "Brother or Other: Tolstoy's Equivocal Surrender to the Concept of Brotherhood." Lev Tolstoy and the Concept of Brotherhood, Legas, pp. 71-87 (1996): 71-87.
• Jahn, Gary. "Electronic Russian." (2002).
• Jahn, Gary. "The Crisis in Tolstoy and in Anna Karenina." Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (2003): 67-73.
• Jahn, Gary. "Tolstoy as a Writer of Popular Literature." The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (2002): 113-126.
• Jahn, Gary. "The Death of Ivan Ilich": An Electronic Study Edition of the Russian Text. .

Activities

Awards

• 1998-University of Minnesota Award for Innovation in Technology Enhanced Learning, 1998
• 2010 Recipient of AATSEEL Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Post-Secondary Level for 2010 (conferred 8 January 2011)
• 2011 Named Horace G. Morse – Minnesota Alumni Association Distinguished University Teaching Professor of Russian Language and Literature (conferred 25 April 2011)
• 2011 Inducted into the University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers (inducted 25 April 2011)

Courses

• Russ 1304W - Introduction to Russian Literature: 19th-Century Fiction
• Russ 3/5404 - Tolstoy in Translation
• Russ 3/5421 - Literature: Middle Ages to Dostoevsky in Translation
• Russ 3411/5411 - Dostoevsky in Translation
• Russ 1905 - Leo Tolstoy and Radical Christianity
• Russ 1101 - Beginning Russian
• Russ 3001 - Intermediate Russian