Terry Martin is a Professor of Russian Studies in the Harvard History Department.
Justin Weir is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature.
Daria Khitrova is an Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Meet the Experts
Brett Donohoe is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities in the Harvard English Department.
Kelly O'Neill is a historian of Russia and the director of the Imperiia Project at Harvard's Davis Center.
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Our Creative Process
While the finished podcast may not quite resemble a Tolstoyan work in its beauty and splendor (and for this, we apologize), I can nevertheless assure you that the effort to create our work felt truly Tolstoyan. The end result is far from perfect, but we now have a far clearer idea of what it really is to create.
In short, this project represents a few words from a few people to help us better understand a gargantuan work of world literature.
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What We Learned
In bringing together several diverse perspectives into a cohesive production, we realized firsthand the monumental challenge of representing distinct perspectives in a creative work.
Creating this podcast ultimately helped us see that there are endless ways to keep interpreting and re-interpreting Tolstoy’s War and Peace. We look forward to returning to it again in future stages of our lives.
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Behind the Podcast
Planning Notes
Interview Recordings
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Click the icon to access our behind-the-scenes planning notes, including our original abstract and outreach plan, podcast structure, and questions for our experts.
We used Anchor to edit and produce our podcast.
