Myles Garbarini
Areas of Interest
● Russophone literature (pre-revolutionary, 18th-early 20th c.)
● Queer theology
● Gender & sexuality
● Russian religious thought
● Religion & literature
● Visual arts & visual culture
● Interdisciplinary and intermedial studies
Education
Master of Arts (MA), Columbia University, 2023
Slavic Languages
Thesis: Myshkin in His Own Time: A Queer Theological Approach to Temporality in The
Idiot
Master of Theological Studies (MTS), Harvard Divinity School, 2022
Religion, Literature & Culture
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Yale University, 2017 (magna cum laude)
History of Art (with distinction in the major)
Thesis: Crossing Boundaries: Multi-Dimensionality in Mikhail Vrubel’s Paintings and
Ceramics
Languages
● Russian
● French
● German (reading)
● Latin (reading)
Courses Taught
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (RUSS UN3222)
Teaching assistant, Spring 2024
Instructor: Liza Knapp
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the English Novel (CLRS GU4011)
Teaching assistant, Fall 2023
Instructor: Liza Knapp