Svitlana Kobets

Literature and Humanities Instructor, Continuing Education, St. Michael's College at the Uiversity of Toronto

Degree: PhD. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001

Dissertation: “Genesis and Development of Holy Foolishness as a Textual Topos in Early Russian Literature.”

Lisence in Medieval Studies, PIMS, University of Toronto, 2009

Thesis: The Prophetic Paradigms: the Fool in Christ and the Hebrew Prophet

Major: Slavic Languages and Literatures     Minor: Religious Studies

Research Interests:

• Holy Foolishness (iurodstvo) in Byzantine and Russian literature and culture
• Comparative Religion 
• Russian Literature 
• Ukrainian Literature 
• Comparative Literature
• Film