Cathy Popkin
George Siegel Professor in the Humanities
Columbia University
George Siegel Professor in the Humanities
Columbia University
Cathy Popkin is Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Her research interests include Chekhov, 19th and 20th-century Russian prose, literary theory, and late 19th-century scientific discourses (psychiatry, ethnography, medicine). She is the author of The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol.