Thomas Hodge has devoted most of his research to the nexus of Russian literature and Russian music in the 1800s, and to the history of nineteenth-century Russian nature-writing and hunting literature.
His current work is a book-length analysis of Turgenev as a nature writer: Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World, forthcoming in 2020 from Cornell University Press. With colleagues at Bates and Oberlin, he's also co-editing an anthology of Russian nature-writing in English translation. He has taught over a dozen different courses at Wellesley, though now he focuses on elementary Russian language and nineteenth-century Russian novels and poems. He teaches these literature courses in both English and Russian. In 2000, with Professor Marianne Moore of the Biological Sciences Department, he co-founded Lake Baikal: The Soul of Siberia, a course that sends a dozen Wellesley students to the great lake every other year. He also writes occasional program notes for the Salzburg Festival's concerts of Russian music, as well as liner notes for Deutsche Grammophon.
