Jack Dedmondt

Slavic Languages and Literature

Graduate Student

dedmondt@wisc.edu

Languages: Russian, German

Area(s) of Study: Russian Symbolism, the work of Viacheslav Ivanov, general European Modernism, psychoanalytic literary theory, analytical psychology, comparative mythological approach to archetypal literary analysis, trends in early 20th century mysticism as they relate to contemporary aesthetic-philosophical movements, Gnosticism.

About: Jack is a graduate student in the Slavic program. He completed an MA in comparative literature at the University of South Carolina with the thesis “Recollection of the Archaic Psyche: A Comparative Study of Viacheslav Ivanov’s Realistic Symbolism and Carl Gustav Jung’s Analytical Psychology.” Previously, he completed a BS in mathematics and BA in Russian, also at the University of South Carolina. His current research interests lie at the intersection of the study of Russian Symbolism and psychoanalysis, particularly Jungian psychoanalysis and its relation to the larger tradition of archetypal interpretation in comparative mythology and how this approach can be applied to consider the work of Viacheslav Ivanov.

Education: 

BA in Russian, BS in mathematics, MA in comparative literature at the University of South Carolina