Emeritus Professor of Russian
University of California, Davis

Email: darancourlaferriere@comcast.net

Since the 1970s I have been publishing research in a variety of fields in the humanities and the social sciences. These fields include: Russian literature, Russian culture, psychoanalysis, psychobiography, psychohistory, evolutionary psychology, semiotics, poetics, human sexuality, and religion. Currently I am working on a psychoanalytic study of the Christian sign of the cross - from its origin in gospel narrations of the crucifixion of Jesus to its utilization by perpetrators of the Holocaust.