Due to severe weather, all Continuing Education classes on February 18, 2026, at 540 Arapeen Drive are canceled for the evening. The building will close at 5:00 PM.
Instructor: GENE FITZGERALD
GENE FITZGERALD
Gene Fitzgerald has been a professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Utah since 1969. He has also taught courses in the Honors, Liberal Education, and Comparative Literature programs. He has principally concentrated on the fiction of Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and the poetry of Aleksander Pushkin. His teaching awards over the years include the U's Distinguished Teaching award, the Hatch prize for Excellence in Teaching, and the Presidential Teaching Scholar award. In addition, in 2023 he was given the Brooke Hopkins Award for Excellence in Adult Education for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
GENE FITZGERALD is currently teaching:
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GENE FITZGERALD has previously taught:
- Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" and Russian Cultural History, 1825-2025
- Russian Short Fiction
- Freedom and Tragedy: Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov."
- The Master and Margarita or The Devil Only Knows
- Dostoevsky and Russian Terrorism