Peter Winsky

Professor Winsky holds a Ph.D in Slavic Languages and Literatures in June 2021 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He received an BA in Government and Law with a minor in Russian Studies from Lafayette College in 2007. Prior to joining the LMU faculty, Professor Winsky was a Postdoctoral Scholar at USC.

Professor Winsky's teaching and research are situated at the intersection of Orthodox Christian theology, ethics, and literature, with particular focus on Orthodox personalism, hesychastic monasticism, synergetic anthropology, and relational ontology as they emerged in nineteenth-century Russian religious thought and have developed into the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. His scholarly work examines how Russian theologians, philosophers, and literary figures—most notably Dostoevsky—engaged the enduring, accursed questions of freedom, evil, suffering, and moral responsibility in response to a modern consciousness that was increasingly secular and overtly hostile to religious belief.

He has taught courses on Orthodox Theology, Christian Ethics, Russian 19th century literature, cultural history, and religious and philosophical thought, and Animated Spirituality. Professor Winsky is also the editor for the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought. He is also a member of the Readers Advisory Board for the North American Dostoevsky Society.