John Pendergast is an Assistant Professor of Russian at West Point. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York, a master’s degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor’s degree in Music from Birmingham-Southern College. A graduate of the Russian program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, his research focuses on music and letters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and Germany.

• Chapter 1.  The Palimpsest of Euripides, Shakespeare, and Voltaire.- Chapter 2.  Sublime Sanctity: Schiller’s New Tragic Joan.- Chapter 3.  Lacuna and Enigma: Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco in Light of Schiller’s Play.- Chapter 4.  Patriotic Elegy and Epic Illusion: Schiller’s Johanna in Russia.- Chapter 5.  The Skeptic Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks: Shaw’s Saint Joan. Concluding Thoughts on Joan in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries.

John Pendergast is an Assistant Professor of Russian at West Point. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York, a master’s degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor’s degree in Music from Birmingham-Southern College. A graduate of the Russian program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, his research focuses on music and letters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and Germany.

• Chapter 1.  The Palimpsest of Euripides, Shakespeare, and Voltaire.- Chapter 2.  Sublime Sanctity: Schiller’s New Tragic Joan.- Chapter 3.  Lacuna and Enigma: Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco in Light of Schiller’s Play.- Chapter 4.  Patriotic Elegy and Epic Illusion: Schiller’s Johanna in Russia.- Chapter 5.  The Skeptic Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks: Shaw’s Saint Joan. Concluding Thoughts on Joan in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries.

John Pendergast is an Assistant Professor of Russian at West Point. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York, a master’s degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor’s degree in Music from Birmingham-Southern College. A graduate of the Russian program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, his research focuses on music and letters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and Germany.

• Chapter 1.  The Palimpsest of Euripides, Shakespeare, and Voltaire.- Chapter 2.  Sublime Sanctity: Schiller’s New Tragic Joan.- Chapter 3.  Lacuna and Enigma: Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco in Light of Schiller’s Play.- Chapter 4.  Patriotic Elegy and Epic Illusion: Schiller’s Johanna in Russia.- Chapter 5.  The Skeptic Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks: Shaw’s Saint Joan. Concluding Thoughts on Joan in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries.