Olga Voronina

Associate Professor of Russian; Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program

Primary Academic Program: Russian and Eurasian Studies

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Literature

Biography: B.A., M.A., Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Ph.D., Harvard University. Research topics include the art and biography of Vladimir Nabokov; poetics of translation; Soviet and Post-Soviet literary institutions; ideological paradigms of political, media, and literary discourses of the Cold War; relationship between rhetoric of power and the language of literature in totalitarian societies; Soviet and post-Soviet children’s literature. Translator, editor, with Brian Boyd, Letters to Vera (Penguin, 2014; Knopf, 2015). Director, Information Resource Center, U.S. Consulate General, St. Petersburg, Russia (2001–04); deputy director, St. Petersburg Nabokov Museum (1998–2001). At Bard since 2010.
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