Olga Voronina

Professor of Russian

Primary Academic Program: Russian and Eurasian Studies

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

Biography: BA, MA, Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia; PhD, Harvard University. Research topics include the art and biography of Vladimir Nabokov; poetics of translation; Soviet and Post-Soviet literary institutions; ideological paradigms of Russia’s political, media, and literary discourses; 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). Trustee, Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation. At Bard since 2010.
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Location: Fairbairn
Office: 303