About
Victoria Kononova (she/her; она/её)
Associate Professor of Russian
My specialty is nineteenth-century Russian literature and theater. I love digging into such staples of Russian literature as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, and Chekhov. I also teach advanced Russian language courses and a variety of courses on Russian culture in translation: Russian Folktale, Slavic Science Fiction, Women and Gender in Russian Culture, and others.
Education
PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison (Slavic Languages and Literature; Musicology minor)
"Specialist" degree (B.A. and M.A. equivalent): Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian Language and Literature)
Years at Lawrence
2015-present
