Victoria Kononova (she/her; она/её)


Phone
920-832-6905
Campus Address
Main Hall
Room 406
Russian Studies
Title
Associate Professor of Russian
About

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