Olga Voronina

E-mail Address: voronina[at]fas.harvard.edu

Undergraduate Degree: Herzen University, St. Petersburg

Home Town: St. Petersburg, Russia

Teaching Experience:
• Currently: TF for Literature and Arts C-28 Icon-Ritual-Text: Reading the Culture of Medieval Rus' • Undergraduate seminar on psychology of children's literature at Herzen University, Nabokov at Nabokov 101 International Summer School in St. Petersburg.

Areas of Specialization:
• Ideology and Russian literature in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cold War and Russian-American literary connections. • Vladimir Nabokov: philosophical context of his novels; biography; textology, authorial control. • Literature and education. • Russian children’s literature, from the early 18th century till present. A children’s book as an ideological tool, an object of art, and a pedagogical device.

Publications:
• "Vladimir Nabokov at the New Yorker" in Zvezda, April 2005. Pp. 126 – 142. • "Postsovetskaia detskaia literatura: parodia, grotesk, novatorstvo" in S.Timina, V.Vasiliev, O.Voronina. Sovremennaia russkaiai literatura (1990-e gg. – nachalo XXI v.), Uchebnoe posobie dlia studentov vysshikh uchebnyh zavedenii. St. Petersburg: Filologicheskii fakultet SPbGU, Moscow: Izdatelskii tsentr Akademiia, 2005. Pp. 173-209 • "Dream as a Structural Device in Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Nabokov" in Proceedings of the International Vladimir Nabokov Symposium. The Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. July 15-19, 2002. Nabokovinrussia.org • "Joseph Brodsky: Urania. Leningrad – New York" in Novyi mir iskusstva. January 2003. P. 80. • "Nabokov’s Shakespeare: Allusion and Authorial Control" in Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. XXXV-3-2002. Pp. 219-235. • "Shekspir Nabokova" in Kulturnoe i nauchnoe nasledie rossiiskoi emigratsii v Velikobritanii (1917-1940-ye gg.). Mezhdunarodnaia nauchnaia konferentsia. 29 iiunia – 2 iiulia 2000 g. Moskva, Russkii Put’, 2002. Pp. 222-252. • Kategoria "hudozhestvennaia realnost" v poetike romanov V. V. Nabokova. Avtoreferat dissertatsii na soiskanie uchonoi stepeni kandidata filologicheskih nauk. Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Pedagogicheskii Universitet im. A. I. Hertzena. St. Petersburg, 2002. • "’Akmeisticheskaia iasnost’ romana V. Nabokova Zaschita Luzhina" in Nabokovskii vestnik. Vol. 6. St. Petersburg, Dorn, 2001. Pp. 99-109. • "’Igra mirov’ i hudozhestvennaia realnost: ontologicheskaia problematika v tvorchestve V. V. Nabokova" in Nabokovskii vestnik. Vol. 6. St. Petersburg, Dorn, 2001. Pp. 156-167. • "Nabokov: das Gedachtnis und sein Ort" in Sprache im technischen Zeitalter. Heft 158. Juli 2001. Pp. 143-153. • "Znakomaia cherno-belaia krasavitsa": o motive babochki v tvorchestve V. Nabokova" in Krymskii nabokovskii nauchnyi sbornik. Vol. 1-2. Simferopol, Krymskiy Arhiv, 2001. Pp. 115-129. • "Vladimir Nabokov i Lewis Carroll, ili Humbert Humbert v Strane chudes" in Vsemirnoie slovo. 2001. Vol. 14. Pp. 104-111. • "Otrechenie ot Lolity: literaturnaia traditsiia i moralnaia tsenzura v sovremennoi amerikanskoi kritike" in Nabokovskii vestnik. Vol. 4. St. Petersburg, Dorn, 1999. Pp. 173-178.

Works in Progress: • "Post-War Ideological Shift in Russia and the Origin of Stalin’s Cultural Policy in the Cold War" • "The Tale of Enchanted Hunters: Lolita in Victorian context" • "‘When a Writer Must Become a Character:’ Mikhail Koltsov in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls" • Translator/Editor/Commentator, with Brian Boyd and Dmitri Nabokov: Vladimir Nabokov’s Russian Letters, 1921-1977.

Dissertation Title: Winning Hearts and Minds: Cultural Realities of the Cold War in Russian and American Literature, 1946-1953.

Awards: • June 2006, Helen Choate Bell Prize from the Harvard English Department for "When a writer becomes a character: Mikhail Koltsov in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls."