Tatiana Smorodinska

Tatiana Smorodinska is currently the C.V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies and Department Chair at Middlebury College. She graduated from Moscow State University (Department of Philology) and received her Ph.D. from OSU with a dissertation on Konstantin Sluchevsky, 19^th century Russian poet. She published a book “Konstantin Sluchevsky. The Untimely Poet”, co-edited Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture, and authored numerous articles on Russian poetry, Russian film, and Russian culture. Her most current projects include research on Russian Literary canon(s), representation of Russian intelligentsia in film and on-line, and a digital anthology of texts for language learners based on the Russian school canon.