Please join us in welcoming our newest Instructor, Liubov Kartashova!
Originally from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Liubov Kartashova received her bachelor’s degree from LCC International University in Lithuania, Klaipeda, in 2016. After receiving her undergraduate degree, she worked as an instructor of the English language and Literature at Lezha Academic Center in Albania and then in her hometown. She earned her MA in Comparative Literature from the University of South Carolina in 2020, where she also pursued her PhD, which she successfully completed in summer 2024. Her dissertation explores female representation and the reflection of Soviet constructions of womanhood in Svetlana Alexievich's narratives of WWII, the Chornobyl disaster, and the Soviet-Afghan War. Her research interests include late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russian literature, women’s writing, feminist theory, and ecofeminism. Since her first year of graduate school, she has been teaching courses on Russian language, culture, and literature. Additionally, this summer, she taught Russian at the intensive language program at Middlebury College.
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