Hampshire College

Polina Barskova, assistant professor of Russian literature, received her B.A. from St. Petersburg State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her scholarly publications include articles on Nabokov, the Bakhtin brothers, early Soviet film, and the aestheticization of historical trauma.

She has also authored six books of poetry in Russian. Professor Barskova is currently working on a project entitled "Petersburg Beseiged: Culture of the Aesthetic Opposition."

Affiliations
Five College Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Recent Courses
HACU-0159: Mysteries of Petersburg (Spring 2012)
HACU-0171: Writing the City at War (London, Leningrad, Warsaw, Berlin): 1940-1945 (Spring 2012)
HACU-0260: After the Fall: The Post-Soviet Film, Its Directors and Directions (January 2012)
HACU-0170: Through the Twisted Mirror: Gogol and Nabokov, and Other Eccentrics (Fall 2011)