Illinois Wesleyan: Russian Program: Faculty

Marina Balina, Ph. D., University of Leningrad Isaac Funk Professor and Professor of Russian Studies Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Department A.B., M.A., Pedogogical University of Leningrad, USSR Biography Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University, her published research has focused on contemporary Russian life writing: autobiography, memoir, and travelogue. She has co-edited Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Empire Style (with Nancy Condee and Evgeny Dobrenko, Northwestern UP, 2000), Sovetskoe Bogatstvo: Stat’i o literature, kul’ture i kino (with Evgeny Dobrenko and Yuri Murashov, Akademicheskii proekt, 2002), Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Writers since 1980 (with Mark Lipovetsky, Thomson & Gale Publishers, 2003), and most recently, an anthology of Russian and Soviet fairy tales, Politicizing Magic (with Helena Goscilo and Mark Lipovetsky, Northwestern UP, 2005). Her current research focuses on children’s literature in Russia.

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