Polina Dimova

Polina Dimova is Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA. Her research focuses on Russian, German, and British literature, music, art, and science. Her recent book At the Crossroads of the Senses (2024) studies how modernist multimedia experiments stemmed from a fascination with synaesthesia—the figurative or neurological blending of the senses. She has published on the Russian and Soviet literary interpretations of the myth and music of Russian composer Aleksandr Scriabin, on Sergei Prokofiev’s early ballets and songs, on Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss’s adaptations of the Salome legend, and on Russian electric culture. Her next book examines Scriabin’s artistic afterlife and the multimedia adaptations of his music and synaesthetic ideas. Dimova’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society among other grants. Dimova holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a classically trained violinist and was born and raised in Bulgaria.