Larissa Rudova
she/her
Larissa Rudova is Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor in Modern Languages and Professor of German and Russian at Pomona College, Claremont, California. She received her PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1989. Rudova is the author of two monographs on Boris Pasternak, Pasternak’s Short Fiction and the Cultural Vanguard (1994) and Understanding Boris Pasternak (1997). She has co-edited a volume of scholarly articles, Russian Children’s Literature and Culture (2008), as well as three thematic clusters on children’s and young adult literature and culture for Slavic and East European Studies Journal, The Russian Review, and Filoteknos: Anthropology of Childhood. Together with Marina Balina, she is a founding member of the international research group, ChEEER (Childhood in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Russia), affiliated with ASEEES. Her numerous articles have been published in American, Canadian, European, and Russian journals and scholarly volumes. Her research interests include modern Russian literature and popular culture; cinema studies; gender studies; children’s and young adult literature; Russian material culture; fashion studies; and representations of childhood. She is currently co-editing and contributing to a volume of scholarly articles, Childhood in/as History and Story.
https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/russian
Her recent publications include the following articles and book chapters:
“From Nature to ‘Second Nature’ and Back.” The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children. Eds. Marina Balina and Sergei Oushakine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. 209-236.
“Embracing Eccentricity: Cinderella and the Avant-Garde Imagination.” Brill Companion to Soviet Children’s Literature and Film. Ed. Olga Voronina. Leiden, Boston: Brill Publishers, 2019. Pp. 417-439.
“Erich Kästner’s Playful Characters in the Cultural Space of Stagnation” (Веселые сыщики Эриха Кестнера в культурномпространстве застоя). Detskie chteniia/ Children’s Readings: Studies in Children’s Literature (Research Institute of Russian Literature/Russian Academy of Sciences) 15:1 (Fall 2019): 127-144.
"The Second Congress of Soviet Writers and Boris Pasternak's Lyrical Poetry." The Second Congress of Soviet Writers. The Ideology of the Historical Transition and Transformation of Soviet Literature. 1954. [Vtoroi s''ezd sovetskikh pisatelei. Ideologiia istoricheskogo perekhoda i transformatsiia sovetskoi literatury. 1954]. Eds. Konstantin Bogdanov and Valery Viugin. St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 2018. Pp. 270-288.
“New Plots for the New German Child, or Mikhail Il’in’s ‘Poetry of Science’ in East German Children’s Literature”/ «Новыесюжеты для нового немецкого ребёнка, или «поэзия науки» Михаила Ильина в детской литературе ГДР». Detskie chteniia/ Children’s Readings: Studies in Children’s Literature (Research Institute of Russian Literature/Russian Academy of Sciences) 13:1 (2018): 141-152.