GSLL Welcomes Assistant Professor Anastasiya Osipova

The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures is delighted to announce that Dr. Anastasiya Osipova is joining our faculty as Assistant Professor. Dr. Osipova is a scholar of Russian/Soviet and Eastern European twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University and a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Her current research explores Soviet materialist aesthetics of the 1920s-30s and the reception of this theoretical legacy among practicing European writers and artists today. Dr. Osipova has published a range of original essays on these subjects, and she is also active as a writer, translator, and publisher of contemporary art and poetry in Russia and Ukraine. She speaks both Russian and Ukrainian as native languages.

This fall, Dr. Osipova will be teaching two classes: Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Art and Red Star Trek: Russian Science Fiction between Utopia and Dystopia. View her full bio. 

Welcome, Dr. Osipova!