Victoria Somoff
|Associate Professor
Associate Professor of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies
Faculty Advisor for Dartmouth Student Alliance for Ukraine (DSAU)
Coordinator for the Ukraine Working Group
Contact
Reed, Room 204
HB 6085
Department(s)
Russian
Education
- M.A. in Philology, Donetsk State University, Ukraine
- M.A. in Folklore, University of California at Berkeley
- Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley
Selected Publications
Hunter into Prey: Forms of Folklore in Nekrasov's "V derevne." Slavic and East European Journal 68 (2024): 57-69
"Morals and Miracles: The Case of AT 555, The Fisherman and His Wife." Nancy Canepa, ed. Teaching Fairy Tales, Wayne State University Press, 2019.
"Nonresistance to Fiction: Archaic Folktale vs. Later Tolstoy." Slavic and Eastern European Journal 60:2 (Summer 2016), pp. 284-306.
"Alexander Veselovsky's Historical Poetics vs. Cultural Poetics: Remembering the Future." Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov, eds., Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics, Fordham University Press, 2015.