Olga Mikhaylova

(State Pedagogical University Moscow, Russia)

Dr. Olga Mikhailova is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philology, Moscow State Pedagogical University, where she teaches “History of Russian Literature of the XX-XXI centuries”, “Children’s Literature”. She is the author of more than 20 articles in Russian refereed journals, the chapters in the textbooks for higher education dedicated to different issues of children’s literature, media tendencies in contemporary literature. Some of her recent publications are the book chapters “Mapping illusions: between the child’s fantasy world of Lev Kassil’s Schwambrania and the geography of a fledgling Soviet State” (2017, in Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature, ed. by Nina Gogan and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer) and “Plots about Circus in Victor Dragunsky short stories: commentary and reception issues” (2019, in Children’s Reading: Issues of Reception and Interpretation ed.by Maria Chernyak). In addition, she is the member of RBBY.