(Pomona College, United States)
Dr. Larissa Rudova is Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor in Modern Languages, Professor of Russian at Pomona College, Claremont, California. She is a co-editor of Russian Children’s Literature and Culture (2008, 2011), and the author of two monographs on Boris Pasternak. Her numerous publications focus on Soviet and post-Soviet children’s and YA literature and film, modern Russian literature and culture, Russian cinema, and gender studies. She recently co-edited a special journal issue, “Russian and Eastern European War Childhood,” Filoteknos: Anthropology of Childhood, vol. 8 (2018), with Dorota Michułka.