Romy Taylor, Ph.D.

University of Arizona
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies

Dissertation:
"The Friendly Epistle in Russian Poetry:
A History of the Genre"

 

  

 

 

Teaching Interests

Russian language

Eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature

Cultural studies: women writers, Orthodoxy, autobiography and marginalization

 

Scholarly Interests

Late 20th c. friendly epistles

Black Americans in the USSR in the 1930s

Contemporary Russian poet James Patterson

19th c. Russian women writers Pavlova, Rostopchina, Khvoshchinskaia (pseudonym V. Krestovskii)

Literary theory: institutions, gender and genre, verse analysis and computer-aided research

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email: romy@petuhov.com