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Colleen M. Lucey is an Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona, affiliated with the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program, Human Rights Practice Program, and Institute for LGBT Studies. She holds a B.A. from Barnard College and M.A./Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research bridges 19th-century Russian culture, gender studies, and terrorism literature. Her book Love for Sale (2021) won the AATSEEL Best First Book Award, examining prostitution in Imperial Russia. She actively contributes to pedagogical innovations like oral history integration and peer-to-peer experiential learning through food. Her current project explores East European female terrorists in fiction and art.
- Educations: B.A. Russian (Barnard College), M.A./Ph.D. Slavic Languages & Literatures (UW-Madison)
Research interests emphasize intersections of gender, power, and cultural representation. Her work spans literary analysis of prostitution in Russian literature, folklore’s political symbolism, and language pedagogy reforms. She has published widely in journals like The Russian Review and Slavic and East European Journal.
Grants include funding from Title VIII, U.S.-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue, and FLAS programs. She has served on AATSEEL’s Executive Council, ACTR Board, and REEES Think Tank. Notable media contributions include collaborations with Santa Fe Opera and We Teach Languages podcasts.
Affiliated with interdisciplinary initiatives such as the Institute for LGBT Studies, her work integrates human rights perspectives into Slavic studies. She teaches courses like Vampires and Werewolves: Slavic Folklore and Russian Writers and Autocracy.
