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Jenifer Presto is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon, with affiliations in the Clark Honors College and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program, which she directed for nine years. Her research spans modern Russian literature, gender studies, environmental criticism, and transnational cultural interactions.
- Education
- Ph.D. and M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison (CompLit minor)
- M.A. in Russian Language, Middlebury College (with a year at Pushkin Institute in Moscow)
- A.B. in Russian Literature, Smith College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
Her work explores intersections of modernism, gender, and ecological themes, including coedited special issues on Russian geopoetics and the 1917 Revolution's global impact. She is currently authoring Nature's Icons: The Spiritual Ecology of Painter Olga Volchkova, analyzing how the artist's icon restoration practices address climate change.
Scientific awards include the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. She collaborates with UO Libraries on the digital humanities internship Slavic Immigrant Artists in the Northwest (SIAN), which trains students in public research on diasporic art. She serves as secretary for the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) and founded the book series East European and Eurasian Ecologies: Past, Present, and Future.
