Tatiana Filimonova

Tatiana Filimonova is an Assistant Professor and Director of Russian Studies at the College of Wooster. She holds a B.A. from Herzen State Pedagogical University (Russia, 2002), an M.A. from Northwestern University (2008), and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University (2013). Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Russian literature, particularly the cultural imagination of space in Eurasia and Siberia. She employs an interdisciplinary approach, analyzing literature’s connections with politics, geography, and society.

Her academic roles include teaching Russian language at all levels, courses like “Imagining Siberia” and “The Artist and the Tyrant: Twentieth-Century Russian Literature,” and Russian film studies. She has contributed to various journals and edited volumes, with recent publications exploring Eurasianist imperialism, postmodernism, and neo-Orientalism in Russian literature.

Her work spans film reviews, book critiques, and literary translations, including Ukrainian poetry and American poet Tracy K. Smith’s works. She is affiliated with the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.