PhD
University of Southern California
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Faculty
Olga Seliazniova, PhD ( she/her)
Department/Office
- World Languages & Cultures
School/College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Biography
Olga Seliazniova is a cultural scholar and educator. She received an MA degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a PhD from the University of Southern California. Her primary research interest lies in the various tenets and manifestations of power, violence, social marginalization, and cultural dominance.
Education & Expertise
Education
MA
Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
Expertise
Selected Publications
Vagrancy in Modern Russian Law and Culture (NIU/Cornell University Press, forthcoming in fall 2026).
Guest co-edited with Ksenia Radchenko an issue of Experiment n. 31: “Other: Art and the Otherworldly” (Brill; 2025).
“The Rhizome in and Around Sal'nikov’s The Petrovs in and Around the Flu.” Russian Literature, November 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.11.012.
“Enchanting Wanderers, Inspiring Vagrants: Problematics of Vagrancy in Nikolai Leskov’s The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Works.” Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol. 58, Issue 2, April 2022, pp. 211–230, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac023.
“Re(de)fining Masculinity: Man as Mother in Futurist Literature.” The Slavic and East European Journal, Summer 2021 issue No. 65 (2), pp. 313-332.