Amherst Center for Russian Culture Faculty and Staff Directory

Maria Mayofis is a literary scholar and cultural historian, currently working as a research fellow at the Center for Russian Culture in Amherst college. She received her PhD in literature from the Russian State University for the Humanities in 2002. In 2000-2010, she was an editor of the "history" rubric of the New Literary Observer (NLO) journal. In 2011--2022, she taught in several Russian institutions of higher education, including the Higher School of Economics. She left Russia in early March, 2022. Her first monograph was devoted to the literary communities of the early 19th century. Her next book-length project  focuses on influential images of childhood and models of social interactions among children and between children and adults from late 1930s till early 1970s.