Amherst Center for Russian Culture Daria Khitrova, Harvard University

Daria Khitrova (Harvard University) received her Ph.D. in Russian Literature (nineteenth-century lyrical poetry) in 2005 from Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. After two years of post-doctoral studies in Munich, Germany (the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and another two years at University of Chicago (the Mellon Foundation) Daria Khitrova spent two years as visiting assistant professor at UCLA and is now Associate Professor at Harvard University (Slavic Department). More than 15 of her scholarly articles range from Russian literature to film and the history of dance, incuding “Eisenstein’s Choreography in Ivan the Terrible” (in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema) and “This Is No Longer Dance:” The Politics of Choreography in The Steel Step (1927)” (in Critical Inquiry). Her first book, Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature is forthcoming in July 2019 (University of Wisconsin Press).