Victoria Somoff

Name: Victoria Somoff (e-mail)
Position: Assistant Professor of Russian, Department of Russian Language & Literature
Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Slavic Languages and Literatures; M.A. Donetsk State University, Ukraine; M.A. University of California at Berkeley
Address:

HB 6085
Reed Hall, Room 211
Hanover, NH 03755-1801

Phone: (603) 646-2671

Courses Taught

• Slavic Folklore: Vampires, Witches, and Firebirds (Russian 13)
• Russian Literature of the Golden Age in Translation (Russian 31)
• Beginning Russian

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
• Realism and the Rise of the Russian Novel
• Russian and European Novel
• Russian Drama
• Narrative Theory
• Folk Narrative: Myth, Fairy Tale, Fable
• Russian Heritage Speakers
• Tongue-twisters

Selected Publications and Conferences

• Online learning activities for V Puti, O. Kagan, F. Miller and G. Kudyma, (2006) http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/russian/vputi/
• "On the Metahistorical Roots of the Fairytale," Western Folklore, 61 (Fall 2002) 277-294.
• "Proizvedenie morali: analiz basni" (Production of Morality: Analysis of the Fable), Voprosy literatury, 2 (1998) 97-120.
• "Chudo kak sobytie v slove" (Miracle as a Narrative Event), Voprosy literatury, 1 (1997) 103-116.