Natasha Kolchevska
Professor of Russian

Contact Information
Ortega Hall 229A
University of New Mexico
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146
Phone: (505) 277-3713
Fax: (505) 277-3599
Email: nakol@unm.edu

Educational History

B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Russian.

M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Slavic Languages & Literatures.

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Slavic Languages & Literatures.

Projects and Interests

Prof. Kolchevska’s research interests lie in the areas of 20 th century Russian literature and culture. She has published widely on women’s literature, women’s memoirs, literature from the Gulag, and post-WWI forms of alternative fiction. Her recent publications include “Angels in the Home and at Work: Russian Women in the Khrushchev Years,” in Women’s Studies Quarterly, (2005), and "The Art of Memory: Cultural Reverence as Political Critique in Eugenia Ginzburg's Writing of the Gulag," in The Russian Memoir: History and Literature, Northwestern University Press, 2003). She also has an article forthcoming in a volume on violence in Russian culture, as well as several articles on contemporary Russian culture that will appear next year in the Encyclopedia of Russian Culture(Routledge, 2007). Kolchevska has also published a two-volume translation (with Mary Zirin) and scholarly edition of S. Kovalevskaia's Nihilist Girl (Modern Language Association Texts and Translations Series, 2001).

In addition to participating in scholarly conferences, she has given public talks year in recent years on "The Laboratory of Dreams: Rodchenko and the Futurists" at the UNM Art Museum, and "Turn of the Century Russian Writers Respond to Social Change" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe.

Before she became Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in Fall 2005, she was Director of UNM's Feminist Research Institute (FRI), as well as of the Russian Studies program at UNM. Currently, she is the President of American Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS). Both the FRI & AWSS promote research in Women, Gender & Sexuality. As President of AWSS, she has organized conferences on topics such as “Women and the Marketplace” and “Women, Health and the Body.”