Natasha Kolchevska, professor of Russian, will be the new director of the Feminist Research Institute effective fall 2004. She succeeds Beth Bailey of American Studies.
The Feminist Research Institute at UNM is dedicated to the production of scholarship on women, gender and sexuality. It sponsors a visiting scholar program and organizes interdisciplinary support groups and workshops for UNM graduate students.
Kolchevska is a well-known scholar of modern Soviet and Russian literature who has written extensively on Russian women writers. Among her publications is a translation and scholarly edition of S. Kovalevskaia's “Nihilist Girl” (2001).
In 2002, she was the principal investigator for a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for teachers at UNM where they studied Tchaikovsky's opera “Eugene Onegin.”
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