Kirsten Rutsala
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
341 Major Williams Hall
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-5361 | krutsala@vt.edu
Kirsten Rutsala is Collegiate Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures.
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Russian cinema
- Translation studies
- Women’s studies
- BA, Middlebury College
- PhD, University of Illinois
Journal Articles
“A Garden and a Twilight and a Palace Gate: Lolita Outside Humbert’s Control,” Critical Insights: Lolita (forthcoming, 2016).
“Images (Holy and Otherwise): Dostoevskian Subtexts in Contemporary Russian Cinema,” Anuari de Filologia (November 2014).
Translation of “One and a Half Rabbits,” short story by Sergei Nosov, The Denver Quarterly (December 2013).
“Nabokov’s Dialogue with Chekhov: Ladies With and Without Dogs,” Llengues i Literatures Modernes Num. 1, 2012.
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