Olesya Ivantsova

  • Lecturer in German and Russian
  • Program Director of the German House

Areas of Study

Education

  • Candidate of Sciences (PhD equivalent), Ulyanovsk State University

  • Literary representations of cities, travel literature, life writing, literature of the Weimar Republic, and German-Russian cultural relations.

Spring 2024

Gone Writing: Travel and Literature — CMPL 251
Gone Writing: Travel and Literature — GERM 251
Gone Writing: Travel and Literature — RUSS 251
Reproductive Tales — GERM 325
Reproductive Tales — GSFS 325

Fall 2024

City as Symphony: Cinema, Music, and Modernity — FYSP 107
Intermediate German — GERM 203

Notes

Olesya Ivantsova Organized Panel and Presented at Conferece in Montréal

October 18, 2023

Lecturer in German and Russian Olesya Ivantsova organized a panel called “Reproductive Tales” at the German Studies Association Annual Conference in Montréal (October 5-8, 2023) and presented her paper “Narrating the Pain: Stories of Childbirth and Abortion in East Germany” discussing works of GDR writers Irmtraud Morgner and Maja Wiens.

Olesya Ivantsova publishes paper on Bertolt Brecht

July 8, 2021

Visiting Assistant Professor of German Olesya Ivantsova published a paper in the online journal Communications of the International Brecht Society discussing Bertolt Brecht’s reflections on the written word’s presence in the city space.