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.

Fall 2024

City as Symphony: Cinema, Music, and Modernity — FYSP 107

Intermediate German — GERM 203

Spring 2025

Sex under Socialism: Narratives of Sexuality and Ideology — CMPL 246

Sex under Socialism: Narratives of Sexuality and Ideology — GERM 246

Sex under Socialism: Narratives of Sexuality and Ideology — REEE 246

From Apfelstrudel to Zwiebelkuchen: Food, Culture, and Belonging in Germany and Beyond — GERM 345

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.