Olesya Ivantsova
- Lecturer in German and Russian
- Program Director of the German House
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Olesya Ivantsova Presents Paper at Modern Language Association Annual Convention
Lecturer in German and Russian Olesya Ivantsova presented her paper “Submerging into the Shadows: Joseph Roth’s Travelogues from Post-Revolutionary Russia” at the 2025 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in New Orleans focusing on the notion of the subterranean in Roth’s travelogues and analyzing how the Austrian author’s travel accounts from the 1920s Soviet Union became crucial for his development as a writer.
Olesya Ivantsova Organized Panel and Presented at Conferece in Montréal
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
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.