- Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian
Education
- AB, Brown University
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Biography
Stiliana Milkova works on nineteenth-century Russian and Bulgarian literatures, on contemporary Italian literature, on the relationship between literature, the visual arts, and architecture, and on literary translation. She has published scholarly articles on ekphrasis in Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky, on Gogol’s Grand Tour, on the Bulgarian writer Konstantin Velichkov, on Russian Symbolist erotic poetry, and on Soviet literature. Her research on Italian writer Elena Ferrante has been published in American and Italian scholarly journals such as Italian Culture, California Italian Studies, and Allegoria. Stiliana has translated from Italian works by Antonio Tabucchi, Anita Raja, Dario Voltolini, and Andrea Raos, among others.
At Oberlin, Stiliana teaches the introduction to Comparative Literature, as well as courses on literature and the visual arts, on literature and architecture, on the figure of the femme fatale, on contemporary Italian literature (both in Italian and in translation), and on literary translation. She has curated two teaching exhibitions at the Allen Memorial Art Museum: Italy on Paper and On the Threshold: Doors and Windows Represented.
Teaching Interests
- Comparative Literature
- Literature, visual arts, architecture
- Literary Translation
- Italian literature
- Femmes Fatales
Research Interests
- Literature, visual arts architecture
- Contemporary Italian Literature
- Elena Ferrante
- Theories and Representations of Disgust
Notes
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Stiliana Milkova Interviewed
April 18, 2017Stiliana Milkova, assistant professor of comparative literature, was interviewed on "Fahrenheit," the leading program about culture and literature which is broadcast on Italian national radio. The interview covered the first international conference about the author Elena Ferrante which took place on April 7, 2017 in Naples, Italy. Professor Milkova was an invited participant at the conference.
The podcast of the interview (in Italian) can be heard here.
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Stiliana Milkova Organizes Seminars
April 10, 2014Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Stiliana Milkova organized two two-day seminars on "Frames in Literature and Across the Arts" at the convention of the American Comparative Literature Association at New York University, which ran from March 20 to 23. She also presented a paper on literary frames in Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky.