- 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.
- Comparative Literature
- Literature, visual arts, architecture
- Literary Translation
- Italian literature
- Femmes Fatales
- Literature, visual arts architecture
- Contemporary Italian Literature
- Elena Ferrante
- Theories and Representations of Disgust
Notes
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Stiliana Milkova Publishes Article
April 6, 2019Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Stiliana Milkova published an article in the prestigious Italian scholarly journal Contemporanea. Written in Italian and titled "Il Minotauro e la doppia Arianna: Spazio liminale, labirinto urbano e città femminile," the article proposes the city, and more specifically the city as labyrinth, as a framework for analyzing Elena Ferrante’s novels.
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Stiliana Milkova Gives Invited Lecture
April 3, 2019Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Stiliana Milkova gave an invited lecture at New York University's Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò titled "Ariadne and the Minotaur: Literal and Symbolic Labyrinth in Elena Ferrante's 'My Brilliant Friend'." Oberlin alumni and current students were in attendance. The talk was recorded and can be accessed here.
Professor Milkova was also an invited participant in a round table on Elena Ferrante at Rutgers University where she joined a conversation about the study of Ferrante's works. -
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.