Elena Leonenko

Bio/CV: 

B. Phil., St. Petersburg State University, Russian Language and Literature, 2011
M. Phil., St. Petersburg State University, History of Russian Literature, 2013
M.A., University of Oregon, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, 2021

Entered Berkeley Program in 2021

Paper submitted alongside Berkeley application: “Figures of Speech: Inscriptions as Intertitles in Man with a Movie Camera”

Languages known and studied: Russian, English, French, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Old Church Slavic

Conference participation:

“No one Expected Such a High Mood from Me’: Philosophy and Religion in Isabella Grinevskaia’s Creative Corpus”, ASEEES, 2020

“Isabella Grinevskaia’s Archive: Strategies of Self-Modeling”, AATSEEL, 2020

Research interests: 

Russian Modernism, early Soviet poetry and prose, literature and the visual arts, female writing