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Katya Hokanson, Mentor
Comparative Literature

Angela Morrill, McNair Scholar

Katya Hokanson, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Humanities from Stanford University in 1994. Her current book project is Theatrical Asides: Russian Women’s Travel Writing. Her book entitled On the Verge of Empire: Writing at Russia’s Border, which argues that it was the literature produced at the periphery of empire that brought Russia to prominence and gave it a “national” character for the first time, is under consideration at the University of Toronto Press. Her publications include “Onegin’s Journey: The Orient Revisited,”Pushkin Review (2000), “The Captivating Crimea: Visions of Empire in“‘The Fountain of Bakhchisarai,’” in Russian Subjects: Nation, Empire, and Russia’s Golden Age, Monika Greenleaf and Stephen Moeller-Sally, ed., Northwestern University Press (1998), and “Literary Imperialism, Narodnost, and Pushkin’s Invention of the Caucasus,” The Russian Review (1994). Prof. Hokanson’s current research interests include the history of Russian colonialism, the writing of Aleksandr Pushkin, and Russian women writers of the nineteenth century, particularly Madame Blavatsky. Her teaching focuses on Russian and European literature of the nineteenth century and literary theory.