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Olson, Laura J.

Professor

Positions

Professor, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Professor Olson (Osterman) researches the folk culture of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, including the intersections of folk culture and women's subjectivity and the ideological uses of folklore in the construction of national, religious and ethnic identities.

Publications

selected publications

book
chapter
- The Multiple Voices of Bulgaria's Unofficial Islamic Leaders. 122-141. 2015
- Materinstvo: intimnye praktiki zhenskoi ierarkhii 2010
- Stsenarii i zhizn’: pereizobretenie russkoi rozhdestvenskoi traditsii v Saratovskoi oblasti. 232-242. 2006
- Akhmadulina, Bella. 22-24. 2000
- Zoshchenko, Mikhail. 1520-1522. 2000
- ’Mine Eye Hath Play’d the Painter’: Pasternak’s ’Ne Trogat’ and the Conventions of the Renaissance Love Lyric. 88-103. 1999
- Russianness, femininity, and romantic aesthetics in 'War and Peace'. Russian Review. 515-531. 1997
journal article
- The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, vol 1. Journal of American Folklore. 230-232. 2020
- The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, vol 2. Journal of American Folklore. 230-232. 2020
- Enacting Pomak Belonging: Wedding Performance and Social Media in Post-Socialist Bulgaria. 104-130. 2019
- Negotiating meaning through costume and social media in Bulgarian Muslims' communities of practice. Nationalities Papers. 560-580. 2017
- THE "PAINTED BRIDE" AS AN EMBLEM OF IDENTITY: POMAKS OF SOUTHERN BULGARIA. Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Yazyk i Literatura. 326-340. 2017
- Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture. Slavic Review. 416-417. 2015
- Villages on Stage: Folklore and Nationalism in the Republic of Moldova. Slavic Review. 631-632. 2013
- SUBVERSIVE SONGS IN LIMINAL SPACE: WOMEN'S POLITICAL CASTUSKI IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN RURAL COMMUNITIES. Russian Literature. 163-183. 2013
- Sovetskie krest’ianki (polovozrastnaia identichnost’: struktura i istoriia). Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie. 2012
- Interpreting the Past, Postulating the Future: Memorate as Plot and Script among Rural Russian Women. Journal of Folklore Research. 133-166. 2011
- Legend, Dialogue, and Identity: The Russian Case. Journal of Folklore Research. 133-166. 2011
- Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition. Slavic and East European Journal. 398-400. 2010
- Approaches to teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.. Slavic and East European Journal. 117-119. 2004
- The Russian lullaby in folklore and literature. Slavic Review. 658-659. 2002
- Parody as Criticism and Meta-Criticism: Unmasking Zoshchenko’s ’Nose’. 161-178. 2000
- In the Field with Russian Scholars: Observations by an American Researcher. 15-20. 1999

Background

education and training

Ph.D., Yale University 1994
M.A., Indiana University Bloomington 1990
B.A., SUNY College at Purchase 1983

awards and honors

Traditional Fulbright Scholarship, conferred by Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2019
Kayden Book Award Honorable Mention, conferred by College of Arts and Sciences, 2015
Chicago Folklore Prize, conferred by American Folklore Society, 2013
Fellowship Awards, conferred by National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004
Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions Award, conferred by National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004

International Activities

geographic focus

Bosnia and Herzegovina Country
Bulgaria Country
Russian Federation Country
Uzbekistan Country
eastern Europe Transnational Region

Other Profiles

ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-5799

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&imq=Laura+J.+Olson&user=m-78d5IAAAAJ

ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura-Olson-7

Academia.edu

https://colorado.academia.edu/LauraOsterman