Polish cities as sites of memory

Kristina Vorontsova, a D. Litt. in the field of literary studies, author of 2 books and over 40 articles on the history of Russian, British, and Canadian literature, comparative literature, as well as translation studies. The topic of her doctoral dissertation was "Models of Space in the Poetry of Elena Shvarts (2013)", and the topic of her habilitation was "Supertexts of Russian Culture (2022)". Her research interests encompass Russophone poetry of the 19th to 21st centuries, issues of space in literary texts, the representation of Poland and Poles in Soviet and Anglophone cultures, figures of the Leningrad Second Culture, as well as the potential applications of postcolonial and queer perspectives in the analysis of Soviet literature.