People > Center Associates

Expertise / Literature and culture in Russia and the former Yugoslavia.

Current Project / "Childhood and Communism Undone: Post-Soviet and Millennial Russian Prose"

Foreign Languages / Croatian, Russian

Education / Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Brown University

Selected Publications

• Women Engaged/Engaged Art in Postwar Bosnia: Reconciliation, Recovery, and Civil Society, (Pittsburgh, PA: Carl Beck Papers, 2010).
• Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina, Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), ForeWord Magazine Silver Medal Book of the Year in History.
• "Miljenko Jergović and (Yugo)nostalgia," Russian Literature 4 (2009): 457-469.
• "Women's Work and the Growth of Civil Society in Post-War Bosnia," Nationalities Papers 35 (2007): 171-185.
• "Andrei Bitov on 'Russian Wealth,'" International Fiction Review 34 (2007): 109-119.

T / 617-552-3914

E / simmonsc@bc.edu