Adrienne Harris

Research/Teaching Interests

• Soviet and post-Soviet cultural memory, war memory, and national identity.
• 19th-21st century Russian literature.
• Soviet, Post-Soviet, and Central and East-European Film—specializing in Russian, Czech, and Ukrainian Cinema.
• Gender—depictions of masculinity in cinema; representations of female combatants.
• Slavic Folklore—Mythology, Folk Tales, Folk Songs, Material Culture.

Education

Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas, Ph.D. 2008

Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas, M.A. 2001

Purdue University Majors: Comparative Literature, English, Russian, French, B.A. 1999

Courses Taught at Baylor

RUS 1301 First-Semester Russian

RUS 1302 Second-Semester Russian

RUS 3345 Introduction to Russian Film

RUS 3346 Introduction to East European Film

RUS 4301 Survey of Russian Literature before 1900: a Cultural and Literary History

RUS 4301 Folklore and Folklife in Russian Literature

RUS 4301 Russia, Rus’, and Rodina in Russian Literature before 1917

RUS 4302 Conflict and War in 20th and 21st Century Russian Literature

Leadership in Slavic Studies

Southern Council for Slavic Studies, Executive Council (March 2025-present)

Slavic and East European Folklore Association, Vice President (2013-2020)

Association for Women in Slavic Studies, Board member (2016-2020)

Selected Publications

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

• “Yelizaveta Ivanovna Chaikina” Mit Mut und List: Europäische Frauen im Widerstand gegen Faschismus und Krieg, Ed. Hervé, Florence, Neue Kleine Bibliothek, 2024, 274-276.
• “Performing Identities and Negotiating Memory in Contested Spaces: Ukrainian Folk Songs in Contemporary Russian War Films” in Studia Ethnologica Pragensia: Ballads and Memory, 1, (2023), 54-68.
• “Jews, Gender, and Just Wars: Remembering and Rewriting the Great Patriotic War in 2015 War Films” in The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, ed. David Hoffmann. Routledge, 2021, 318-339.
• “Moscow” in Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies, July, 2021. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780190922481/obo-9780190922481-0047.xml?rskey=AibcBK&result=1&q=Moscow&print#firstMatch
• “Moscow” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Edited by Anthony M. Orum, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, April 15, 2019, 1264-1271.
• “Gendered Images and Soviet Subjects: How the Komsomol Archive Enriched my Understanding of Gender in Soviet War Culture” Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, 11, (2017), 97-118.
• “‘Your words ring out now like copper. They fly through all of the fatherland:’ Sensory Commemoration of a War Heroine in Soviet Collective Memory 1942-1986” in Russian History through the Senses: From 1700 to the Present. Edited by Matthew Romaniello and Tricia Starks, 243-266. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
• “Patriot or Saint? The Resurrection of a Soviet Hero and Post-Soviet Identity” in An Introduction to Area Studies in the 21st Century. Edited by Edith W. Clowes and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, 34-52. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois Press, 2016.
• «Была я рядовою / На войне, / В поэзии / Осталась рядовою:» Поетеса Юлія Друніна і статус жінки-ветерана (1945-1986) [«Была я рядовою / На войне, / В поэзии / Осталась рядовою:» Poet Iuliia Drunina and the Woman Veteran's Status (1945-1986)"] in Жінки Центральної та Східної Європи у Другій світовій війні : Гендерна специфіка досвіду в часи екстремального насильства : Зб. наук. статей / за наук. ред. Гелінади Грінченко, Катерини Кобченко, Оксани Кісь, 321-334. Київ: ТОВ "Арт-книга", 2015.
• “Evolution of the Immortal: Dynamic Images of World War II Heroes" in Post-Communist Transition and Women's Agency in Eastern Europe. Edited by Cynthia Simmons, 15-26. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: The Republic of Letters, 2013.
• “Сталинская линия и выдуманные женихи: Роль любовной линий в повествованиях о героях второй мировой войны (“Stalinist Objectives and Invented Suitors: The Role of Romance in World War II Hero Narratives).” Новое литературное обозрение, 124 (2013), 93-110.
• “No Nastas’ias on the Volga: Soviet Women Veterans and Folkloric Self-Representations,” Folklorica 17-18 (2013), 99-130.
• “After ‘a Youth on Fire:’ The Woman Veteran in Iuliia Drunina’s Post-war Poetry,” Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History 7 (2013), 68-91.
• “‘Something Like Happiness’ in Northern Bohemia: Post-1989 Cinematic Portrayals of the Czech Industrial North” East European Politics and Societies. 26.3 (2012), 454-468.
• “Memorializations of a Martyr and her Mutilated Bodies: Public Monuments to Soviet War Hero Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1942-the present),” The Journal of War and Culture Studies 5.1 (2012), 73-90.
• “The Lives and Deaths of a Soviet Saint in the Post-Soviet Period: The Case of Zoia Kosmodem’ianskaia,” Canadian Slavonic Papers 53.2-3-4 (2011), 271-304.
• “Yulia Drunina: The ‘Blond-braided Soldier’ on the Poetic Front,” Slavic and East European Journal 54.4 (2010), 643-665.

Non-Refereed Publications:

• Interview on Radio France “Ukraine : De la révolution à la guerre, un patriotisme au féminin,” Episode 1 in the Des femmes dans les guerres series https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/cultures-monde/ukraine-de-la-revolution-a-la-guerre-un-patriotisme-au-feminin (March 7, 2022)
• Interview with Dr. Eve Levin, Recipient of the AWSS Outstanding Achievement Award. published in the Women East-West newsletter (the organ of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies). Vol. 10, 2nd ed. https://mailchi.mp/26d45f42c342/news-from-awss-vol-10-issue-2-fall-5989440?e=5fe56f4180
• Curricula: “Using MAPRR (Mapping Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia) in the Undergraduate Literature Classroom: Esenin, Russia, and Rus’” on Mapping Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia 1914-1922 August 2021 http://maprr.iath.virginia.edu/lesson_plans/MAPRR_lesson_plan_Harris_literature_Esenin.pdf