Victoria Somoff
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies
Faculty Advisor for Dartmouth Student Alliance for Ukraine (DSAU)
Coordinator for the Ukraine Working Group
Area of Expertise
narrative theory,
theory and history of the novel,
narrative and consciousness,
orality and literacy,
folklore,
Ukrainian language and culture ,
drama and theater
Education
M.A. in Philology, Donetsk State University, Ukraine
M.A. in Folklore, University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley
Taught Courses
Publications
Hunter into Prey: Forms of Folklore in Nekrasov's "V derevne." Slavic and East European Journal 68 (2024): 57-69
"Morals and Miracles: The Case of AT 555, The Fisherman and His Wife." Nancy Canepa, ed. Teaching Fairy Tales, Wayne State University Press, 2019.
"Nonresistance to Fiction: Archaic Folktale vs. Later Tolstoy." Slavic and Eastern European Journal 60:2 (Summer 2016), pp. 284-306.
"Alexander Veselovsky's Historical Poetics vs. Cultural Poetics: Remembering the Future." Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov, eds., Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics, Fordham University Press, 2015.
The Imperative of Reliability: Russian Prose on the Eve of the Novel, 1820s-1850s. Northwestern University Press, 2015.
"Four is Not Fourteen: Tongue Twister Patterns and the Unmastery of Language." Western Folklore 73:2/3 (Spring 2014), pp. 195-215.
"No Need for Dogs or Women: Muteness in Turgenev's Mumu." Russian Literature 68, nos. 3-4 (2010): 501-520.
"On the Metahistorical Roots of the Fairytale." Western Folklore 61 (2002): 277-294.
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