BACKGROUND

M.A. Philology, Saratov State University, (Saratov, Russia)
Ph.D. Philology, Urals State University (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Specialization: Russian Literature & Literary Criticism

AREAS OF INTEREST

Literary Criticism & Cultural Studies
Nineteenth Century Russian Literature & Culture
Twentieth Century Russian Émigré Art, Culture, and Philosophy
Media, Culture, and Society
History and Theory of Journalism in Russia

Dr. Murenina is a native of Russia. She joined our Department in the Fall 2001 as Thomas W. Rivers Distinguished Visiting Assistant Professor in International Studies, to help the College of Arts and Science promote the development of Russian Studies in East Carolina. Since that time, the Russian Studies program has been solidified by a significant number of new courses in Russian literature, culture and film.

Before coming to the United States, Dr. Murenina was an Associate Professor at the Department of Literary Criticism at Saratov State University, one of the oldest classical universities in Russia. In Saratov, for 14 years she taught a broad range of courses on the history and theory of Russian literature, literary criticism and journalism of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, seminars on literary biography, the writings of Gogol and Dostoevsky. For several years, she was a Vice-Dean of the College of Philology which consists of 9 Literary Studies and Linguistics Departments, and also the Director of the Graduate Journalism Program. She has published more than 30 articles and papers on various aspects of Russian literature and culture, diverse problems of intercultural communication, literary criticism and media. Her academic and teaching experience has been reflected in her textbook on 18th-19th Century Russian Literature (1996), specially designed for students majoring in English, German and French.

Dr. Murenina's passion for Russian literature grew out of her love for Russian poetry. By the age of sixteen her poems had been published in Moscow periodicals. It is her hope that future ECU students will be able to appreciate Russian poetry in its original language, fascinated by its depth and beauty.

COURSES TAUGHT

RUSS 1001-4 Russian Levels I-IV
Basic and Intermediate Russian Language (four levels)
Intermediate Russian Conversation (third year Russian)
Advanced Russian Grammar (fourth year Russian)
Russian Language and Media (third year Russian)
Russian Fairy Tales (third year Russian)
Russian Short Story (fourth year Russian)
Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization
19th Century Russian Novel in Translation
20th Century Russian Novel in Translation
19th Century Russian Literature in Translation
20th Century Russian Literature in Translation
18th-21st Cent. Russian Short Story in Translation
Introduction to Russian Poetry and Versification
Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
19th Russian Novel and Intellectual Thought (Senior Seminar)
Gogol, Dostoevsky and Bulgakov (Senior Seminar)
Dostoevsky's Idiot and Bulgakov's Master and Margarita (Senior Seminar)
Dostoevsky and Nabokov (Senior Seminar)
Russian and Soviet Film (Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar)
Early Soviet Cinema: 1920s-1950s (Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar)
Art, Politics, and Entertainment in Russian and American Contexts (Honors Seminar)
Russian 20th Century Émigré Culture (Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar)
Introduction to Russian Studies: Humanities (Interdisciplinary Seminar)
Directed Readings in Russian Studies (Undergraduate Research)
Multidisciplinary Research in Russian Studies (Thesis)
Field Study in Russia
Honors Independent Study
Honors Thesis