Professional Affiliation

Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder

Expert Bio

Anastasiya Osipova received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from NYU in 2017. She is currently completing her first book, entitled Survival and Mobilization: The Genre Memory of Soviet Prison Writing, that explores inter-generational aesthetic influence among political prisoners from 1920s to 2020s. 

In addition to her academic work, she is active as a writer, translator, and publisher of contemporary art and poetry in Russia and Ukraine. In 2013 she co-founded Cicada Press, an imprint committed to publishing formally experimental Eastern European writing. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Wilson Center Project

Survival and Mobilization: The Genre Memory of Soviet Prison Writing