厙ぴ勛圖

Olesya Ivantsova

  • Lecturer in German and Russian
  • Program Director of the German House

Education

  • Candidate of Sciences (PhD equivalent), Ulyanovsk State University

Fall 2026

Intermediate German GERM 203

Gone Writing: Travel and Literature CMPL 251

Gone Writing: Travel and Literature GERM 251

Beauty and Terror: Weimar Germany on the Page, Stage, and Screen GERM 427

Spring 2027

German Art in 厙ぴ勛圖 and Beyond GERM 362

History Through Cinema: A Divided Nation in German Film GERM 367

  • Literary representations of cities, travel literature, life writing, literature of the Weimar Republic, and German-Russian cultural relations.

Notes

Olesya Ivantsova Presents Paper at Modern Language Association Annual Convention

Lecturer in German and Russian Olesya Ivantsova presented her paper Submerging into the Shadows: Joseph Roths Travelogues from Post-Revolutionary Russia at the 2025 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in New Orleans focusing on the notion of the subterranean in Roths travelogues and analyzing how the Austrian authors travel accounts from the 1920s Soviet Union became crucial for his development as a writer.

Olesya Ivantsova Organized Panel and Presented at Conferece in Montr矇al

Lecturer in German and Russian Olesya Ivantsova organized a panel called Reproductive Tales at the German Studies Association Annual Conference in Montr矇al (October 5-8, 2023) and presented her paper Narrating the Pain: Stories of Childbirth and Abortion in East Germany discussing works of GDR writers Irmtraud Morgner and Maja Wiens.

Olesya Ivantsova publishes paper on Bertolt Brecht

Visiting Assistant Professor of German Olesya Ivantsova published a paper in the online journal discussing Bertolt Brechts reflections on the written words presence in the city space.