Nina Kolesnikoff is Professor of Slavic Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Languages. She is one of the co-founders of the Comparative Literature programme at McMaster, and has been teaching comparative courses on Russian Literature and Russian Literary Theory, including Russian Formali...
Nina Kolesnikoff is Professor of Slavic Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Languages. She is one of the co-founders of the Comparative Literature programme at McMaster, and has been teaching comparative courses on Russian Literature and Russian Literary Theory, including Russian Formalism and Dialogical Criticism. She has published numerous articles and books on twentieth-century Russian literature, including Yury Trifonov: A Critical Study and The Myth in the Works of Chingiz Aitmatov. She is currently working on a book on Russian Postmodern Metafiction for which she received a three-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.