Olga Meerson

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Olga Meerson (born Olga Anatoljewna Schnittke, scientific transliteration Šnitke , * 1959 in Moscow ) is a Slavist and university professor in the USA.

Life

Olga Schnittke, cousin of the German-Russian composer Alfred Schnittke , emigrated to Israel in 1974 . There she attended the Hebrew University High School in Jerusalem until 1977 . In 1977 she married the theologian and Russian Orthodox priest Dr. Michael Meerson.

In the same year she moved to the USA and began studying Liberal Arts at Hunter College in New York City , from which she graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor's degree. In 1986 the Magister Artium followed and in 1991 the dissertation in Russian literature at Columbia University . She has taught at Georgetown University since 1995; She had already been teaching from 1987.

The marriage with Michael Meerson had three children.

Publications (selection)

  • A free thing. The Poetics of Re-Familiarization in Andrei Platonov's Work , Oakland 1997
  • Dostoevsky's Taboos , Dresden 1998
  • Personalism as Poetics. The World of Fiction through Its Inhabitants' Eyes / Personalizm kak poetika. Literaturnyj mir glazami ego obitatelej , St. Petersburg 2009

Individual evidence

  1. The life data of the Slavic woman are often mistakenly taken over for the painter Olga Markowa Meerson, who was born several decades earlier , as is the case here .
  2. Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier, Representing the marginal Woman in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. Personalism, Feminism, and Polyphony (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History) , Greenwood Pub. Group Inc. 2000, ISBN 978-0313315060 , o. S. ( Acknowledgments )
  3. biography on explore.georgetown.edu