Hanna Navitskaya

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Hanna Navitskaya’s main research interests lie in Soviet children’s literature of the first half of 20th century. Her current work is concentrated on the reconstruction of biographies of female children’s writers of USSR. Hanna’s secondary research interests concern the issues of the confrontation between official and unofficial Soviet culture.

Research Keywords

Soviet children’s literature, female prose, Soviet official and non-conformist culture,
repressed writers, biography reconstruction, literary patronage.