Anna Vichkitova

Anna Vichkitova is a scholar of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet culture. Her research interests are broad and interconnected: she has published and presented on post-Soviet memory, Soviet and post-Soviet gender representation, eco-writing and ecocriticism, and the sociology of literary processes.

Anna holds a BA in Russian Language and Literature from Bashkir State University, an MA in Russian Literature from St. Petersburg State University, and an MA in Sociology from the European University at St. Petersburg. She has also completed a secondary field in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University.

Her doctoral dissertation, “Metamorphoses of the Past: Memory of the Soviet Union in the Twenty-First Century,” submitted in July 2025, investigates memories of the Soviet period and their expressions in film, literature, and religion across a diverse geographical scope that includes the United States, Russia, and Germany.

One of her recent projects is an oral history of the Soviet past in the Republic of Moldova, where Anna spent a year and a half conducting fieldwork, exploring recollections of the period, and learning Romanian. This work is now being developed into a series of articles on post-Soviet remembrance culture.

Her research has been supported by prestigious fellowships, including a Krupp Dissertation Research Fellowship, a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from Harvard’s Center for European Studies, a Davis Center Research Grant, and the Svetlana Boym Fellowship. She has held visiting researcher positions at the Dresden University of Technology and the National Institute of Economic Research in Chisinau, Moldova.

Anna has been recognized with Harvard’s Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for her work as a teaching fellow in courses on Nabokov, contemporary Russian film and fiction, and advanced Russian language. She also holds a Bok Certificate in Teaching Language and Culture from Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

A native Russian speaker, she has advanced English proficiency and reading knowledge of German, French, and Ukrainian. She continues to develop her Romanian and has recently started learning Tatar.