Lina Turygina

Lina is a second-year PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. She holds a BA in Philology, with a minor in Cultural Anthropology, from HSE University in St. Petersburg, where she graduated cum laude in 2023, and an MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Oregon (2025).

Her research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russophone female émigré literature, with particular interests in displacement, adaptation, gender, translingual authorship, translation, and the many ways people and stories move across borders. Her current work centers especially on the fiction of women writers including Nina Berberova, Ekaterina Bakunina, Irina Odoevtseva, and Olga Zilberbourg. She is also interested in myth studies, fairy-tale studies, literary anthropology, and the ways that stories travel, transform, and acquire new lives in different languages and cultural contexts.

When not reading about émigrés, Lina can usually be found following them into archives, libraries, and occasionally entirely different academic disciplines. In the summer of 2026, she is a Pforzheimer Fellow at Cabot Science Library, where she is researching the history of Harvard science libraries that have since closed. She works across multiple languages and is an avid fantasy reader, knitter, and conference presenter — three activities that, she maintains, all involve the same basic question: how do you take a complicated collection of disparate threads and turn it into something coherent?