• Russian and Polish languages
• Nineteenth-century Russian and Polish literatures

Andrea Lanoux received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1999.

Her book Od narodu do kanonu (From Nation to Canon, 2003) examines the formation of the Polish and Russian Romantic literary canons from 1815-1865.

She has also recently published a co-edited volume (with Helena Goscilo) on gender and national identity in twentieth-century Russian culture (Northern Illinois UP, 2006). She has published articles on Nadezhda Sokhanskaia, Tolstoy´s Anna Karenina, Adam Mickiewicz, and contemporary Polish women´s magazines, as well as numerous book reviews and translations.

Lanoux has taught Russian language at all levels, elementary Polish, introductory courses in Russian literature (Literature and Revolution, Gender and National Identity, The Russian Novel), and seminars on Tolstoy, Gogol, Nabokov, Gombrowicz, Modernism, and Russian poetry.

She was co-organizer of the Faculty Seminar on Interdisciplinarity in the Humanties held at Connecticut College during the 2003-04 academic year. She also organized the lecture by Slavoj Zizek, "What To Do With Violence," given on March 31, 2006.

She has served on the Gender and Women´s Studies and Film Studies advisory boards, as well as on the Dean of Faculty Search Committee and the Academic and Administrative Procedures Committee (AAPC). She currently serves on the Committee on Faculty Resources.

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