Laura Little


Laura Little

Faculty Director of the Global Learning Lab
Lecturer of Slavic Studies
Associate Faculty Director of CISLA

Joined Connecticut College: 2012

Education
B.A., University of Missouri-Columbia
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin–Madison


Specializations

Russian Literature

Late Soviet Culture

Russian Language

Bulgarian Language and Culture

Slavic and Balkan Cuisines

Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe

Laura Little teaches Russian language courses and courses on Eastern European cultural history. Her first-year seminar Utopia/Dystopia and other courses in English emphasize the historical and social contexts of artistic works.

Little’s Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “Becoming an Andegraund Poet: Elena Shvarts and the Literary Environment of the Late Soviet Era,” traces Shvarts’s rise to prominence in unofficial artistic circles of 1960s-70s Leningrad, as Saint Petersburg was called in the Soviet era.

As Faculty Director of the Global Learning Lab, Professor Little engages in and promotes globally networked teaching and learning at the College. She coordinates with the Walter Commons Fellows to host events that promote language and cultural learning on campus, and manages the Structured Independent Language Study (SILS) program, which offers students the chance to study languages not taught as part of the formal curriculum. She also works with the Academic Resource Center to offer weekly drop-in group study/tutoring for language learners in the Walter Commons.

Contact Laura Little

Mailing Address

Laura Little
Connecticut College
Box #SLAVIC STUDIES/Blaustein Humanities Center
270 Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT 06320

Office

102 Blaustein Humanities Center