Laura Olson Osterman (a.k.a. Laura J. Olson, born in 1962)Notes in the book The Worlds of Russian Village Women, page 322 is an American professor of Russian Program, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches courses on Slavic folk culture, Russian fairytales, and women in Russian culture, among others.Laura Olson Osterman (Laura J. Olson)Curriculum Vitae
Olson was born in New York. She received M.A. Comparative Literature from Indiana University Bloomington in 1990 and Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 1994.
Books Performing Russia: Folk Revival and Russian Identity (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004) Sibelan E. S. Forrester Review Of "P view Of "Performing Russia: F forming Russia: Folk Revival And Russian Identity al And Russian Identity" By L. J. Olson , Folklorica, Volume 10, Issue 2, pages 71-72 The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise (University of Wisconsin Press 2012, with Svetlana Adonyeva)Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise, by Laura J. Olson andSvetlana Adonyeva (Review), Journal of American Folklore, volume 128, number 508, pages 230-231 Russian translation: Традиция, трансгрессия, компромисс. Миры русской деревенской женщины [Traditsiia, transgressiia, kompromiss: Miry russkoi derevenskoi zhenshchiny], Moscow, 2016
Awards The book The Worlds of Russian Village Women was awarded the Chicago Folklore Prize for the best book-length work of folklore scholarship for 2013, and the Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society (Professional Prize, 2013).EKM PRIZE recipients
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