Valeria Mutc Joins Russian Program as an Assistant Professor of Russian

Valeria Mutc (Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University) has joined the Russian Program as an Assistant Professor of Russian. She is a scholar of nineteenth-century literature, theater, and the history of science and technology. In her first book project, The Dramatic Turn: Science, Theater, and Russian Literature, she examines how theater became the optimal medium for Russian writers to respond to the challenges and promises of industrial and technological modernity. Mutc’s work on science and Russian theater has appeared in the Wiener Slawistischer Almanach and the edited volume New Drama in Russia.

 

She also pursues public outreach and pedagogy projects aimed at providing opportunities for equitable access to education. Over the past four years, she has developed interactive online resources for learning about theater and has designed and led programming on equitable and inclusive pedagogy.

 

Before coming to Davis, Mutc served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University. In fall 2024, she is teaching RUS141: Tolstoy.