Andrea D. Lanoux

Andrea Lanoux teaches courses in Russian and Polish languages and cultures, global studies, and youth cultures, including networked courses with institutional partners in Russia and Poland and community-engaged courses with Russian-speaking émigrés in Southeastern Connecticut from far-flung regions of the former Soviet bloc. In fall 2022, she taught a first-year research seminar on Ukraine that resulted in the open educational resource Being Ukraine: An Introduction to Europe’s Eastern Vanguard. In fall 2020, she taught a first-year seminar on global responses to the COVID pandemic that led to the creation of a 46-student research collective with participants on four continents and the subsequent online publication of the Global COVID Project.

Lanoux’s most recent book, Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017 (Brill-Schøningh, 2022), co-authored with Kelly Herold and Olga Bukhina, examines the privatization of the Soviet publishing industry and the rise of new literature for children and adolescents after 1991. Other books include a monograph on the formation of the Polish and Russian Romantic literary canons (Od narodu do kanonu [From Nation to Canon, 2003]), and a collected volume on gender and national identity in Russian culture, co-edited with Helena Goscilo (Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture, 2006). Other publications include articles on Tolstoy´s Anna Karenina, the poets Adam Mickiewicz and Anna , the Polish women’s press after 1989, Russian advice literature for girls, orphaned heroes and bad mothers in Russian children’s literature, and numerous book reviews, encyclopedia entries, and translations. 

Lanoux has a distinguished record of service to the College, having chaired the Priorities, Planning and Budget Committee (PPBC, 2019-20), the Faculty Steering and Conference Committee (FSCC, 2013/14), and the Educational Planning Committee (EPC, 2007). Additionally, she served as faculty director of the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA, 2018-2022), faculty mentor for the Posse 9 cohort (2017-2021), and the principal investigator on two Mellon grants totaling over 1M for global education (2009-2012 and 2014-2016). In 2014 she was awarded the Helen Brooks Regan Faculty Leadership award for outstanding service to the College.

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Majoring in Slavic Studies.