Anastassiya Andrianova

Professor

Faculty

English

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Anastassiya Andrianova is professor of English at NDSU. A native of Kyïv, Ukraine, she holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York and writes on children’s literature, environmental humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. Dr. Andrianova’s work has appeared in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, East/West, Modern Drama, Slavic Literatures, Society & Animals, Translation and Literature, and other scholarly and popular publication venues. She has given invited talks at the University of Vienna, Yale University, the City University of New York, and Florida State University. In June 2024, she co-organized (with Rodolphe Baudin) a conference on disability studies in Eastern Slavistics at the Paris Sorbonne and is now co-editing a special volume with Revue des études slaves.

Areas of Study & Research

  • 19th-century European literature and philosophy
  • literature and science
  • animal studies
  • children's literature
  • disability studies
  • ecofeminism
  • contemporary Ukrainian literature

Courses Taught

Graduate

  • Critical Theory Seminar
  • Topics in British Literature
  • Romantic Literature: Autobiography

Undergraduate

  • Literature and the Environment
  • Literary Analysis
  • Survey of British Literature
  • Topics in British Literature
  • World Literature Masterpieces
  • English Studies Capstone Experience
  • Being Human
  • Multicultural Writers
  • Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Business and Professional Writing
  • Introduction to Literature
  • Honors Composition II

Previous Work

Dr. Andrianova has previously taught at:

  • Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
  • Fordham University
  • New York University
  • Queens College (CUNY)

Awards & Honors

  • NDSU Innovation in Teaching Award (2025, 2023)
  • Annual Critical Animal Studies Award Winner: Critical Animal Studies Faculty Paper/ Project of the Year (2021)
  • The Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Article Award (2016)
  • Modern Drama Award for Outstanding Article (2015)

Professional Associations

  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Association
  • Midwest Slavic Association
  • The PHAIR Society (The Society for the Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations)

Links

Education

  • PhD in Comparative Literature, The CUNY Graduate Center, 2011
  • MPhil in Comparative Literature, The CUNY Graduate Center, 2008
  • MA in Comparative Literature, The CUNY Graduate Center, 2005
  • BA in English and Philosophy, minor in Latin, The City College, CUNY, 2003

Publications

Recent Peer-reviewed Publications

  • “Returning the (Im)migrant Body to the Aesthetic: A Disability, Decolonial, and Multiethnic Perspective on Ilya Kaminsky’sDeaf Republic.” Twentieth-Century Literature, a special volume on race and migration in post-Soviet Ukrainian immigrant writing, co-edited by Claudia Sadowski-Smith and Katharina Wiedlack). Accepted for publication, 2025.
  • “Sunflowers in the Ruins: A Multimodal Analysis of the Environmental Aspects of Ukrainian War Songs from March to May 2022.” Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities, special issue of East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], guest edited by Tanya Richardson and Darya Tsymbalyuk, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024. Forthcoming in September 2025.
  • “Ukraine’s ‘Invisible Battalion’: Perceptions and Treatment of Gender in the Donbas War.” Journal of Veterans Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2025, pp. 50-62.
  • “‘Friends, Not Food’: Depictions of Animals in Vegan Picturebooks.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 3, Fall 2024, pp. 236-259.
  • “Low-stakes Reflections on Learning as a Tool for Teaching Theory Through Children’s Books.” Journal of Literary Education, vol. 7, 2024, pp. 29-46.
  • “Not Your Ordinary Drone: Odes to the Bayraktar in the Russia-Ukraine War.” Popular Music, vol. 42, no. 4, December 2023, pp. 395-415. [published online 11 March 2024]
  • “To Read or Not to Eat: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Books.” Society & Animals, vol. 31, 2023, pp. 847-865.
  • “A Dino Fix: Linus the Vegetarian T. Rex as a Picturebook for the Anthropocene.” Humanimalia, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023, pp. 249-280.
  • “Mavka as Willow: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Lesja Ukrainka’s Forest Song.” Studi Slavistici, vol. 18, no. 2, 2022, pp. 224-240.
  • “A Spokesbear for Climate Crisis? The Role of Zoos in Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear.” Nonhuman Animals, Climate Crisis and the Role of Literature, co-edited by Matthias Stephan and Sune Borkfelt, pp. 71-91. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2022.
  • “A Critical Disability Reading of Lermontov’s ‘Taman’.” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2. 2021, n.p.
  • “A Disability Reading of Ivan Turgenev’s ‘Mumu’.” Russian Literature [now Slavic Literatures], vol. 124, 2021, pp. 53-78.
  • “Ecofeminism in Film Adaptations of Lesia Ukrainka’s Forest Song.” Kyiv Mohyla Humanities Journal, vol.8 (Lesia Ukrainka’s Global Artistic and Philosophical Universe: Past and Present), 2021, pp. 46-67.

Presentations

Conference Organizer

  • Against the Norm: Disability Studies in Eastern Slavic Literature, Film, and Culture, co-organized with Rodolphe Baudin. Sorbonne University, Paris, France, 20-21 June 2024.

Panel Organizer

  • Feminist Approaches to The Wild Robot. The 2025 Red River Women’s Studies Conference, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, 21 March 2025.
  • Feminist Disability Studies. The 2025 Red River Women’s Studies Conference, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 20 April 2024.
  • ‘Humusities’ for a Habitable Multispecies Muddle. The Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, New York, NY, 4-7 January 2018.

Recent Presentations

  • “‘Deafness isn’t an illness! It’s a sexual position!’: Deafness as a Form of Resistance in Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic.” Registering Personal and Collective Histories: Body as a Document, Memory as an Archive. ASEEES 57th Annual Convention, Washington, DC, 20-23 November 2025.
  • “‘I am transforming…’: The Disruptive Work of Volodymyr Vakulenko-K.’s War Diary.” ICCEES Congress, University College London, London, England, 21-25 July 2025.
  • “Ukraine’s ‘Invisible Battalion’: Gender and Body Politics in the Veteranka Movement.” Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 4-6 April 2025.
  • “Introduction: Disability Studies and Slavistics.” Against the Norm: Disability Studies in Eastern Slavic Literature, Film, and Culture, Sorbonne University, Paris, France, 20-21 June 2024.
  • “Depictions of Gender and the Body in Divchata zrizaiut' kosy (Girls Cutting Their Locks, 2018).” Against the Norm: Disability Studies in Eastern Slavic Literature, Film, and Culture, Sorbonne University, Paris, France, 20-21 June 2024.
  • “A Feminist Future Without War? Women’s Bodies and Sexual Difference in Girls Cutting Their Locks.” Red River Women’s Studies Conference, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 20 April 2024.