About us

Anita Frison obtained her PhD in Linguistic, Philological and Literary Sciences at the University of Padua (2018), specialising in Slavic Studies. Her research interests include Russian literature and culture between the end of the 19^th and the beginning of the 20^th century, and particularly: symbolism, early cinema and its relationship with ethnography, the Russian image of Africa, postcolonial studies and semiotics. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Padua, and the PI of the STARS Starting grant project entitled The African Text. Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917). She has taught Russian literature in several universities, among which Padua and Venice (Ca’ Foscari). Since 2020, she is the co-editor-in-chief of the scientific peer-reviewed journal “eSamizdat” (www.esamizdat.it).