Reawakening National Identity

The Author: Raffaella Vassena holds a doctorate in Russian literature from the Università degli Studi of Milan. From the same university she received a grant (2004-2006) for research in the United States, at Harvard University. She has taught courses of Russian language at the Università degli Studi and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. She has published several articles in Italy, Russia, and the United States on 19th-century Russian literature as well as on Soviet studies of poetic declamation.