Polina Dimova is an Associate Professor of Russian language, literature, and culture at the University of Denver and a scholar-teacher of Russian and European literature, art, and culture. She specializes in European and Russian Modernism across the arts, literature – music – visual art, lyric poetry, sensory studies, science and literature, Science Fiction, translation. Dr. Dimova has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, 2010 and BA in Comparative Literature from the Smith College, 2001. Her first book At the Crossroads of the Senses (Penn State UP, 2024) examines how Modernist multimedia experiments stemmed from a fascination with synaesthesia, the figurative or neurological mixing of the senses—for instance, in the perception of sound as color. Dimova has published on the Symbolist, Soviet, and Post-Soviet literary interpretations of the myth and music of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, on Sergei Prokofiev’s early ballets and songs, on Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss’s adaptations of the Salome legend, and on electricity in Russian culture.
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Period of affiliation:
2024 - 2025
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University of Denver
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