Mariya Litovskaya
Mariya Arkadevna Litovskaya, née Yeremeyeva is a Soviet and Russian philologist, literary critic, Professor of the Ural Federal University, one of the leading scholars at the Institute of History and Archaeology under the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a specialist in the fields of the 20th century Russian literature, sociology of literature and education, Ural literature.Career
She was born in Sverdlovsk in the teachers' family, graduated from the philological department of the Ural Federal University in 1980. In 1983 she defended her thesis. Starting from that year Litovskaya worked for the University at the Soviet Literature Department. Her doctoral dissertation Social and artistic phenomenon of Valentin Kataev was defended in 2000. From 1998 to 2007 she headed the History Department of the Institute of History and Archaeology.Selected publications
