Adrienne Harris Boggess

Adrienne, a 1999-2003 Self Fellow, received a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures in 2008. She received a B.A. in comparative literature from Purdue University in 1999, with majors in comparative literature, English, French and Russian and a minor in music history. She studied abroad in St. Petersburg (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007), Prague (2001, 2002), and Quebec (1998). As an American Councils Title VIII research fellow, she spent the academic year 2005-06 in Moscow, researching her dissertation “The Myth of the Woman Warrior and World War II in Soviet Culture.” She is interested in 19th and 20th century Russian literature, Czech literature, and the variety of Czech spoken in rural Texas. Adrienne is currently an Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Baylor University in Waco, TX.

Mentor: Edith W. Clowes, Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures