Gitta Hammarberg

Gitta Hammarberg is a Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at Macalester College. Her research centers on late 18th- to early 19th-century Russian literature and Bakhtinian theory.  Professor Hammarberg’s publications include the monograph From the Idyll to the Novel: Karamzin’s Sentimentalist Prose as well as numerous articles on topics such as the male construction of a feminized literary paradigm; the first Russian women’s journals; the inception of Russian literary criticism; album verse; literary games; and wider phenomena such as literary polemics, dandyism, and early Russian spa culture. She received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies. While at Macalester, Professor Hammarberg participated in the Macalester Black Sea Project; designed and oversaw a project in which students translated memoirs written by Twin Cities Russian-speaking veterans of World War II; and arranged for such luminaries as the leading Russian nonconformist artist Viktor Pivovarov to visit Macalester and share their insights with students. Professor Hammarberg is also an accomplished artist working in media including watercolor painting and jewelry design.