Interview with Mariia Viktorovna Mikhailova

The Global Feminisms Project (https://globalfeminisms.umich.edu/) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include: - Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL - China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA - SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA - Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA - Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDMariia Viktorovna Mikhailova, born in 1946, studied in the Philology Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, where in 1974 she defended her candidate's dissertation and, in 2000, her doctorate. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at Moscow State University in the Division of History of Russian Literature of the Contemporary Period and Modern Literary Process. Her academic work focuses on women's literature, women critics, and women playwrights of the Silver Age of Russian Literature, and the restoration of forgotten" female authors of that period.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/152439/1/Mikhailova_960.mo