Dr. Megan Swift
Position
Associate Professor
Germanic and Slavic Studies
Contact
Office:
CLE D246
Credentials
PhD (U of Toronto)
Area of expertise
20th century Russian literature, culture and art; Russian revolutionary culture; Soviet cultural policy under Lenin and Stalin; Putin’s Russia.
Megan Swift is an Associate Professor of Russian Studies who specializes in the culture of Lenin and Stalin’s Russia. Her current book project looks at Russian cultural policy as expressed and resisted in children’s book illustrations 1917-53. A new focus of her teaching and research is Putin’s Russia and the reshaping of the Soviet past in post-communist Russia.