Dr. Emily Johnson, Associate Professor of Russian, received her Ph.D. in Russian Literature from Columbia University. She also holds a Harriman Certificate in Russian Area Studies. Before coming to Oklahoma she taught at Columbia University, Hofstra University, Drew University, and Williams College. Her research interests include the Petersburg myth and text and the documentary heritage of the Soviet labor camp system. Her book, How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Its Self: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie, was published by Penn State University Press in 2006 as part of the series Studies of the Harriman Institute. It won both the South Central Modern Language Association book award and the Antsiferov Prize for the best contribution to the study of St. Petersburg by a foreign scholar. Dr. Johnson's other publications include: "Nikita Khrushchev, Andrei Voznesensky and the Cold Spring of 1963," "Transcendence and the City: Nikolai Antsiferov's The Soul of Petersburg as an Aesthetic Utopia," “Putin and Emptiness: the Place of Satire in the Contemporary Cult of Personality” (Harriman Review, 2009: http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/research/harriman_review.html), “Letters from the Gulag” (Hoover Digest, 2009: http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/42810707.html), and an article on the poet Aleksandr Kushner for a forthcoming volume of The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Dr. Johnson has received a number of faculty awards since arriving at the University of Oklahoma, including the Cecil W. Woods Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001),  the Irene Rothbaum Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences (2005), the Dean’s Outstanding Academic Advising Award from the College of Arts and Sciences (2008), and the Gary B. Cohen Award from the School of International and Area Studies (2009).  Dr. Johnson’s research has been funded by the Oklahoma Humanities Council, the South Central Modern Languages Association, the American Council of Teachers of Russian, the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.  Dr, Johnson is a Senior Contributing Editor at the journal World Literature Today.  She is also currently serving as a member of the MLA Division Executive Committee for Slavic and East European literatures.  She served as Vice-President of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages from 2002 to 2005.