Elena Fratto is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her research focuses on the Health and Environmental Humanities, narrative theory, and the rhetorical intersections of literature and science in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Russophone literature and visual arts. She is the author of Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century and co-editor of Russian Literature of the Anthropocene. Her in-progress book, Metabolic Modernities, investigates the concept of “metabolism” as energy transformation in Russophone literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
Read her full biography on the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures website.
