Emily D. Johnson

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Emily D. Johnson is the Brian and Sandra O’Brien Presidential Professor of Russian at the University of Oklahoma. She studies twentieth-century Russian literature and history and the legacy of the Stalinist labor camp system. Her most recent book is Rethinking the Gulag (Indiana University Press, 2022), which she co-edited with Alan Barenberg.

The War on Memory in Russia Today: A Conversation with Irina Flige

July 2023
Emily D. Johnson
Irina Flige / Courtesy of the authorIn April 2023 Irina Flige—director of the Research and Information Center “Memorial” in St. Petersburg, Russia, and a longtime board member of Memorial Internationa…
Motherhood, Grief, and a Call to Action in Anna Starobinets’s Look at Him

April 27, 2022 Emily D. Johnson
Written by one of Russia’s best-known horror writers, Anna Starobinets, Look at Him (Three String Books, 2020) is an unusual book: it reads partly as a memoir and partly as a journalistic in…
Mothers and Daughters: Generational Conflict and Social Change in the Work of Dubravka Ugrešić

January 2017
Emily D. Johnson
Photo: Shevaun Williams My training as a scholar of Russian literature and culture colors my readings of Dubravka Ugrešić’s work. No matter how hard I try to stop myself from reaching for parallels i…
November 2011
Emily D. Johnson
When we first began work on this special section devoted to post-Soviet literature, what we were trying to commemorate seemed very clear. We wanted to take stock of all the ways in which East European…