Alexandra Curtis is a 2020 graduate from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and earned her bachelor’s degree with honors in both Comparative Literature and Russian Area Studies. In 2018, she completed an internship at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where she was offered the opportunity to participate in a folklore research expedition in the Irkutsk region. In the same year, she completed a semester-long intensive language immersion program in the Siberian city of Barnaul. Her favorite memories in Russia include participating in a Shaman ritual celebration in a Buryat village; stand-up paddleboarding on Lake Baikal; and traveling through the Altai Mountains in a Soviet-style UAZ bukhanka van. In addition to writing for Russian Life, she works as an online English as a Foreign Language teacher and curriculum developer.
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