Ani Kokobobo

Ani Kokobobo is the Associate Professor and Chair with the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. She completed her Ph.D. dissertation on the grotesque and the body in late Russian realism. She specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature as well as Balkan modernism. In addition to working on individual authors like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Andrić, and Kadare, in her research she has also explored larger theoretical problems like representations of violence and the body in literature as well as the political significance of aesthetic styles and genres.