
Dr. Carlotta Chenoweth
Assistant Professor
English and World Languages
Dr. Carlotta Chenoweth received her B.A. with Honors in 2009 from Wellesley College, majoring in Russian and Cognitive Science. She spent the next few years living in Moscow and Vladimir, Russia, where she taught English and worked in the independent Russian media sphere. Returning to the United States in 2013, she completed her M.Phil. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 2016 and her Ph.D. in the same department in 2020.
Her research focuses on the culture of Soviet and contemporary Russia; her first book project, The Illiterate Text, explores the first Soviet literacy campaign in 1920s Russia. Her other research interests include the intersection of literature and technology, the digital humanities, and the history of Soviet and Russian media.
Ph.D. - Yale University
M.Phil. - Yale University
B.A. - Wellesley College
Research Interests
Literature and technology, Digital humanities, Media theory, Second language acquisition
Selected Publications
Bozovic, Marijeta, Carlotta Chenoweth, Jacob Lassin, and Trip Kirkpatrick. "Knight Moves: Russifying Quantitative Literary Studies." Russian Literature 122 (2021): 113-138.
Miller, Zachary F., John D. Benjamin, Carlotta Chenoweth, and Sherry A. Maggin. "Leveraging Language for Specific Purposes as a Motivating Factor for World Language Study." In Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education, pp. 221-232. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.