Dr. Larysa Smirnova

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Biography

Larysa Smirnova is a Lecturer in French at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in teaching French at introductory and intermediate levels. Since joining MIT in 2019, she has previously taught French language, literature, and French & Francophone film at institutions including Boston College, Yale, and Tufts University. Smirnova holds a Ph.D. in French from Yale University. Her academic interests encompass French prose fiction, 20th-century French and Francophone cinema, literary theory, and semiology. She has published articles focusing on French world cinema and 19th-century French literature.

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Lecturer

2019-01-01 — Present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA

Part-time lecturer teaching introductory and intermediate French.