Red Valkyries

Kristen R. Ghodsee is professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the graduate group in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of ten books and her articles and essay have been translated into over 25 languages and have appeared in The New Republic, The Baffler, Dissent, Jacobin, The Lancet, Le Monde Diplomatique, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Kristen R. Ghodsee is an award-winning author and professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania who has been teaching, researching, and writing about gender issues and left feminisms for more than twenty years. In addition to her 2018 trade title (which has had 13 foreign editions so far, including German, Spanish, French, Russian, and Portuguese translations), she has published seven academic books on gender, socialism and postsocialism. She has relevant by-lines in venues such as The New Republic, The Baffler, Dissent, Jacobin, Ms. Magazine, Project Syndicate, The Lancet, Jewish Currents, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Her articles and essays have been translated into over 25 languages, and her work featured on radio and television, including Public Radio International's The World, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and the PBS NewsHour. Ghodsee has won prestigious residential fellowships or visiting professorships in the United States, Germany, France, and Finland as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in Anthropology and Cultural Studies. She hosts A.K. 47, an episodic podcast on the life and works of the Russian revolutionary, Alexandra Kollontai, and is a frequent international speaker at conferences, seminars, and literary festivals across four continents.