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Dr. Harris graduated from Purdue University in 1999, with majors in Russian, French, English, and Comparative Literature. In 2001, she earned an MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. She completed her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures (major: Russian literature; minors: Czech literature, 19th and 20th century French prose) in 2008, also at the University of Kansas. She studied abroad in St. Petersburg (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007), Prague (2001, 2002), and Quebec (1998). As an American Councils Title VIII research fellow, she spent the academic year 2005-06 in Moscow, researching her dissertation “The Myth of the Woman Warrior and World War II in Soviet Culture.”