Princes, Heroes, Bandits: Heroic Legends and Nation-Building in Eastern Europe

Dr. Torres Prieto received her Ph.D. Doctor Europeus in Slavonic Philology from the Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain), and she comes to the Center from Université Sorbonne-Paris IV, where she has been working on a Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain) Research Postdoctoral Fellowship for the development of the project “The Use of Literary Genres in the Creation of an Image of Power in the Ruling Dynasties of Medieval Russia, 10th–13th Centuries.” Dr. Torres Prieto has taught courses on Slavonic and Old Church Slavonic at Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Latin and Greek at St. Louis University (Madrid Campus); Russian at Centro Superior de Idiomas Modernos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); and Spanish at Universidad Commenius de Bratislava. She has also written, edited, and contributed to a number of books and articles, among them Ivan Shponka y su tía, by Nikolai Gogol (bilingual edition Russian-Spanish) and the forthcoming Sources for the Study of Pre-Christian Slavic Religion (Bilingual Edition), as well as “Slavic Epic: Past Tales and Present Myths,” in The Ancient World, Comparative Histories and “Magia Cristiana en la Rus de Kiev,” in Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones. Dr. Torres Prieto also completed a research stay at The University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and the Hilandar Research Library at Ohio State University.

While in residence at ASU, Professor Torres Prieto is teaching two courses: “Christian Syncretism in the Middle Ages,” an undergraduate course being offered as REL and HST 394; and “Folklore as Propaganda: The Appropriation of Tradition,” a graduate course being offered as REL, HST, and POS 494/598.