Irina Koleva is guest lecturer at the Faculty of Literature and Philosopy of the University of Palermo and Linguistics Expert at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”.
She has published a lot of essays about literature, with particular reference to Puskin, Gogol’, Cechov, Blok, Zoscenko.
One of her main interests is comedy and humour in nineteenth and twentieth – century Russian literature.
Starting from 2009-2010 academic year she has been carrying out professional practice as Russian language native teacher at the University of Urbino and at the the University of Bologna “Alta Mater Studiorum”.