Irina Markina-Baum (she/her)

Assistant Teaching Professor of French & Italian

Language Program Director

Black and white portait of Irina Markina

Contact Information

imarkina@uw.edu

PDL C-262

Office Hours

Wednesdays 10:30-12:30 or by appointment

Fields of Interest

19th Century Art History Comics Language Pedagogy Literature and Other Arts Modernism Mural art Nation-building Republicanism Space Visual Culture

Biography

PhD, French Studies, Princeton University, 2022

MA, French Studies, Princeton University, 2016

BA, French and Italian, University of Pennsylvania, 2013

Awards and Honors

UW Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, 2026

Getty Library Research Grant, 2024

UW Royalty Research Fund, 2023

Research

Selected Research

Projects

Markina, Irina. Institutionalizing Revolution: The Official Mural Art Campaign of the Third Republic, 1870-1900. 2022. Princeton University, PhD Dissertation.

Articles

Markina, Irina. "For the Record: Voice and Orality in Guillaume Apollinaire’s 'Lettre-Océan.'" Modernism/modernity, vol. 7, cycle 2, 2022.

Courses Taught

Spring 2026

FRENCH 103 A: Elementary French

Winter 2026

Autumn 2025

Spring 2025

Winter 2025

Autumn 2024

Spring 2024

Winter 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

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