Education
In 1988 she stopped writing songs and switched to philological work and translations. In 1989 she defended her Doctor of Philosophy dissertation about OBERIU literary group.
In 1988 she stopped writing songs and switched to philological work and translations. In 1989 she defended her Doctor of Philosophy dissertation about OBERIU literary group.
She is also a poet, literary translator, literature researcher, traveler, and a significant person in the Russian hippie movement. written and sung by Umka have become well-known among the Soviet hippies since 1986. Literary and poetic translation was Anna Gerasimova"s major field during her studies in the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. She published translations from German, English, French, but mostly from Lithuanian.
Her most significant published translations include Jack Kerouac"s The Dharma Bums (1994) and Big Sur (2002).
She has also translated several autobiographic books and interviews of British and American rock musicians: Keith Richards, Iggy People’s, Frank Zappa, Maureen Tucker and others As a professional philologist, Gerasimova published scholarly articles on history of the Russian avant-garde literature, including the legacy of the OBERIU members Alexander Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms and Konstantin Vaginov.
She has edited several publications of their previously unpublished works.