Background
She was born in Sverdlovsk in the teachers" family, graduated from the philological department of the Ural Federal University in 1980.
She was born in Sverdlovsk in the teachers" family, graduated from the philological department of the Ural Federal University in 1980.
Ural State University.
She is a specialist in the fields of the 20th century Russian literature, sociology of literature and education, Ural literature. Starting from that year Litovskaya worked for the University at the Soviet Literature Department. From 1998 to 2007 she headed the History Department of the Institute of History and Archaeology (the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Department).
In 1983 she defended her thesis. Her doctoral dissertation Social and artistic phenomenon of Valentin Kataev (Russian: Социохудожественный феномен В П Катаева, tr Sotsiokhudozhestvennyj fenomen V P Kataeva) was defended in 2000.