Polish Student Association Offers a Menu of Activities for Students Hungry for Polish Culture Polish boards games, trivia night with prizes, and pumpkin carving – these are just some of the upcoming activities planned by the UW Polish Student Association (PSA) for the Fall 2021 semester. With a growing appetite among students for all things Polish, …
Teach Danish at UW-Madison! The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ is hiring a full-time Danish Lecturer, responsible for preparing course syllabi, preparing lessons, holding office hours, and evaluating student performance. Native or near-native proficiency in Danish and prior knowledge of contemporary Danish culture are required. To apply, you will need to upload a cover …
Slavic Studies PhD Alum Colleen Lucey (2016) Publishes New Book Slavic Studies PhD alum Colleen Lucey is currently an Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona where she teaches courses on Russian language, literature, culture, and theatre. Supervised by Professor (Emeritus) Alexander Dolinin, her dissertation at UW was titled Figures …
This fall the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies will be hosting the Intersectionality in Focus series. The series consists of four sessions throughout the month of October, the first of which features GNS+ professor S.A. Karpukhin. A brief overview of the series can be found below as well as …
Slavic Studies is pleased to welcome two new students into our PhD program. Ross Hirzel Originally from Los Angeles, Ross Hirzel graduated from Amherst College in May 2020, where he majored in Russian and German. His senior thesis compared shapes of historical narrative in Tolstoy and Sebald. John Russo Originally from Yucaipa California, John Russo graduated from the University of …
Slavic Studies congratulates Zach Rewinski, who recently defended his dissertation, which is titled “Avant-Garde Historians: Poetic Experiments in Factography for the Ten-Year Anniversary of the October Revolution.” We interviewed Zach to find out more about his topic. What’s your dissertation about? Please give us the elevator pitch. My dissertation is about narrative poems (poemy) written …
We recently came to end of a(nother) challenging academic year, and once again the pandemic prevented us from gathering together, as is our tradition, to celebrate our many successes and to recognize a number of individuals for their specific achievements. A summary post is a poor substitute for an in-person celebration, but we adapt to …
Slavic Studies congratulates Jesse Kruschke, who has recently defended her dissertation proposal! We interviewed Jesse to find out more about the topic. What are you planning on researching and writing about? Please give us the elevator pitch. I’m looking at Soviet reception of Black American literature from 1920 through the 1970s, including which authors were …
Czech Studies in the Washington Post A recent article in the Washington Post about a proposed law in the Czech Republic to allow women to choose non-gendered last names features input by Professor David S. Danaher. Danaher noted: “If linguistic conventions force you to identify yourself in ways that don’t make sense to you, then …
It is difficult to imagine Scandinavian Studies at UW–Madison without Nete Schmidt. But that, nevertheless, is what we have to do as she announced that she will retire at the end of this academic year. Dr. Schmidt—or Nete as she is known by most everyone—came to UW–Madison 23 years ago as visiting lecturer in Danish. …