Slavic Studies PhD alum (2016) Colleen Lucey returned to campus on Thursday, September 22 to give a CREECA talk drawn from her recent book Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia (Cornell University Press, 2021). The book is a reworked and expanded version of her dissertation, Figures of Desires and Disgrace: Woman as Commodity …
Just as UW-Madison senior Claudia Torres Giraldo was wrapping up a year of Russian-language study in Kyrgyzstan this spring to head to Kazakhstan for a Russian-language internship, she received the Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award from the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), a recognition of her excellence in and commitment to Russian-language studies. Indeed, Torres …
Slavic Studies congratulates second-year graduate student Viktoria Buyanovskaya on winning the Grand Prize in Cultural Studies for her essay “Paralysis of Complicity in Dmitri Prigov and Beyond: How to Do Things with Metaphors Now?”. The competition for graduate students was sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russian at New York University. …