Questions of family, happiness, and self-fulfillment dominated the 2022 edition of the Madison Polish Film Festival as another selection of new Polish films reached the UW campus. As usual, the event attracted a significant crowd from the Polish-American, student, and the larger Madison communities to experience how Polish filmmakers—two female and two male directors—use cinema …
Slavic Studies congratulates 2015 and 2016 PhD alums Sara Karpukhin (UW-Madison) and José Vergara (Bryn Mawr) on the open-access (free!) publication of their co-edited volume Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century (Amherst College Press, 2022). The volume features contributions by 11 teachers of Nabokov who describe how and why they teach a notoriously difficult—if …
Slavic Studies congratulates PhD alums Colleen Lucey (2016) and José Vergara (2016) on their books being shortlisted for the 2022 AATSEEL Prize for Best First Book in the field of Slavic and East European Studies. Dr. Lucey’s book, published by Cornell University Press in 2021, is titled Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia, …