Isabella Palange
Credentials: Slavic Languages and Literature
Position title: Graduate Student
Email: palange@wisc.edu
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Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Area(s) of Study: 19th Century Literature, Folklore, Peasant Studies
About: Isabella Palange graduated from Harvard University in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in Folklore and Mythology, focusing in Russian language and culture. Following graduation, she spent a year as a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Ulan-Ude, Russia and participated in the Russian Overseas Flagship Program in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Isabella is currently writing her dissertation on Russian and Ukrainian narratives written by and about the peasant class of the nineteenth-century Russian Empire. She is interested in the way that the peasant worldview provides an alternative understanding of power and undermines the strict social class system of that period, as well as the way that the culture of the peasant class served as inspiration for revolutionary populist writers during that time.
Additionally, Isabella has served as a teaching assistant for courses in Russian language, Russian Literature, and folklore and as a research assistant on several folklore collection trips to Old Believers’ and Ukrainian villages in the East Kazakhstan and Pavlodar regions. She is dedicated to sharing about her experiences studying, teaching and researching abroad and to mentoring undergraduate students in their pursuit of similar opportunities.
Education:
– University of Wisconsin-Madison, MA in Slavic Languages and Literature (2021)
– Harvard University, BA in Folklore and Mythology (2016)
Courses Taught:
-Littrans 203: Survey of 19th Century Russian Literature in Translation (Fall 2024)
-Littrans 204: Survey of 20th Century Russian Literature in Translation (Spring 2024)
-Slavic 102: Second-Semester Russian (Spring 2022)
-Slavic 101: First-Semester Russian (Fall 2021)
-Littrans 329: The Vampire in Literature and Film (Summer 2020, 2021)
Awards:
-FLAS Fellowship (Ukrainian) CREECA, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Summer 2024)
-Graduate Student Short-term Research Award, CREECA, University 0f Wisconsin-Madison (Summer 2023)
-FLAS Fellowship (Ukrainian), Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University (Summer 2022)
-Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute Scholarship (Summer 2022)
-J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, Wisconsin Slavic Conference (Spring 2022)