Gavrielle Lent

Areas of Study: Pushkin and his era, Russian Golden Age poetry, translation, corpus linguistics, metaphor theory

About: My undergrad degree was a self-designed major in foreign languages and literature. My thesis involved research into the science fiction traditions of Spain, China, and Russia; and translation of stories from all three, centered on the theme of manipulating history. After that, I studied linguistics and computer science, then worked in industry for a time as a computational linguist. A personal passion project begun in summer of 2018 drew me back to literature and translation.

Education:

– University of Wisconsin – Madison, MA in Slavic Languages and Literature (2024)
– San José State University, Certificate in Computational Linguistics (2015)
– San José State University, MA in Linguistics (2015)
– Pomona College, BA in Spanish, Chinese, and Russian Languages and Literature (2011)

Courses Taught:

– Slavic 101: First Semester Russian (Fall 2023)
– Slavic 102: Second Semester Russian (Spring 2024)

Awards:

– Michael and Emily Lapinski Scholarship (2024-2025)

Presentations/Talks:

– “A Corpus Approach to Understanding Seasonal Metaphors in Yevgeny Onegin”. June 2023. Presentation at the conference of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association, Harvard University.
– “Discarded Stanzas and Alternate Paths in Pushkin’s Yevgeny Onegin”. November 2021. Invited talk at the University of Washington – Seattle.