The True Hero

November 11, 2019 Cross Section Essay, Non-Fiction No Comments By Jonathan Chang University of California, Los Angeles Heroes are subjective. According to scholar of epics Dean Miller, “the word ‘hero’ projects to us a kind of …

Celebrating Beyond the Horizon: Polish Culture Symposium

Following the 2025 Wisconsin Slavic Conference, the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus hosted another major Slavic event: a symposium on Polish literature and culture under the theme Beyond the Horizon. The symposium brought together Polish cultural …

Award for the Textbook Diverse Russian

Slavic is delighted to congratulate Anna Tumarkin and her co-author Shannon Donnally Quinn (a UW-Madison Slavic PhD alum) for receiving the 2025 MAFLT LCTL Innovation Award for their textbook Diverse Russian. For more on this …