Melissa Miller received her PhD from Slavic Studies (with a minor in Second Language Acquisition) in 2016. Her dissertation was titled Anton Chekhov and the Modernization of Sexuality in Late Imperial Russia. She taught at Gustavus Adolphus College, Macalester College, and the University of Notre Dame before beginning a tenure-track Assistant Professor position this fall …
Each year, the UW–Madison Polish Studies Program announces the recipients of the Lapinski scholarship, received as a generous endowment from the will of Mrs. Leona Lapinski Leute. In the academic year 2022/2023, the Lapinski awards went to Victoria Chowaniak from Elmwood Park, Illinois, and Julia Paciorek, from Houston, Texas. Congratulations, Victoria and Julia! Gratulacje! The Lapinski fund provides financial support …
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. …
Slavic Studies Undergraduate Awards for Spring 2022 Slavic Studies is pleased to announce the following winners of undergraduate awards in Polish Studies and Russian Studies. Polish Awards Lapinski Fellowships for AY 2022-23Victoria ChowaniakJulia Paciorek Zawacki FellowshipMonika Juras Russian Awards J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Undergraduate ExcellenceGrace Johnson J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding …
You’ve studied widely in Slavic Studies during your four years here. What drew you to the field as a first-year student? It was interesting — I thoroughly liked learning languages and initially came to UW-Madison expecting to major in linguistics and journalism. Having moved from Poland to America in 2006, I started out somewhat familiar …
Three books from PhD alums nominated for awards! Slavic Studies congratulates three recent PhD alums—Molly Thomasy Blasing, Colleen Lucey, and José Vergara—whose first books, all published by Cornell University Press in 2021, have been nominated simultaneously for two awards given by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL): Best First …
The Polish Review presents a special issue: “Writing Polish in America”: The Case of Anna Frajlich Professor Emerita of Polish Studies Halina Filipowicz, editor of The Polish Review, alerts everyone to a recent special issue devoted to Anna Frajlich. The March 2022 issue (vol. 67, no. 1), guest-edited by Ronald Meyer (Harriman Institute, Columbia University), …
News from Professor Emerita Halina Filipowicz Recent publications by Professor Emerita Halina Filipowicz include a chapter titled “Is Simply Saying ‘We’ Enough? Feminism, Transgression, and the Challenge of the Transnational Turn” in the volume Wheels of Change: Feminist Transgressions in Polish Culture and Society, ed. Jolanta Wróbel-Best (Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2021): She has also …