The University of Wisconsin–Madison, home to one of the largest and strongest Russian programs in the nation, has received a four-year grant of $1.3 million from the National Security Education Program in the U.S. Department of Defense to support the UW-Madison Russian Flagship Program through 2024. This award recognizes the Russian Flagship’s decade-long record of providing an …
Melissa Azari received a Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship for the Fall 2019 semester from the Graduate School of UW-Madison. Melissa is a PhD candidate in the Slavic program of GNS. Her dissertation explores auditory and musical themes in Russian poet and dissident Natalya Gorbanevskaya’s pre-emigration poetry (approx. 1956-1975). The Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship competition is designed for dissertators in …
We are lucky to have such great instructors in the German, Nordic and Slavic Department! This semester, Fall 2018, a number of our instructors have been chosen by University Hoursing residents in order to be recognized for their outstanding work in and outside of the classroom. Of these chosen were Claus Andersen, Alayna Bruney, Brian Kilgour, …
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) conducted a recent study, providing a view of the life-after-graduation of humanities students in terms of employment and financial expectations. The study confirms the prospects of a successful career in humanities, as it showcases the valuable skills employers look for. To read the full article and its …
On August 4, 2017, Manon van de Water, Vilas-Phipps Distinguished Achievement Professor and Director of Theatre for Youth at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chair of the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic received the Judith Kase-Cooper Honorary Research Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.Open to long-standing members of AATE, the Judith Kase-Cooper …
Manon van de Water, Professor and Chair for the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, has been selected to receive AATE’s Judith Kase Cooper Honorary Research Award in recognition of her lifetime of significant contributions to the fields of theatre education and theatre for young people. She will be recognized at this year’s AATE conference …
From the interview page: Sunday was the fifth anniversary of the death of Václav Havel, the Czech dissident who led the Velvet Revolution and went on to spend nearly 13 years as president. But before he became a politician, Havel was, of course, a playwright, and it is just his literary work that is the …