On Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25, Slavic Studies held its annual graduate-student led Wisconsin Slavic Conference. The winner of the J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding Graduate Paper presented at this year’s conference was Marsel Khamitov for his “Performing/Preserving the Empire: Nationalism and Translation in Semyon Lipkin’s Dekada.” Honorable mention was given to …
Dr. Sara Karpukhin is teaching “Queer Russians” for the first time this semester. We interviewed her to find out more about the course. What motivated you to offer this course? Great question. Big question! I’ll try to answer it briefly. On the one hand, I was always interested in how people thought and spoke …
Slavic’s annual graduate-student run conference—with the theme of “On the Edge: Cultural Geographies of Resistance”—will take place this Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25. Dr. Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University) will deliver the keynote address titled “Memory on the Move: Narrating Refugee Experiences during the War” at 4pm on Friday in 104 Van Hise Hall, …
In the Fall 2022 issue of the Slavic and East European Journal (66:3), Assistant Professor Łukasz Wodzyński published an analysis of Lovetown (Lubiewo in the original Polish), the breakthrough novel of the contemporary queer Polish author Michał Witkowski. We interviewed Professor Wodzyński to find out more about his article. What drew you to analyze …
Aselle Almuratova, current PhD student in Slavic Studies, has won an award for graduate-student teaching sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR). The ACTR Award for Excellence in Teaching Russian at the Post-Secondary Level for Graduate Student Instructors offers national recognition to graduate students who demonstrate excellence in teaching the Russian language, as well …
Russian Studies congratulates 2004 alum Kari Anderson on this Letters & Science profile , which is a must read. Kari was a speaker on a November 2022 panel organized by Anna Tumarkin about making a difference at the Polish-Ukraine border, and the L&S story picks up where the November panel left off. The story also …
Questions of family, happiness, and self-fulfillment dominated the 2022 edition of the Madison Polish Film Festival as another selection of new Polish films reached the UW campus. As usual, the event attracted a significant crowd from the Polish-American, student, and the larger Madison communities to experience how Polish filmmakers—two female and two male directors—use cinema …
Slavic Studies congratulates 2015 and 2016 PhD alums Sara Karpukhin (UW-Madison) and José Vergara (Bryn Mawr) on the open-access (free!) publication of their co-edited volume Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century (Amherst College Press, 2022). The volume features contributions by 11 teachers of Nabokov who describe how and why they teach a notoriously difficult—if …
Slavic Studies congratulates PhD alums Colleen Lucey (2016) and José Vergara (2016) on their books being shortlisted for the 2022 AATSEEL Prize for Best First Book in the field of Slavic and East European Studies. Dr. Lucey’s book, published by Cornell University Press in 2021, is titled Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia, …
Slavic Studies is delighted to share a video interview with Dr. Oksana Stoychuk, Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies. The video was produced by Sydney Langille, a current student in Dr. Stoychuk’s course “Ukrainian Culture & Society,” working with Maya Elvira Salleh, a classmate in a course on media production. In the short video, Dr. Stoychuk discusses …