Professor Emerita Judith Deutsch Kornblatt has come full-circle. She began her career as a graduate student at Columbia University teaching Lit/Humanities in the core curriculum there, and is currently teaching a course on “What Are the Humanities?” in a joint program at Tel Aviv University that includes undergraduates from Columbia and Israelis and international students …
Slavic Studies congratulates Laura Little, who recently defended her dissertation, which is titled “Becoming an Andegraund Poet: Elena Shvarts and the Literary Environment of the Late Soviet Era.” We interviewed Dr. Little to find out more about her topic. What’s your dissertation about? Please give us the elevator pitch. My dissertation focuses on the poet …
Slavic Studies congratulates Melissa Azari, who recently defended her dissertation, which is titled “Mapping the Auditory Landscape of Natalya Gorbanevskaya’s Pre-Emigration Poetry.” We interviewed Melissa to find out more about her topic. What’s your dissertation about? Please give us the elevator pitch. My dissertation establishes sound and music as foundational elements of Russian poet and …
As the 2021 Madison Polish Film Festival is back in full swing on the UW–Madison campus, the UW Polish Studies program has another reason to celebrate. Earlier this month, Dr. Ewa Miernowska, the program’s long-serving Polish language lecturer, was elected for special recognition at the 2021 Polish Film Festival in America. The 2021 Polish Film …
Frédéric Chopin, the leading composer of the Romantic period, is usually associated with Poland, his native land, or France, where he spent the second half of his life. However, Chopin’s musical influence transcended borders and reached faraway places, including the small island of Curaçao in the Caribbean. Now, a local event combining live music and …
After an online edition in 2020, the Madison Polish Film Festival returns to its traditional, in-person format with an eclectic selection of the latest in Polish cinematography. This year, the festival will take place on November 14 and 21 at the Marquee Cinema and UW Cinematheque on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. All screenings are …
SLAVIC 101 – First Semester Russian Five hours a week focusing on speaking, listening, reading and writing Russian, with an introduction to Russian culture. No previous knowledge of Russian expected. LITTRANS 221/SLAVIC421 – Gogol “When, as in the immortal The Overcoat, Gogol really let himself go and pottered on the brink of his private abyss, he …
Laurie Iudin-Nelson received her PhD in Slavic Studies in 1997. She recently retired from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa after 29 years of teaching. She is now Professor Emerita of Russian Studies as well as a student at the Wartburg Theological Seminary in the MDiv program, which leads to ordainment as a Lutheran pastor. …
Slavic Studies PhD Alum Colleen Lucey (2016) Publishes New Book Slavic Studies PhD alum Colleen Lucey is currently an Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona where she teaches courses on Russian language, literature, culture, and theatre. Supervised by Professor (Emeritus) Alexander Dolinin, her dissertation at UW was titled Figures …
Slavic Studies is pleased to welcome two new students into our PhD program. Ross Hirzel Originally from Los Angeles, Ross Hirzel graduated from Amherst College in May 2020, where he majored in Russian and German. His senior thesis compared shapes of historical narrative in Tolstoy and Sebald. John Russo Originally from Yucaipa California, John Russo graduated from the University of …