This week GNS+ professor Nâlân Erbil was featured in Turkish language newspaper Önce Vatan Gazetesi. This interview, originally conducted in Turkish, is part of a series of interviews with influential Turkish-Americans for the Turkish speaking …
Featured Slavic Courses for Spring 2021!
SLAVIC 245/LITTRANS 247 – Performance & Power What does it mean “to perform” and what does performance do? How can performance be harnessed to challenge or impose oppressive structures of power? In this course, we …
Author John Guzlowski Gives Talk in Polish Migration Course
Polish-American author John Guzlowski discusses his poetry, family history, and migration. John Guzlowski, one of the most accomplished Polish-American poets, gave a guest lecture in a new Slavic Studies course on Polish migration to the …
Ice Dreams: Alumni Interview with Tim Butler
Ice Dreams You never know where a language degree can take you. Tim Butler’s Russian studies helped him land his dream job with the National Hockey League. By Laura Marshall Tim Butler, a native of …
Russian Flagship Program Alumni Interview: Julianna Stohs
Julianna Stohs Major(s): Political Science, Economics, and Russian, 2016 Pre-capstone study abroad: Moscow, Russia Capstone study abroad: Almaty, Kazakhstan Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin Q: Tell us about your current work! What do you do and …
Podcast interview with Polish lecturer Krzysztof Borowski
Polish lecturer talks Polish migration course, teaching Polish on podcast Krzysztof Borowski, Slavic Studies’ new Polish lecturer, was recently featured in a popular Polish-language podcast about life in America called Ameryka i ja (America and Me). …
Interview With José Vergara
Interview: José Vergara (UW Slavic PhD, 2016) about the Czech Poet Ivan Blatný José Vergara is a 2016 PhD alum of Slavic Studies at UW-Madison and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at …
Q&A With New GNS+ Lecturer Melissa Sheedy
GNS+ welcomes one of our newest lecturers Melissa Sheedy. Melissa received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In and outside of the classroom, she is always ready to talk about Romanticism, fairytales, GDR and …
Q&A With New GNS+ Lecturer Krzysztof Borowski
GNS+ welcomes one of our newest lecturers Krzysztof Borowski. Krzysztof received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He specializes in Polish language instruction, Slavic sociolinguistics, and issues of identity in contemporary Poland. What first …
Karen Evans-Romaine Elected President of AATSEEL
Our very own Karen Evans-Romaine has been elected President of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) and will serve a two-year term. Founded in 1941, AATSEEL exists to advance …