Despite (or perhaps because of?) the gloomy weather, we had a spectacularly spooky and intellectually stimulating supernatural UW tour last Wednesday evening, led by Madison Ghost Walks. Over 30 students showed up to prowl the …
Slavic Studies PhD alum Melissa Miller on her new position at Colby College
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 …
Announcing 2022/2023 Lapinski Scholarship Winners: Victoria Chowaniak and Julia Paciorek
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 …
PhD Alum Colleen Lucey Returns to Campus
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, …
Claudia Torres Giraldo—A multilingual journey toward professional Russian proficiency and Latinx identity in Russia and Central Asia
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 …
Victoria Buyanovskaya Pens A Prize-Winning Essay
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 …
Slavic Studies Undergraduate Awards for Spring 2022
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 2022-23 Victoria Chowaniak …
Interview with Graduate Aleks Cwalina
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 …
Three Books from PhD Alums Nominated for Awards!
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 …
“Writing Polish in America”: The Case of Anna Frajlich
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 …