We are teachers of Russian language and culture as well as other languages and cultures of Europe. Vladimir Putin’s launching of war on Ukraine, which has been condemned by the United Nations as a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and by the US government as an unjustified and unprovoked attack, places a burden of responsibility on us to respond. …
Ingrid Andersson – Joredemoder: Poems of a MidwifeAlumni Ingrid Andersson talks about her recently published poetry book Jordemoder: Poems of a Midwife and the journey that has led her to writing it. Having a Swedish mother, Ingrid Andersson was raised with Swedish ideas on birth and motherhood. Growing up in the U.S. alongside Swedish culture, …
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 …
Former GNS+ German program graduate student Mark Kloiber recently had an excellent article published in the Army University Press titled “Principled Empathy: Perspectives of an Afghanistan Veteran”. You can read the full article on:Army University Press’ website.
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 …