Gavrielle Lent

Biography

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Areas of Study: Pushkin and his era, formal poetic structure, translation, cognitive linguistics, Romanticism, science fiction, metaphor theory

About: My undergrad degree was a self-designed major in foreign languages and literature. My thesis involved research into the science fiction traditions of Spain, China, and Russia; and translation of stories from all three, centered on the theme of manipulating history. After that, I studied linguistics and computer science, then worked in industry for a time as a computational linguist. A personal passion project begun in summer of 2018 drew me back to literature and translation.

Education:

– University of Wisconsin – Madison, MA in Slavic Languages and Literature (2024)

– San José State University, Certificate in Computational Linguistics (2015)

– San José State University, MA in Linguistics (2015)

– Pomona College, BA in Spanish, Chinese, and Russian Languages and Literature (2011)

Courses Taught:

UW-Madison

– Slavic 101: First Semester Russian (Fall 2023)

– Slavic 102: Second Semester Russian (Spring 2024)

– Littrans 203: Survey of 19th-c. Russian Literature in Translation (Fall 2025)

– Slavic/Polisci/Hist/Geo 254: The Culture of Dissent in Czechoslovakia and Poland (Spring 2026)

UW-Whitewater

– Intro Russian for the Upward Bound program (Summer 2026)

Awards:

– J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, Wisconsin Slavic Conference (2025)

– Stanley F. and Helen Balcerzak Memorial Award; Polanki, Polish Women’s Cultural Club of Milwaukee (2025)

– Michael and Emily Lapinski Scholarship (2024-2025)

Presentations/Talks:

– “A Corpus Analysis of Color Terms in Zamyatin’s We”. October 2025. Presentation at the conference of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association, University of Kansas in Lawrence.

– “A Corpus Approach to Understanding Seasonal Metaphors in Yevgeny Onegin”. June 2023. Presentation at the conference of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association, Harvard University.

– “Discarded Stanzas and Alternate Paths in Pushkin’s Yevgeny Onegin”. November 2021. Invited talk at the University of Washington in Seattle.