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Congratulations to Sofia Melnychuck '26 (SLL/Applied Math) on winning the Davis Memorial Prize for Undergraduate Research!

April 24, 2024

Congratulations to Sofia Melnychuck '26, concentrator in Slavic Languages and Literature and Applied Math, on winning this year's Davis Memorial Prize for Undergraduate Research! 

Sofia, who combines quantitative methods with cultural history to explore the Soviet past, researched songs that have helped shape Lithuanian national identity. Sofia credits her language tutorial in Lithuanian, sponsored by the Slavic Department, for giving her the language skills necessary to complete this project. Sofia presented her research at the Davis Center's...

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Welcoming Bohdan Tokarskyi, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

April 5, 2024

The Department is delighted to announce that Dr. Bohdan Tokarskyi will join us on July 1, 2024 as our new Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, with a focus on Ukrainian literature and culture. Currently, he is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute through May, working on a research project entitled Between Modernism and the Gulag: Vasyl Stus’s Poetics of Authenticity. For the fall 2024 term, he will teach SLAVIC 165: Poetics of Resistance: An Introduction to Ukrainian Literature.  Welcome, Professor...

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New for Fall 2024: SLAVIC 165: Poetics of Resistance: An Introduction to Ukrainian Literature

April 4, 2024

We are excited to announce a new course for fall 2024 with incoming Assistant Professor Bohdan Tokarskyi:

SLAVIC 165: Poetics of Resistance: An Introduction to Ukrainian Literature

This course will provide an overview of Ukrainian multicultural literature through the lens of the poetics of resistance. For more information: https://my.harvard.edu/.

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Division of Continuing Education Summer School Language Study

April 3, 2024

The Division of Continuing Education Summer School is offering opportunities for Ukrainian and Russian language study in summer 2024.

 

Registration is open now through June 20 (final day to register) and seats are filling quickly. Open to any college students or continuing education adults. Interested high school students are also eligible to apply for the course by April 10, 2024. Courses run 7 weeks, June 24-August 9, 2024.

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Jenya Mironava and Natasha Kadlec on Belarus at the 55th Annual NeMLA Convention

March 15, 2024
Congrats to Jenya Mironava (Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Natasha Kadlec (G-3) for organizing the first ever series of sessions dedicated to Belarus at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) held on March 7-10 in Boston!
 
Belarusian language, literature and culture are too often excluded from Slavic curricula and from discussions about the need to decolonize Slavic studies. The NeMLA sessions, titled “Diversifying Slavic Studies: Making Room for Belarusian Voices,” created an opportunity for scholars to reflect on the... Read more about Jenya Mironava and Natasha Kadlec on Belarus at the 55th Annual NeMLA Convention
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Paraphrasis, a new podcast about literary translation by the Department of Comparative Literature

March 6, 2024

We are pleased to share the work of our colleagues in the Department of Comparative Literature: the premier of Paraphrasis, a new podcast about literary translation. Paraphrasis is brought to you by a team of graduate students in the department.

 

Paraphrasis is now available on ...

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Congratulating Professor Jonathan Bolton on translation of Everything Indicates by Petr Hruška

January 19, 2024

The Department congratulates our colleague Professor Jonathan Bolton on his newly-published translation of Everything Indicates by Petr Hruška (Blue Diode Publishing, 2023).

From the press: "Petr Hruška is one of the Czech Republic’s leading contemporary poets. Everything Indicates:...

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Welcoming Professor Tamara Hundorova, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

January 9, 2024

The Slavic Department extends a warm welcome to Professor Tamara Hundorova, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures for spring 2024. For the spring term at Harvard, she will teach Slavic 164: Literature of Catastrophe: Ukraine 1917-2022 and Slavic 265: Readings in Ukrainian Literature and Culture. Professor Hundorova was most recently a Visiting Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, where she taught a course for graduate students entitled Gendering the Literary Canon:...

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