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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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Graduate Student Sydney Stotter Wins Nabokov Prize

November 8, 2023

We are pleased to announce that Sydney Stotter, a second-year PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures, has been awared the International Vladimir Nabokov Society's 2023 Dieter Zimmer Pifer prize for best postgraduate work.

The prize was awared for Sydney's paper "'Objects in the Photograph May Be Closer Than They Appear': The Photorealistic and Photo-fantastic in Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift and Invitation to a Beheading."  The judges for the award, in their comments, noted...

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Jenya Mironava, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Wins "ONE CRIMSON" Award

October 25, 2023

Jenya Mironava, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures (Russian language program, Belarusian language), as been recognized as the recipient of a "ONE CRIMSON" award. Jenya was nominated by Anna Karpenko, a Harvard College senior of Belarusian descent and goalkeeper for the Harvard Women's Soccer Team. This award provides a unique opportunity for each senior student-athlete to acknowledge a member of the Harvard campus community who played a meaningful role in their Harvard experience. "ONE CRIMSON" award recipients were acknowledged by their nominators in person on 10/14 at...

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