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 that "Stotter provides the reader with new insights into the function of photographic images in Nabokov's work...Entering into uncharted terrain, Stotter's paper has the potential of opening new roads for future research."

We at the Slavic Department are all very proud of Sydney!