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Cooper appears on The Slavic Connexion

Slavic Department Head David Cooper appeared on The Slavic Connexion podcast to discuss his recent book, The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth (Cornell,...

Finke Publishes New Book on Chekhov

Congratulations are due to Professor Emeritus Finke on his new book, Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov's Life and Writings, just out from Reaktion Books! The book is described as "An excellent resource for readers new to Chekhov [that] also presents much original...

Daria Semenova Wins Summer Dissertation Support

Slavic graduate student Daria Semenova has been awarded a 2021 ASEEES Summer Dissertation Writing Grant in support of her project “At Home and Away: Community Belonging in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Adventure Fiction, 1918-1960.” The competitive grants are funded by donors to ASEEES...

Tempest Interview

Russian opposition leader Alexsei Navalny – the main political opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has exposed government corruption – recently was sentenced to more than two years in prison. Navalny survived being poisoned in August, which many believe was a state-ordered...

Slavic Faculty Garner Additional Recognition

Professor Lilya Kaganovsky is joining The Russian Review, one of the top academic journals in our field, as Associate Editor for Film and Media Studies. Congratulations to Professor Kaganovsky on this important recognition of her...

Assessing Solzhenitsyn

In December Richard Tempest, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, published a new book, Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr...

Slavic Faculty Win Awards

Professor Harriet Murav has been awarded an IPRH faculty fellowship for academic year 2020-21 for her book project "Archive of Violence: The Literature of Abandonment and the Russian Civil War." 

Russia and Black America

RUSS 122 SPRING 2024 Russia and Black America Professor Richard Tempest CRN 70665 + 72038, MW 3-3:50, W 4-4:50 A survey of the interactions between key African American figures and Russian imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet culture, in a historical and socio-political context. The course explores the Russian-sourced cultural transfers that influenced the Black American experience and examines the impact of that experience on people and events in Russia. Who were the Black artists, activists, and adventurers who traveled there, and what did they discover...
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