Russian

Congratulations to our BA/MA student in Russian, Courtney Silver for winning the Boren Scholarship for studying Russian, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, providing unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests.

On March 1 and 4, Russian faculty members Vicki Grove, Laura Olson Osterman, Mark Leiderman and Tom Roberts taught classes on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment at Fairview High School in Boulder. About 150 11th grade students in the school’s International Baccalaureate Literature Program participated in this event consisting of a...

On March 7, the Boulder Book Store hosted an evening celebrating the work of Belorussian writer Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first in an ongoing series of events celebrating Nobel Laureates across national literature traditions at the bookstore. The event was organized and moderated...

The CU Russian Club hosted an event celebrating the traditional Russian holiday and spring festival of Maslenitsa on March 8 on the university campus. Analogous to the Western traditions of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday, Maslenitsa combines features of Russian folk culture and Orthodox Christianity in heralding the arrival of...

Boris Pasternak and Eugene Kayden on Science Direct

For Svetlana Alexievich, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Soviet Union is a kind of ‘historical Chernobyl that still produces contamination and radiation—psychological, historical, political and cultural,’ CU-Boulder expert Mark Leiderman observes. He says now is a good time for students and the world to learn...

Our former teaching assistant and then lecturer Dr. Meghan Vicks has published a book Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Cntury Literature at Bloomsbury Press ( http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/narratives-of-nothing-in-20th-century-literature-9781501307232/ ). The book is based on her dissertation defended at CU. In the book’s Acknowledgement Meghan generously thanks our faculty members Rimgaila Salys, Davide Stimilli,...

The Board of Regents has approved a MA/ BA-MA program in Russian Studies! Congratulations to all Russian faculty and students! From the Board’s news: “The board approved a new master of arts in a Russian studies degree program for the Boulder campus. The new interdisciplinary program, which will be housed...

On March 13-15, 2015, the Russian Studies program hosted a three-day seminar titled "Formalists, Bakhtin​, and World Literature" with three leading scholars in the field of Russian literary studies. Irina Sandomirskaja (Södertörn University, Sweden) gave a lecture titled "Mikhail Bakhtin on the Aesthetics of History: Violence, Parody, Tragedy," Ilya Kalinin...

Mark Leiderman (Lipovetsky) was the recipient of the 2014 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). In addition, Mark has been elected as the next President of AATSEEL and his term should start in 2017.