CENES Professors Attend Virtual MLA Convention
This past weekend (January 7-10, 2021) several CENES professors participated in the annual MLA convention, which was held virtually this year.
Dr. Bowers Gives Talk at School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College London
On December 14, Dr. Katherine Bowers gave a talk in the Russian Studies seminar series at UCL-SSEES on “A Russian Jane Eyre: Gothic Subjectivity and the Woman Question in Tur and Turgenev.”
Dr. Bowers Virtually Visits University of Toronto Slavic Department
On November 24-25, 2020, the University of Toronto Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures hosted Dr. Katherine Bowers on a virtual visit.
Dr. Bowers Participates in Public Humanities Hub Conference
Dr. Katherine Bowers participated in the Public Humanities Hub conference “Collaboration: A Digital Humanities Conference” this past week.
Dr. Bowers Publishes Chapter on Reading in Russia
Dr. Katherine Bowers has published a chapter in Reading in Russia: A History of Reading in Modern Russia, a 3-volume collection co-edited by Damiano Rebecchini and Raffaella Vassena.
Former RUSS 412 “Dostoevsky” Student Publishes Article
Former RUSS 412 “Dostoevsky” student Kate Smith published an article in the UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies.
Dr. Bowers Receives Grant from Institute for European Studies
Dr. Katherine Bowers received a small grant from the Institute for European Studies for a project on “Open Access Dostoevsky Scholarship.”
Dr. Bowers Presents at NYU Jordan Center’s 19v Speaker Series
Dr. Katherine Bowers gave a book talk about her research into 19th-century Russian gothic literature alongside Dr. Valeria Sobol (UIUC) as part of the NYU Jordan Center’s 19v speaker series.
Winter 2020 Course: RUSS 306A (Russian Literature in Translation)
In this online course, students will read Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, with a particular focus on the form and development of the novel, character psychology, and historical and cultural context.
Veta Chitnev awarded a Killam Teaching Prize
Veta Chitnev, Lecturer in Russian, has been awarded a 2019/20 Killam Teaching Prize.