The Last Word
Final Statements in Court of Russian Political Prisoners as a Literature Genre and Media / Anna Narinskaya
Paradoxically, the glass box in Russian courts became one of the last places for free speech. People persecuted for their political views...
Furious Harvests
Ukrainian Poetry and Remembrance / Reading by Alex Averbuch, in conversation with Benjamin Paloff
A poetry reading by Alex Averbuch from his new collection "Furious Harvests" (Harvard UP, trans. from Ukrainian by Oksana...
CREES Noon Lecture. The Last Soviet Artist
Victoria Lomasko, artist and writer
The Last Soviet Artist (n+1, 2025), finished by Victoria Lomasko three weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is a collection of...
Bio
Slavic Languages and Literatures faculty specialize in Eastern European Literatures and Cultures, including focus on cinema, architecture, and the visual arts. The cultures we cover include Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian; we also have strong interest in Judaic, Central Asian, Baltic, and Balkan cultures (including Greek and Albanian).
