Veniamin Vadimovich Gushchin
Education
M.Phil. Columbia University, Slavic Languages and Literatures (In Progress)
M.Phil. University of Oxford, Modern Languages (Bartlett Scholar, with distinction) 2020
Thesis: “Pri chem tut Tsvetaeva?”: The Soundtrack of Ironiya sud’by
B.A. Columbia University, Comparative Literature & Society (John Jay Scholar, Robert A. Maguire Prize, cum laude) 2018
Thesis: “Lunacharsky, Nabokov, Tertz: Pushkin in the 20th Century”
Research Interests
20th and 21st century Russophone Poetry
Soviet popular culture
Russian intellectual history
Translation studies
Conference Presentations
'Во мне уже осатанённость': Textual Changes from Musical Adaptation in Evtushenko’s 'Со мною вот что происходит, ASEEES, Forthcoming November 2020
'Poemy/Gor – pishutsya – tak': Line Breaks in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Poema gory and Treating Language Rough, AATSEEL, February 2020
Reevaluating Innokenty Annensky between Symbolism and Acmeism, ASEEES, November 2019
From Quatrain to Lesenka: Translating Mayakovsky’s Forms, American Literary Translators Association, November 2019
A Dissonant Musical Number: Pasternak’s “Nikogo ne budet v dome” in Irony of Fate, The Literary Image & Screen at University of Genoa, September 2019
The Strange Case of Kinbote and Nabokov: The Relationship between the Commentary on Eugene Onegin and Pale Fire, University College Slavonic Research Event
Publications
Blockade Swallow: Collected Poems by Olga Berggolts, Smokestack Books, Forthcoming 2022
Olga Berggolts, “The Road to the Battle Front,” Russia is Burning, ed. Maria Bloshteyn, Smokestack Books, 2020