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  • Highlights
    • ANNA FRAJLICH AWARDED JUBILEE MEDAL OF JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN
    • Adam Leeds received the Hettleman Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant for the summer of 2020
    • Adam Leads received a Heyman Fellowship for 2020-2021
    • The Yogis of the Arbat
    • Max Lawton’s translation of Vladimir Sorokin’s “White Square”
    • Honorable mention in the competition for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literature, A History of Russian Literature, co-written with Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, and Stephanie Sandler, 2019
    • Irina Reyfman: Outstanding Achievement Award, Association for Women in Slavic Studies, 2019
    • PROSE Award, Finalist in Literature, Association of American Publishers, A History of Russian Literature, co-written with Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, and Stephanie Sandler, 2019
    • Iraida Barry, Thomas Whittemore & Istanbul's "Russian" Moment
    • Irina Reyfman and Yuri Shevchuk quoted in NY Times
    • Learning Community designed and run by Inna Kapilevich (Slavic Languages)
    • Student Spotlight: Marlow Davis
    • Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon - Aleksandar Boskovic
    • YURI SHEVCHUK ELECTED MEMBER OF THE UKRAINIAN FILM ACADEMY
    • Thomas Kitson, 2019 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship Recipient
    • TLS REVIEWS A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE BY IRINA REYFMAN ET AL.
    • Yuri Shevchuk published a detailed analysis and critique of the new project of the Ukrainian Orthography (spelling rules) prepared for public discussion by the Education and Science Ministry of Ukraine.
    • Ainsley Katz on Ukrainian Public Radio
    • Yuri Shevchuk's appearance on the Hromadske Radio (Ukraine’s Public Radio) English broadcast division discussing Ukrainian filmmaking today
    • HALF OF THE ARTICLES IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF PUSHKIN REVIEW CONTRIBUTED BY HARRIMAN ALUMNI
    • ALUMNA ANI KOKOBOBO DECIPHERS THE ALBANIAN EAGLE AT THE WORLD CUP
    • THOMAS KITSON RECEIVES READ RUSSIA PRIZE SPECIAL MENTION
    • Yuri Shevchuk was the keynote speaker at the International Mother’s Language Day Event
    • Bela Shayevich wins TA Translation Award
    • Michael Gluck Awarded a 2018 PEN/Heim Translation Grant
    • NEW VOLUME OF STUDIES AND SKETCHES ON THE WORK OF ANNA FRAJLICH
    • LIZA KNAPP RECEIVES HONORABLE MENTION FROM MLA FOR HER BOOK "ANNA KARENINA AND OTHERS"
    • Valentina Izmirlieva - 2016 -2017 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award
    • BRADLEY GORSKI AWARDED 2017-18 FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP FOR RESEARCH IN RUSSIA
    • Investing in Language Education for the 21st Century
    • "SCHOLARSHIP AS THE ART OF LIFE." A FESTSCHRIFT FOR RADMILA GORUP
    • Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, lecturer of Ukrainian language at the Department of Slavic Languages gave the keynote address “The Language Situation in Ukraine and Its Implications for the Teaching of Ukrainian in American Universities”
    • Liza Knapp is the recipient of the 2016 Mark Van Doren Award
    • JAMEY GAMBRELL TO RECEIVE THE THORNTON WILDER PRIZE FOR TRANSLATION
    • MAX LAWTON (CC '16) AWARDED CLARENDON SCHOLARSHIP AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY
    • Irina Denishchenko, Winner of the Heyman Center Fellowship for 2016-2017
    • Deborah Martinsen, Winner of the Donald Barton Johnson Prize
    • ANNA FRAJLICH AWARDED 2015 PRIZE BY THE UNION OF POLISH WRITERS IN EXILE
    • TOTALITARIAN SPRAWL
    • Molly Rose Avila has been awarded Peer Teaching Consultant Fellowship
    • Irina Denischenko, Fulbright Award Recipient
    • Study of Anna Frajlich's Poetry Published in "Religion and Sacred Poetry: An International Quarterly"
  • Recent Publications
    • IRINA REYFMAN AND ANDREW KAHN TRANSLATE RADISHCHEV FOR THE RUSSIAN LIBRARY
    • SOPHIE PINKHAM ON THE STATE OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN CUTLURE (NLR)
    • FRAJLICH AND MEYER AND THE UNIVERSITY OF RZESZÓW'S JOURNAL TEMATY I KONTEKSTY
    • Archive and the Boundaries of "Institutional Polymorphism" in Cultural Critique #107, Aleksandar Boskovic
    • POEMS BY ANNA FRAJLICH PUBLISHED IN CZECH TRANSLATION IN THE LITERARY MONTHLY PLAV
    • New Russian Drama: An Anthology, edited by Maksim Hanukai and Susanna Weygandt
    • Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine Film Leaflet (1976-1979)
    • Reclaiming Russian Cultural TraditionDuring the Rise of Right
    • SOPHIE PINKHAM WRITES ABOUT "UKRAINE'S NEW LEADING MAN" FOR NYRB
    • Connecting Across Languages and Cultures: A Heritage Language Festschrift in Honor of Olga Kagan
    • Who Is Shooting Over There: Slobodan Šijan's Fanzine Film Leaflet (1976–79) by Aleksandar Boskovic
    • Beyond Given Knowledge: Investigation, Quest and Exploration in Modernism and the Avant-Gardes
    • A History of Russian Literature by Irina Reyfman
    • Breaking the Frame: Leskov’s “Concerning ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’” and the Ethics of Storytelling by Erica Drennan
    • Между нами by Alla Smyslova
    • Svetlana Aleksievich’s changing narrative of the Soviet–Afghan War in Zinky Boys
    • BEYOND REIFICATION: MIKHAIL BAKHTIN'S CRITIQUE OF VIOLENCE IN COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION
    • SLAVIC REVIEW PUBLISHES THE WORK OF TWO HARRIMAN FACULTY MEMBERS IN THE SUMMER 2017 ISSUE
    • Greetings, Pushkin!
    • NORTHWESTERN PUBLISHES NABOKOV'S CANON: FROM ONEGIN TO ADA BY MARIJETA BOZOVIC
    • HOW RUSSIA LEARNED TO WRITE, BY IRINA REYFMAN
    • ANNA KARENINA AND OTHERS, BY LIZA KNAPP
    • Sophie Pinkham, "BLACK SQUARE"
    • PLOTS BY ROBERT L. BELKNAP
    • MARTINSEN IS CO-EDITOR OF "DOSTOEVSKY IN CONTEXT" PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRES
    • Yuri Shevchuk’s translation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm is published in Kyiv.
    • Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced
    • "Three Days in August" by Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
    • Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories - Edited by Cathy Popkin
    • Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. Essays in honor of Robert L. Belknap
    • The Other Side of the Looking Glass
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  • Summer Fellowship for the Study of Ukrainian Language
  • In Memoriam Catharine Nepomnyashchy (1951 - 2015)
  • In Memoriam of Frank J. Miller (1940 - 2016)
  • Robert L. Belknap Dissertation Prize
  • Robert A. Maguire Prize in Slavic Studies
  • William E. Harkins Colloquium
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    • "My Teacher's Shadow" by Caleb Crain
  • Black Sea Networks
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    • Robert Maguire and Anna Frajlich- Zajac
    • Russian Practicum - July 2019
    • Yuri Shevchuk in the Hromadske Radio studio
    • Professor Yuri Shevchuk presents on issues of language, identity culture, and filmmaking
    • Columbia - Princeton Conference 2018
    • Ukrainian Language Students Discover Ukrainian New York
    • Russian language students at The Nicholas Roerich Museum
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