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Recent Slavic PhD Irina Erman accepts position at the College of Charleston
Apr 21, 2015
Please join us in congratulating recent Slavic PhD Irina Erman, who has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Russian at the College of Charleston.  She will be running the Russian program and starting up a new Russian major.  Irina is very happy to be returning to the south.
The Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Celebrates Commencement 2012
Jun 21, 2012
Crossings is the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages annual publication highlighting the Division's graduates.  Included in this year's Crossings publication are personal essays from many of the DLCL graduates, as well as an update from the Division Chair and an update on the DLCL Research Unit.  You can download a .pdf of this years Crossings by clicking on the link below. As always, thank you to our donors.
Gregory Freidin talks about "Dante Street: Literature and the Russian Experience" in the "How I Think about Literature" series
Jan 30, 2012
Monday, November 7, 2011Pigott Hall            “What is the difference between what I write and what Babel wrote? The difference is I have footnotes,” says Gregory Freidin, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and expert on Russian writer Isaac Babel. “What we do here is falsifiable. What he does is not falsifiable. You don’t like Babel, write your own.” So characterizes Grisha Freidin his work as a literary scholar (including the Norton critical edition of Isaac Babel’s Selected Writings...
DLCL Writer in Residence Vladimir Sorokin
Mar 31, 2011
VLADIMIR SOROKIN (b. 1955) is the “resident genius” of late-Soviet and contemporary Russian fiction. One of the leaders of the Moscow underground scene of the 1980s, he continues to challenge dominant ideologies. His shockingly imaginative experimental texts, which were completely banned during the Soviet period, comprise a set of profound statements on the novelistic genre. His novel The Queue, for instance, depicts one of everyone's “favorite” Soviet pastimes – waiting in line – and consists solely of snatches of conversation, roll calls, jokes, howls...