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Dusty Wilmes publishes articles
Congratulations to Dusty Wilmes who published an article in the latest volume of Pushkin Review (Volume 15, 2012) titled "Anticipating Chekhov: Tragicomic Elements in Griboedov's Woe from Wit,"…

Polish Studies Initiative holds Polish-American Community Game Day
In the middle of a snowstorm on a Saturday morning, members of the Polish American Club came to meet with Polish Club students and Polish language students to play a new board game, Kolejka (or "…

New book: Chekhov for the 21st Century
Congratulations to Angela Brintlinger, who is co-editor with Carol Apollonio (Duke University) of the volume Chekhov for the 21st Century. The book has been published by Slavica Publishers.
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Andrew Kier -- our newest Ph.D.!
Congratulations to Andrew Kier, who successfully defended his dissertation on December 28, 2012!
The dissertation is titled "The semantics of Russian 'about' prepositions: A corpus-based…

New book: Chapaev and his Comrades
Congratulations to Prof. Angela Brintlinger, whose new monograph Chapaev and his Comrades: War and the Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century was published in December 2012 by Academic Studies…
Angela Brintlinger receives Fulbright grant
Prof. Angela Brintlinger has received a Fulbright grant to travel to Warsaw, Poland in the Spring 2013 semester, to teach and conduct research for her project “World War II, Afghanistan, and…
Kapustnik!
Last Wednesday, instructors and students of Slavic and East European languages got together once again to show off their language and acting skills at Kapustnik, a talent show that has long been a…
New book: Memory, Language, and Bilingualism
Congratulations to Dr. Ludmila Isurin on the publication of her edited volume "Memory, Language, and Bilingualism" on November 1 ,2012 through the Cambridge University Press!
Her book…
