A Tribute to Professor Howard I. Aronson | We write with sorrow to inform you of the death of Howard I. Aronson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Linguistics, and the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago, on Saturday, October 26, at the age of 88....
Yaroslav Gorbachov joins the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures (Autumn 2024) as a Lecturer. His research interests include comparative and historical linguistics (reconstruction of pre-written stages of languages, evolution of morphosyntactic categories in Slavic and other Indo-European languages, etc.), and Slavic mythology. Welcome, Yaroslav!
Darya Tsymbalyuk joins the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures (Autumn 2024) as Assistant Professor. Darya completed her Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews. Her research interests include environmental humanities; artistic research and critical-creative practices; decolonial epistemologies, postcolonial studies, Russian imperialism; and Ukrainian studies. Welcome, Darya!
Anne Eakin Moss has been elected to serve as the new Slavic Department Chair. Additionally, she was promoted this year to the rank of Associate Professor. Congratulations, Anne!
Slavic Department alumnus, Zachary King, will be joining the Department of Translation and Interpretation at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey in September as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, where he will teach translation theory and practice, literature and culture. Congratulations, Zachary!
Congratulations to Senior Instructional Professor, Valentina Pichugin, who has been awarded the 2024 Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy. This award acknowledges excellence in teaching by lecturers and instructional professors in the Division of the Humanities. Congratulations, Valentina!
Sergei Shokarev joins the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures (Autumn 2022) as a Visiting Professor with the Scholars at Risk Program. Welcome, Sergei!
Anne Eakin Moss joined the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures (Autumn 2021) as Assistant Professor. Anne comes to us from the Department of Comparative Thought & Literature at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on Russian literature and cinema, intersections of literature and philosophy, gender theory, film phenomenology, and theories of spectatorship. She is the author of Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian Imagination, 1860-1940(Northwestern, 2020). Welcome, Anne!
Adam Zagajewski was one of Poland's greatest poets, a kind human being, and a friend. He passed away on Saturday, March 21st. He was a faculty member at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought. Read "The Great Poet Has Gone" by Adam Zagajewski here.
