Edyta Bojanowska

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Edyta M. Bojanowska is an American literary scholar and slavicist.[1] She is a professor of Slavic languages and literature at Yale University and is currently the chair of Yale's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.[1]

Edyta Bojanowska
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2020)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineRussian literature
Institutions

Biography

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Bojanowska received a B.A. from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.[2][3] She was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study on a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by the American Council of Learned Societies.[4] She taught at Rutgers University before joining the Yale faculty.[5]

Bojanowska's specialization is on empire and nationalism in nineteenth-century Russian literature and intellectual history.[1] Her book, A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (2018), which recounts the nineteenth-century voyage of a Russian frigate based on explorer Ivan Goncharov’s travelogue, received an honorable mention for the Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies.[6] She also deconstructed the russocentric myth of Nikolai Gogol, a Ukrainian-born Russophone writer in the book Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (2007), which received the Scaglione Prize for the best Book in Slavic Studies from the Modern Language Association.[2]

She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 to explore the imperial themes in the works of major nineteenth-century Russian writers.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Hallenbeck, Gaelen. "Edyta M. Bojanowska". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  2. ^ a b "Edyta Bojanowska | Slavic Languages and Literatures". slavic.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  3. ^ "Members of Barnard Community Awarded 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships". Barnard French. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  4. ^ "Edyta Bojanowska - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  5. ^ Tankiewicz, Marilyn. "Edyta M. Bojanowska Awarded MLA Prize". complit.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  6. ^ "Heldt Prizes". awsshome.org. Retrieved 2022-07-11.