Professor Katerina Clark, B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at Yale University, passed away peacefully three days ago, on February 1st.
Professor Clark was a pathbreaking scholar of twentieth-century Russian and Soviet culture, one of the most influential Slavists and comparatists of her generation. Her work was instrumental in overcoming reductive and politicized approaches to the study of Soviet culture that were set by Cold War...
Nobel Prize–winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk discusses the souls of animals, discovering feminism, and her home in the village of Krajanów where she was once neighbors with “three different translators of William Blake” in an excerpt from her Art of Fiction interview with Marta Figlerowicz.
Professor Robyn Creswell’s English translation of Iman Mersal’s The Threshold, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, won the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry. The collection, translated from Arabic, was also a finalist for the Griffin Prize, and has received enthusiastic reviews in the The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere.
https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/announcing-the-2023-national-translation-award-in-poetry-winner-the-threshold/
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In Exiled Shadow, Norman Manea creates a vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, to tell the story of the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, as he leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin.
In a Q&A with Yale University Press, Carla Baricz talks about how she came to work with Norman Manea, her passion for literature, and the power it has, and what she hopes readers will take away from Manea’s work.
To make the Bingham Library more useful to Comparative Literature graduate students and faculty, and determine exactly what books are held there, an inventory of the library’s holdings is underway. The space has been cleaned, and surplus furniture removed. Plans are in place for acquiring a printer, folding chairs, and other supplies and equipment to maximize the use of the library as a study and meeting place. During the cleaning, Katie Trumpener discovered treasures in the form of old...
The Comparative Literature Library at Bingham Hall was recently the recipient of a private collection of Russian-language literature. Coordinated by Professor John MacKay, the generous donation comes from the family of Irena Golubchikov (1960-2022). The collection of approximately 100 books will be inventoried and made available for use by Comparative Literature students, with a plaque and bookplates noting their origin.
Pictured: Suvij Sudershan who has been conducting an inventory of Bingham...
