Edyta Bojanowska | |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2020) |
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Discipline | Russian literature |
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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]
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]
Edyta Bojanowska | |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2020) |
Academic background | |
Education | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Russian literature |
Institutions |
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]
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]