Tag Archives: Eastern/Slavic/German Studies Department
Translating Korean literature
When South Korean writer Han Kang was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, it shined a spotlight on her works, including an English translation of one by a Boston College faculty member. Seung Hee Jeon, an associate professor of … Continue reading
Translating Kracht
BC Associate Professor of German Studies Daniel Bowles has written the English translation of Swiss author Christian Kracht’s novel Eurotrash (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2024). The acclaimed novel, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was named one of the 12 … Continue reading
Shrayer’s Immigrant Baggage
Boston College Professor Maxim D. Shrayer will read from and discuss his new literary memoir Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile (Cherry Orchard Books, 2023) at a Boston College event on April 24. Through a combination … Continue reading
Review: When Magic Failed
Professor of Near Eastern Studies Franck Salameh, chair of BC’s Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Department, has written a review of Fouad Ajami’s memoir, When Magic Failed: A Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught Between East and West. The review … Continue reading
Writings from Maxim D. Shrayer
BC Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer writes about his foray into the labyrinth of Russian bureaucracy in the essay “A Return to Kafka” for Tablet, a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. … Continue reading
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Essay in honor of Fouad Ajami
Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Chair of the Department of Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Franck Salameh is the author of the essay “And If He Were Here Today,” an encomium to scholar, teacher, and mentor Fouad Ajami. Salameh … Continue reading
Politics and the pandemic
Maxim D. Shrayer, award-winning author and professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, explores the impact of election-year politics and COVID-19 in his new volume of poems titled Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant. … Continue reading
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