Edyta M. Bojanowska is an American literary scholar and

slavicist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

. She is a professor of Slavic languages and literature at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

and is currently the chair of Yale's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Biography

Bojanowska received a B.A. from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

and a Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. She was a Junior Fellow at the

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and spent a year at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent schola ...

on a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by the American Council of Learned Societies. She taught at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

before joining the Yale faculty. Bojanowska's specialization is on empire and nationalism in nineteenth-century Russian literature and intellectual history. 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 Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (, also ; rus, Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, r=Iván Aleksándrovich Goncharóv, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡənʲtɕɪˈrof; – ) was a Russian novelist best known for his ...

’s travelogue, received an honorable mention for the

Heldt Prize The Heldt Prize is a literary award from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies named in honor of Barbara Heldt. The award has been given variously in the following categories: *Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies ...

from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies. 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. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 to explore the imperial themes in the works of major nineteenth-century Russian writers.

References

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