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Lazar Fleishman
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature
BioLazar Fleishman studied at a music school and the Music Academy in Riga, Latvia before graduating from Latvian State University in 1966. His first scholarly papers (on Pushkin, the Russian elegy, and Boris Pasternak) were published during his university years. He emigrated to Israel in 1974, where his academic career began at the Department for Russian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was co-founder and co-editor of the series Slavica Hierosolymitana: Slavic Studies of Hebrew University (1977-1984). He was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1978-1979; 1980-1981), The University of Texas at Austin (1981-1982), Harvard, and Yale (1984-1985) before joining the Stanford faculty in 1985. He also taught at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Princeton, Latvian State University, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), and the University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests encompass the history of 19th and 20th century Russian literature (especially, Pushkin, Pasternak, and Russian modernism); poetics; literary theory; 20th-century Russian history; Russian émigré literature, journalism and culture. He is the founder of the series Stanford Slavic Studies (1987-present), editor of the series Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures and History (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2007-present) and co-editor of the series Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics (Fordham, formerly Stanford University Press).
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Maciej Kurzynski
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2017
Ph.D. Minor, Slavic Languages and LiteraturesBioI am a Ph.D. Candidate majoring in Chinese. I received a Bachelor’s degree in History of Art from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a Master’s degree in Literary Theory from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. My current research spans the fields of distributional semantics, cognitive literary studies, and intellectual history. I analyze a large corpus of texts produced in post-1949 China to understand the relationships between vocabularies, affects, and Chinese nationalism. The quantitative perspective, by offering new scales through which to read the novel, allows me to zoom out from an individual writer’s literary output to instead analyze its embeddedness within much larger semantic fields. The affective analysis makes it possible to elucidate the emotional activity of literary characters, and hence, to identify the subject positions, imaginations, and sentiments endorsed or rejected by the party-state. By reading both official and unofficial fiction according to the results of the quantitative analysis, I attempt to understand the ways in which writers and intellectuals appeal to human emotionality and engage with the PRC nationalism.
