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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 in modern Chinese literature. Before coming to Stanford, I received a Bachelor’s degree in History of Art from the University of Warsaw and a Master’s degree in Literary Theory (文艺学) from Zhejiang University. I am currently completing my doctoral dissertation, entitled “Words of Passion: Narrative Technologies of Modern China," which integrates natural language processing (NLP), cognitive narratology, and aesthetic theory to explore the relationship between human cognition and the formal side of narratives.
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Dan Musachio
Undergraduate, Classics
Undergraduate, Computer Science
Stanford Student Employee, Hoover Institution
Undergraduate, Music
Undergraduate, Slavic Languages and LiteraturesBioDan Musachio ('25) is a double major in Classics with a focus on Ancient History, and Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. He also minors in the Russian Language and Music (Viola). Musachio enjoys research opportunities in both the STEM and humanities fields: He has conducted research focused on the cancer genome as an intern at the National Institutes of Health and currently is a member of the Hoover Student Fellowship Program, focusing on the history of the Soviet economy and political system.
