by Ben Hooyman | Nov 7, 2025 | ECEC, Faculty, Humanities, Listen, News
On the latest episode of the NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies) podcast, Aleksandar Bošković discusses insights from his latest book, Nothing (:) Made in Yugoslavia. In the interview, Aleksandar Bošković explores the relationship between negation...
by Ben Hooyman | Nov 6, 2025 | Faculty, Humanities, News, Read, Russia
In the most recent release of the Slavic Review, Chloё Kitzinger puts three new books about the Russian literary canon in conversation with one another – Rolf Hellebust’s How Russian Literature Became Great, Gary Saul Morson’s Wonder Confronts Certainty, and...
by Ben Hooyman | Nov 1, 2025 | Humanities, News, Read
In a new interview with The Blue and White, Professor Irina Reyfman discusses insights from her seminar on scary stories in the Russian literary tradition. Drawing from the tradition’s classics – Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and...
by Ben Hooyman | Oct 21, 2025 | ECEC, Faculty Spotlight, Listen, News, Watch
Gail Archer was featured in CUNY TV’s latest episode of Arts in the City, a monthly broadcast that highlights noteworthy developments in the arts in the New York metropolitan area. Gail discusses the origin of her interest in the organ, the physical demands of...
by Ben Hooyman | Oct 9, 2025 | Awards, ECEC, News, Read, Writers in Residence
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy in Stockholm praised the writer “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Krasznahorkai was the...
