Irina Reyfman (Professor of Slavic Languages) delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. The title of her remarks is “”Do We Need to Teach Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature? If Yes, Why and How?”
Photo: Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802), author of A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Irina Reyfman and Andrew Kahn received the AATSEEL Best Translated Literary Book award for their translation of Radishchev’s Journey, published by Columbia University Press’s Russian Library.