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Irina Reyfman Delivers Keynote Address at AATSEEL Conference and Receives AATSEEL Award for Best Literary Translation
February 18, 2022

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 MoscowIrina 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.

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