[Amherst]

Jubilat/Jones: Polina Barskova and Eugene Ostashevsky
April 9, 2017, 3:00 pm
at Jones Library

The fifth and final Jubilat/Jones Reading Series of the 2016-2017 season with Polina Barskova and Eugene Ostashevsky. Polina Barskova, associate professor of Russian literature at Hampshire College, received her B.A. from St. Petersburg State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She has also authored eight books of poetry and one book of prose in Russian, most recently This Lamentable City (Tupelo Press), Zoo in Winter (Melville House Press), and Relocations (Zephyr Press). Her scholarly publications include articles on Nabokov, the Bakhtin brothers, early Soviet film, and the aestheticization of historical trauma, primarily, culture of the Siege of Leningrad. Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of the poetry collections The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (NYRB), and Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza and Iterature, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse. He translated Alexander Vvedensky's An Invitation for Me to Think with Matvei Yankelevich, and is the editor of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, the first collection of writings by Vvedensky and friends in English translation. Ostashevsky teaches in the liberal studies program at New York University. More Info Here.