New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Hosted by Miranda Melcher · New Books Network
4.6from 49 ratings
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- 2008
- First episode
About New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies
- Publisher
- New Books Network
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Apr 2008
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
53 of 1,028 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet with Daria S. Smirnova (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy with Nataliya Kibita (Oxford UP, 2024)
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A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet with Daria S. Smirnova (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So one of the things that is so kind of central to your work that came out in this last answer, of course, is his bilingualism, which is something that he develops over the course of his lifetime, but it's, it's central to this piece. So why does his bilingualism matter so much for understanding him as a poet and as a writer? Yeah. So another, I would say a pillar, Theoretical pillar that helped me build this book is the work by Hawkinson and Monson, Marcel Hawkinson and Jean Walsh Hawkinson. Their book, The Bilingual Text, A Theory and History of Self-Translation. And in this book, they really open your eyes to the fact that most of the authors that we know really well, world-famous authors, right, most of the writers and really most people in the world are bi and multilingual rather than monolingual, right? […]
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