Margarita Zaydman

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(Department of Comparative Literature)

M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, 2006
B.A. Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, 2006
Entered Berkeley program in 2007

Paper submitted with application to Berkeley:
“Calling Each Thing By Its Name: Olesha’s Paradisaical Poetics”

Research interests: 18th to 20th century American, European, and Russian literature, semiotics, ethics, aesthetics, theories of modernity

Languages known and studied: Russian, Spanish, French, German, Old Church Slavonic

Study Abroad:
Summer 2003: Department of the History of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia