Venya Gushchin
Education
- Ph.D. Slavic Languages & Literatures, Columbia University, 5/2025
- M.Phil. Modern Languages (Russian), University of Oxford, 8/2020
- B.A. Comparative Literature & Society, Columbia University, 5/2018
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
Venya Gushchin is a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century Russian and Russophone poetry, focusing on the unexamined legacies of modernist culture(s) in the post-Stalinist era. His current book project Reading Lately investigates the concept of “late style” and its related reading practices in the study of Russian modernist poetry. His other research interests include Soviet popular culture, Russian intellectual history, and university studies. In addition to studying poetry academically, Venya is a working translator (primarily Russian to English) and writes original poetry in English. He is currently working with the Russian-language Kalmyk poet Dordzhi Dzhaldzhireev, and his translation of Dzhaldzhireev’s debut collection, Beyond Salvation, is forthcoming from World Poetry Books in spring 2027.
Research Keywords
Russian poetry; Russian modernism; Russian intellectual history; Soviet popular culture; intermediality; literary theory; critical theory; university studies
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- (Fall 2025) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry – Reason and the Unbearable Lightness of Being, TTh, 03:30pm – 04:50pm
- (Fall 2025) SLL 330. Russian Thought and Civilization, TTh, 12:30pm – 01:50pm, VPD116
- (Spring 2026) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry – Reason and the Unbearable Lightness of Being, TTh, 11:00am – 12:20pm, DMC158
- (Spring 2026) SLL 542. Symbolism, Th, 02:00pm – 04:50pm, THH221