{"id":1556,"date":"2024-08-28T22:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T22:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2024-08-28T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T22:40:00","slug":"newly-minted-phds-in-slavic-languages-literatures-summer-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/2024\/08\/28\/newly-minted-phds-in-slavic-languages-literatures-summer-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly minted PhDs in Slavic Languages &amp; Literatures, Summer 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Summer 2024 was a busy season for our department. We congratulate these three scholars on successfully defending their doctoral dissertations:<\/p>\n<p>Caity Giustiniano, &#8220;From Prutkov to Kharms: Tracing Nonsense in the Russian Literary Tradition&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Liza Levina, &#8220;Imaginary Geographies: Political Fictional-Country Narratives in Post-Revolutionary Russophone Literature&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Matthews, &#8220;The Metaphysical Materiality of Vladislav Khodasevich and T.S. Eliot&#8217;s Poetry&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1558\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1558\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/photo_2024-03-20_22-56-041-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/photo_2024-03-20_22-56-041-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/photo_2024-03-20_22-56-041-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/photo_2024-03-20_22-56-041-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/photo_2024-03-20_22-56-041-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/photo_2024-03-20_22-56-041-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/photo_2024-03-20_22-56-041.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liza Levina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1557\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/Caity-2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/Caity-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/Caity-2.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Caity Giustiniano, Sally Pratt, and Sarah Matthews<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":1561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Newly minted PhDs in Slavic Languages &amp; 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