Christina Schwartz, Ph.D. Candidate 2023

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B.A. University of Chicago (Slavic Languages and Literatures) 2011
M.A. University of Chicago (Slavic Languages and Literatures) 2011
Entered Berkeley program in 2012

Paper submitted with application to Berkeley:
“Zhestokij Vakuum”: Textualization of Space and Spatialization of Text in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskij’s Avtobiografiia Trupa

Research Interests: The Russian avant-garde; Late-Soviet and Contemporary Russian literature and visual culture; 20th Century Czech literature and culture; critical theory; narrative theory; Soviet architecture; visionary/rhetorical architecture

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

Conference participation:
January 2012, AATSEEL Conference (Seattle, WA), Pirozhki Papers: Narrative as Abjection in Nikolai Gogol’s “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his Aunt”

Study Abroad:
Summer 2009: ACTR Russian Langauge and Culture, Vladimir, Russia
Fall 2009: Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia