Graduate Student

Ivan Sokolov

B.A. in Theory and Practice of Germanic Languages: English, St Petersburg State University, 2012
M.A. in American Studies, St Petersburg State University, 2014
Entered Berkeley program in 2016

Paper submitted with application to Berkeley:
“Saint A.I.: Actor and Martyr (On the Latest Novel by Alexander Ilianen)”

Languages known and studied: Russian, English, German, French

Conference participation:
“Seeing the Seeing: Lyric Landscape in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko”. ASEEES, 2017

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Maeve Zimmerbaum

B.A. in Literature, Bard College, 2018
Entered Berkeley program in 2022

Paper submitted with application: The Perfect Illusion: Complicated Beauty and the Challenge of Interpreting Nabokov’s “Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle”.

Languages known and studied: English, Russian, French.