On September 8^th, 2020 Comparative Literature doctoral student Daria Smirnova successfully defended her dissertation, “The Language Zone: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet.” Directed by Professor Jenifer Presto,

Dr. Smirnova will be teaching Russian at Portland State University for academic year 2020-2021. She is author of the following articles:

• “Peter’s Passions: Passionate Attachment and New Subjectivity in Alexander Pushkin’s Bronze Horseman,” under review.
• Review of Yuri Leving’s “Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel The Original of Laura.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 58.2 (2016): 184-85.